TAN Books
edited by Maryknoll Sisters
The Treasure Box books present a wonderful combination of fun, innocence and the Catholic Faith. They teach the Faith in a simple way, and they inspire children's hearts to love God. The pictures are truly beautiful, unlike the cartoon illustrations found in many children's books today. These books are full of Catholic doctrine, presented reverently and simply at a young child's level, in a manner to capture the child's interest and raise the heart to God.
Paperback, size 8.25" x 10.25", 32 pages
edited by Maryknoll Sisters
The Treasure Box books present a wonderful combination of fun, innocence and the Catholic Faith. They teach the Faith in a simple way, and they inspire children's hearts to love God. The pictures are truly beautiful, unlike the cartoon illustrations found in many children's books today. These books are full of Catholic doctrine, presented reverently and simply at a young child's level, in a manner to capture the child's interest and raise the heart to God.
Paperback, size 8.25" x 10.25", 32 pages
edited by Maryknoll Sisters
The Treasure Box books present a wonderful combination of fun, innocence and the Catholic Faith. They teach the Faith in a simple way, and they inspire children's hearts to love God. The pictures are truly beautiful, unlike the cartoon illustrations found in many children's books today. These books are full of Catholic doctrine, presented reverently and simply at a young child's level, in a manner to capture the child's interest and raise the heart to God.
Paperback, size 8.25" x 10.25", 32 pages
And The Promises Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus
by Mary Fabyan Windeatt
The story for children ten and up of the revelations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to a holy French nun, including the Great First Friday Promise, her painful childhood, troubles in the convent, St. Claude, the apparitions and her many penances. Imprimatur,
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 224 pages, 21 Illustrated
The Story of the First Canonized Saint of the Americas
by Mary Fabyan Windeatt
The story St. Rose of Lima, who became a hermit in her own home--rather than go to a conven t- and how she became a great Saint. At her confirmation in 1597, she took the name of Rose, because, when an infant, her face had been seen transformed by a mystical rose. As a child she was remarkable for a great reverence, and pronounced love, for all things relating to God.
Ages: 10+
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 132 pages 13 Illus
by St. Athanasius
No one can claim to be seeking the monastic ideal who does not seek to imitate St. Anthony of the Desert, justly called "the Great." Holy Abba Antony was the second of the Desert Fathers, learning from the primordial hermit himself, St. Paul the First Hermit. Illustrious in holiness, glorious in asceticism, magnificent in miracles, resolute against temptation, St. Antony remains unsurpassed by any monk as the greatest of Abbots, the original "Anthony" and namesake of St. Anthony of Padua.
The account is worth the read as much because of its subject—him who received the Jesus Prayer from Our Lady and mastered the swarms of demons that surround us all by humble invocation of the Name of the Savior—as because of the hand that wrote it: St. Athanasius, also called "the Great." The pious should consider that no other pen was deemed suitable to depict the life of the Father of Monasticism as the Father of Orthodoxy, who defended the Holy Trinity and the Divinity of Jesus Christ against the blasphemies of the Arian heresy. St. Athanasius's holy voice resounds throughout this most venerable of hagiographies.
Let St. Antony touch your heart (through the words of St. Athanasius) as his own heart was when he heard the words of the Savior: "If you wish to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in Heaven; then come, follow Me." Let us learn from holy Abba Antony just what this means for us.
Paperback, size 7" x 4.25", 120 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
Self-Mastery with the Saints
How to Master 12 Essential Virtues in 12 Months
On every page Cultivating Virtue imparts the true spirit of the Catholic Faith. This book takes 12 Christian virtues—one for each month, with a reading for each day of the year—and shows you how to master each one. Featuring episodes and sayings from the lives of the Saints, it covers Perfection, Humility, Mortification, Patience, Meekness, Confidence, and Charity, among others.
Master the virtues and set out on your road to becoming a saint by learning directly from the great saints, such as St. Francis de Sales, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Vincent de Paul, St. John of the Cross, St. Jane Frances de Chantal, St. John Chrysostom, and many others.
Cultivating Virtue possesses the unique quality of touching the soul with just a few paragraphs and putting a person in tune with God’s view of our affairs. The reader can pick it up for a few moments and gain incomparable inspiration. This is one of the most moving and powerful Catholic books ever written and one that will enflame the reader with the love of God and desire for true Christian perfection.
Cultivating Virtue was formerly published by TAN Books as A Year with the Saints: A Virtue for Every Month of the Year.
The original text has been re-typeset as an attractive daily meditation.
The new trim size is 7” x 5”. It is bound in a Premium Ultra Soft leatherette cover, with a ribbon marker and gold edges, 480 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
by Fr Leslie Rumble and Fr. Charles Mortimer Carty
Radio Replies are questions and answers about the Catholic faith compiled and published by the famous radio priests, Fathers Rumble and Carty. Father Rumble broadcast from Sydney, Australia, and Father Carty from St. Paul, Minnesota.
The questions printed here were sent in by the many listeners of these intrepid priests, who answered them over the air. Later, they assembled into these three volumes their best questions and answers, plus the prodigious learning these men displayed. Containing some 4,374 questions and answers, these books provide hours of stimulating, informative reading on virtually every subject relating to the Church, and being fully indexed, they readily serve as a wonderful source of reference about the Faith. Further these writings, like none other, impart an immediacy and a crusading spirit, which convey to the reader a warmth and a love and a zeal for our holy religion.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 358 pages
The Nature, History, Authorship and Content of the Holy Bible with Selections from and Commentaries on the Various Books
by Fr John Laux, M.A.
Fr. John Laux's timeless text thoroughly explains the philosophical and theological foundations of Catholic doctrine regarding God's inspired Word, as well as going through a book-by-book analysis of the Bible. In Introduction to the Bible, readers uncover the truths of Sacred Scripture and associated commentaries covering the Historical, Doctrinal, and Prophetic books of the Old and New Testaments.
First published in 1932, it is nevertheless not dated; the information contained here remains as valid as the traditional Catholic teaching it presents.
Recommended for 11th grade students and up.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 334 pages
by Fr Gerald T Brennan
These Angel Food books, frosted with Christ-like charm, simplicity, and attractive truths, are here served for the additional delight of the many who have enjoyed other Father Brennan books.
Volume I includes: "The Devil at the Door", "Marty's First Mass", "The Girl in the Shabby Dress", "The Boy Who Made God Smile", etc...
Each volume also has a topical index relating various subjects in the stories to chapters in the Baltimore Catechism (No. 2).
Hardcover, size 7.25" x 5.5", 114 pages
by Fr Gerald T Brennan
These Angel Food books, frosted with Christ-like charm, simplicity, and attractive truths, are here served for the additional delight of the many who have enjoyed other Father Brennan books.
Volume II includes: "The Orphan's Plea", "A Surprise for a King", "Half Past Three", etc...
Each volume also has a topical index relating various subjects in the stories to chapters in the Baltimore Catechism (No. 2).
Hardback, size 7.25" x 5.5", 125 pages
by Fr Leslie Rumble and Fr. Charles Mortimer Carty
Radio Replies are questions and answers about the Catholic faith compiled and published by the famous radio priests, Fathers Rumble and Carty. Father Rumble broadcast from Sydney, Australia, and Father Carty from St. Paul, Minnesota.
The questions printed here were sent in by the many listeners of these intrepid priests, who answered them over the air. Later, they assembled into these three volumes their best questions and answers, plus the prodigious learning these men displayed. Containing some 4,374 questions and answers, these books provide hours of stimulating, informative reading on virtually every subject relating to the Church, and being fully indexed, they readily serve as a wonderful source of reference about the Faith. Further these writings, like none other, impart an immediacy and a crusading spirit, which convey to the reader a warmth and a love and a zeal for our holy religion.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 342 pages
by Fr Gerald T Brennan
These Angel Food books, filled with Christ-like charm, simplicity, and attractive truths, are here served for the additional delight of the many who have enjoyed other Father Brennan books.
Angel Food for Boys & Girls, Volume III, contains over two dozen short stories, including: "Is God Very Big?", "Jesus! Are You There?", "A Mother's Note," and many more.
Each volume also has a topical index relating various subjects in the stories to chapters in the Baltimore Catechism (No2).
Hardcover, size 7.25" x 5.5", 114 pages
by Fr Leslie Rumble and Fr. Charles Mortimer Carty
Radio Replies are questions and answers about the Catholic faith compiled and published by the famous radio priests, Fathers Rumble and Carty. Father Rumble broadcast from Sydney, Australia, and Father Carty from St. Paul, Minnesota.
The questions printed here were sent in by the many listeners of these intrepid priests, who answered them over the air. Later, they assembled into these three volumes their best questions and answers, plus the prodigious learning these men displayed. Containing some 4,374 questions and answers, these books provide hours of stimulating, informative reading on virtually every subject relating to the Church, and being fully indexed, they readily serve as a wonderful source of reference about the Faith. Further these writings, like none other, impart an immediacy and a crusading spirit, which convey to the reader a warmth and a love and a zeal for our holy religion.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 358 pages
by Fr Gerald T Brennan
These Angel Food books, frosted with Christ-like charm, simplicity, and attractive truths, are here served for the additional delight of the many who have enjoyed other Father Brennan books.
Angel Food for Boys & Girls Volume IV includes: "St. Peter Goes Shopping", "The Priest of Times Square", "Jesus' Workshop", etc...
Each volume also has a topical index relating various subjects in the stories to chapters in the Baltimore Catechism (No. 2).
Hardcover, size 7.25" x 5.5", 126 pages
by Fr. Paul O'Sullivan, EDM OP, STL
"Their angels in the heavens gaze always upon the face of My Father, Who is in the heavens." —cf. Matthew 18:10
Angels are often the first to go when people begin to question Catholic doctrine. However, it is a definitive tradition of the Faith that the angels and other spirits are real and present—even more so than we are—in Creation. Not to mention that Our Lord said so Himself! Each one of us has a guardian angel, and there are myriads of other angels from all ranks of the nine choirs ready to aid us if we but call upon them, our "bigger brothers and sisters," as it were, in heaven.
In All about the Angels, author Fr. Paul O'Sullivan offers a wonderful exposition on the bodiless spirits of heaven, showing how they visit people many times in the past and present. They would do so still if we but asked! Fr. O'Sullivan relates how the angels:
- Prevent accidents
- Comfort us
- Help us
- Protect us from the devils
All about the Angels contains beautiful stories about the great archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, along with stories from the lives of St. Gemma Galgani, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. John Bosco, and many others! Let Fr. O'Sullivan's words inspire in you a desire for greater communion with the angels, who reflect the glory of God most perfectly.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 148 pages
Catholic Prayers (pocket edition)
compiled from Traditional Sources by Thomas A. Nelson
An essential collection of the most popular prayers that have formed the core of Catholic tradition for centuries. Contains over 100 carefully selected prayers, ranging from prayers all Catholics should know by heart, to prayers invoking the saints, to morning and evening offerings.
This prayer book is divided into four sections:
• Beloved Prayers, including basic prayers such as the Our Father and Hail Mary, and classic prayers like the Acts of Faith, Hope, Charity, and more.
• Powerful Prayers for special needs, like the Novena to Our Lady of Good Remedy; Prayer to St. Jude, the Patron of Hopeless Cases; and prayers to Saints Joseph, Rita, Anthony, Philomena, and many others!
• Favorite Prayers that have been used by Catholics for centuries, such as Morning Offerings, litanies, the Prayer of St. Francis, the Offering of St. Ignatius, and other favorites.
• Special Prayers for specific petitions, such as the prayers to St. Gerard Majella for motherhood, St. Peregrine for the healing of cancer, St. Raphael for purity, the Fatima prayers, and dozens more!
Booklet, 128 pages
And the Second Vatican Council
by Michael Davies
Booklet, size 6" x 3.75", 55 pages