Prayer
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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 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
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 Fr Francis Xavier Lasance
“The peace of Christ is the Kingdom of Christ! This is the watchword of the Vicar of Christ. Rulers and people alike must render obedience to the Kingship of Christ if peace and happiness are to prevail on earth.” - Fr. Francis Xavier Lasance
In a time of rampant societal discord and moral decline, Christ's earthly kingship is needed more than ever.
Christ must be recognized both privately in our hearts and homes, and publicly in our nations and their institutions. This little collection of devotions to Christ the King is a spiritually beneficial tool to foster the respect and homage that we, in justice, owe as a society to our Savior, Creator, and King.
Booklet, size 6" x 4", pages
A Manual for Christian Mothers
by a Priest of the Capuchin Order
"What on God's good earth is more glorious than this; to be a mother?"
With these words, Cardinal Mindzenty, summed up the glories of maternity, ordered toward the creation of new saints for the kingdom of God. And yet, the life of the mother is not an easy one. Between helping her husband, caring for her children, trips to school, the doctor, the grocery store, not to mention housework, cooking, and more, the life of a mother can lose it's proper focus: the glory of God. Add to this an increasingly hostile modern world who thinks little of mothers and offers little help and support and the situation is overwhelming.
To help Catholic mothers sanctify themselves in their state in life, and through that, to sanctify their homes as well, we have printed the original, unadulterated version of Mother Love, a complete prayer and devotional book, just for moms!
Originally written in the late 1800s by a priest of the Capuchin order, this "manual for Christian mothers" contains:
- Morning and Evening Prayers for Mothers
- Devotions for the Holy Rosary
- Points of Doctrine a Christian Mother Should Teach to Her Children
- Prayers at Mass
- The "Ten Commandments" of Christian Education
- Devotions for Confession, and Communion
- Devotions for the Poor Souls, and for the Way of the Cross
- Prayers for the Various Special Necessities of a Christian Mother
- Prayers to Some of the Special Patrons of Christian Mothers
- Indulgenced Prayers
- A short book of instructions for Christian Mothers on the Christian Training of Children
It contains almost everything a mother needs to nurture and grow her spiritual life, so that through their sanctification they may sanctify their husbands and children, and truly become the heart of the Catholic home.
Soft Imitation Leather cover, size 6.9" x 4.8", 362 pages
The Holy Hour is a very dear devotion to many Catholics. Contained in this book are 21 different Holy Hours for every First Friday of the year, Our Lord's Passion, Mothers, those suffering, the Sacred Heart, and even contemplatives.
708 pp. Hardcover.
The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Baronius Press
This is the first ever edition that includes the complete Gregorian Chant for the Little Office – in traditional four stave notation! The music for the Little Office has never before been gathered together in one volume. For many people the Gregorian chant of the Little Office offers an introduction to the beauty of the Church's traditional liturgical heritage. This volume will help you sing all the Hours of the Little Office.
Our edition includes a commentary on the rubrics and ceremonial by "A Master of Novices" (which was first published in the early twentieth century), and also includes a description of the indulgences with which the recitation of the Little Office has been enriched by Holy Mother Church.
The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a shorter form of the Divine Office in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It has long been the Church's daily liturgical prayer to Our Lady, and these hours of praise have been used by Priests, religious and the laity throughout the centuries. Lay people used to flock to the great Cathedrals to publicly recite The Little Office during the Middle Ages, and during the great persecution, when the practice of the Catholic Faith was illegal in Great Britain, Bishop Challoner commended The Little Office to his flock.
Through its psalms, antiphons, readings, responsorials, and prayers the Little Office stresses the role Our Lady played in salvation history, and how through her fiat the divine Word took flesh in her womb and achieved salvation for us all; and how Our Lord granted her the first fruits of the general resurrection in her holy and glorious assumption.
All Catholics are called to a consistent prayer life. For those who do not feel called to recite the Divine Office, but still wish to participate in the liturgical prayer of the Church, or for those who have a particular devotion to the holy Mother of God, there is no finer form of prayer than the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Features include:
- Based on an edition published just after the Reform Act in 1850 (allowing English Catholics to openly practice the Faith).
- English translation uses traditional language – with scripture taken from Bishop Challoner's version of the Douay-Rheims Bible.
- Fully updated to comply with the editio typica of the Breviary (1961).
- The first ever edition to include the complete Gregorian chants for the Little Office.
- Meditations before each hour from the mediaeval Mirror of Our Lady.
- Latin-English, red and black text.
- Psalms from the Vulgate.
- Flexible leather cover with stitched edge, gold gilding, 2 ribbons.
Flexible cover (Blue Leather), size 6" x 4", 236 pages
by Fr. Frederick Faber
Sharp penance for remembered sins helps stouthearted Christians seize heaven, but gentler souls like Our Blessed Lady and scores of her saints have trod a different path. Their souls are possessed by gratitude, inspired by the remembrance of past benefits, and filled with wonder at the abundant loving-kindness of God.
As Father Faber shows, gratitude is the fertile soil from which springs an ardent, exuberant love of Christ – a love that can be yours as well. These wise pages reveal the critical role that gratitude plays in your sanctification, and they'll remind you of the many things the Lord has given you for which you should be grateful each moment of every day. Here you'll also learn:
- That thanksgiving is the very essence of Christian worship
- Why gratitude is easiest way to heaven and the surest path to joy
- How gratitude dissolves pride even faster than penance
- How gratitude can make you like the Angels themselves
- That ingratitude is the hidden sin of too many good people (What about you?)
- Why you should even be grateful — yes — for blessings received by your enemies
- How gratitude often wins souls more quickly than preaching
- Why it's scandalous that we neglect gratitude more than prayer
- Why you should even be grateful for your troubles
- That gratitude brings far more blessings than most of us ever suspect
Hear in this small book the voices of so many saints who knew that gratitude is the very key to holiness: St. Alphonsus de Liguori, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Bonaventure, St. Bridget of Sweden, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Francis de Sales, St. Francis Xavier, St. Gertrude, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Jane Frances de Chantal, St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom, St. John of Avila, St. John of God, St. Lawrence Justinian, St. Louis of France, St. Peter Faber, St. Philip Neri, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Thomas Aquinas, and many others
Paperback, size 7" x 5", 128 pages