To Set the World on Fire invites readers into a steady rhythm of prayer rooted in the four Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs) adopted at the 36th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus in 2019. The four UAPs guide us in:Showing the way to GodWalking with the excludedJourneying with youthCaring for our common homeDrawing from Scripture, the Spiritual Exercises, and the writings of luminaries in the Ignatian tradit...

Systematic theology seeks to understand and render more intelligible the central doctrines of faith and to show how they are related to each other. It tries to demonstrate how these doctrines are rooted in Scripture and develop in the history of the church; most important, it strives to more adequately express and sometimes reinterpret the church’s doctrinal tradition, always in the interest of better communicating the mystery of salvation and bringing it into a dialogue with culture. The ...

Thomas Scirghi, SJ, has trained priests, deacons, and lay ecclesial ministers in the art and theology of preaching for decades. In Longing to See Your Face, he makes his insights and experience accessible to a much wider audience.Scirghi begins with a discussion of the purpose of preaching and offers a theological sounding on proclamation, taking up several descriptions of the role of the preacher in relation to the congregation. He also addresses current theological issue...

2026 Association of Catholic Publishers tied for First Place Award in Scripture, pastoral resources2026 Catholic Media Association Second Place Award, Jesus – Christology2026 Catholic Media Association Third Place Award, Healing and Self Help2026 Catholic Media Association Honorable Mention, Scripture – Popular StudiesIn times of need, find refuge in the healing ministry of Jesus.

The Israelites, emerging out of the polytheistic culture of the ancient Middle East, with their often-violent gods, developed their own understanding of the divine mystery. Their God, YHWH, was both transcendent and immanent, unknowable and accompanying his people, the creator and sustainer of the heavens and the earth, compassionate, a God whose characteristic was his hesed or loving kindness, a theme repeated endlessly in the psalms. This God was a God who saves, delivering his people fr...

A new edition of the classic that helped launch the Centering Prayer movement.Centering Prayer is a precious part of the ancient spiritual traditions of the West. When Finding Grace at the Center was first published in 1978, people all over the world welcomed this practical guide to a simple and beautiful form of meditative prayer. Reflections and advice on Centering Prayers possibilitiesand its pitfallsare presented with clarity and simplicity, with a vision of the deeper life...

Offers a way to enter more deeply into relationship with God through meditations that bring the stories of the Old Testament into our lives today.

Based on years of teaching, this book examines the faith of young adults in a broad context, not just of secular society or because of nonobservant parents, but a society which fails to grasp the nature of truth or the transcendent, a failure to grasp Catholicism’s deep conviction of the compatibility of faith and reason and how we encounter the mystery of the divine, and contemporary America’s truncated vision of salvation. While these young adults are not hostile and willing to listen, a...

Essays that bring forth another source for study and reflection on the issue of faith, the five major voices of the New Testament—Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul. This book lays out four dimensions of the life of faith from each of these voices.

Written for Our Instruction sets forth and makes accessible an underappreciated aspect of St. Paul’s theology on the life in the Spirit. In his letters, Paul often reminds his readers/hearers about the gift of the Spirit they have already received.

This collection of essays explores convergences and divergences between process thought and Roman Catholicism with the goal of identifying reasons for why process philosophy and theology has not had the same impact in Roman Catholic circles as in Protestantism, and of constructively navigating avenues of promising engagement between Process thought and Roman Catholicism. In creatively considering the Roman Catholic tradition from the vantage point of Process thought, different theoretical ...

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