General
Twenty Poems of Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity with Passages from Bl. Columba Marmion OSB
Grammar, Vocabularies, and Exercises in Preparation for the Reading of the Missal and Breviary
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How to Serve
How to Serve
In Simple, Solemn, and Pontifical Functions
by Dom Matthew Britt, O.S.B.
There is an increasing need today for trained altar servers, and what better way to assist than to resurrect this classic! This famous handbook will help altar boys from beginning to advanced. For home study, schools and sacristies.
Dom Matthew Britt begins by offering specific instructions on common ceremonial actions, including how to make the proper bow, how to light the candles, and how to carry the Missal. He walks you step-by-step through Low Mass (with one or two servers), High Mass, Solemn High Masses, Nuptial and Requiem Masses, Vespers and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. With over 24 diagrams showing the various actions and positions of acolytes, Thurifer, Master of Ceremonies, Sub-Deacon, and Deacon. Includes servers' responses for the 1962 Latin Mass. It will once again become the standard reference for acolytes, handing on to young servers the disciplines necessary for reverent Catholic ceremonies.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 165 pages
In Simple, Solemn, and Pontifical Functions
by Dom Matthew Britt, O.S.B.
There is an increasing need today for trained altar servers, and what better way to assist than to resurrect this classic! This famous handbook will help altar boys from beginning to advanced. For home study, schools and sacristies.
Dom Matthew Britt begins by offering specific instructions on common ceremonial actions, including how to make the proper bow, how to light the candles, and how to carry the Missal. He walks you step-by-step through Low Mass (with one or two servers), High Mass, Solemn High Masses, Nuptial and Requiem Masses, Vespers and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. With over 24 diagrams showing the various actions and positions of acolytes, Thurifer, Master of Ceremonies, Sub-Deacon, and Deacon. Includes servers' responses for the 1962 Latin Mass. It will once again become the standard reference for acolytes, handing on to young servers the disciplines necessary for reverent Catholic ceremonies.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 165 pages
In Simple, Solemn, and Pontifical Functions
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The Masterful Monk
The Masterful Monk
Part III
by Fr Owen Francis Dudley
Although it is a stand-alone work, it has four of the characters from The Shadow on the Earth. Fr. Dudley endeavours to meet the modern attack upon man and his moral nature launched by those who would degrade him to the level of an animal. Julian Verrers in this tale is neither a literary affectation nor an exaggeration. He is a spokesman delivering faithfully the ideas of certain materialistic scientists, philosophers and leaders of thought.
Temptations of materialism were never stronger than they are today, yet here they are embodied in a novel reprinted from the 1945 edition!
Hardcover, size 7.75" x 5.25", 314 pages
Part III
by Fr Owen Francis Dudley
Although it is a stand-alone work, it has four of the characters from The Shadow on the Earth. Fr. Dudley endeavours to meet the modern attack upon man and his moral nature launched by those who would degrade him to the level of an animal. Julian Verrers in this tale is neither a literary affectation nor an exaggeration. He is a spokesman delivering faithfully the ideas of certain materialistic scientists, philosophers and leaders of thought.
Temptations of materialism were never stronger than they are today, yet here they are embodied in a novel reprinted from the 1945 edition!
Hardcover, size 7.75" x 5.25", 314 pages
Part III
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A Guide for Altar and Sanctuary
A Guide for Altar and Sanctuary
Directions for the Use of Altar Societies and Architects
by Cardinal Vaughn
A Guide for Altar and Sanctuary was compiled under the direction of Cardinal Vaughn [Formerly entitled: Directions for the Use of Altar Societies and Architects]
In a period when many Catholic churches are being restored to a traditional sense of function and beauty, the re-availability of this invaluable book could have perhaps not come at a more providential moment! This 76-page volume is packed with helpful information concerning the altar and its appointments, the sacred vessels and linens, and the vestments used in the Roman Liturgy. It also addresses the baptistery, mortuary chapel and Stations of the Cross.
The scope of this small book is strictly limited. It aims at giving, in a concise but sufficiently full form and with complete accuracy, the liturgical law "for churches that follow the Roman Rite."
It is important that architects, artificers and all who are engaged in the production of what is needed for divine worship, and members of altar societies, sacristans and others who have care of the sanctuary should understand that the Church has very definite laws concerning this work "laws that should be known and faithfully observed."
Revised and enlarged several times since its original compilation in 1881, this informative book is one of the most frequently cited, authoritative resources in the English language. This republished edition has been augmented with diagrams and an extract from the edifying foreword of the earlier 1912 edition. If you want to ensure that your sanctuary, altar and liturgical requisites are in conformity with the best traditions and mindset of the Roman Catholic Church, this book will help you obtain that goal!
This little volume is also a God-send to any Catholic that wants to learn more about the sacred liturgy and sacred spaces.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 76 pages with illustrations
Directions for the Use of Altar Societies and Architects
by Cardinal Vaughn
A Guide for Altar and Sanctuary was compiled under the direction of Cardinal Vaughn [Formerly entitled: Directions for the Use of Altar Societies and Architects]
In a period when many Catholic churches are being restored to a traditional sense of function and beauty, the re-availability of this invaluable book could have perhaps not come at a more providential moment! This 76-page volume is packed with helpful information concerning the altar and its appointments, the sacred vessels and linens, and the vestments used in the Roman Liturgy. It also addresses the baptistery, mortuary chapel and Stations of the Cross.
The scope of this small book is strictly limited. It aims at giving, in a concise but sufficiently full form and with complete accuracy, the liturgical law "for churches that follow the Roman Rite."
It is important that architects, artificers and all who are engaged in the production of what is needed for divine worship, and members of altar societies, sacristans and others who have care of the sanctuary should understand that the Church has very definite laws concerning this work "laws that should be known and faithfully observed."
Revised and enlarged several times since its original compilation in 1881, this informative book is one of the most frequently cited, authoritative resources in the English language. This republished edition has been augmented with diagrams and an extract from the edifying foreword of the earlier 1912 edition. If you want to ensure that your sanctuary, altar and liturgical requisites are in conformity with the best traditions and mindset of the Roman Catholic Church, this book will help you obtain that goal!
This little volume is also a God-send to any Catholic that wants to learn more about the sacred liturgy and sacred spaces.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 76 pages with illustrations
Directions for the Use of Altar Societies and Architects
Church's Position on Dancing
Church's Position on Dancing
by Abbe Henri Louis Hulot
The moral dangers of the too common and too fashionable amusements of dancing are pointed out, with as much force as clearness and learning, in this small but valuable book. The author extracts proofs from the Holy Scriptures, the Holy Fathers, Holy Councils, and from the theologians most renowned for their piety and learning.
Familiarity removes, often, a due appreciation of the dangers of the dance. There are Catholics who seem to have become skeptical as to the very existence of the danger attendant on their supposed innocent recreations.
We hope that these collected proofs will enlighten the mind and change the heart of those who have been the advocates of dancing, solely because they have never sufficiently considered the evils of which it is the cause and the occasion.
"But, you will say, the Commandments of God do not forbid dancing, nor does Holy Scripture, either. Perhaps you have not examined them very closely. Follow me for a moment and you will see that there is not a Commandment of God which dancing does not cause to be transgressed, nor a Sacrament which it does not cause to be profaned." - St. John Vianney
Paperback, size 8" x 5", 95 pages
Also available in Hardcover with dust jacket upon request (additional cost)
by Abbe Henri Louis Hulot
The moral dangers of the too common and too fashionable amusements of dancing are pointed out, with as much force as clearness and learning, in this small but valuable book. The author extracts proofs from the Holy Scriptures, the Holy Fathers, Holy Councils, and from the theologians most renowned for their piety and learning.
Familiarity removes, often, a due appreciation of the dangers of the dance. There are Catholics who seem to have become skeptical as to the very existence of the danger attendant on their supposed innocent recreations.
We hope that these collected proofs will enlighten the mind and change the heart of those who have been the advocates of dancing, solely because they have never sufficiently considered the evils of which it is the cause and the occasion.
"But, you will say, the Commandments of God do not forbid dancing, nor does Holy Scripture, either. Perhaps you have not examined them very closely. Follow me for a moment and you will see that there is not a Commandment of God which dancing does not cause to be transgressed, nor a Sacrament which it does not cause to be profaned." - St. John Vianney
Paperback, size 8" x 5", 95 pages
Also available in Hardcover with dust jacket upon request (additional cost)
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MARIJUANA
Marijuana
by Fr Juan Carlos Iscara and Fr Paul Robinson
Is using marijuana wrong?
The cannabis question has been the subject of debate for over sixty years. Over time the conversation has radically shifted as scientific research on the matter has developed. This short study breaks down the science and terminology surrounding marijuana and efficiently examines its effects on the mind and body. Despite the growing belief that marijuana is harmless, this booklet critically evaluates the implications of marijuana use in light of Catholic moral principles.
Read this concise and critical text to understand the Catholic position on what has become America’s drug of choice.
Booklet, size 6" x 4", 55 pages
Is It a Saint's Name?
Is It a Saint's Name?
by William Dunne
Over 3,000 names of saints for boys and girls. Used for years by parents choosing baptismal names. A handy reference. Belongs in every home and parish. All alphabetical, plus derivatives from basic names.
Booklet, 7" x 4.5", 48 pages, Impr
by William Dunne
Over 3,000 names of saints for boys and girls. Used for years by parents choosing baptismal names. A handy reference. Belongs in every home and parish. All alphabetical, plus derivatives from basic names.
Booklet, 7" x 4.5", 48 pages, Impr
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Pagent of Life
Pagent of Life
Problems of Human Happiness
Part IV
by Fr Owen Francis Dudley
In this book, Fr. Dudley endeavors to present an antithesis to that modern cowardice which manifests itself in the vogue for the vague and non-committal; the convenient dilettantism which questions everything, holds nothing, and funks the hard fact of truth. Reprint from 1946 edition.
Hardcover, size 7.75" x 5.25", 343 pages
Problems of Human Happiness
Part IV
by Fr Owen Francis Dudley
In this book, Fr. Dudley endeavors to present an antithesis to that modern cowardice which manifests itself in the vogue for the vague and non-committal; the convenient dilettantism which questions everything, holds nothing, and funks the hard fact of truth. Reprint from 1946 edition.
Hardcover, size 7.75" x 5.25", 343 pages
Problems of Human Happiness - Part IV
The Coming of the Monster
The Coming of the Monster
Problems of Human Happiness
Part V
by Fr Owen Francis Dudley
This book is considered a study of events. Fr. Dudley series portrays the modern revolt against God and the moral law. An unusual mystery that leads you on a "journey of the mind" - and body! - with scenes set in Leningrad, Lourdes, Paris, and Hollywood. Reprint from 1946 edition.
Hardcover, size 7.75" x 5.25", 275 pages
Problems of Human Happiness
Part V
by Fr Owen Francis Dudley
This book is considered a study of events. Fr. Dudley series portrays the modern revolt against God and the moral law. An unusual mystery that leads you on a "journey of the mind" - and body! - with scenes set in Leningrad, Lourdes, Paris, and Hollywood. Reprint from 1946 edition.
Hardcover, size 7.75" x 5.25", 275 pages
Problems of Human Happiness - Part V
These Tales are True
These Tales are True
Nineteen Stories that Really Happened
by Fr Daniel A Lord, SJ
Truth is often stranger than fiction.
This book is a collection of true tales, sometimes incredible, fantastic tales. Many of them highlight a principle of Catholic life in a way no mere explanation can achieve. All of these stories appeared first in a magazine from many years ago and are collected here in convenient form so that they can be easily enjoyed by the whole family.
Some of the stories are based on incidents which involved the personal experience of the narrator, Father Lord. In other cases the tale was told to Father Lord and he retells it here in his own inimitable fashion.
The fact that these tales are true, that they really did happen, must be emphasized. The lessons they point will help you to enrich Christian living.
Paperback, size 8" x 5", 98 pages, Impr 1947
Nineteen Stories that Really Happened
by Fr Daniel A Lord, SJ
Truth is often stranger than fiction.
This book is a collection of true tales, sometimes incredible, fantastic tales. Many of them highlight a principle of Catholic life in a way no mere explanation can achieve. All of these stories appeared first in a magazine from many years ago and are collected here in convenient form so that they can be easily enjoyed by the whole family.
Some of the stories are based on incidents which involved the personal experience of the narrator, Father Lord. In other cases the tale was told to Father Lord and he retells it here in his own inimitable fashion.
The fact that these tales are true, that they really did happen, must be emphasized. The lessons they point will help you to enrich Christian living.
Paperback, size 8" x 5", 98 pages, Impr 1947
Nineteen Stories that Really Happened
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Symbols In The Church
Symbols In The Church
by Carl Van Treeck and Aloysius Croft, M.A.
Reprinted from the 1936 edition. While this book is primarily intended for liturgical artisans, it also has great value for the typical Catholic in learning about and better appreciating Church symbols.
As aptly described in the Preface:
"The single symbols shown herein have been collected from books and from original sources over a long period of years in the pursuit of liturgical art, especially stained-glass work, by the senior author. Many of them can be used for a number of purposes and while some few, particularly the early ones referring to our Saviour, may have little practical value now, they are included here because they may bring to the reader a sense of the depth and beauty of the older symbols. They have the further value of showing the tradition of the first centuries after Christ, during which the foundation of all Christian art was laid.
The symbols likewise have come from many sources from all the ages of Christianity--from small gems of the fourth and fifth centuries, from very large mosaics and frescoes, from medieval stained glass and tombstones, from the catacombs, and from Baroque engravings. The better material of more recent times is added also, and only the signs devised in the ages of heraldry and as heraldic devices have, we think properly, been omitted.
The book is not a history of symbolism nor is it a treatise on symbolism in general. ...The history and philosophy of any symbol is presented only when it seemed necessary for an intelligent use of that particular symbol...
Furthermore, the book is not a complete collection of all Christian symbols; the field is too large to be covered in a volume the size of this one. ...However, the effort has been made, within proper bounds, to present only true symbols, and those which are the best and most authentic, and to deal with the subject in the correct spirit.
That the book is written from the Catholic viewpoint needs no explanation and certainly no apology. The wonder is that there are so few books on the subject written in English from this point of view. The Catholic origin of all the symbols demands no proof here, and the truth is that many of them give strong evidence to the fact that the beliefs of the first Christians were exactly those of the Church today.
It remains, then, only to hope that this work will fill a long-felt need; that artists and ecclesiastical craftsman will find it useful; and that others also may find it interesting and may gain from it some inspiration to a deeper study of the beautiful picture language of the Church."
This fully-indexed book features 234 illustrations in 12 chapters:
Paperback, size 8.4" x 5.4", 132 pages, Illustrated
by Carl Van Treeck and Aloysius Croft, M.A.
Reprinted from the 1936 edition. While this book is primarily intended for liturgical artisans, it also has great value for the typical Catholic in learning about and better appreciating Church symbols.
As aptly described in the Preface:
"The single symbols shown herein have been collected from books and from original sources over a long period of years in the pursuit of liturgical art, especially stained-glass work, by the senior author. Many of them can be used for a number of purposes and while some few, particularly the early ones referring to our Saviour, may have little practical value now, they are included here because they may bring to the reader a sense of the depth and beauty of the older symbols. They have the further value of showing the tradition of the first centuries after Christ, during which the foundation of all Christian art was laid.
The symbols likewise have come from many sources from all the ages of Christianity--from small gems of the fourth and fifth centuries, from very large mosaics and frescoes, from medieval stained glass and tombstones, from the catacombs, and from Baroque engravings. The better material of more recent times is added also, and only the signs devised in the ages of heraldry and as heraldic devices have, we think properly, been omitted.
The book is not a history of symbolism nor is it a treatise on symbolism in general. ...The history and philosophy of any symbol is presented only when it seemed necessary for an intelligent use of that particular symbol...
Furthermore, the book is not a complete collection of all Christian symbols; the field is too large to be covered in a volume the size of this one. ...However, the effort has been made, within proper bounds, to present only true symbols, and those which are the best and most authentic, and to deal with the subject in the correct spirit.
That the book is written from the Catholic viewpoint needs no explanation and certainly no apology. The wonder is that there are so few books on the subject written in English from this point of view. The Catholic origin of all the symbols demands no proof here, and the truth is that many of them give strong evidence to the fact that the beliefs of the first Christians were exactly those of the Church today.
It remains, then, only to hope that this work will fill a long-felt need; that artists and ecclesiastical craftsman will find it useful; and that others also may find it interesting and may gain from it some inspiration to a deeper study of the beautiful picture language of the Church."
This fully-indexed book features 234 illustrations in 12 chapters:
- Symbolism and Symbols
- The Most Holy Trinity
- God the Father
- God the Son
- God the Holy Ghost
- The Gospels and Evangelists
- The Apostles
- The Church
- The Sacraments
- The Blessed Virgin Mary
- The Ecclesiastical Year
- The Four Last Things
Paperback, size 8.4" x 5.4", 132 pages, Illustrated
Barb of Fire
Barb of Fire
Twenty Poems of Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity with Passages from Bl Dom Columba Marmion, OSB
by Bl Elizabeth of the Trinity
translated by Alan Bancroft
New and vivid translations of the twenty poems by Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity that were published in the Souvenirs shortly after her death in 1906. Accompanying each poem is a selected passage from Abbot Marmion, also newly translated. The editor and translator, Alan Bancroft, shows how strikingly the writings of the celebrated Benedictine Blessed Columba Marmion (beatified in 2000) and those of the young French Carmelite interlock. Elizabeth Catez, beatified in 1984, loved God with an astonishing intensity. These translations - of poems mainly unpublished before in English - together with a discerning introduction present to the reader an out-of-the-ordinary person indeed. She (like Abbot Marmion) answers in a direct manner a central question facing us all: 'What is our existence for?' Alan Bancroft is well known for his accomplished verse translation of, and commentary on, poems of St Therese of Lisieux.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 204 pages
Twenty Poems of Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity with Passages from Bl Dom Columba Marmion, OSB
by Bl Elizabeth of the Trinity
translated by Alan Bancroft
New and vivid translations of the twenty poems by Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity that were published in the Souvenirs shortly after her death in 1906. Accompanying each poem is a selected passage from Abbot Marmion, also newly translated. The editor and translator, Alan Bancroft, shows how strikingly the writings of the celebrated Benedictine Blessed Columba Marmion (beatified in 2000) and those of the young French Carmelite interlock. Elizabeth Catez, beatified in 1984, loved God with an astonishing intensity. These translations - of poems mainly unpublished before in English - together with a discerning introduction present to the reader an out-of-the-ordinary person indeed. She (like Abbot Marmion) answers in a direct manner a central question facing us all: 'What is our existence for?' Alan Bancroft is well known for his accomplished verse translation of, and commentary on, poems of St Therese of Lisieux.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 204 pages
Twenty Poems of Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity with Passages from Bl. Columba Marmion OSB
Heretics
Heretics
by G.K. Chesterton
For a work of philosophical criticism, Heretics concludes on a surprising note: “There are no rationalists,” G. K. Chesterton declares. “We all believe fairy-tales and live in them.” Like so many things Chestertonian, the remark appears fanciful, but is in fact mortally serious. The foundation for this remark in particular is the series of essays which constitutes Heretics: investigations of men whose viewpoints and doctrines have “the hardihood to differ” from Chesterton’s. With all the ebullience and brashness typical of its author, Heretics contends with such giants of twentieth-century thought as Joseph McCabe and Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells, and Friedrich Nietzsche and Charles Darwin, and their ideological progeny—atheism, militarism, vitalism (the philosophy of the “life force”), scientism, nihilism, and evolutionism—and the expansive effects of their power and influence.
First appearing in 1905, three years before the universally acclaimed Orthodoxy, Heretics serves as both proof of the colossal reason and wit of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and an eloquent preamble to his humble faith in the ultimate paradox which is also the ultimate truth.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 226 pages
by G.K. Chesterton
For a work of philosophical criticism, Heretics concludes on a surprising note: “There are no rationalists,” G. K. Chesterton declares. “We all believe fairy-tales and live in them.” Like so many things Chestertonian, the remark appears fanciful, but is in fact mortally serious. The foundation for this remark in particular is the series of essays which constitutes Heretics: investigations of men whose viewpoints and doctrines have “the hardihood to differ” from Chesterton’s. With all the ebullience and brashness typical of its author, Heretics contends with such giants of twentieth-century thought as Joseph McCabe and Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells, and Friedrich Nietzsche and Charles Darwin, and their ideological progeny—atheism, militarism, vitalism (the philosophy of the “life force”), scientism, nihilism, and evolutionism—and the expansive effects of their power and influence.
First appearing in 1905, three years before the universally acclaimed Orthodoxy, Heretics serves as both proof of the colossal reason and wit of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and an eloquent preamble to his humble faith in the ultimate paradox which is also the ultimate truth.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 226 pages
In Defense Of Sanity
In Defense Of Sanity
The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton
by G. K. Chesterton
The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton
by G. K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton was a master essayist. But reading his essays is not just an exercise in studying a literary form at its finest, it is an encounter with timeless truths that jump off the page as fresh and powerful as the day they were written.
The only problem with Chesterton's essays is that there are too many of them. Over five thousand! For most GKC readers it is not even possible to know where to start or how to begin to approach them.
So three of the world's leading authorities on Chesterton - Dale Ahlquist, Joseph Pearce, Aidan Mackey - have joined together to select the "best" Chesterton essays, a collection that will be appreciated by both the newcomer and the seasoned student of this great 20th century man of letters.
The variety of topics are astounding: barbarians, architects, mystics, ghosts, fireworks, rain, juries, gargoyles and much more. Plus a look at Shakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, George MacDonald, T.S. Eliot, and the Bible. All in that inimitable, formidable but always quotable style of GKC. Even more astounding than the variety is the continuity of Chesterton's thought that ties everything together. A veritable feast for the mind and heart.
While some of the essays in this volume may be familiar, many of them are collected here for the first time, making their first appearance in over a century.
Softcover, 405 pages
The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton
Economics for Helen
Economics for Helen
A Brief Outline of Real Economy
by Hilaire Belloc
This classic introduction to the basics of economic theory offers a constructive approach to economic education by defining terms and introducing key concepts without using insider jargon and complex theories. The fundamental questions about why the economy fluctuates and how small farmers, small business people, families, consumers, and innovators are affected by these fluctuations are considered. Serious alternatives to modern economic theories are explained, with attention to the realities that have been largely unchanged through the last century.
Hilaire Belloc is a former member of parliament in the British House of Commons. He is the author of more than 100 books, including Charles I, The Free Press, and The Restoration of Property. Edward A. McPhail is an assistant professor of economics at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Alberto Piedra is a professor emeritus of economics at Catholic University of America, where he was a chairperson of the economics department.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 172 pages
A Brief Outline of Real Economy
by Hilaire Belloc
This classic introduction to the basics of economic theory offers a constructive approach to economic education by defining terms and introducing key concepts without using insider jargon and complex theories. The fundamental questions about why the economy fluctuates and how small farmers, small business people, families, consumers, and innovators are affected by these fluctuations are considered. Serious alternatives to modern economic theories are explained, with attention to the realities that have been largely unchanged through the last century.
Hilaire Belloc is a former member of parliament in the British House of Commons. He is the author of more than 100 books, including Charles I, The Free Press, and The Restoration of Property. Edward A. McPhail is an assistant professor of economics at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Alberto Piedra is a professor emeritus of economics at Catholic University of America, where he was a chairperson of the economics department.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 172 pages
A Brief Outline of Real Economy
The Ballad of the White Horse
The Ballad of the White Horse
by G.K. Chesterton
The Ballad of the White Horse is one of the last great epic poems in the English language. On the one hand it describes King Alfred’s battle against the Danes in 878. On the other hand it is a timeless allegory about the ongoing battle between Christianity and the forces of nihilistic heathenism. Filled with colorful characters, thrilling battles and mystical visions, it is as lively as it is profound.
Chesterton incorporates brilliant imagination, atmosphere, moral concern, chronological continuity, wisdom and fancy. He makes his stanzas reverberate with sound, and hurries his readers into the heart of the battle.
This deluxe volume is the definitive edition of the poem. It exactly reproduces the 1928 edition with Robert Austin’s beautiful woodcuts, and includes a thorough introduction and wonderful endnotes by Sister Bernadette Sheridan, from her 60 years researching the poem. Illustrated.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 280 pages
by G.K. Chesterton
The Ballad of the White Horse is one of the last great epic poems in the English language. On the one hand it describes King Alfred’s battle against the Danes in 878. On the other hand it is a timeless allegory about the ongoing battle between Christianity and the forces of nihilistic heathenism. Filled with colorful characters, thrilling battles and mystical visions, it is as lively as it is profound.
Chesterton incorporates brilliant imagination, atmosphere, moral concern, chronological continuity, wisdom and fancy. He makes his stanzas reverberate with sound, and hurries his readers into the heart of the battle.
This deluxe volume is the definitive edition of the poem. It exactly reproduces the 1928 edition with Robert Austin’s beautiful woodcuts, and includes a thorough introduction and wonderful endnotes by Sister Bernadette Sheridan, from her 60 years researching the poem. Illustrated.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 280 pages
Around the Year with the von Trapp family
Around the Year with the von Trapp family
by Maria von Trapp
In this joyful and charming book, Maria von Trapp (from The Sound of Music) unveils for you the year-round Christian traditions she loved – traditions that created for her large family a warm and inviting Catholic home and will do the same for yours.
Here are the songs they sang for feasts and holidays, as well as Maria’s personal recipes for traditional holiday foods. Here are stories and games to delight your children, and countless other ways to turn events such as anniversaries, baptisms, graduations, birthdays, wedding receptions, and even funerals into feasts celebrated in the Lord.
Most people only know the young Maria from The Sound of Music; few realize that in subsequent years, as a pious wife and a seasoned Catholic mother, Maria gave herself unreservedly to keeping her family Catholic by observing in her home the many feasts of the Church’s liturgical year, with poems and prayers, food and fun, and so much more!
With the help of Maria von Trapp, you, too, can provide Christian structure and vibrancy to your home. Soon your home will be a warm and loving place, an earthly reflection of our eternal home.
Hardcover, size 9.25" x 8.25", 235 pages
The Church and the Usurers
The Church and the Usurers
Unprofitable Lending for the Modern Economy
by Brian M McCall
Dr. Brian McCall, a professor of law at the University of Oklahoma's College of Law, a contributor to The Angelus, Catholic Family News, and The Remnant, in addition to other journals, as well as a speaker at our 2011 Conference for Catholic Tradition on the Kingship of Christ, has released this truly important work.
The fruit of years of study and work, The Church and the Usurers considers the question of usury and its application to the modern age. The book looks at this subject in light of Sacred Scripture, Aristotelian philosophy, and the constant and decisive teachings of the Church. Those inclined to dismiss the Church's teaching as outdated, or somehow changed will be in for a shock.
If you thought the Church's teaching on usury had changed, then you need to read this book.
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 205 pages
Unprofitable Lending for the Modern Economy
by Brian M McCall
Dr. Brian McCall, a professor of law at the University of Oklahoma's College of Law, a contributor to The Angelus, Catholic Family News, and The Remnant, in addition to other journals, as well as a speaker at our 2011 Conference for Catholic Tradition on the Kingship of Christ, has released this truly important work.
The fruit of years of study and work, The Church and the Usurers considers the question of usury and its application to the modern age. The book looks at this subject in light of Sacred Scripture, Aristotelian philosophy, and the constant and decisive teachings of the Church. Those inclined to dismiss the Church's teaching as outdated, or somehow changed will be in for a shock.
If you thought the Church's teaching on usury had changed, then you need to read this book.
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 205 pages
Unprofitable Lending for the Modern Economy
The Ballad and the Message
The Ballad and the Message
and other articles from Immaculata Magazine
by Br Charles Madden, O.F.M., Conv.
Just like the Four Green Fields of the famous Ballad, the articles comprising this book are arrayed like glittering gems in four sections entitled: Our Lady, The Saints, Church History and Christian Living. These essays appeared over a period of thirty years in Immaculata Magazine, the publication issued from Marytown, the American headquarters of the Conventual Franciscans, St. Maximilian Kolbe’s Knights of the Immaculata.
The Message of the title is the same message that the Church of Jesus Christ has been uttering for over 2000 years, the message of the Gospel of Salvation, but with a special urgency and a special messenger—Our Lady Queen of Angels—who has visited her world many times, and in many guises, over the last two hundred years in order to bring her children a special Message, so well described by Bro. Charles Madden, her son.
Such titles as, To Sanctify, Teach, and Rule, As Moslems See Mary, The Chair of St. Peter, Angels in our Lives, Catholics in Freemasonry, The Fire of St. Patrick, Home-schooling: A Positive Good, A Commentary on Legalized Usury, and Our Lady of the New Millenium, promise something for all Catholic readers.
Booklet, size 8.5" x 5.25", 88 pages
and other articles from Immaculata Magazine
by Br Charles Madden, O.F.M., Conv.
Just like the Four Green Fields of the famous Ballad, the articles comprising this book are arrayed like glittering gems in four sections entitled: Our Lady, The Saints, Church History and Christian Living. These essays appeared over a period of thirty years in Immaculata Magazine, the publication issued from Marytown, the American headquarters of the Conventual Franciscans, St. Maximilian Kolbe’s Knights of the Immaculata.
The Message of the title is the same message that the Church of Jesus Christ has been uttering for over 2000 years, the message of the Gospel of Salvation, but with a special urgency and a special messenger—Our Lady Queen of Angels—who has visited her world many times, and in many guises, over the last two hundred years in order to bring her children a special Message, so well described by Bro. Charles Madden, her son.
Such titles as, To Sanctify, Teach, and Rule, As Moslems See Mary, The Chair of St. Peter, Angels in our Lives, Catholics in Freemasonry, The Fire of St. Patrick, Home-schooling: A Positive Good, A Commentary on Legalized Usury, and Our Lady of the New Millenium, promise something for all Catholic readers.
Booklet, size 8.5" x 5.25", 88 pages
and other articles from Immaculata Magazine
Medieval Costume
Medieval Costume
And How to Make It
by Dorothy Hartley
Clear and accurate in its guidance, Medieval Costume and How to Make It portrays the clothing of the 12th through the 15th centuries according to the wearer’s social class, with chapters divided to cover individual professions. So in addition to royal garments, here are the clothes of clerics, doctors, merchants, musicians, knights, artisans, farmers, and laborers — all with much helpful historical information, and richly illustrated with images from tapestries and illuminated manuscripts of the period as well as drawings and diagrams. Helpful advice covers choosing fabrics; placement of seams; draping and folding garments; how to walk, dance, and climb stairs in flowing attire; and even the best methods of storage. There are also many interesting details of accessories found in different professions and situations. Students of medieval costume design, tailors, community theater and reenactment groups — all will welcome this sumptuous guidebook to medieval costume.
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 160 pages
Hardcover is also available upon request (additional cost).
And How to Make It
by Dorothy Hartley
Clear and accurate in its guidance, Medieval Costume and How to Make It portrays the clothing of the 12th through the 15th centuries according to the wearer’s social class, with chapters divided to cover individual professions. So in addition to royal garments, here are the clothes of clerics, doctors, merchants, musicians, knights, artisans, farmers, and laborers — all with much helpful historical information, and richly illustrated with images from tapestries and illuminated manuscripts of the period as well as drawings and diagrams. Helpful advice covers choosing fabrics; placement of seams; draping and folding garments; how to walk, dance, and climb stairs in flowing attire; and even the best methods of storage. There are also many interesting details of accessories found in different professions and situations. Students of medieval costume design, tailors, community theater and reenactment groups — all will welcome this sumptuous guidebook to medieval costume.
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 160 pages
Hardcover is also available upon request (additional cost).
And How to Make It
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Latin Grammar
Latin Grammar
Grammar, Vocabularies, and Exercises in Preparation for the Reading of the Missal and Breviary
by Cora Carroll Scanlon, AM and Charles L. Scanlon, AM
"[Latin is the] language of wondrous spiritual power, transcending the boundaries of the nations . . . from which is removed." St. Paul VI, Sacrificium Laudis
Latin is the universal patrimony of all Roman Catholics. It is one of the three holy tongues nailed to Christ's Cross, along with Hebrew and Greek. Most of all, it is the native language of the city where the holy First-Enthroned Apostle Peter and the Pre-Eminent Apostle Paul shed their blood for the Lord—that is, Holy Rome. And so, throughout the generations, Latin has become the language of the entire Western Church, and, in virtue of Rome's being the seat of Apostolic authority, the universal language of the entire Catholic Church. For over 1500 years at least, all Western liturgy was conducted in Latin. It is the language that when prayed devoutly burns the demons, "the language of the angels," "the speech of the Christian centuries," and "something of priceless worth," as St. Paul VI called it on the eve of its abandonment in the Roman Church's liturgy. Truly, the loss of Latin is the loss of the resonant reminder of the martyrs of ancient Rome. But it is making a comeback, and you can partake of this immense heritage.
Serving as a consummate course in Ecclesiastical Latin, Latin Grammar contains lessons and readings from the Missale Romanum, the Breviarium Romanum, and the Biblia Vulgata. With 195 pages of grammar and a 130-page Latin-English glossary with all the words of the Missal and Breviary, this is a fantastic introduction to Church Latin that will cover all of the bases necessary. With this textbook in hand, you will be able to acquire the skills needed to participate in the perennial heritage of the Church of Rome and all of her daughters in the West. Truly this tongue is a pearl of great price in the treasure-house of the Church; Latin Grammar will grant you access.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 346 pages
Grammar, Vocabularies, and Exercises in Preparation for the Reading of the Missal and Breviary
by Cora Carroll Scanlon, AM and Charles L. Scanlon, AM
"[Latin is the] language of wondrous spiritual power, transcending the boundaries of the nations . . . from which is removed." St. Paul VI, Sacrificium Laudis
Latin is the universal patrimony of all Roman Catholics. It is one of the three holy tongues nailed to Christ's Cross, along with Hebrew and Greek. Most of all, it is the native language of the city where the holy First-Enthroned Apostle Peter and the Pre-Eminent Apostle Paul shed their blood for the Lord—that is, Holy Rome. And so, throughout the generations, Latin has become the language of the entire Western Church, and, in virtue of Rome's being the seat of Apostolic authority, the universal language of the entire Catholic Church. For over 1500 years at least, all Western liturgy was conducted in Latin. It is the language that when prayed devoutly burns the demons, "the language of the angels," "the speech of the Christian centuries," and "something of priceless worth," as St. Paul VI called it on the eve of its abandonment in the Roman Church's liturgy. Truly, the loss of Latin is the loss of the resonant reminder of the martyrs of ancient Rome. But it is making a comeback, and you can partake of this immense heritage.
Serving as a consummate course in Ecclesiastical Latin, Latin Grammar contains lessons and readings from the Missale Romanum, the Breviarium Romanum, and the Biblia Vulgata. With 195 pages of grammar and a 130-page Latin-English glossary with all the words of the Missal and Breviary, this is a fantastic introduction to Church Latin that will cover all of the bases necessary. With this textbook in hand, you will be able to acquire the skills needed to participate in the perennial heritage of the Church of Rome and all of her daughters in the West. Truly this tongue is a pearl of great price in the treasure-house of the Church; Latin Grammar will grant you access.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 346 pages
Grammar, Vocabularies, and Exercises in Preparation for the Reading of the Missal and Breviary
Out of Stock
$50.00 Inc Tax