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Wanderings Over the World
Wanderings Over the World
Three Works in One
by G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton needs no introduction. A master of the literary craft, he wrote over eighty books, hundreds of poems and short stories, and thousands of essays. Wanderings over the World collects three early works — The Napoleon of Notting Hill; The Man Who Was Thursday; and The Ballad of the White Horse — that capture his brilliant vision of God, man, and the cosmos, and his power to bring that vision to life with the written word.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill promises a "banquet of humour" when Auberon Quin takes the throne of England and re-establishes the provincial pomp and status of the boroughs of London. But the joke is undone when the guileless Adam Wayne declaires war rather than cede Notting Hill to the armies of industrial expansion.
The Man Who Was Thursday is a political thriller, detective story, and metaphysical treatise, all tied into one. Gabriel Syme's infiltration of an anarchist organisation sets off a series of bewildering events that bring hunter and hunted together in a terrifying conslusion.
The Ballad of the White Horse recounts King Alfred the Great's defeat of the Danish army at the Battle of Ethandum. A poetic tapestry of theology, allegory, and history, The Ballad endures as one of the greatest English epic poems of all time.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 360 pages
Three Works in One
Good King Wenceslas
Good King Wenceslas
by Mildred Corell Luckhardt’
“Good King Wenceslas looked out, on the Feast of Stephen, when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even.” Familiar to all Christmas carolers, these words begin the story of a brave king and his page as they journey through the winter wilderness, bearing Christmas gifts to the poor and needy.
Bohemia in the time of King Wenceslas is caught in a twofold struggle: first, the old pagan ways and its many gods, against the new Christian religion and its one God, the God of love; second, the authority of its good Christian king, Wenceslas, against the power of his rebellious brother, Duke Boleslas.
When young Vojak is captured by Boleslas, he is claimed by Wenceslas and given the Christian name of Stephen, after the Church’s first martyr. In faithful service to the king, Stephen must face his people’s struggle with courage and compassion, ready at each dangerous moment and every dramatic turn to follow in the footsteps of his master, good King Wenceslas.
Beautifully illustrated by Gordon Laite, Mildred Corell Luckhardt’s Good King Wenceslas is certain to delight readers both young and old with its story of Christian kindness and Christmas joy.
Hardcover, size 9.25" x 6.25", 110 pages
by Mildred Corell Luckhardt’
“Good King Wenceslas looked out, on the Feast of Stephen, when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even.” Familiar to all Christmas carolers, these words begin the story of a brave king and his page as they journey through the winter wilderness, bearing Christmas gifts to the poor and needy.
Bohemia in the time of King Wenceslas is caught in a twofold struggle: first, the old pagan ways and its many gods, against the new Christian religion and its one God, the God of love; second, the authority of its good Christian king, Wenceslas, against the power of his rebellious brother, Duke Boleslas.
When young Vojak is captured by Boleslas, he is claimed by Wenceslas and given the Christian name of Stephen, after the Church’s first martyr. In faithful service to the king, Stephen must face his people’s struggle with courage and compassion, ready at each dangerous moment and every dramatic turn to follow in the footsteps of his master, good King Wenceslas.
Beautifully illustrated by Gordon Laite, Mildred Corell Luckhardt’s Good King Wenceslas is certain to delight readers both young and old with its story of Christian kindness and Christmas joy.
Hardcover, size 9.25" x 6.25", 110 pages
The True Meaning of Christmas HC
The True Meaning of Christmas
by Archbishop Fulton J Sheen
“God so loved the world, that He gave up His only-begotten Son, so that those who believe in Him may not perish, but have eternal life.” These famous words of Saint John’s Gospel reveal the true meaning of Christmas.
Simply and reverently, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen meditates upon the Incarnation and Nativity of Jesus Christ, Son of the Most High, born in a lowly stable in Bethlehem of Judah, and the significance it bears and salvation it offers for each man, woman, and child.
Beautifully illustrated by Fritz Kredel, The True Meaning of Christmas offers a joyful greeting to the newborn King of kings and Lord of lords, and makes for fitting Yuletide reading for the whole family.
Hardcover, size 7.25" x 5.25", 32 pages
by Archbishop Fulton J Sheen
“God so loved the world, that He gave up His only-begotten Son, so that those who believe in Him may not perish, but have eternal life.” These famous words of Saint John’s Gospel reveal the true meaning of Christmas.
Simply and reverently, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen meditates upon the Incarnation and Nativity of Jesus Christ, Son of the Most High, born in a lowly stable in Bethlehem of Judah, and the significance it bears and salvation it offers for each man, woman, and child.
Beautifully illustrated by Fritz Kredel, The True Meaning of Christmas offers a joyful greeting to the newborn King of kings and Lord of lords, and makes for fitting Yuletide reading for the whole family.
Hardcover, size 7.25" x 5.25", 32 pages
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The King's Achievement
The King's Achievement
by Msgr Robert Hugh Benson
Tudor England has become a house divided against itself. As King Henry VIII, the self-anointed “Supreme Head of the Church of England,” wreaks destruction and despoilment upon the monasteries and convents of his country, he also unwittingly brings to fulfillment the prophecy in the Gospel of Luke: “Father shall be divided against the son, and the son against his father…” (12:53). At the center of The King’s Achievement are Sir James and Lady Torridon, their sons, Ralph and Christopher, and their daughters, Mary and Margaret. With their loyalties divided between God and Caesar, the Torridons follow divergent paths; yet the nature of the national and ecclesial crisis is such that all paths must converge at the juncture of salvation or damnation.
Substantively and stylistically superb, The King’s Achievement—as Francis X. Connolly describes in his Foreword—“does what good historical fiction should do: it renders a complex historical situation justly and it brings characters to life in a story that is interesting for its own sake,” and achieves a dramatic balance of scholarly composure and ardent lyricism.
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 388 pages
by Msgr Robert Hugh Benson
Tudor England has become a house divided against itself. As King Henry VIII, the self-anointed “Supreme Head of the Church of England,” wreaks destruction and despoilment upon the monasteries and convents of his country, he also unwittingly brings to fulfillment the prophecy in the Gospel of Luke: “Father shall be divided against the son, and the son against his father…” (12:53). At the center of The King’s Achievement are Sir James and Lady Torridon, their sons, Ralph and Christopher, and their daughters, Mary and Margaret. With their loyalties divided between God and Caesar, the Torridons follow divergent paths; yet the nature of the national and ecclesial crisis is such that all paths must converge at the juncture of salvation or damnation.
Substantively and stylistically superb, The King’s Achievement—as Francis X. Connolly describes in his Foreword—“does what good historical fiction should do: it renders a complex historical situation justly and it brings characters to life in a story that is interesting for its own sake,” and achieves a dramatic balance of scholarly composure and ardent lyricism.
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 388 pages
To Love Fasting
To Love Fasting
The Monastic Experience
by Adalbert de Vogüé, O.S.B.
To love fasting: An impossible ideal or a fundamentally sound rule for life? Fasting, for centuries, was a constitutive element of religious practice. Yet that practice has waned almost to the point of vanishing, as the world—particularly in the West—has made its appetites like unto gods.
“What are the instruments of good works?” To love fasting. (Rule of Saint Benedict)
With fervor and conviction, Dom Adalbert de Vogüé proposes a re-evaluation of fasting, one that comprehends it not as a punishment for man’s physical shortcomings, but as a joyful liberation of man’s spiritual character. To Love Fasting describes the “regular fast,” observed as a rule of daily life, connecting it with its biblical and patristic origins, discussing its vicissitudes by excess or defect through the centuries, and comparing it with its non-Christian and non-religious analogues throughout the ages.
First published in English in 1989, To Love Fasting is a clarion call to appreciate fasting (like chastity) as an abstinence worthy of being loved, for the simple yet profound reason it purifies the body and pacifies the soul, giving joy and freedom to the whole person, and affording indispensable assistance toward the attainment of union with God.
Paperback, size 8" x 5", 190 pages
The Monastic Experience
by Adalbert de Vogüé, O.S.B.
To love fasting: An impossible ideal or a fundamentally sound rule for life? Fasting, for centuries, was a constitutive element of religious practice. Yet that practice has waned almost to the point of vanishing, as the world—particularly in the West—has made its appetites like unto gods.
“What are the instruments of good works?” To love fasting. (Rule of Saint Benedict)
With fervor and conviction, Dom Adalbert de Vogüé proposes a re-evaluation of fasting, one that comprehends it not as a punishment for man’s physical shortcomings, but as a joyful liberation of man’s spiritual character. To Love Fasting describes the “regular fast,” observed as a rule of daily life, connecting it with its biblical and patristic origins, discussing its vicissitudes by excess or defect through the centuries, and comparing it with its non-Christian and non-religious analogues throughout the ages.
First published in English in 1989, To Love Fasting is a clarion call to appreciate fasting (like chastity) as an abstinence worthy of being loved, for the simple yet profound reason it purifies the body and pacifies the soul, giving joy and freedom to the whole person, and affording indispensable assistance toward the attainment of union with God.
Paperback, size 8" x 5", 190 pages
The Monastic Experience
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Come Rack! Come Rope!
Come Rack! Come Rope!
by Msgr Robert Hugh Benson
Come Rack, Come Rope is one of Robert Hugh Benson’s best-known novels. Based on true events and individuals in the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics in England, it centers on Robin and Marjorie, who give up their love for another and hope of marriage in order to minister to their persecuted neighbours.
Masterfully weaving the historical source material with his own creative additions, Benson presents an unflinchingly truthful portrayal of the terror of those times along with an achingly beautiful depiction of true faith.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 330 pages
by Msgr Robert Hugh Benson
Come Rack, Come Rope is one of Robert Hugh Benson’s best-known novels. Based on true events and individuals in the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics in England, it centers on Robin and Marjorie, who give up their love for another and hope of marriage in order to minister to their persecuted neighbours.
Masterfully weaving the historical source material with his own creative additions, Benson presents an unflinchingly truthful portrayal of the terror of those times along with an achingly beautiful depiction of true faith.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 330 pages
Parables of the Gospel
Parables of the Gospel
by Saint Gregory the Great
Translated by Nora Burke
by Saint Gregory the Great
Translated by Nora Burke
No matter the stage, the career of Saint Gregory the Great was marked consistently by excellence. Appointed Prefect of Rome around the age of thirty, Gregory forsook his worldly success in favor of monastic silence and communion with God, establishing at his ancestral home the Monastery of St. Andrew. There, in the words of Pope Benedict XVI, he lived a “life of permanent dialogue with the Lord in listening to his word.” Providentially, Gregory was called in turn to leave the monastery for the See of Peter; there, his deep understanding of the Divine Word stood him in excellent stead—perhaps nowhere more tangibly than in his preaching.
Selected from his work of forty homilies on the Gospels (Homilia XL in Evangelia) and translated by Nora Burke, Saint Gregory’s Parables of the Gospel comprises an even dozen sermons on the parables of the Hidden Treasure; the Laborers in the Vineyard; the Marriage Feast; the Ten Virgins; the Talents; the Sower; the Great Harvest; the Barren Fig Tree; the Great Banquet; the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin; the Rich Man and Lazarus; and the Good Shepherd.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 180 pages
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The Saintmaker's Christmas Eve
The Saintmaker's Christmas Eve
by Paul Horgan
The Castillo brothers are artists in the craft of saintmaking—curing, carving, plastering, and painting dead wood into lifelike statues of God’s blessed ones. As boys, the brothers received this talent from a Franciscan friar, who saw in them the capacities to wield it well.
Christmas 1809: Roberto Castillo sets forth for the village of San Cristóbal, in New Mexico’s Rio Grande valley, with a statue of their patron to be installed and venerated at the Midnight Mass. It is the brothers’ masterpiece: St. Christopher bearing on his shoulder the holy Christ Child. Upon his return home, Roberto greets his brother, not with the payment for their labor, but with strange, miraculous tidings.
Told with tenderness and great suspense, and illustrated with eighteen fine drawings by the author, The Saintmaker’s Christmas Eve tells with imaginative fire and frank humility the miracle of Christmas: God’s mercy, made incarnate for all peoples.
Hardcover, size 9.25" x 6.25", 112 pages
by Paul Horgan
The Castillo brothers are artists in the craft of saintmaking—curing, carving, plastering, and painting dead wood into lifelike statues of God’s blessed ones. As boys, the brothers received this talent from a Franciscan friar, who saw in them the capacities to wield it well.
The brothers were fashioned by God to constitute, between them, that which it took to make a work of faith, which was the same thing as saying a work of art. Roberto had the eye, the swift and careful hand, to see what lay hidden in a stick of wood and to carve it free; while Carlos had the patient and musing joy to work by measure, like an apothecary, and never by the flash of certainty that comes from nowhere.
Christmas 1809: Roberto Castillo sets forth for the village of San Cristóbal, in New Mexico’s Rio Grande valley, with a statue of their patron to be installed and venerated at the Midnight Mass. It is the brothers’ masterpiece: St. Christopher bearing on his shoulder the holy Christ Child. Upon his return home, Roberto greets his brother, not with the payment for their labor, but with strange, miraculous tidings.
Told with tenderness and great suspense, and illustrated with eighteen fine drawings by the author, The Saintmaker’s Christmas Eve tells with imaginative fire and frank humility the miracle of Christmas: God’s mercy, made incarnate for all peoples.
Hardcover, size 9.25" x 6.25", 112 pages
The Queen's Tragedy
The Queen's Tragedy
by Msgr Robert Hugh Benson
Queen Mary I is determined to undo the destruction wrought by her father, King Henry VIII: the despoilment of the Roman Catholic Church in England, the divisions sewn amongst the English people, the desertion from Papal authority for supreme independence. Her reign, Mary avers, will see the right order restored. Only then will peace and unity again be found in England. Peace and unity: beautiful ends so often sought by brutal means, by sword and by scheme, by force and by fire—means which are frustratingly unsuccessful even as her marriage with Philip of Spain proves barren and her kingdom remains divided against itself. Instead of triumph, the reign of Tudor Mary yields tragedy: her own devotion and desire to follow the will of God her sole comforts as death draws near Saint James’s Palace.
Anticipating the historiographical reconsiderations of “Bloody Mary”, Robert Hugh Benson’s The Queen’s Tragedy (like its companion works, By What Authority? and The King’s Achievement) makes for both vivid character study and compelling chronicle—essential ingredients for a proper historical novel.
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 322 pages
by Msgr Robert Hugh Benson
Queen Mary I is determined to undo the destruction wrought by her father, King Henry VIII: the despoilment of the Roman Catholic Church in England, the divisions sewn amongst the English people, the desertion from Papal authority for supreme independence. Her reign, Mary avers, will see the right order restored. Only then will peace and unity again be found in England. Peace and unity: beautiful ends so often sought by brutal means, by sword and by scheme, by force and by fire—means which are frustratingly unsuccessful even as her marriage with Philip of Spain proves barren and her kingdom remains divided against itself. Instead of triumph, the reign of Tudor Mary yields tragedy: her own devotion and desire to follow the will of God her sole comforts as death draws near Saint James’s Palace.
Anticipating the historiographical reconsiderations of “Bloody Mary”, Robert Hugh Benson’s The Queen’s Tragedy (like its companion works, By What Authority? and The King’s Achievement) makes for both vivid character study and compelling chronicle—essential ingredients for a proper historical novel.
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 322 pages
The Friendship of Christ
The Friendship of Christ
by Msgr Robert Hugh Benson
In The Friendship of Christ, Robert Hugh Benson meditates on the mystery of God’s gift of friendship to his creatures, discoursing on the mystical aspect of this friendship in the soul of the believer; on its external manifestations, especially in the Church and the Eucharist; and on the historical evidence of the “supreme pledge of friendship” offered by the God-Man, once and for all.
A series of sermons preached from 1910 to 1912, The Friendship of Christ makes for richly rewarding spiritual reading, anchored in sacred Scripture and imbued with its author’s affectionate acceptance of Christ’s call to friendship.
Paperback, size 8" x 5", 176 pages
by Msgr Robert Hugh Benson
In The Friendship of Christ, Robert Hugh Benson meditates on the mystery of God’s gift of friendship to his creatures, discoursing on the mystical aspect of this friendship in the soul of the believer; on its external manifestations, especially in the Church and the Eucharist; and on the historical evidence of the “supreme pledge of friendship” offered by the God-Man, once and for all.
A series of sermons preached from 1910 to 1912, The Friendship of Christ makes for richly rewarding spiritual reading, anchored in sacred Scripture and imbued with its author’s affectionate acceptance of Christ’s call to friendship.
Paperback, size 8" x 5", 176 pages
The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary
The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary
by Msgr Robert Hugh Benson
The word of the Lord comes to the hermit Richard Raynal, calling him to deliver a single message of dire importance to the king. Forsaking his idyllic solitude, Richard journeys to Westminster to convey the contents of his mystical vision to the king and then prepare him for his passion and death. His errand is seen as highly suspect by the king’s men, who subject the saintly solitary to brutal and devious torments of body, mind, and soul in hope of arresting his mission. To the bitter end, Richard must remain steadfast in his trust in God and his fealty to the king.
Cleverly fashioned (in keeping with the literary tricks of the time) as a translation of a newly discovered manuscript, The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary, was Benson’s personal favorite of his many books. In the words of Evelyn Waugh, the story was “the expression of his earliest dream—the recluse with the single, vital message.” Even to this day, “it still has the charm of that fresh enthusiasm.”
Paperback, size 8" x 5", 180 pages
by Msgr Robert Hugh Benson
The word of the Lord comes to the hermit Richard Raynal, calling him to deliver a single message of dire importance to the king. Forsaking his idyllic solitude, Richard journeys to Westminster to convey the contents of his mystical vision to the king and then prepare him for his passion and death. His errand is seen as highly suspect by the king’s men, who subject the saintly solitary to brutal and devious torments of body, mind, and soul in hope of arresting his mission. To the bitter end, Richard must remain steadfast in his trust in God and his fealty to the king.
Cleverly fashioned (in keeping with the literary tricks of the time) as a translation of a newly discovered manuscript, The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary, was Benson’s personal favorite of his many books. In the words of Evelyn Waugh, the story was “the expression of his earliest dream—the recluse with the single, vital message.” Even to this day, “it still has the charm of that fresh enthusiasm.”
Paperback, size 8" x 5", 180 pages
The Trumpeter of Krakow
The Trumpeter of Krakow
By Eric P. Kelly
From the tower of Krakow’s Church of Our Lady Mary, a trumpet sounds each hour, in faithful fulfillment of this solemn oath. More than a timekeeper, the trumpeter is also a vigilant guardian, watching for enemies, riots, and fires—anything that might threaten the safety of the city.
In 1461, young Joseph Charnetski comes to Krakow with his father and mother. In their keeping is the Great Tarnov Crystal. Bogdan Grozny, a Tartar chieftain, is determined to seize this treasure for himself. Nor is he alone: a ruthless alchemist also seeks the stone, believing it to be the key to the secrets of life.
Learning from his father the story and the skills of the trumpeter of Krakow, Joseph prepares for the moment when he might bear the sentinel’s duty. When that moment comes, Joseph must risk danger and even death to deliver his family and the city from the dark messengers of evil and the raging fires of destruction.
A story of excitement and mystery, beautifully decorated by Janina Domanska, Eric P. Kelly’s The Trumpeter of Krakow makes crystal clear the truth that where courage, honour, and sacrifice are found, there too is adventure.
Hardcover, 9.25" x 6.25", 240 pages
By Eric P. Kelly
“I swear on my honor as a Pole, as a servant of the King of the Polish people, that I will faithfully and unto the death, if there be need, sound upon the trumpet the Heynal in honor of Our Lady each hour in the tower of the church which bears Her Name.”
From the tower of Krakow’s Church of Our Lady Mary, a trumpet sounds each hour, in faithful fulfillment of this solemn oath. More than a timekeeper, the trumpeter is also a vigilant guardian, watching for enemies, riots, and fires—anything that might threaten the safety of the city.
In 1461, young Joseph Charnetski comes to Krakow with his father and mother. In their keeping is the Great Tarnov Crystal. Bogdan Grozny, a Tartar chieftain, is determined to seize this treasure for himself. Nor is he alone: a ruthless alchemist also seeks the stone, believing it to be the key to the secrets of life.
Learning from his father the story and the skills of the trumpeter of Krakow, Joseph prepares for the moment when he might bear the sentinel’s duty. When that moment comes, Joseph must risk danger and even death to deliver his family and the city from the dark messengers of evil and the raging fires of destruction.
A story of excitement and mystery, beautifully decorated by Janina Domanska, Eric P. Kelly’s The Trumpeter of Krakow makes crystal clear the truth that where courage, honour, and sacrifice are found, there too is adventure.
Hardcover, 9.25" x 6.25", 240 pages
A Tale of the Fifteenth Century
Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs
Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs
The Year of the Lord in Liturgy and Folklore
by Fr Francis X. Weiser, S.J.
The Church’s Liturgical Year reflects the fullness of Divine Revelation. In the various celebrations and commemorations of the Year of the Lord, the Church recalls the mysteries of faith: the Incarnation of God’s only-begotten son, his passion, death, and resurrection which won redemption for mankind, and his institution of the sacraments and founding of his Church for the salvation of souls. Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs, first published in 1958, is a masterful summary of the origin, history, development, and observance of the events on the Christian calendar as they developed to the mid-twentieth century.
With warmth, wit, and due reverence, Francis X. Weiser, S.J., presents the liturgical and devotional aspects and the cultural expressions—the food and drink, music and dancing, and more—found in these salvific occasions. Set in three parts, the study progresses through the temporal rhythm of the seasons (Sundays and weekdays), the recollection of Christ’s redeeming work (Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter, Pentecost and Corpus Christi), and the jubilation over the fruits of that work (the Blessed Mother and the angels and saints).
An easily accessible and richly detailed guide to the holy-days and celebrations of the Christian liturgical year, Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs remains true to its testament as “a key to a devout and meaningful observance of the Year of the Lord.”
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 384 pages
The Year of the Lord in Liturgy and Folklore
by Fr Francis X. Weiser, S.J.
The Church’s Liturgical Year reflects the fullness of Divine Revelation. In the various celebrations and commemorations of the Year of the Lord, the Church recalls the mysteries of faith: the Incarnation of God’s only-begotten son, his passion, death, and resurrection which won redemption for mankind, and his institution of the sacraments and founding of his Church for the salvation of souls. Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs, first published in 1958, is a masterful summary of the origin, history, development, and observance of the events on the Christian calendar as they developed to the mid-twentieth century.
With warmth, wit, and due reverence, Francis X. Weiser, S.J., presents the liturgical and devotional aspects and the cultural expressions—the food and drink, music and dancing, and more—found in these salvific occasions. Set in three parts, the study progresses through the temporal rhythm of the seasons (Sundays and weekdays), the recollection of Christ’s redeeming work (Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter, Pentecost and Corpus Christi), and the jubilation over the fruits of that work (the Blessed Mother and the angels and saints).
An easily accessible and richly detailed guide to the holy-days and celebrations of the Christian liturgical year, Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs remains true to its testament as “a key to a devout and meaningful observance of the Year of the Lord.”
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 384 pages
The Year of the Lord in Liturgy and Folklore
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Father Malachy's Miracle
Father Malachy's Miracle
by Bruce Marshall
Father Malachy Murdoch has wrought a miracle. One ordinary-seeming Saturday night in Edinburgh, the “Garden of Eden” dance-hall is doing a very brisk business, when the answer to Father Malachy’s prayer arrives all of a sudden: the building and its inhabitants are removed to the island of Bass Rock. The consequences of this miracle seemingly know no bounds. The media, the clergy, the scientists, the general public all converge in seeking an explanation, whether material or spiritual, as to how this event could have transpired. At the center of the controversy and chaos calmly stands Father Malachy, disdaining both the crass excesses of the world and the pusillanimous explications found even among Christians, and laying claim to the the simple saving grace of God for his wandering sheep.
Brought, at long last, back into print, Father Malachy’s Miracle is just as clever, comedic, and downright enjoyable as the day it first unassumingly appeared as “a heavenly story with an earthly meaning.”
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 200 pages
by Bruce Marshall
Father Malachy Murdoch has wrought a miracle. One ordinary-seeming Saturday night in Edinburgh, the “Garden of Eden” dance-hall is doing a very brisk business, when the answer to Father Malachy’s prayer arrives all of a sudden: the building and its inhabitants are removed to the island of Bass Rock. The consequences of this miracle seemingly know no bounds. The media, the clergy, the scientists, the general public all converge in seeking an explanation, whether material or spiritual, as to how this event could have transpired. At the center of the controversy and chaos calmly stands Father Malachy, disdaining both the crass excesses of the world and the pusillanimous explications found even among Christians, and laying claim to the the simple saving grace of God for his wandering sheep.
Brought, at long last, back into print, Father Malachy’s Miracle is just as clever, comedic, and downright enjoyable as the day it first unassumingly appeared as “a heavenly story with an earthly meaning.”
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 200 pages
Swift Victory
Swift Victory
by Fr Walter Farrell, O.P. and Fr Dominic Hughes
Swift Victory is a compelling presentation of a longstanding, treasured part of Christian tradition: the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit. The fruit of fraternal collaboration between two brilliant twentieth-century Thomists, Walter Farrell, O.P., and Dominic Hughes, O.P., these nine chapters place the doctrine of the Gifts in their proper theological setting; proceed to individual treatments of the Gifts of Understanding, Knowledge, Wisdom, Counsel, Piety, Fear of the Lord, and Fortitude; and conclude with an inspirational meditation on the power of the Gifts to bring about the foretaste of heavenly glory.
Christ promised that “the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things.” Swift Victory: Essays on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit bears out the truth that what God has promised, he will accomplish. In the words of Dominic Hughes, “Every human longing for objective answers and inward experience is superabundantly fulfilled by [God’s] presence in the essence of the soul and his Gifts in its powers.”
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 190 pages
by Fr Walter Farrell, O.P. and Fr Dominic Hughes
Swift Victory is a compelling presentation of a longstanding, treasured part of Christian tradition: the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit. The fruit of fraternal collaboration between two brilliant twentieth-century Thomists, Walter Farrell, O.P., and Dominic Hughes, O.P., these nine chapters place the doctrine of the Gifts in their proper theological setting; proceed to individual treatments of the Gifts of Understanding, Knowledge, Wisdom, Counsel, Piety, Fear of the Lord, and Fortitude; and conclude with an inspirational meditation on the power of the Gifts to bring about the foretaste of heavenly glory.
Christ promised that “the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things.” Swift Victory: Essays on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit bears out the truth that what God has promised, he will accomplish. In the words of Dominic Hughes, “Every human longing for objective answers and inward experience is superabundantly fulfilled by [God’s] presence in the essence of the soul and his Gifts in its powers.”
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 190 pages
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$38.00
Only Son
Only Son
by Fr Walter Farrell, O.P.
From the Annunciation to the Resurrection, Only Son weaves together the marvelous storylines of Sacred Scripture to tell the life of Jesus Christ. Guided by the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas, and aided by commentary from the Church Fathers, Walter Farrell, O.P., produces a work of exceptional value both for devotional practice and for historical interest. With the four Gospel accounts providing his work’s basic structure, Farrell amplifies the “greatest story ever told” with elaborations on tradition. Especially noteworthy is his commentary and preaching on the role of Mary, Mother of God; on the hidden life of Christ; and on the revelation which Christ, fully God and fully man, gives of what it means to be human.
Its composition abruptly ended by Farrell’s untimely death in 1951, Only Son was completed in 1953 with two chapters from the acclaimed Companion to the Summa. Thus does Farrell complete Farrell to create a harmonious, prayerful meditation on the life of Christ, the Father’s only son, “full of grace and truth.”
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 220 pages
by Fr Walter Farrell, O.P.
From the Annunciation to the Resurrection, Only Son weaves together the marvelous storylines of Sacred Scripture to tell the life of Jesus Christ. Guided by the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas, and aided by commentary from the Church Fathers, Walter Farrell, O.P., produces a work of exceptional value both for devotional practice and for historical interest. With the four Gospel accounts providing his work’s basic structure, Farrell amplifies the “greatest story ever told” with elaborations on tradition. Especially noteworthy is his commentary and preaching on the role of Mary, Mother of God; on the hidden life of Christ; and on the revelation which Christ, fully God and fully man, gives of what it means to be human.
Its composition abruptly ended by Farrell’s untimely death in 1951, Only Son was completed in 1953 with two chapters from the acclaimed Companion to the Summa. Thus does Farrell complete Farrell to create a harmonious, prayerful meditation on the life of Christ, the Father’s only son, “full of grace and truth.”
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 220 pages
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The Great Encyclicals
The Great Encyclicals
Volume One: The Social Letters
by Pope Leo XIII
Compiled and Introduced by Leo L. Clarke
The reign of Pope Leo XIII is the fourth-longest of any papacy in the two-thousand-year history of the Catholic Church. Over the course of a full quarter-century, Leo XIII courageously engaged with the modern world, asserting the Church’s authority and wisdom in the face of unprecedented challenges and confusion. He was also a prolific author, issuing a total of eighty-six encyclical letters on matters both spiritual and social. Compiled and engagingly introduced by Leo L. Clarke, The Great Encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII comprises—across two volumes—thirty-one of those letters, to present the vibrant and courageous insights of this great shepherd to an age with a pronounced need of hearing and heeding his message.
Volume One: The Social Letters contains fourteen of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclicals dedicated to expounding upon and explaining the principles which govern the life of Catholics in civil society, including his first, Inscrutabili dei consilio (on the evils of society); the forthright Longinqua (on Catholicism in the United States); and the most famous, Rerum novarum (on capital and labour).
Contents
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 300 pages
Volume One: The Social Letters
by Pope Leo XIII
Compiled and Introduced by Leo L. Clarke
The reign of Pope Leo XIII is the fourth-longest of any papacy in the two-thousand-year history of the Catholic Church. Over the course of a full quarter-century, Leo XIII courageously engaged with the modern world, asserting the Church’s authority and wisdom in the face of unprecedented challenges and confusion. He was also a prolific author, issuing a total of eighty-six encyclical letters on matters both spiritual and social. Compiled and engagingly introduced by Leo L. Clarke, The Great Encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII comprises—across two volumes—thirty-one of those letters, to present the vibrant and courageous insights of this great shepherd to an age with a pronounced need of hearing and heeding his message.
Volume One: The Social Letters contains fourteen of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclicals dedicated to expounding upon and explaining the principles which govern the life of Catholics in civil society, including his first, Inscrutabili dei consilio (on the evils of society); the forthright Longinqua (on Catholicism in the United States); and the most famous, Rerum novarum (on capital and labour).
Contents
- Inscrutabili Dei Consilio - On the Evils of Society (1878)
- Quod Apostolici Muneris - On Socialism (1878)
- Diuturnium - On the Origin of Civil Power (1881)
- Humanum Genus - On Freemasonry (1884)
- Immortale Dei - On the Christian Constitution of States (1885)
- Quod Multum - On the Liberty of the Church (1886)
- In Plurimis - On the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil (1888)
- Libertas - On the Nature of Human Liberty (1888)
- Sapientiae Christianae - On Christians as Citizens (1890)
- Rerum Novarum - On Capital and Labour (1891)
- Au Milieu Des Sollicitudes - On the Church and State in France (1892)
- Longinqua - On Catholicism in the United States (1895)
- Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae - On New Opinions, Virtue, Nature and Grace, with Regard to Americanism (1899)
- Graves de Communi Re - On Christian Democracy (1901)
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 300 pages
Volume One: The Social Letters
House of Cards
House of Cards
by Alice Curtayne
At the age of seventeen, Anne Farrelly leaves her hometown in the West of Ireland for England, eager for the adventure of education and the promise of a career to follow. In the decade that follows, Anne works up from a lowly position at a struggling English school to a directorship at an Italian firm’s Rome offices, all the while contending with the question of whether she must be married in order to find true fulfillment. Through every turn—romantic, tragic, or comedic—Curtayne presents the concrete difficulties, fraught decisions, and testing freedoms in the life of a young woman.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 235 pages
by Alice Curtayne
At the age of seventeen, Anne Farrelly leaves her hometown in the West of Ireland for England, eager for the adventure of education and the promise of a career to follow. In the decade that follows, Anne works up from a lowly position at a struggling English school to a directorship at an Italian firm’s Rome offices, all the while contending with the question of whether she must be married in order to find true fulfillment. Through every turn—romantic, tragic, or comedic—Curtayne presents the concrete difficulties, fraught decisions, and testing freedoms in the life of a young woman.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 235 pages
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The Month of Falling Leaves
The Month of Falling Leaves
by Bruce Marshall
Professor of philosophy Harold Hilliard is the author of The Symphony of Discord, a metaphysical treatise on the “Dysteleological Surd”—the physical suffering which seemingly serves as proof against the existence of a benevolent Creator. Its limited sales in England notwithstanding, Symphony of Discord is a success in—of all places—Poland. Arriving in Warsaw for a lecture to the Metaphysical Society, Hilliard is mistaken for a British Secret Service agent and rapidly becomes embroiled in international espionage. Despite his best efforts to persuade Agent Karminski of the PZPR’s intelligence service to the contrary, Hilliard’s every move only serves as further evidence of his new identity as MI5’s new man in Poland and draws him deeper into the bewildering world of Cold War spies.
The Month of Falling Leaves is a diverting story, swirling with suspicions and suspense, of scholar versus spy behind the Iron Curtain.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 170 pages
by Bruce Marshall
Professor of philosophy Harold Hilliard is the author of The Symphony of Discord, a metaphysical treatise on the “Dysteleological Surd”—the physical suffering which seemingly serves as proof against the existence of a benevolent Creator. Its limited sales in England notwithstanding, Symphony of Discord is a success in—of all places—Poland. Arriving in Warsaw for a lecture to the Metaphysical Society, Hilliard is mistaken for a British Secret Service agent and rapidly becomes embroiled in international espionage. Despite his best efforts to persuade Agent Karminski of the PZPR’s intelligence service to the contrary, Hilliard’s every move only serves as further evidence of his new identity as MI5’s new man in Poland and draws him deeper into the bewildering world of Cold War spies.
The Month of Falling Leaves is a diverting story, swirling with suspicions and suspense, of scholar versus spy behind the Iron Curtain.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 170 pages
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A Thread of Scarlet
A Thread of Scarlet
by Bruce Marshall
Léon Bloy’sThe Pilgrim of the Absolute offers one of the epigraphs to A Thread of Scarlet: “When we are not talking to God or for God, it is to the devil that we speak, and he listens to us in a formidable silence.” Donald Campbell, convert to Catholicism, confronts this conditional daily—for he is a priest. And as the devil says to the priest in Georges Bernanos’ Under the Sun of Satan, “I have you all numbered. Not one of you escapes me.” Father Campbell, however, as he moves from priesthood to episcopacy to the crowning achievement of a cardinal’s red hat, gives the lie to this boast of the Father of Lies. Determined to serve the Church and spread Christ’s Gospel, Father Campbell must accept that the Lord’s ways are not his ways, and that the only means to prove one’s own goodness is on the grounds of God’s good graces.
A worthy successor to Marshall’s Father Malachy’s Miracle and The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith, A Thread of Scarlet presents in riveting detail and with scintillating dialogue the drama of one man’s priestly life.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 200 pages
by Bruce Marshall
Léon Bloy’sThe Pilgrim of the Absolute offers one of the epigraphs to A Thread of Scarlet: “When we are not talking to God or for God, it is to the devil that we speak, and he listens to us in a formidable silence.” Donald Campbell, convert to Catholicism, confronts this conditional daily—for he is a priest. And as the devil says to the priest in Georges Bernanos’ Under the Sun of Satan, “I have you all numbered. Not one of you escapes me.” Father Campbell, however, as he moves from priesthood to episcopacy to the crowning achievement of a cardinal’s red hat, gives the lie to this boast of the Father of Lies. Determined to serve the Church and spread Christ’s Gospel, Father Campbell must accept that the Lord’s ways are not his ways, and that the only means to prove one’s own goodness is on the grounds of God’s good graces.
A worthy successor to Marshall’s Father Malachy’s Miracle and The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith, A Thread of Scarlet presents in riveting detail and with scintillating dialogue the drama of one man’s priestly life.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 200 pages