Prayer
From Assumption to Advent
Daily Readings and Meditations to Pray Alone or as a Family
by Fr. Patrick Troadec
This volume is the last in the best-selling daily liturgical reader and meditation series. The meditations and reflections in this book cover different aspects of the Christian life, addressing our duties toward God, toward our neighbor, and toward ourselves. Every season presents an opportunity to renew our fervor with good, practical resolutions. With this goal in view, a certain number of meditations focus on the life we are leading and the meaning of the trials we endure. Still others bring us before the questions surrounding the close of our lives and the Last Four Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell). Finally, other meditations remind us that we are children of God and help us live daily in the company of God and His angels and saints.
Each of the daily meditations covered in this book includes a:
Meditation: A particular truth of the Faith and how it applies to us.
Prayer: Two short daily prayers for the reader to choose from.
Thoughts: Daily recollections that illustrate a profound point.
Resolutions: Three simple and practical resolutions.
“If we foster our Christian life every day by a few words of love, little by little we will enter a continual heart to heart conversation with Jesus Christ. I remember all of my readers in my priestly prayers, especially during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.” — Fr. Patrick Troadec
The series includes:
From Advent to Epiphany
From Epiphany to Lent
Toward Easter
Eastertide Day by Day
From Trinity Sunday to the Assumption
From the Assumption to Advent
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 294 pages
40 Days with the Angelic Doctor
by St Thomas Aquinas
There’s a multitude of Lenten meditation books but only one that’s packed with the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas. Journey through Lent with the Church’s greatest philosopher-theologian. This unrivaled spiritual master will guide you in encountering Our Lord and experiencing the type of fruitful Lent that he often experienced.
You will relish this magnificent treasury of sixty-three of Aquinas’s Scripture-based sermons specially selected for the holy season. From Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, you’ll learn how to deepen your prayer life, conquer temptation, resist the evils incurred by sin, and equip yourself for spiritual battle.
In the straightforward, logical language for which he is famous, Aquinas shows you how to detach yourself from the things of this world and refocus on the things above, reflecting on Our Lord and Our Lady as models.
You will learn the importance of fasting to the preservation of chastity and how to perform acts that will increase your humility and purity. As you contemplate the example of Our Lord on the Cross, Aquinas will help you weed out vices and cultivate virtues to prepare for the joys of Heaven.
Let the Angelic Doctor assist you in overcoming idleness and fostering a deeper devotion with stirring reflections on:
- Ways in which the Blood of Jesus is precious and salvific
- The confidence we should place in Our Divine Friend, even in sickness, suffering, and pain
- How Our Lady suffered and how she personifies charity, patience, humility, obedience, and detachment
- Why the pain suffered by Our Lord was the greatest pain possible in this life
- Jesus’ fourfold humiliation on the Cross - and the fourfold exaltation it merited Him
- How Christ manifested all virtues on the Cross, the "pulpit from which He taught all mankind"
Also included are forgotten or little-known traditional feast days, such as the feast of the Holy Lance and the Nails of Our Lord and the feast of the Holy Winding Sheet.
You will find rich meditations on Christ’s Passion and reflections for each day of Holy Week. Best of all, you will discover the greatest love story of all time: the Father who offered His only Son, and the Son who underwent every suffering and sacrificed His life for our redemption.
Paperback, 210 pages
by Bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Even three hundred years ago, believers found it difficult to sustain for forty days the proper Lenten spirit. That's why even then, countless Christians turned to the writings of Bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (1627-1704), whose great piety and simple eloquence won him renown as one of the greatest preachers of his time.
There is no better time to begin—or to renew—the habit of meditation than during the penitential season of Lent.
If you want to combine the spiritual benefits of a holy Lent with the supernatural harvest that regular mental prayer brings, then you stand to profit from Bossuet’s Meditations for Lent.
These brief but powerful meditations have been collected from the voluminous writings of the great 17th Century Bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, a close follower of St. Vincent de Paul and considered to be among the greatest homilists in Catholic history.
In these pages, Bishop Bossuet will bring you on a stunning inner pilgrimage to encounter Our Lord’s divine charity for souls, as He freely gives His life for you on the Cross. “The whole of Christian life consists in making this journey well,” says the author. “Why do I hesitate to leave?”
Read Meditations for Lent and avoid arriving at Easter Mass distracted and exhausted, having neglected your sacrifices and even ordinary prayers.
Instead, find yourself coming joyfully unto the altar of God, ready and eager to adore the Risen King, with your soul prepared as a worthy dwelling place for the Redeemer.
Paperback, size 7" x 5", 225 pages
by Mother Mary Loyola
Those who frequently avail themselves of these Sacraments will appreciate this devotional aid which presents a fresh perspective. Here Mother Loyola's characteristic child-like devotion is a refreshing breeze in a still room.
The examination of conscience found in this manual is particularly helpful in rooting out our hidden faults and passions.
Paperback, size 4.37" x 7", 178 pages
Rooting Out Hidden Faults
How the Particular Examen Conquers Sin
by James McElhone
This step-by-step guide on how to make a Particular Examen is rooted in the five wounds of Jesus and includes prayers, sample format, and predominant faults to avoid in prayer, work, study, and recreation. As most of us struggle with the same assortment of sins, these targeted reflections will assist you in conquering your faults.
This reprint of the 1952 classic contains prayers for each topic from the traditional Roman Missal that help you foster the proper spirit of mind and unction of heart for fruitful meditation.
Here is a valuable resource for any Catholic — priest, consecrated, or lay — wishing to develop a plan for spiritual holiness. It provides self-inventory questions for each vice to help determine angles of attack and addresses misconceptions about each vice. You will learn ways to defeat your vices, and thus serve God more wholeheartedly, and will find rules for practicing fraternal charity by contemplating the cardinal and theological virtues.
If your root sin is a type of pride, this book will show you how to cultivate the corresponding virtue of humility by meditating on the lives of Jesus and Mary. By the same token, if your predominant fault is avarice, the biblical references provided will bolster your resolve and engender thoughts of poverty in spirit instead. Penetrating reflections are offered to overcome lust with purity, anger with
meekness, gluttony with temperance, envy with common sense, and sloth with zeal.
You will also acquire tips on how to:
- Read the Bible more efficaciously to reflect on Christ and grow in union with God
- Thank God for His goodness and the many graces He showers upon you and others daily
- Ask the Holy Ghost for self-knowledge, growth in virtue, and the seven gifts
- Determine your dominant sin and assess your progress daily through the Particular Examen
- Practice the presence of God in imitation of Our Lady in every circumstance
- Develop personal and practical resolutions and a firm purpose of amendment
Hidden saints embolden the Church in times of persecution. Take up your cross. Defend your faith for God's glory and the salvation of souls.
Paperback, 176 pages
by Fr. Raoul Plus, S.J.
Christ urges us to pray without ceasing, but when we try to do so, many of us simply cease without praying. We're distracted by troubles or duty or we quit just because it's late already and we're tired.
Fr. Raoul Plus's no-nonsense prayer manual, How to Pray Always, remedies these problems by dispelling the false notions of prayer we all have and showing how we can, in fact, pray without ceasing - even at times when exhaustion cripples us and cares threaten to sweep us away.
Drawing on the experience of dozens of saints, Fr. Plus explains sure ways we can recollect ourselves before prayer so that once we begin to pray, our prayers will be richer and more productive; he teaches us how to practice interior silence habitually, even in the rush and noise of the world; and he explains each of the kinds of prayer and shows when we should - and should not - employ each.
As humans, our minds are limited and it's generally hard for us to pay attention to more than a few things at once. That's why most of us aren't able to think of God or pray while we fulfill any but the most mindless of our daily duties.
No problem.
For such busy occasions (which constitute most of the time for most of us), Fr. Plus explains how we can pray without words by keeping our wills united to God even when our minds must be directed elsewhere.
In other words, How to Pray Always is one of those rare books that actually fulfills the promise of its title. It helps us become better Christians by showing us how to know, to love, and to serve God, and to live prayerfully and constantly in His loving presence.
Leatherette cover, size 7" x 5", 144 pages
by Fr. Raoul Plus, S.J.
A modest book to help you pray as you've always wanted - and as you should.
We all pray, but few of us pray well. And although that's troubling, few of us have found a spiritual director capable of leading us further along the path of prayer.
Fr. Raoul Plus, S.J., is such a director, and reading this little book about the four types of prayer will be for you like hearing the voice of the wise and gentle counsellor you long for but can't find: one who knows your soul well and understands its needs.
How can this be? Well, the interior life is in most ways the same - and in lesser ways different - for each of us. The good director understands the ways it must always be the same, and allows for all the ways in which it will be different, uniquely our own. By showing us in these pages the saints in prayer, their struggles and their insights, and by drawing on 2,000 years of Christian experience Fr. Plus is here able to make his spiritual advice both concrete and universal: suited to each of us as if we were speaking with him face-to-face.
To read is not always to pray; but to read this book is to be led to the very threshold of true prayer.
Leatherette cover, size 7" x 5", 192 pages
by Fr. Daniel A Lord, S.J.
St Dymphna Novena booklet includes 24 pages of exclusive Italian 'Fratelli Bonella' fine art and special prayers. The cover displays a colourful gold outlined image of St Dymphna from the exclusive Italian 'Bonella' art collection. Each page is filled with beautiful prayers, surrounded by colourful, decorative designs.
Booklet, size 6" x 3.75", 24 pages
by Angelus Press
What does it gain a man to have his whole life perfectly organized but to lose his soul?
It's so easy to lose sight of God in our busy world. But the Church gave us the answer from the very beginning when she structured her official prayer around a framework of the psalms prayed eight times a day so that within one week, all 150 psalms are said.
Prayers for all hours
Here you have the most critical hours of the Divine Office for the layman in the world. Prime is the perfect Morning Prayer, Compline the perfect night prayer, and Sext is for the middle of the day.
Join your voice with the Church and Her members!
This is better than private prayer; it's the prayer of the entire Mystical Body because you pray with one heart with the millions of other clerics, religious and laymen around the world who have prayed and are praying these exact same prayers, AND because you adopt the intentions of the psalmist as you pray.
When understood correctly (this edition has a short explanation preceding each psalm), these are the intentions for which Holy Mother Church wants us to pray for ourselves, for the Church and for all the members of the Mystical Body of Christ.
Our Lord, our Lady, and the Saints prayed these psalms.
Includes
- An 11-page Introduction explaining the Divine Office and how to pray it, including guidelines on how to interpret the psalms in a Catholic manner
- Table of Contents
- The prayers to be said before and after reciting the Divine Office
- Melodies in Gregorian notation for those who chant the office in common.
- In timeless Latin with parallel English translations.
- Beautiful edition with sewn binding
- Leatherette cover
- Rounded edges
- Black text with rubrics in red
- Two ribbons
Includes everything for the Hours of Sunday Lauds, Prime, Sext, Vespers, and Compline; Prime, Sext, and Compline for each other day of the week.
Latin pronunciation guide bookmarker included.
Leatherette Hard Sewn cover, size 8.4" x 6.2", 221 pages
by unknown
Our Lady of Fatima booklet includes 24 pages of exclusive Italian 'Fratelli Bonella' fine art and special prayers. The cover displays a colourful gold outlined image of Our Lady of Fatima from the exclusive Italian 'Bonella' art collection. Each page is filled with beautiful prayers, surrounded by colourful, decorative designs.
Booklet, size 6" x 3.75", 24 pages
by unknown
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Novena booklet includes 24 pages of exclusive Italian 'Fratelli Bonella' fine art and special prayers. The cover displays a colourful gold outlined image of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal from the exclusive Italian 'Bonella' art collection. Each page is filled with beautiful prayers, surrounded by colourful, decorative designs.
Booklet, size 6" x 3.75", 24 pages
The Great Means of Grace
by unknown
Based on Scripture and the lives and words of the Saints, this booklet shows the great power of our seemingly lowly prayers of petition especially the Our Father and Hail Mary. According to the great St. Alphonsus Liguori, the choice between going to Heaven or to Hell depends on whether or not we pray!
Booklet, size 6" x 3.75", 75 pages
by Rev Fr Francis J. Connell, C.SS.R
Tradition holds that the original of this miraculous painting was created by Saint Luke the Evangelist - the original was destroyed by the Moslem invaders in 1453 - and that the most famous copy of it is now in Rome. This is the story of that painting.
Booklet, size 8.5" x 5.5", 42 pages
For Use by the Laity
by Fr Chad Ripperger, PhD.
Prayers for use by the laity in waging spiritual warfare from the public domain and the Church's treasury. The book has an imprimatur from the Archdiocese of Denver.
Paperback, size 8" x 5", 135 pages
Modelled after the French Livre Bleu (Blue Book), this book is designed to assist with the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. It is also a compendium of prayers, hymns, devotions and doctrine necessary in today's crisis.
Includes:
- Daily Prayers and Indulgences,
- Devotions to:
- the Holy Eucharist,
- the Passion of Our Lord,
- the Sacred Heart,
- the Holy Name of Jesus,
- the Blessed Virgin Mary,
- St. Joseph,
- the Holy Angels,
- for the Souls in Purgatory,
- Confession,
- Apostolate to the Sick and Dying,
- the Monthly Retreat,
- short family catechism,
- hymns and Chants,
- Third Order of the Society of St. Pius X.
Hardcover, size 5.75" x 4", 506 pages.
by Fr. Alain Delagneau
You are a central part of God’s plan to convert the world and this book will help you realize how crucial the Catholic Faith is for your future.
To accomplish your mission as faithful Catholics and to have a rich, fruitful, and worthwhile life, here and in eternity, you must prepare your soul. You need to thoroughly understand the goal you wish to attain, and consider the difficulties you will encounter, both mentally and physically, and accept them. The world will tell you that comfort is the highest goal and that only fools deny themselves. This is the battle between those who wish to live according to eternity versus those who live simply for today.
Your future will be exhilarating because it is your mission to rebuild a Christian society. The generations before you fought to preserve the Faith and Catholic Tradition and to pass them on to you. Now it falls to you to continue this noble fight and to spread the reign of Our Lord around you. What could be more inspiring than working for the greatest good there is: the good of souls and societies?
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 64 pages
As the Master, So the Disciple
by Fr. John Hugo
Fr. Onesimus Lacouture was a Jesuit who had the great gift of being a masterful director of souls. Being a Jesuit formed in the old mold of true Ignatian spirituality and deeply affected by the so-called “French School” of Cardinal Berulle, St. John Eudes, and St. Louis Marie de Montfort, his retreats, given to over 6000 American and Canadian priests, produced extraordinary results. His most well known disciple and good friend, Fr. Hugo, has produced for posterity, the Notes from those Ignatian retreats as given by Fr. Lacouture and subsequently by himself and many other priests.
A Sign of Contradiction is Fr. Hugo’s apologia for the work of Fr. Lacouture and the “spiritual movement” that grew spontaneously from the ardent, enlightened, and effective preaching of the retreats. He describes the movement, its opponents and its supporters as well as the revelatory doctrines so convincingly presented by Fr. Lacouture.
This book is spiritually motivating, historically informative, and powerfully illuminating in regard to the condition of the Church and the faithful in North America during the mid-twentieth century. His other works include Applied Christianity and The Gospel of Peace.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 412 pages
Table of Contents
Loreto Publications Foreword
Foreword
Part One
A Christward Movement
I. A Retreat on the Supernatural Life
II. The Effect of the Retreat
III. Practicing the Retreat
IV. The Doctrine of the Retreat
Part Two
History of the Movement
V. Father Onesimus Lacouture, S.J.
VI. Opposition in the Society
VII. The Spirit of the Society
VIII. The Law of Contradiction
IX. The Particular Spirit
X. Difficulties of the Movement
XI. Spirituality of the Movement
Part Three
Backgrounds of the Movement
XII. Religious and the Movement
XIII. Laity and the Movement
XIV. Clergy and the Movement
XV. The Movement and Authority
XVI. Giving the Devil his Due
Postscript
Loreto Appendix:
Death of Fr. Lacouture by Dorothy Day
by Msgr. Gaumé
The holy Sign of the Cross is the most important prayer and symbol of our Christian faith. It is at once the image of Christ's passion, the sign of the redemption of all mankind, the awesome testament of the destruction of the power of the devil and of his kingdom on earth. The resurrection is the promise and seal and guarantee of eternal life which consummated the work of the Cross.
Christians rejoice and the demons tremble to see the Sign of the Cross emblazoned everywhere as proof of Christ's victory over the world. Christ said "all power is given to me in heaven and on earth" and the Cross is the seat of that power. There is no place on earth where a person who makes the Sign of the Cross is not immediately recognized as a Catholic, and there is no miracle that has not been worked under this sign. It is the "nuclear bomb" of prayers and with it the faithful can clear away all enemies and temptations with the simplest of wordless gestures. Msgr. Gaumé has compiled a magnificent collection of history and commentary from the saints and fathers and doctors, as well as his own meditations and exhortations regarding this most powerful prayer. All Catholics should avail themselves of this information and make it fruitful in their own lives.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 158 pages
by Benedict R. Avery, O.S.B.
The life of every Christian soul on it’s pilgrimage through this vale of tears must be fed primarily on two foods. The origin of these two foods is the two trees in the Eden of our first parents, of which trees one was allowed to their use and one was forbidden. The Tree of Life was intended to feed the life that God had breathed into Adam and Eve. We now have a replacement for the food of that tree. That food is God Himself as the Bread of Life in the Eucharist. Adam’s disobedience regarding the command not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was the cause of mankind’s fall from grace. Now that man knows of evil, God has given us something to teach us to distinguish the evil from the good. Of this tree we also have a new bread to eat, as Jesus himself told us, “Not by bread alone (temporal bread) doth man live, but by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.” The word of God is two things, scripture and Jesus—especially in the Eucharist. These two foods are essential to us to sustain our life of grace that will, hopefully, lead us to eternal life.
Daily reading in the scriptures is the best way for a Christian to partake of this bread that God has given us. On Palm Sunday, 1978, Brother Francis gave us this daily schedule. Some have followed it ever since, and can testify to the sweetness and depth that this practice can bring to one’s spiritual life.
Douay Rheims version of the English bible as the very best translation available from which to read scripture. It corresponds more accurately to the original Vulgate than any of the more recent translations and the language is most beautiful.
Booklet, size 8.5" x 5.25", 40 pages
by Rev. Fr. De Lehen, S.J.
“We place this book in the hands of St. Joseph, begging him to commend it to the patronage of Mary, Mother of God. May the comfortress of the afflicted obtain peace of heart for all who read these lines!”—Rev. Fr. De Lehen, S.J., Author of The Way of Interior Peace