Liturgical Press imprint: 386 books
by Alice L. Laffey
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The books of Kings view Israel's history through the theological lens of action. Actions have consequences that are determined by the people's faithfulness or unfaithfulness to their God and the covenant, and the editors' purpose is to demonstrate that the monarchy stands or falls on its faithfulness...
Backstory Preaching
Integrating Life, Spirituality, and Craft
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Instead of being a dour task on the checklist, what if the process of homily prep renewed you? Instead of feeling insecure about your message, what if your skills made you confident to preach a consistently clear message of Good News, authentic to you, relevant to your listeners, holding their attention...
by Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller MSpS
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Archbishop García-Siller offers a meditation on the call, the joy, and the duty of Catholic preaching in our day. For him, preaching is a conversation of love that invites the hearer to respond to God in love. He considers how effective preaching invites people into that relationship, encouraging today's preachers to be bold, enthusiastic, creative, and courageous.
by Patrick J. Hartin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Within each of the four gospels there is a foundational spirit, a spirituality of the gospels. That is to say, each gospel contains rich images and values central to the Vision of the person of Jesus' and to the path toward spiritual transformation in his image. In this volume Patrick Hartin first...
Balaam's Donkey
Random Ruminations For Every Day of the Year
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
Balaam’s Donkey is a series of daily reflections based on the homilies preached by Cistercian monk Michael Casey over his fifty years of priesthood. What remained of the original homilies was a large box full of index cards with a few talking points on each. From there, Casey has re-created the...
Polarization in the US Catholic Church
Naming the Wounds, Beginning to Heal
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
It is no secret: the body of Christ in the United States is broken. While universality—and unity amid diversity—is a fundamental characteristic of Roman Catholicism, all-too-familiar issues related to gender, sexuality, race, and authority have rent the church. Healthy debates, characteristic...
Leviticus
Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
What are we as contemporary readers to make of such a strange book as Leviticus? How can we possibly relate to the kosher laws of clean and unclean foods? Who would want to dine on camel, order eagle or stork, and munch on grasshoppers and crickets? In this informative and inspiring commentary, J....
Martin Sheen
Pilgrim on the Way
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Martin Sheen, best known for his role as a Catholic president in the prestigious television series The West Wing, returned to the practice of his Catholic faith at the age of forty after decades away. After years of battling alcohol addiction, a near-fatal heart attack, and a nervous breakdown, the...
Waiting in Joyful Hope 2013-14
Daily Reflections for Advent and Christmas 2013-2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Prepare spiritually for the coming of Christ with this popular, easy-to-use annual guide. During the especially busy Advent and Christmas seasons, this little treasure offers brief, down-to-earth reflections that bring prayer and Scripture into everyday life in a thought-provoking and lasting way. Through...
Sacred Strangers
What the Bible's Outsiders Can Teach Christians
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The Bible is laced with stories in which strangers behave better than believers. What do these encounters with “others”—people from different cultures, religions, genders, economic and social classes—teach us about our own spiritual values, about the faith and God behind them? In Sacred Strangers,...
Belonging to Borders
A Sojourn in the Celtic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
"When the scholar and the poet wrestles in you," Bonnie Thurston was once asked by a friend at Tymawr, "who wins?" The poems in Belonging to Borders are her response. In these poems, Thurston reverences the borders, literal and metaphorical, that have been a part of her life since...
Thomas Merton's Encounter with Buddhism and Beyond
His Interreligious Dialogue, Inter-monastic Exchanges, and Their Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Thomas Merton recognized the value and possibility of contemplative dialogue between monastics and contemplatives of other religious traditions and hoped that, through such dialogue, monastics would strive for ‘inter-monastic communion’ and a bonding of the broader ‘spiritual family.’ He held...
In the Name of the Church
Vocation and Authorization of Lay Ecclesial Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In the Name of the Church: Vocation and Authorization in Lay Ecclesial Ministry presents insights generated in the 2011 Collegeville National Symposium on Lay Ecclesial Ministry, a gathering designed to prioritize the theological foundations for vocation and authorization in lay ecclesial ministry,...
Rock-A My Soul
An Invitation to Rock Your Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Rock music and organized religion have suffered a tense relationship for over sixty years. Rockers accuse religious people of being too rigid and irrelevant. People of faith have labeled rock the devil's music" and say that nothing good can come of it. But what if both of these groups are wrong?...