Is your Lent off to a good start?
Make this Lent your best Lent ever with any of these books:
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Simplicity: the sure path to God!
The saints assure us that simplicity is the virtue most likely to draw us closer to God and make us more like Him.
No wonder Jesus praised the little children and the pure of heart! In them, He recognized the goodness that arises from an untroubled simplicity of life.
That's easy to know, simple to say, but hard to achieve.
In these pages, Fr. Raoul Plus provides a remedy for even the most tangled lives.
Relying on the words of Jesus and the lives of the saints, Fr. Plus maps out a sure path to the simplicity which Jesus praised, a simplicity that bestows on all of us who seek it happiness, courage, and inner peace, no matter how complicated our circumstances may be or how crowded our days. |
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Prayer and the will of God
Prayer is our lifeline to heaven, but most of us find it easy to neglect and even to forget. Our fitful efforts at regular prayer frustrate and disappoint us.
Dom Hubert van Zeller knows why. "Prayer," says this beloved monk who taught scores of souls to pray, "comes from God, is kept going by God, and finds its way back to God by its own power." Prayer is not something we do, but something God does in us.
Here you'll discover the true meaning and proper ways of prayer. You'll find out how to overcome distractions in prayer and deal with disappointment when your prayers seem not to have been answered.
Zeller will show you how to make regular prayers possible and transform them into the source of joy they were meant to be.
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Raoul Plus, S.J.
96 pp $9.95
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Proof God's grace can conquer every human flaw . . .
Christ came not to call saints but to make them - often out of weak, stupid, and sinful men and women.
Alban Goodier's classic Saints for Sinners shows us that even the greatest saints had to battle the same stubborn vices, temptations of the flesh, and bouts of spiritual dryness that afflict you and me today. In these pages, with a style that blends hagiographical detail, spiritual meditation, and a skilled storyteller's touch, Archbishop Goodier brings us tales of:
The dramatic conversion of a soldier and itinerant gambler; the sickly and abandoned teenager who became a miraculous healer; the willful Tuscan beauty who forsook vanity and lust to answer God's call; The brilliant, brooding Spanish nobleman who gave up everything to be a missionary; the hedonistic heretic and womanizer who traded worldly pleasure for divine happiness; and other inspiring tales of imperfect souls "made perfect in infirmity."
These stories will fill you with delight, encouragement, and hope: No one is so sinful, weak, or desolate that God has not already raised another like him to the heights of glory.
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Have a richer spiritual life now!
If you're ready to take the next step on the path of spiritual progress, these pages will provide you with the solid, faithful direction you need to develop a rich spiritual life.
These short, accessible chapters, you'll learn how to identify the greatest challenges you face as you seek to live a spiritual life. Sound, proven strategies you can use to overcome the most common stumbling blocks:
How to hear and follow God's special call for you; how to find silence amid the world's noise; how to make your spiritual life bear fruit in your family and community; how to balance your active life with your prayer life; how your temperament affects your spiritual life; the secret of spritiual peace when life's in turmoil; how to pray when you're tired and discouraged; how to sort out seemingly conflicting calls from God; how to tell if you need a spiritual director (and how to find a good one); and much more.
Stop wondering if you're living a spiritual life: the wise counsel in these pages will enable you to be sure.
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Saints for Sinners
Archbishop Alban Goodier
176 pp $14.95 | Am I Living a Spiritual Life?
Dr. Susan Muto and Adrian van Kaam
208 pp $14.95 |
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Make your prayer more fruitful
Whether you've just begun to pray or have been faithfully praying for years, the wisdom in this book will rescue your prayers from distraction and superficiality.
You'll discover how the sacraments fortify your prayer; why true prayer is not necessarily a matter of words; how to bring God into your home consistently and painlessly through family prayer; the two things that transform thinking about God into genuine prayer; and much, much more.
If you feel your prayer life is not sufficient for keeping Jesus at the center of your life, The Basic Book of Catholic Prayer will help restore it to the source of divine peace and joy it was meant to be.
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Delightful saints' tales
for bedtime reading
This, truly, is a bedside book of saints. In this short book, Fr. Aloysius Roche shows you the saints not from the level of the theologian or academic, but from a less familiar one, a comfortable angle that makes for a certain coziness.
Like a patchwork quilt, these tales have been sewn together, creating a delightful variety and charm to bring simple cheer. Without diluting the intensity and holiness of the saints, he brings them near to you, to your home, to your very bedside.
A Bedside Book of Saints lets the saints themselves do most of the talking, in candid, often humorous stories to help ease your soul, calm your mind, and welcome good dreams.
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The Basic Book of Catholic Prayer
Fr. Lawrence G. Lovasik
224 pp $14.95 |
The Bedside Book of Saints
Rev. Aloysius Roche
176 pp $14.95 |
More excellent titles to make this your best Lent ever:
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Learn to pray as you've always wanted - and as you should
How to Pray Well
Raoul Plus, S.J.
192 pp $10.95 |
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Now you, too, can learn to
"pray without ceasing"
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