Novalis imprint: 58 books
Bioethics Matters
A Guide for Concerned Catholics
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
A practical, must-read book for Catholics who want to know how Church teaching can help them work their way through tough decisions and choices. This succinct yet comprehensive guide clearly sets out Catholic teaching on today’s hot-button issues such as stem-cell research, reproductive technologies,...
Greening Your Church
A Practical Guide to Creation Care Ministry for Parishes, Dioceses, and Religious Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
With increasing anxiety about ecological crises, many Christians have begun to seriously consider our impact upon the environment. Compelled to take action, communities have discovered an abundant wealth of Church teaching on environmental stewardship, yet few resources demonstrate how churches can...
by Josephine Lombardi
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
A practical, straightforward book showing readers how the Lord’s Prayer can be a powerful spiritual guide for daily living. Drawing from her own life as a theologian and young mother, Josephine Lombardi fills the pages with personal reflections, spiritual meditations, and insightful anecdotes. This...
Now What?
A Practical Guide to Dealing with Aging, Illness and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Delicate decisions – both big and small – are made in the days, weeks, and months before and after a loved one’s death. This book is an excellent resource for managing this tumultuous time. Writing from a Catholic perspective, the authors offer advice in a friendly heart-to-heart manner with...
by Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
An inspiring book of poetry that leads us deeper into the mystery that is God. In this new volume of poetry, Pier Giorgio Di Cicco celebrates the presence of God—the God of love, the One we discover in our encounters with others. Even when God seems hidden, there is no escaping God. Di Cicco’s...
by Max Oliva SJ
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
An exploration of the eight virtues, and their relationship with finding faith in the workplace. People in the workplace are asking some difficult questions about how to find meaning in their work, how to find God in daily life, and how to bring the light of faith to ethical issues. Using the Beatitudes...
Do Monkeys Go to Heaven?
Finding God in All Creation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Thoroughly perceptive and delightfully amusing, Do Monkeys Go to Heaven? invites us to consider the many natural wonders expressive of God's abiding presence in creation. Removing the so-often-made distinction between secular and sacred, McCarthy takes us on a journey and ponders nature's revelation...
Living God's Word
Reflections on the Sunday Readings for Year C
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Offering insight into the land and people of the Bible, Living God’s Word: Year C is a perfect tool for studying the Sunday readings. Archbishop Prendergast probes the meaning of the Sunday readings with fascinating detail and brings them alive with contemporary stories relating to peoples’ life...
Divine Renovation
From a Maintenance to a Missional Parish
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Highly acclaimed for his work with parish renewal and the New Evangelization, Fr. James Mallon shares with us the many ways for bringing our parishes to life. Through humorous and colourful stories, Mallon challenges us to rethink our models of parish life, from membership-based communities to assemblies...
by Max Oliva, SJ
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Coveting your neighbour’s ox, donkey or slave is not something most people today need to worry about. Coveting your bus seatmate’s iPad, on the other hand, or your coworker’s new shoes is another story entirely. Author Max Oliva previously talked about using the Sermon on the Mount in everyday...
Embracing the End of Life
Help for Those Who Accompany the Dying
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Youthfulness is the criterion by which all in life is measured, and yet death is unavoidable and our journey to the next life inescapable. Embracing the End of Life tackles the topic of dying with candor and thoughtfulness while paying special care to the spiritual well-being of all those who must...
The Gift of Spiritual Intimacy
Following the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
A timeless and invaluable tool for anyone seeking to develop a deeper sense of self and God. In this book, Monty Williams presents a step-by-step guide to working with one of the Christian world’s first self-help books: The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. By guiding the reader through each...
Les Costello
Canada's Flying Father
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Les Costello's story is the stuff of Canadian myth: a child of immigrant parents who finds fame and some fortune on the ice as a star on the Toronto Maple Leafs, with whom he wins the coveted Stanley Cup. At the height of his meteoric sports career, he gives it all up to pursue another dream: to become...
Living God's Word
Reflections on the Sunday Readings for Year A
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
This new series of reflections on the Sunday readings by a noted Scripture scholar offers fresh insight into the land and people of the Bible. The first of three books, Living God's Word: Reflections on the Sunday Readings for Year A updates columns from The Catholic Register, Canada's national Catholic...