The Word Among Us Press imprint: 83 books
by Woodeene Koenig-Bricker
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
What can we learn from the saints about adversity? How did they use their adversity as a means of growth rather than just as something to be endured? In this book, popular Catholic author Woodeene Koenig-Bricker offers an in-depth look at a host of saints and how they dealt with a particular type of...
Pope Francis Speaks to Families
Words of Joy and Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Since his election, Pope Francis has expressed his concern for the urgent pastoral needs of families. In this collection, the Holy Father speaks to families personally, offering his distinctive combination of love and pastoral wisdom. Pope Francis Speaks to Families includes words to families in general...
A Season of Grace
Embracing God's Gifts in the Autumn of Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Every season of our lives is filled with God's grace, but the aging process can cause believers to lose sight of the gifts that God offers each day. This book of seventy-five reflections can help older adults to remember all that God is doing in their lives, even as they adjust to new realities. Many...
Signs and Wonders
Encountering Jesus of Nazareth
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
If we want to know who Jesus is, then we have to discover what his friends said and wrote about him. We can find detailed accounts of Jesus' life-including the signs and wonders he performed-in the Gospels. They show us what Jesus cared about, how he treated people, and what he thought was most important...
Good Morning, Good God!
Prayers to Start Your Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Fr. Austin Fleming is a pastor from Concord, Massachusetts, who decided eight years ago to start writing a blog featuring short daily prayers. From those beginnings, “A Concord Pastor Comments” has inspired hundreds of thousands of visitors across the country and the world. The appeal of his prayers...
Amazed by God's Grace
Overcoming Racial Divides by the Power of the Holy Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Larry Oney endured years of adversity and racial prejudice as a child in a sharecropping family on a plantation in northern Louisiana and into his high school years in New Orleans. Black, proud, and angry, his life began to pivot toward hope when a mysterious white woman offered his family a random...
Divine Renovation Apprentice
Learning to Lead a Disciple-Making Parish
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Transforming a parish is challenging, demanding, and sometimes messy work. Divine Renovation Apprentice, Fr. Simon Lobo breaks open his experience as an associate pastor working on the renewal of St. Benedict Parish in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the birthplace of Divine Renovation. With honesty, humility,...
Pope Francis Speaks to Our Hearts
Words of Challenge and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The short excerpts in this book, taken from Pope Francis’ homilies and addresses since becoming pope, reflect his warm pastoral style and cover themes that we can expect to hear from him again and again: the mercy of God, the scandal of poverty, the need to “come out of ourselves” to evangelize,...
by Renzo Allegri
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Well-known Italian journalist Renzo Allegri paints a fascinating portrait of Blessed Mother Teresa based on his personal interviews and meetings with her over the years. This collection of stories, anecdotes, and sayings is designed to help readers gain insight into Mother Teresa and her great love for...
The Rosary Handbook
A Guide for Newcomers, Od-Timers and Those In Between: Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Why has the Rosary remained such a popular Catholic devotional prayer? In this upbeat and easy-to-read book, Catholic author Mitch Finley explains that the simplicity and depth of the rosary make it a prayer for all seasons. The Rosary is perfect for those times when words can’t express our feelings,...
by Mitch Finley
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Who was St. Genesius, and why is he the patron saint of actors? Why is St. Thérèse of Lisieux, who was a cloistered nun, the patron saint of missionaries? Is there a patron saint for automobile mechanics? How about for athletes? Bestselling Catholic writer Mitch Finley answers these questions and...
by Raniero Cantalamessa OFM CAP
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Unity, joy, simplicity, beauty, truth-these are the hallmarks of the three Persons in one God, the Trinity. In Contemplating the Trinity, Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, the preacher to the papal household, invites readers to turn to the Trinity so that they can enter into and experience the relationship...
Don't Be Afraid to Say Yes to God!
Pope Francis Speaks to Young People
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Set out for the future without fear! That’s the message of Pope Francis to young people as he challenges them to follow Christ and his plan for their lives. In this collection of short excerpts of his talks from around the world, Pope Francis speaks to the best instincts of young people, inviting...
Praying the Gospels with Fr. Mitch Pacwa
Jesus' Miracles in Galilee
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Fr. Mitch Pacwa has a gift for opening up the Scriptures, and he offers Catholics such a gift in this book of meditations. The first volume in this series dealt with the beginnings of Jesus’ ministry. Now he moves on to Jesus’ miracles during his Galilean ministry. Based on Ignatian principles, the...