Prayer
by Charles Kenny
My Daily Visit with the Saints is a compilation of meditations from the writings of saints and servants of God.
These holy men and women — over 65 contributors! — wrote from the time of the Apostles to the late 1800s during times before political correctness had taken root. Their words are boldly faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church, and are sure to guide you in her ways. In fact, these meditations cover 139 vital topics ranging from anger to mortal sin to death and much more. In strong, clear voices the saints left us these prayerful meditations, sure protection against sudden temptations, and lucid answers to sharp questions about the Faith. In a word, this one rich volume will serve you as a deep catechism, a spur to conscience, and a call to prayer.
How often do you find time to read the saints' writings? My Daily Visit with the Saints makes it easy to stay close to the holy men and women who have gone before you. Let your daily visit with God's faithful servants breathe into you a strong new spirit of piety and devotion, and bring you the everlasting consolation known only to those who stay close to Jesus in all that they do.
Concise meditations by saints and servants of God on each of the following topics:
Abstinence * Ambition * Anger * The Annunciation * The Ascension * The Assumption * Atheism * Avarice * Baptism * Blasphemy * The Catholic Church * Chastity * The Commandments * Communion * Confession * Confidence in God * Conscience * Dangers of the world * Death * Discord * Envy * The Epiphany * The Eucharist * Fashion * Fasting * Fear of God * Flattery * Friendship * Gambling * Good works * Grace * Habitual Sin * Hardness of Heart * Heaven * Hell * The Hidden life of Jesus * Holiness * The Holy Name of Jesus * The Holy Name of Mary * The Holy Rosary * The Holy Spirit * The Holy Trinity * Human Respect * Humility * Hypocrisy * Idleness * Ignorance * The Immaculate Conception * The Incarnation * The Infancy of Jesus * Intemperance * Jealousy * The Last Judgment * The Law of God * Love of Enemies * Love of God * Love of Neighbor * Lying and Trickery * Marriage * Meditation * Meekness * Mental Prayer * The Mercy of God * Mortal Sin * Obedience * Occasions of Sin * The Particular Judgment * The Passion of Our Lord * Passions * Peace of Soul * Penance * Perseverance * Piety * Poverty * Prayer * Predestination * The Presence of God * The Prosperity of the Wicked * Providence * Prudence * Purgatory * Purity * Rash Judgments * The Resurrection * Retreats * Riches * The Risen Jesus * Salvation * Scandals * Self-love * The Service of God * Slander * Temptations * Theft * The Transfiguration * Venial Sin * The Virgin Mary * The Visitation * Vocation * The Will of God * The Wounds of Jesus * plus many more!
Contributing saints and servants of God include:
St. Aelred (1110-1167) • St. Ambrose (340-397) • St. Astère (d. c. 400) • St. Athanasius (c. 296-373) • St. Augustine (354-430) • St. Basil (c. 329-379) • St. Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) • St. Bernard (1091-1153) • Fr. William Berthier, S.J. (1704-1782) • Card. Pierre de Bérulle (1575-1629) • Fr. Jacques Biroat (d. 1666) • St. Bonaventure (1221-1274) • Bp. Jacques Bossuet (1627-1704) • Fr. Henri-Marie Boudon (b. 1624) • Fr. Louis Bourdaloue (1632-1704) • Fr. Étienne de Bretteville (1630-1688) • Abp. Bartholmew de Carranza (d. 1576) • Fr. Matthieu de Castillo, O.P. (1664-1720) • St. John Chrysostom (c. 349-407) • St. Claude de la Colombière (1641-1682) • Fr. Francis Cordier (d. 1695) • Fr. Jean Crasset (1618-1692) • Fr. Croiset, S.J. (b. c. 1650) • St. Cyprian (c. 200-258) • Bl. Peter Damian (988-1073) • Fr. Nicolas de Dijon (d. 1696) • Fr. Piere de la Font (d. c. 1700) • Ven. Louis de Grenada (1505-1588) • St. Edmund (d. 1242) • St. Ephrem (d. c. 379) • Fr. Frederick Faber (1814-1863) • Abp. Franςois Fénelon (1651-1715) • Bp. Esprit Fléchier (1632-1710) • Bp. Jean de Fromentière (1652-1684) • Fr. John Garnier, S.J. (1612-1684) • Fr. Jaques Giroust (1624-1689) • St. Gregory (c. 540-604) • St. Gregory of Nazianzen (329-390) • Fr. Vincent Houdry, S.J. (1630-1729) • Fr. Laurent du Jarry (1658-1730) • St. Jerome (c. 347-420) • St. John of God (1495-1550) • Fr. Jean LeJeune (1592-1672) • St. Leo (d. 461) • Bp. Jules Mascaron (1634-1705) • Fr. Jean Massillon (1663-1742) • St. Philip Neri (1515-1595) • Fr. Jean de Nieremberg, S.J. (1590-1658) • Fr. F. Nepveu, S.J. (1639-1708) • Fr. Nouet, S.J. (1605-1680) • Fr. Armand de Rancé (1626-1700) • Fr. Alphonse Rodriguez, S.J. (1526-1616) • Fr. Charles de la Rue (1643-1725) • St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) • Fr. Paul Segneri, S.J. (1624-1694) • BL. Charles Spinola (1564-1622) • Fr. Claude Texier, S.J. (1610-1687) • Fr. Luke Vaubert, S.J. (1644-1716) • Fr. Louis Le Valois (1639-1700) • Fr. Antoine Verjus, S.J. (1652-1706) • and many more!
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 469 pages
Methods of Praying the Rosary with Fruit
This book contains numerous ways of praying the Rosary with many beautiful coloured pictures of stained glass windows to inspire you.
Specially included are:
- a Douay-Rheims Scriptural Rosary,
- two additional Rosary formats with meditations for each Hail Mary,
- the Rosary with added prayers to each Hail Mary,
- a Latin Vulgate Rosary and
- a Gregorian Chant Rosary.
This book will be a great help for anyone wanting to meditate well upon the mysteries of the Rosary whether privately, with family or parish.
Sewn hardcover, size 7.4" x 4.25", 160 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.
Counsels of Perfection for Christian Mothers
by Monsignor P. Lejeune
"My daughters, you all aspire to perfection. But what is your idea of perfection? Do you not often use this word in a vague and even false sense? It trips so lightly into your conversation that each one prides herself on having a very clear conception of it. I am positive, however, that if I were to ask you to define this word, the response would be a confusion of tongues."
These are the first words of Monsignor Lejeune in his book Counsels of Perfection for Christian Mothers. Written around a hundred years ago, this book of instructions applies to our corrupt modern age at such great urgency. Where mothers are immensely overwhelmed with haste, worry, and confusion brought about by feminism and capitalism, the deeply respected author exhorts mothers to turn to the Mother of mothers, our Blessed Virgin Mary.
The author continues:
"Do you ask for an example of a perfect woman? I shall give it to you from the heavenly hierarchy, by recalling the life of Mary, who, in the matter of perfection, is the nearest approach to God. She it is whom I charge to prove my thesis in such a way that you will be clearly persuaded that sanctity does not at all consist in splendor or magnificence or the glitter of exterior things, but rather in an interior principle which animates the most ordinary actions, and communicates to them an almost inestimable value. Consider for a moment the life of Mary......."
Read for yourself and begin to rediscover your vocation as a mother and a wife according to the will of God. Includes planning pages for My Rule of Life, Daily Schedule and more.
Paperback, size 9” x 6”, 186 pages, Impr
by unknown
Our Lady of Perpetual Help 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 Perpetual Succor 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
Miserere mihi, Domine, et exaudi orationem meam.
These words, "Have pity on me, Lord, and hear my prayer" are the antiphon that precedes the first psalm of Sunday compline. They also sum up the purpose and scope of compline, the ancient night prayer of the Church, and a beautiful way to join your prayers to the thousands of monks, brothers, sisters, priests, and seminarians praying this same prayer.
Our compline book will help you to enter deeply into the official prayer of the Church. With Latin-English text, and the propers for every night of the week, plus the tones for various seasons and feasts, special rubrics, and compline for Holy Week, this is the most complete Compline book available for the faithful. This booklet is perfect for enhancing your family's prayer life!
Leatherette softcover booklet, size 8" x 5.8", 84 pages, Red/Black text
Character Calendar
by Sr Mary Fidelis & Sr Mary Charitas
This pocket-size volume contains a wealth of spiritual guidance through daily devotions to the saint or feast of the day. Originally written in 1931 for upper grade school children by a pair of Notre Dame School Sisters, this book was later updated to align with the General Roman Calendar of 1954.
Beginning with a brief introduction to the saint of the day, augmented by excerpts from the Imitation of Christ and from the Mass for the day, as well as an ideal to ponder and an "action item", this is a wonderful way to focus on the virtues of each of the saints, and thereby to make our lives an imitation of theirs.
Paperback, size 7" x 4.37", 288 pages
by James A. Varni
Treasury of Indulgenced Prayers was originally published under the title “The Treasury of Indulgenced Ejaculations.” The first edition was based on the “Raccolta,” long the official collection of indulgenced prayers and good works. But with the appearance of “Preces et Pia Opera,” issued by the Vatican Press and now the only authentic collection of indulgenced prayers, it was evident, due to the changes in indulgences granted, the omission of some prayers, and the inclusion of other prayers, that a new edition of “The Treasury of Indulgenced Ejaculations” was most imperative.
Booklet, size 8.3" x 5.6", 38 pages, Impr 1940
First, The Thirty Day’s Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary in honour of the Sacred Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. “By the devout recital of this prayer, for the above space of time, we may mercifully hope to obtain our lawful request. It is particularly recommended as a proper devotion for every day in Lent, and all the Fridays throughout the year.”
Also included in this booklet is The Thirty Days’ Prayer to St. Joseph, Litany of St. Joseph, and The Thirty Days’ Prayer to Our Blessed Redeemer in honour of His Bitter Passion, the Litany of the Sacred Heart and Short Method of The Way of the Cross
Booklet, size 8.5" x 5.3", 47 pages, Impr 1924
The Imitation of Christ leather hardcover
by Thomas à Kempis
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas À Kempis needs no introduction. For more than five centuries it has been the most popular spiritual book second only to the Sacred Scriptures. It presents the fundamental principles of the spiritual life. The Christian soul is invited to follow Christ Who is the Way, the Truth and the Life. As we study its contents we are convinced that without that Way there is no going, without that Truth there is no knowing, without that Life there is no real living.
This translation by Bishop Challoner, who revised the Douay-Rheims Bible in the 1740's, is the most beautiful and edifying available. The Imitation of Christ speaks to the soul of every Christian, reminding him of the brevity of earthly joy compared to the eternity of happiness with God. This spiritual classic belongs to every Christian library.
Other versions also available.
Leather Hardcover, size 6" x 4", 320 pages
(Sept. 22 - Dec. 21)
by Fr. Patrick Troadec
“The best way to celebrate the saints is to imitate them. Why not try to live as they did if only for one day, their day, the day consecrated and blessed by the Church, when they are ‘on duty’ to help us?” – Monsignor Ghika
This book of daily meditations is the first on a four-volume series entitled Praying with the Saints by Season: Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn. These books serve as a brief daily guide to following in the footsteps of the saints through the liturgical year as well as on our life-long journey to eternity. The example of a new saint everyday will surely direct and motivate souls to a deeper union with God and a habitual higher level of sanctity.
Begin your day with the following inspiration:
Life of the Saint ٠ Brief Meditation ٠ Prayers ٠ Thoughts ٠ Invocations ٠ and Three Resolutions to aid in concrete, daily, spiritual growth.
If you are looking for a way to integrate prayer or spiritual reading into your daily life or want a daily reminder that sanctity is not only achievable but in fact our sole purpose here on earth, then this is the series for you. Short, profound, daily meditations on the saints and the liturgical year.
Paperback, size 7" x 4.25", 250 pages
(March 20 - June 21)
by Fr. Patrick Troadec
“The best way to celebrate the saints is to imitate them. Why not try to live as they did, if only for one day, their day, the day consecrated and blessed by the Church, when they are ‘on duty’ to help us?”—Monsignor Ghika
This book of daily meditations is the fourth volume released in a four-volume series entitled Praying with the Saints by Season: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn. These books serve as a brief daily guide to following in the footsteps of the saints through the liturgical year as well as on our life-long journey to eternity. The example of a new saint everyday will surely direct and motivate souls to a deeper union with God and a habitual higher level of sanctity.
Begin your day with the following inspiration:
• Life of the Saint
• Brief Meditation
• Prayers
• Thoughts
• Invocations
• and Three Resolutions to aid in concrete, daily, spiritual growth.
If you are looking for a way to integrate prayer or spiritual reading into your daily life or want a daily reminder that sanctity is not only achievable but in fact our sole purpose here on earth then this is a series for you. Short, profound, daily meditations on the saints and the liturgical year by best-selling author Fr. Patrick Troadec.
Paperback, size 7" x 4.25", 254 pages
pocket size
by Charles V. Lacey
Originally published in 1926, this classic "little blue book" has brought support and strength to countless people over the years.
For each of the Joyful, Glorious and Sorrowful Mysteries there is a special prayer and petition and a picture of the Mystery from the life of Mary and her Divine Son Jesus. Instructions on how to pray the Rosary, the words for all the prayers and the promises made by the Blessed Virgin to those who pray the Rosary are also included in this treasured book. What better way to honour Mary, Queen of the Rosary, than by reciting her favourite prayer every day.
Booklet, pocket size 5.25" x 3.25", 48 pages, black & white illustratations
Also available in a large print booklet
Our Lady in Doctrine and Devotion
by Fr William G Most
For the first time in the history of Marian writing, here is a book that co-ordinates and integrates the dogmatic truths underlying devotion to Mary with a solid, unsentimental, and balanced application of these truths to the life of the soul.
The author lucidly demonstrates that, since God has given Mary an all-pervading place in His scheme for the redemption of man, it follows that if we wish to grow in love of God—the goal of all spiritual striving—we will give Mary a corresponding place in our soul-life.
This book shows us how to achieve such fusion of God-centered and Mary-informed spirituality. It provides a basic orientation in ascetic principles and explains the classic steps in spiritual and mystical growth, drawing always on the texts of Scripture, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, the great commentators, and the modern papal pronouncements.
OUR LADY'S PART IN OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE
This is a fundamental text of Marian spirituality, for private study, for class and study-club use, for aid in spiritual direction. It is at once simple, clear, and logical, yet fortified by rich documentation and reference material. With Index and questions for discussion.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 332 pages
The Beginnings of the Life of Grace & Mysticism as Told by the Saints
by Fr. Adolphe Tanquerey, SS, DD
This work has been constructed as a daily companion to deepen and fortify the foundation of your interior life as taught by the tradition of the Church.
Cultivating the Spiritual Life is intended to serve as a day-by-day guide for you to live a devout life in the world to point the way to an enlightened, well-balanced, and authentic piety.
Taken from the writings primarily of that great 20th century master of the spiritual life, Fr. Adolphe Tanquerey, and further enhanced with writings from various doctors of the Church, saints, mystics, and theologians, Cultivating the Spiritual Life is a daily companion for those searching to grow closer to Christ by understanding how the spiritual life works in us. The purpose of this work is not to transcend any particular school or preference of spirituality, but rather to show what is universally common to the Catholic spiritual life and what each soul must know to succeed in his own earthly pilgrimage to God.
Fr. Tanquerey composed a complete and orderly summary of questions on the spiritual life which can serve as a devotional treatise for spiritual reading by his clear, lively, practical, and careful writing that serves to help foster a truly devout life while avoiding being dry and being controversial.
Cultivating the Spiritual Life should be read by taking the teachings of the Church as a whole and finding the common principles and rules for strengthening the basic fundamentals that the Church has always taught. Fr. Tanquerey wrote those for all those “who are seeking to live a thoroughly Christian life and thus fit themselves to be living, breathing models of Christ in the world today by a deep interior life.”
Leatherette softcover, size 8.5" x 5.5", 600 pages
Volume Two: The Spiritual 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 Two: The Spiritual Letters contains seventeen of Leo XIII’s encyclicals dedicated to strengthening the Church in faith and in practice, including the outstanding Aeterni patris (on the restoration of Christian philosophy), Arcanum divinae (on Christian marriage), and Providentissimus Deus (on the study of Holy Scripture), and crowned with select letters on the Holy Rosary.
Contents
- Aeterni Patris - On the Restoration of Christian Philosophy (1879)
- Arcanum Divinae - On Christian Marriage (1880)
- Exeunte Iam Anno - On the Right Ordering of Christian Life (1888)
- Quamquam Pluries - On Devotion to Saint Joseph (1889)
- Providentissimus Deus - On the Study of Holy Scripture (1893)
- Satis Cognitum - On the Unity of the Church (1896)
- Divinum Illud Munus - On the Holy Spirit (1897)
- Annum Sacrum - On the Consecration to the Sacred Heart (1899)
- Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus - On Jesus Christ the Redeemer (1900)
- Mirae Caritatis - On the Holy Eucharist (1902)
- Supremi Apostolatus Officio - On Devotion of the Rosary (1883)
- Octobri Mense - On the Rosary (1891)
- Magnae Dei Matris - On the Rosary (1892)
- Laetitiae Sanctae - On the Commendation of Devotion to the Rosary (1893)
- Iucunda Semper Expectatione - On the Rosary (1894)
- Adiutricem - On the Rosary (1895)
- Fidentem Piumque Animum - On the Rosary (1896)
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 300 pages
Profound and Brief Meditations
by an Anonymous Carthusian Monk
Key points of examination to find inner peace and foster union with God.
These brief words of advice are a summation of the lessons learned by an anonymous Carthusian monk over the course of his monastic life. The advice is precise, profound and eternally valuable. If you've been looking for a way to quickly remove inner turmoil, find peace of mind and soul, and develop reliance on God, this small text will be a profound aid.
"Consent to forget the world, the universe, and yourself. If you hesitate to lose your life in Him and for Him, go no further. As much as it is possible for you, in exact obedience and perfect charity, you must avoid four things which are major obstacles to interior silence, and which render habitual contemplation impossible: interior noise, interior discussions, obsession, and worries about yourself. This being done, you will have passed through the doors of silence."
Booklet, size 7.3" x 4.2", 58 pages
The Month of St Joseph
by Rev M. de Langalerie
St. Teresa of Avila tells us, “I took for my advocate and lord the glorious Saint Joseph and commended myself earnestly to him...he gave me greater blessings than I could ask of him. I do not remember even now that I have ever asked anything of him which he has failed to grant.”
This hidden saint, the blessed foster-father of our Lord and protector of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a powerful intercessor for us, as well as a model of perfect virtue. The bible records not a single word of his, yet we know that in the holy house at Nazareth, the young Jesus—the Word made Flesh—was subject to him. Through this series of daily meditations for the month of March, we may increase our devotion to this great saint while also making a fruitful use of the days of Lent.
As patron not only of fathers and of the worker, but of the universal church, all of us—men and women, old and young—would do well to look to him in our every need.
Paperback, size 7" x 4.37", 214 pages
by Thomas à Kempis
After the Bible, The Imitation of Christ is the all-time favorite book of Catholics throughout the world. And of the English editions, none can equal this inspiring translation by Bishop Richard Challoner.
This book speaks to the soul of every true Christian, reminding us of the fleeting nature of earthly joy as opposed to the eternity of happiness with God.
The guide of the saints since it first appeared in 1418, it was the sole spiritual reading of St. Therese of Lisieux, who loved it and knew it by heart.
Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange asserted that the true mysticism of which it speaks is accessible to all, if they are willing to follow the way of humility, the cross, continual prayer, and docility to the Holy Ghost.
Other versions also available.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 430 pages
Prayers and Devotions Enriched with Indulgenges
by Rev Joseph P Christopher, Ph. D., Rt. Rev. Charles E. Spence, M.A., and Rt. Rev. John F. Rowan, D.D.
Published by Loreto Publication
Revised under Pope Pius XII, this official collection (Raccolta) of the Church's prayers (in English and many also in Latin) and devotions was published in English in 1957.
It includes a timely supplement of additional prayers for many urgent needs all of which were composed under the same pontiff. These eight hundred prayers touch practically every spiritual and physical need, and every personal and societal hope. They are the confidently suppliant voice of the Catholic Church in her maternal zeal, joy and agony, nobility and militancy.
This edition is a reprint of the 1598 edition and has text in black and red.
Red Bonded Leather Hardcover, size 8" x 5", 641 pages