Liturgical Press imprint: 386 books
Angels and Demons
A Christian Primer of the Spiritual World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The supernatural world is prominent in many of today's movies, television shows, novels, and the popular imagination. But some of what is presented as grounded in a Christian worldview is in fact far from that. In Angels and Demons, Michael Patella, OSB, offers an accessible and fascinating look...
First and Second Corinthians
Volume 7
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
What was originally part of an ongoing dialogue between Paul and the community at Corinth has become vital in today's Christian worship. Maria A. Pascuzzi, CSJ, helps us look at the Corinthian community through Paul's viewpoint, highlighting the struggles and issues of the Corinthian society. Pascuzzi...
by David P. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Loss can occur in many forms, such as the death of a loved one, divorce, or termination of a job. Healing Takes Time is filled with 52 meditations and reflections to help people experiencing loss start a journey of healing. This biblical resource draws on experiences from Galagher's life, and includes...
Joined by the Church, Sealed by a Blessing
Couples and Communities Called to Conversion Together
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Joined by the Church, Sealed by a Blessing does more than help parish leaders plan excellent wedding liturgies and prepare engaged couples well. It enables parish leaders to address the challenges of increased divorce, fewer Catholic weddings, empty pews on Sundays, and the increasing number of people...
by Patrick J. Hartin
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Paul’s spiritual journey is driven by a transforming encounter with the risen Lord. In A Window into the Spirituality of Paul, Patrick J. Hartin focuses on the spiritual vision that emerges in Paul’s own personal response to Christ, found within his letters in the New Testament. Not only were...
Job
Volume 19
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The book of Job is a vivid testimony to pain, a plea for justice, and a wrenching theological debate about suffering and its causes. Central to this debate are questions about the roles that God and humans play in causing human suffering and whether divine-human relationships can proceed in the midst...
Christian Monks on Chinese Soil
A History of Monastic Missions to China
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
The contribution of monks to the evangelization of lands not yet reached by the preaching of the Gospel has certainly been remarkable. The specific witness that the monastic community gives is of a radical Christian life naturally radiating outward, and thus it is implicitly missionary. The process...
Maverick Mark
The Untamed First Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Somewhere along the way, says Bonnie Thurston, the wild unlikelihood of the Christian message has been reined in and made to fit more conventional categories of thought. That it is good and moral to be Christian we understand. That it is feral and almost uncontrollably countercultural is something...
More Than You Could Ever Imagine
On Our Becoming Divine
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
What we are destined for in Christ and in the communion of saints is beyond what most can even begin to imagine. With the help of St. Paul, St. John of the Cross, St. Ignatius of Loyola, and Teilhard de Chardin, Fr. Bernie Owens provides an engaging sketch of our spiritual journey. In More Than You...
Thoughts Matter
Discovering the Spiritual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Cassian taught that real intimacy with God in prayer demands renouncing one's former way of life, the thoughts belonging to that former way of life, and one's very idea of God. In Thoughts Matter, Mary Margaret Funk focuses on the second of these: renouncing the thoughts belonging to one's former...
Tools Matter
Beginning the Spiritual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
How can we tend the garden of our souls? Meg Funk turns to the wisdom of the desert fathers for the means of removing obstacles to spiritual growth, which include thoughts of food, sex, possessions, anger, dejection, and pride, among other preoccupations. Redirecting thought away from such weeds in...
Discernment Matters
Listening with the Ear of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
After fifty years of monastic life, prayer, and spiritual direction, Meg Funk knows what it means to listen with the ear of one's heart to the Holy Spirit. InDiscernment Matters, she shares what she has learned. This book is a resource for those who want to learn and practice discernment as taught...
Renouncing Violence
Practice from the Monastic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Written from her deep experience in the monastic tradition, Sister Mary Margaret Funk shows us that, with faith and our given vocations, we are more than strong enough to resist and renounce the violence in the world around us. This book offers, both for personal use and for the broader community,...
Joshua, Judges
Volume 7
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The books of Joshua and Judges provide religious perspective on Israel's successes and failures from the time that Joshua begins to lead the Israelites after Moses's death until the rise of the monarchy. The stories of these two books show the God of Israel still guiding the life of his people.
In...