Prayer
The Meditations of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
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
AN HOUR WITH OUR LORD
This collection of prayers may be used for public or private devotion. Excellent for making a "Holy Hour" at home or at Church. Contains a thorough one-hour program of litanies, acts of consecration, and other prayers to carefully guide you along the way.
CLASSIC REPRINT
This gorgeous reprint of the Holy Hour of Reparation is simply stunning. Each prayer from the original 1945 prayer book has been re-typeset for larger, clearer print. Color pictures have been added throughout.
64pp. Softcover.
With an introduction and 13-day preparation according to St Maximilian Kolbe
by Fr Karl Stehlin
In this brief work you will find everything you need to prepare and consecrate yourself to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Includes practical instructions, daily preparatory prayers and meditations and readings for the 13 days.
Also covered are the ceremonies of Reception into the Militia Immaculata according to St. Maximilian Kolbe.
There is simply no easier way to full Our Lady's wishes as given to the three children at Fatima.
Booklet, size 5.8" x 4.2", 40 pages
by St Bernard of Clairvaux
For over forty years Bernard of Clairvaux composed works of theology and spiritual reflection. He became the counsellor of kings, nobles, popes, and scholars. He advocated a strong, reformed papacy and was the spiritual leader of the early twelfth-century European Church.
Often overlooked, these short works by Bernard may well give readers their truest insight into the saint's sermons as his monks heard them. The Parables explore the spiritual meaning of Scripture directly and dramatically. The Sentences likely represent his sermon style before he polished his work for publication.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 464 pages
A Book of Rosary Meditations
by Rev William Schaeffler
First published in Bavaria in 1929, this book contains a beautiful line illustration of each mystery, several paragraphs from the Gospels (or a Father of the Church) on each mystery, followed by ten profound mini-meditations - one for each Hail Mary.
An indispensable book (that fits in your pocket) for anyone who wants to stop merely SAYING the Rosary and start PRAYING the Rosary!
Paperback, size 5.5" x 3.75", 95 pages
From Epiphany to Lent
Daily Readings and Meditations to Pray Alone or as a Family
by Fr Patrick Troadec
Fr. Troadec’s four-part series continues in this second book From Epiphany to Lent. The series offers a simple and practical guide for individuals and families alike to grow closer to God by better understanding the Church’s liturgical year and practicing daily meditation and prayer.
Each of the daily meditations covered in this book includes a:
Quote: Taken from the Bible, The Mass, or the Spiritual Fathers.
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.
Resolution: Three simple and practical resolutions.
Anyone looking to draw closer to God through the liturgy of His Church while developing the habit of daily spiritual reading and meditation needs to read this book. It continues to be a wonderful aid for Catholics of any age or walk of life. A profoundly Catholic and truly practical guide to daily growth in holiness.
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", 222 pages
Readings and Prayers
by Fr Fulgence Meyer, O.F.M.
This gorgeous devotional book with gilt edging and ribbon is destined to be a treasured classic in your collection!
This book contains reflections and readings on the Most Holy Eucharist along with psalms, hymns and prayers for the Forty Hours devotion, or holy hour, or private Eucharistic visits.
This devotional is actually two books printed in parallel.
The left-hand pages consist of Psalms, hymns, and prayers, that can be used during Eucharistic adoration. The right-hand pages consist of a series of conferences on Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament that is sure to inspire the reader’s appreciation and devotion to Christ in the Holy Eucharist. If you are trying to make spiritual reading part of your new daily resolutions this excellent book is for you.
Synthetic leather cover, Sewn with ribbon, Gold gilded, size 6.5" x 4.25", 583 pages
Deluxe Edition
A Deluxe Prayerbook. Larger size; larger print for people with not so good vision; ribbons; more prayers than pocket edition plus: Epistles and Gospels for every Sunday of the year & some feast days.
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.
Also available in a smaller pocket size book.
Hardcover, size 8.5" x 5.6", 506 pages, 2 ribbons
by Rev. L. Fooley, S.V.D.
Contains thoughts and reflections suitable for the fulfillment of the First Saturday meditations. All one needs to do is ponder on one, or more, or all, of the Mysteries, for the period of fifteen minutes. Also contains A Way of the Cross suitable for First Saturday meditations.
Booklet, size 8" x 4.6", 59 pages
by Very Rev. William Gier, S.V.D.
The conversations we share with those we love often become the highlight of our day — yet we sometimes forget that prayer is simply conversation with God. Prayer is every soul's means to directly glorify God, express gratitude, and seek His guidance — anytime, anywhere. Unlike self-help books that promise shortcuts to life improvement, this manual provides genuine tools for deepening our prayer life and cultivating a more intimate relationship with God. The more time we spend in God's presence, the clearer our lives become and the more naturally we discover steps toward improvement. This transformation happens simply by praying more consistently, even through brief daily prayers.
This accessible guide offers the first steps toward making your prayers meaningful, fervent, and effective. If you want to begin improving your prayer life with God, this book provides an excellent and straightforward way to start.
What you'll discover in this manual on the power of praying well:
- The Prayer of Meditation - How to meditate with guidance
- The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass Understanding its significance
- Mass Prayers and Holy Communion - Complete explanations
- Making Good Intentions - Practical ways to focus your spiritual purpose
- Daily Examination of Conscience - Guidelines for honest self-reflection
- Walking in God's Presence - Living with spiritual awareness
- Oral Prayer Guidance - Practical hints for spoken prayer
- The Our Father - Deep exploration of Christ's perfect prayer
- Christ's Priestly Prayers - Understanding Jesus as High Priest
- The Holy Rosary - Traditional Marian devotion
- The Divine Office - Liturgical prayer throughout the day
- Eucharistic Adoration - Fifteen-minute visits with Jesus
- The Way of the Cross - Meditative journey with Christ's passion
- Weekly Confession - Regular spiritual cleansing
- Spiritual Exercises - Understanding their ultimate purpose
- Indulgences - How to gain them and collections of indulgenced prayers
- Sacred Heart Devotions - Forms of consecration
- Monthly Spiritual Renewal - Growth and preparation for eternal life
- First Saturday Devotion - Special Marian observance
Sewn Hardback with black ribbon, size 6.25" x 4.4", 490 pages
Defending the Interior Castle of the Soul
by Pope Saint Leo IX
What is the greatest spiritual battle?
The greatest battles do not occur in a distant land or even in past times but in the depths of the human soul. It is the battle between virtue and vice, the conflict between aspiring to be a saint or living a mediocre life. The conflict between reaching heaven or forfeiting it.
In this spiritual masterpiece, Pope Saint Leo IX, identifies our foes: “The enemies in this battle—the vices and temptations which infect our fallen nature—are invisible and internal.”
These invisible and internal vices have dragged many souls to hell, and they will not stop until every person has surrendered to their pernicious and vile attacks. Are you saddened and discouraged by such daily assaults? There is hope. In these pages, you will find over twenty-five virtues to help you win the spiritual victory against sin. With God’s grace and virtues like humility, detachment, prudent restraint, firm stability, and others, the battle can be won.
But keep in mind that spiritual victory does not happen overnight. The battle wages on until your final breath. The question remains: Are you willing to fight?
Just as this book is a dialogue between the virtues and vices, so too must we learn to listen to the voice of truth and not the voice of lies. The Lord, the General of our souls, whispers words of encouragement and peace while the devil, the captain of vice and enemy of our souls, tempts us to sin and then accuses us.
On our earthly pilgrimage fraught with suffering, sorrow, and trials, let us keep our eyes fixed on our celestial homeland, the eternal city, where there will be perpetual peace. In Heaven, Our Lord will welcome His glorious martyrs and courageous soldiers, those who have kept the faith and fought victoriously.
There is nothing more important in this life than fortifying the interior castle of the soul with virtue.
Hardcover, size 7.25" x 5.25", 136 pages
Christian Reflections on the Interior Life
by St Claude La Colombière
Discover the wisdom of St. Claude La Colombière (1641–1682), the Jesuit saint who was the confessor to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and championed devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In Seeking the Heart of Christ: Christian Reflections on the Interior Life, you will find a treasury of spiritual reflections that inspire deeper faith, encourage virtue, and guide the soul toward holiness.
This remarkable collection of sermons explores essential topics of Christian living, including the sweetness of virtue and the humble submission to the will of God. La Colombière also offers profound meditations on the need for repentance, the benefits of frequent Communion, and the transformative power of the Mass. He addresses the practical struggles of life with guidance on how to deal with adversity while reminding readers of God’s mercy toward sinners as they face the last things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell.
With pastoral sensitivity and spiritual depth, La Colombière’s theological insights offer a path to grow closer to Christ and align your life with His Sacred Heart. His advice to help ward against such vices as intemperance, impurity, and vainglory, for instance, makes this book a practical guide for every stage of life.
Let St. Claude La Colombière lead you to the heart of Christ.
Hardcover, size 7" x 5", 196 pages
by Rev. Joseph Wolf
Contains the Litany in Honor of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King in Latin and in English. Also contains Indulgenced Prayer to Christ the King and Dedications of the Human Race.
Booklet, size 5.5" x 3.6", 12 pages, Impr 1942
Prayer for Numerous Occasions Seeking the Intercession of the Mother of God.
Edited by Rev. James J. Cashman, C.M.
True devotion to the Blessed Virgin is interior. It must be based upon the high esteem that we have of the Blessed Virgin. It must flow from out understanding of her excellence. It must be inspired by love which we bear for her in our hearts. We need never fear to cast our cares upon Mary, all powerful Mother of God. She is our tender Mother whose great desire is to assist us, to mitigate our sorrows, and to bring us into a closer union with Jesus Christ. This small book will help in that devotion.
Paperback, size 5" x 3.6", 94 pages, Impr, 1942.
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
Night Adoration in the Home
by Fr Mateo Crawley-Boevey
This prayer booklet is designed to be read for one hour for special indulgences. Each family member may take an hour and recite the prayers or they may be prayed together as a family. The reading consists of areas where Jesus is talking to the souls, followed by areas where the Souls are speaking to Jesus. This is a beautiful reading that is very uplifting. Offer an hour each month for your own intention or for a loved one in need. You will feel closer to Our Lord as soon as you start to read this. Father Mateo’s powerful words of charity and love will make you feel as though Jesus is right next to you as you pray. This is a must have for any home wanting to be more spiritual.
Booklet, size 8.5” x 5.2”, 60 pages, Impr 1944.
by St Thomas More
In The Four Last Things, St. Thomas More prescribes frequent meditation on Death, Judgment, Pain and Joy in order to combat the spiritual diseases of pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth.
The Supplication of Souls is More's vigorous, humorous, and artful defense of one of the flashpoints of the Reformation: the Catholic dogma of Purgatory. It is his devastating response to a defamatory political tract that claimed that the greed and corruption of English clergymen stemmed from their insistence on being paid to pray for the dead.
A Dialogue on Conscience sets forth More's reasons for refusing to abjure his Catholic faith by taking the oath of allegiance to King Henry VIII as the head of the Church in England. It illustrates why More has a deserved place among the Church's greatest saints and martyrs.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 218 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