Books & Reading

  The ever increasing interest in the Liturgical Traditions of the Church gives rise to the need for adequately trained altar servers, and what better way to assist than to resurrect this classic! This famous handbook is an invaluable resource for...

  From the man whom Padre Pio called a Saint. Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo's Surrender Prayer brought understanding and peace to countless souls amid the turbulence of the last century. Now, in our age of incomparable uncertainty, this miracle-worker and...

Adoration is love, and eucharistic adoration is love of Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament. In the Gospels there are few people who understand love for Jesus as well as Mary Magdalene, which is the reason she is a prophetess of eucharistic love...

  Mother Mary Loyola's masterful retelling of the story of the Life of Christ is appealing to all ages, and is well-calculated to inspire a deeper love of Our Lord and bring us closer to Him. It is much more than a life of Christ. In many respects...

  In her Story of a Soul, St. Therese relates how influential her family life was in forming her spiritual life. Now, the canonization of her parents Louis and Zelie and the cause for the beatification of her sister Léonie speak volumes for...

  Evelyn Waugh presents the biography of St. Edmund Campion, the Elizabethan poet, scholar and gentleman who became the haunted, trapped and murdered priest as "a simple, perfectly true story of heroism and holiness." This book is written with a...

  Many books have rightly been written on the Holy Mass, the application to a particular time and place of the Eternal Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross of Calvary. None, however, conveys the power and all-consuming majesty of the Divine Liturgy of...

The heroic story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, a modern apostle of Catholic evangelization, Marian spirituality, and a martyr of charity. The dramatic and moving life of this Polish Franciscan who volunteered to die in place of a fellow prisoner in...

  No matter how pure or virtuous your intentions may be, you can easily get so caught up in temporal pursuits — “the things of this world” — that you forget about God and His intimate, sustained involvement in your life. But...

The Hurons stared at the giant young Norman, as tall and broad as they, a Jesuit priest robed in black and with a full black beard on his gentle face. He was to live among them for nineteen years, patiently and with enormous difficulty learning their...

  The Passion of Jesus and Its Hidden Meaning,  by Father James Groenings, SJ   Our Lord’s Passion and Death are explained with vivid detail.  Excellent meditations on the facts related in Scripture about the...

  150 years after this great saint and Doctor of the Church was born into the world, the publication of this revised edition enables us to live in her company and enjoy her holy conversations and counsels. When we read her words with faith, her...