This personal Way of the Cross from the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network beautifully expresses the deep connection between the Eucharist and the Cross. At each of the fourteen stations, readers are encouraged to offer themselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by uniting their sufferings with his in the Eucharist.The spirituality of the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network comes to life in meditations on the classic Catholic Lenten devotion, the Stations of the Cross. Recalling the dramatic...

We believe that when we die, when we shake off this mortal coil, we go to the next step in our eternal existence, from a physical, bodily life, to a new life, a new beginning.We read that in Heaven we will know perfect happiness. We will see God in His Beatific Vision, in the fullness of His Glory. St. Thomas Aquinas, after having a vision of Heaven, stopped writing his Summa Theologiae, and stated to one of the brothers, "The end of my labors has come. All that I have written appea...

“Spiritually rewarding and uplifting.” — Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New YorkNew York Times bestselling author and editor at large of America magazine Father James Martin reveals how we can turn to Christ completely in mind, heart, and soul. In this powerful work of Christian spirituality, Martin offers a portrait of Jesus, using his last words on the cross to reveal how deeply he understood our predicaments and shows us what it means to be fully human.Each medita...

The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) became mandatory in the United States in 1988. RCIA is our adaptation of Christian initiation as it was practiced in the early Church. And so, although these rites are not new, to many they are unfamiliar. This deluxe pamphlet explains RCIA in a way that will help both catechumens and "cradle Catholics" understand the rich tradition of Christian Initiation for adults.

Ignatius of Antioch: His Beliefs on the Trinity, Salvation, Sin, Christianity, and the Church by Robert Alan King is a booklet with over 4,900 words. This treatise discusses the beliefs of Ignatius on a variety of subjects, including the Trinity, the nature of the pre-incarnate Christ, salvation, predestination, eternal security, sin, church administration, sacraments, and false teachers. King has analyzed and summarized the theological beliefs of Ignatius from the seven genuine letters to...

Out of the Protestant Reformation came several important doctrines, including a renewed understanding of repentance. Instead of viewing repentance as a one-time confession, the reformers began to teach what the Bible teaches—that it is both radical and perpetual.In this redesigned, concise volume Sinclair Ferguson examines how the Bible defines repentance and how the doctrine has fared in today's evangelical churches. He finds many sorely lacking in proper theological understanding...

For over 1,500 years, believers from all Christian traditions have looked to St. Benedict, the patriarch of Western monasticism, for spiritual wisdom. And rightly so: his rule has shown how one may experience a simple, holy, and common sense life, despite the increasingly busy pace of our daily existence.

The Mass is the clearest expression of our identity as a Church. It is not possible to understand the Christian Community without this uniquely defining action that binds the Church together as the people of God. The Community Worships introduces the Mass to those who are preparing to join the Church.

30 Days of The Lord Jesus is a 30 day bible study about what gives the Lord Jesus Christ the right to be called, the Lord. This 30 day bible will also take the time to explain the meanings of the word Lord as well as the purposes of Jesus being every Christians Lord according to the Holy Bible.

About the book's title: Forgive 70 X 7 Our Forgotten Power":In 1998 DeWall published a work called "Escaping the Mental Straightjacket: Personal Experience As Our Spiritual Guide." His purpose was to encourage the reader to think for oneself and recognize the many ways in which society and religion control our world view and the way we think. He analyzed many extraordinary experiences, such as near-death and out-of-body experiences, after-death communications and various psychic ph...

How often have you wished you could explain a questionable Scripture or teaching but simply lacked the understanding? When someone blind-sides you with a particular point and you cannot think of a Scriptural response, what do you do?...

One of the first questions that occur on the journey of faith is "What is the Church?" This deluxe pamphlet offers an insightful, complete, yet concise, answer to that question. Directed toward those who are beginning the RCIA program, The Community We Call Church describes the founding and growth of the Church, its mission and self-awareness, and the meaning of its presence in the world. The Christian Community is "one, holy, and apostolic." Although the Church has many members, it is uni...