Daily Scripture readings with reflections, personal prayers and challenges by 54 writers. Soft cover, 40 pages
(Item #82802) $5.25

Using themes from the 2000 Academy Award nominated film Chocolat, this unique approach to the season creates the space for deeper insights into self-discipline, self-giving, conversion, acceptance and maturing in Christ. Delving into the delicious depths of humanity, Chocolate for Lent offers a lenten program like no other!

• Ideal for personal spiritual reading
• Perfect for parish lenten programs, prayer groups, RCIA groups, adult faith formation, or anyone who loves God, movies and chocolate!
• Includes material for individual reflection and a complete guide for group leaders.

Take up Chocolate for Lent this year—without guilt or calories—and grow in faith with your friends.
–Prof. Thomas Groome, Boston College, author of What Makes us Catholic.

Paperback / 140 pages  (Item #83588) $11.95

provides the Paperback format for family prayer for each day of Lent. Hebrew children from Capernaum, Nazareth, Cana, and Jerusalem narrate the stories in a way that makes Jesus' parables, miracles, and teachings come alive. Every story contains interesting historical details to show what life was like in Jesus' time. At the end of each gospel scene, Jesus speaks lovingly and personally to the children about the significance of the story that was just shared. Suggestions for Lenten and Holy Week activities are also featured, along with original artwork. This is a book families will enjoy year after year! Paperback (Item #84735) $13.95

NEW!
The Way of the Cross for Children
by Christopher Walker and Paule Freeburg, DC
Illustrated by Jean Germano

2004 UNITY AWARD: Children's Music Album of the Year

Praying the Stations of the Cross is an especially powerful way to enter into the meaning of Christ's Passion. This longstanding Lenten devotion involves both our imagination and emotions. It helps us appreciate Christ's sacrifice, relating it to the struggles in our own lives. Of course, children need this as well as adults.

Known for their popular Stories and Songs of Jesus series, Christopher and Sister Paule have collaborated once again to create The Way of the Cross for Children. Based on Scripture, this new resource offers responses, Bible readings, reflections, artwork and songs for each of the 14 stations, all in a format that's easy for children to follow.

Children may be involved not only in the singing but also in the Scripture readings, with a teacher or catechist leading the reflections. An optional "Resurrection" station is provided, which may be performed with the other stations or done on its own after Easter. The songs, all composed by Christopher Walker, include guitar and keyboard accompaniment parts, available in the Leader's Guide. The CD can serve as a helpful learning tool or for background accompaniment.

The Children's Book features spectacular, full-color artwork for each station, giving you the flexibility of leading the devotion in the classroom, at home or in church.

Laminated posters featuring each of the 14 stations (and one displaying all 14) can be placed around the classroom. The posters can also serve as placards to be held by children during the Stations of the Cross. Bookmarks with the same artwork will also be available.

A complete, one-of-a-kind resource — gives you everything you need to lead children in this devotion

Includes music for veneration of the cross on Good Friday (songbook only) and music for processing from one station to another

Designed for children in grades K-8

CD (Item #73124) $17.00

Music Book (Item #73125) $3.00

Leader / Accompaniment Book (Item #73126) $20.00

A Lenten Journey also contains a Communion (or preparation) song for each Sunday in all three cycles — 12 songs in all — based on the Gospel and other readings. These songs highlight the shared themes and images that emerge across the three readings of each Sunday and help the assembly to a more profound "lectio divina" or prayerful hearing of the Word, even as we are receiving Christ, the Word, in Communion.

The 17 original songs feature traditional and contemporary styling. "The Good Shepherd," one of many highlights, is a rousing gospel number speaking of the One who "lays down his life for the sheep." Instrumentation ranges from simple arrangements for solo voice and piano to grand settings for trumpet, organ and choir. Includes parts for oboe and other winds, guitar, cello and other strings. Includes two songs written by Dominic MacAller and two by Barbara Bridge.

A Lenten Journey is a welcome addition to the repertoire for the holy season of Lent.
CD (Item #77160) $17.00

Bright, colorful illustrations immediately capture and then hold the young child's attention. Simple and playful words tell the story. The child then gets actively involved as he hears the "who's there" question, lifts the flap, and discovers what or who is pictured under the flap. The child builds reading skills by associating the question with the illustrated answer. Additional comprehension skills are developed because the child becomes a participant in the reading -- listening to the Bible story and responding so the story can continue. This technique helps the child learn the continuity of Christ's miraculous, sacrificial act for us

Easter Surprise will encourage young children to see that Jesus went to the cross on our behalf, then rose from the grave in victory over sin, death, and devil -- also on our behalf. This book begins with the two disciples borrowing a colt for Jesus to ride into Jerusalem, continues with Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and, finally, Easter morning. Board Book. (Item #81272) $8.99

Each daily reflection--from Ash Wednesday through the Second Sunday of Easter--begins with thoughts from Pope John Paul II on some appropriate theme, supported by Scripture, a prayer, and a suggested activity for spiritual growth. Paperback. (Item #87764) $9.95

Each daily reflection--from Ash Wednesday through the Second Sunday of Easter--begins with thoughts from Father Nouwen on an appropriate theme, supported by Scripture, prayer, and a suggested activity for spiritual growth. Paperback. (Item #88239) $9.95

Curiosity regarding Benedict’s spiritual writings has sparked worldwide interest in these meditations and prayers that highlight the new pope’s personal prayer life, as well as his vision for the future of the Church.

Designed to be a companion to best-selling John Paul II: A Marian Treasury, the two titles together make a perfect “Papal Gift Set,” to celebrate the papal legacy of John Paul II and the new papacy of Benedict XVI.

Beautifully illustrated with 14 full-color art pieces by Dutch Symbolist painter Jan Toorop from the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Netherlands.

“Grant that my Way of the Cross may not be just a moment of passing piety. Free us from the fear of the Cross, from the fear of mockery, from the fear that our life may escape our grasp unless we cling possessively to everything it has to offer. Help us not to take life, but to give it.”
— Benedict XVI, Way of the Cross

Hardcover; 144 pages (Item #87380) $19.95

Featuring stunning cinematography and an inspired performance by Jim Caviezel, The Passion of the Christ is a triumphant and uncompromising filmaking achievement.
DVD (Item #73609) $24.95

Daily Lenten Meditations
Prayerful Reflections from John Paul II
edited by Fr. Max Polak

Daily Lenten Meditations contains excerpts taken from the homilies, addresses, and official letters of Pope John Paul II’s long and generous evangelizing activity. These excerpts have been put together to form a kind of spiritual pilgrimage over the course of Lent. As Christ faced suffering, the Pope has faced his own illness and infirmity with courage and fortitude walking his own Lenten pilgrimage every day with prayerful dignity and faith.

You’ll find:

• Day-by-day reflections of John Paul II through the season of Lent
• Readings of the day
• Beautiful 4-color images
• A compact and easy-to-use format

The texts have been chosen to help readers, day-by-day, consider, examine themselves or pray over a theme that is relevant to Lent’s call to faith and conversion. This book for is for all Christians who wish to meditate on the Scripture and walk their own prayerful Lenten pilgrimage. Designed to be accessible for daily use, this book is helpful to Catholic readers who hunger for deeper reflection and prayer in the Lenten season.

Hardcover, 4 3/4 x 7, 100 pages. (Item #90069) $14.95

This large-print edition of Saint Alphonsus' Way of the Cross provides a poetic translation of a long-time parish favorite. Offering insight into the mind of a saint and the emotion and passion that formed his devotion, this arrangement is ideal for congregational use, it is also ideal for personal devotion. 32-page deluxe pamphlet. English (Item #87730) $1.95

CONTENTS: Gather 'Round This Table (G-5653) • Come to Us, Emmanuel (The Birth) (Gift of God, G-5438) • God Has Anointed Me DAIGLE • Take Up Your Cross • Who Is My Neighbor? • Where Your Treasure Is (G-5443) • The Banquet • God Rejoices When the Lost Is Found • Look On Us, Savior (The Passion) • Emmaus/ Within the Reign of God (G-4963 "Reign" only).

For Lent, Tridium and Eastertime!
...Includes "No Turning Back"

On That Day

In this recording of music for Lent, Triduum, and Eastertime, Scott shows off his compositional skills: a gift for melody, refined harmonies, evocative interpretations of psalms and canticles, and arrangements of traditional tunes. Whether the style is gospel, blues, contemporary Christian, or traditional, Scott's songs are musical "pictures" that your choir and assembly will sing with ease. CD (Item #73442) $16.95

Were You There?
A Service for Holy Week By Carla Giomo

Readings from Luke's Passion Gospel are interspersed with choral settings of hymns and spirituals, and the extinguishing of candles. The choral arrangements are not difficult and provide compelling commentaries on Jesus' suffering and death and on the human condition. In the composer's words, "The songs carry the theme of overcoming suffering in order to go home.

African-American spirituals are powerful testimony to a faith that can sustain hope in the face of suffering that will never end until the everlasting home is reached." This edition includes the complete order of service and the octavos which comprise the musical part of the liturgy. Choral settings are for SATB choir, soloists, and piano. Also included on this CD is Giomo's Vespers: A Service for Evening Prayer, which is useful for parishes that hold midweek Lenten worship services.
CD (Item #73447) $16.95

CONTENTS: Were You There (G-5831) • Trying to Get Home (G-5832) • Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Chile (G-5833) • He Nevuh Said a Mumbalin' Word (G-5834) • Forgive Them, Forgive Us (G-5835) • Soon I Will Be Done (G-5836) • Father, I Stretch My Hands to Thee (G-5837) • Vespers (G-5252A) • A Blessing (G-5673). Plus order of service and readings.

Featuring stunning cinematography and an inspired performance by Jim Caviezel, The Passion of the Christ is a triumphant and uncompromising filmaking achievement.
DVD (Item #73609) $24.95

Official Merchandise

In times of need and distress, no prayer is more effective than the Rosary. Now Larry London, author of The Seven-Day Scriptural Rosary, has combined the comfort, familiarity, and power of the Rosary with Scripture-based meditations on Christ's Passion and death in his book, The Passion Novena, A Scriptural Rosary.

A unique set of nine Rosary mysteries, this novena for the new millennium allows you to reflect on the mysteries of salvation, while asking Mary herself to join you in your prayer of petition.

About the Author: A convert to Catholicism, Larry London is the author of the bestselling book The Seven-Day Scriptural Rosary. He leads various prayer groups in his diocese, as well as teaches Bible classes.

The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ
prepared and with notes by George R. Szews

This book shows how several readers can proclaim the Passion on Palm Sunday or Good Friday and do it well. Matthew is not Mark is not Luke is not John. Each account of the passion is unique. That’s the starting point in this careful and pastoral approach. Participation and understanding by the entire assembly will increase when everyone clearly hears each facet of the story on which our lives are founded. Rather than simply dividing the Passion into the parts of Narrator, Single Speaker, Christ and Crowd, this book allows the evangelist’s understanding of the Passion to be heard and pondered. An introduction and specific commentary preceding each Passion account is included. Here you’ll find proclamation tips and suggestions for musical refrains, acclamations and hymns. The cover is suitable for use in front of the assembly and, inside, the size of the type, the use of sense lines and the arrangement of the page allows for ease of proclamation by readers. The text is exactly as given in the revised lectionary.

We suggest that parishes purchase five copies per scheduled liturgy: one copy for each of the three readers, one copy for the presider and one copy for the music minister.

Paperback, 8 1/2 x 11, 48 pages. (Item #93107) $7.00

With this volume on John the Passion series concludes its study of the meaning of Jesus' death in each of the Gospels. But though last, it is certainly not less important or a repetition of the other Gospels. In fact, John's portrayal of the death is as distinctive and unique as the rest of this "maverick" Gospel.

Father Senior explores how the rest of the Gospel prepares for the Passion story. He then gives a detailed analysis of the Passion narrative itself. Finally, he explores the theological motifs that dominate the Passion narrative. With scholarly finesse and deep pastoral awareness, he makes John's vibrant message of the Passion speak to our life and times.

". . . should be purchased now and read before John's passion is solemnly proclaimed next Good Friday."

-	National Catholic Reporter

(Item #92997) $16.95

The recent resurgence of scholarship on Luke's Gospel is due, in part, to this Gospel's special appeal for an age in which questions of economic justice, peace, and the prophetic role of the Churches questions all important in Luke are so urgent.

Father Senior's exegesis yields a strong sense of what Luke intended to communicate to his readers and, to some degree, what may have been the circumstances that shaped his message. He reveals the Luke who presents Jesus as a champion of the poor and marginalized, whose message of justice is proclaimed with a sharp prophetic edge.

(Item #92998) $16.95

Which came first: a coherent Passion story or the Gospel of Mark? Contemporary biblical scholarship is divided over this issue of how, exactly, the Passion story developed.

Whatever the shape of the story prior to Mark, it must have been imprinted with Christian experience as well as historical memory. Mark, in turn, felt free to retell and reinterpret that story for his own time and place. The Passion of Jesus was not only a story from the past but also, in the sufferings and hopes of the Christians of Mark's time, a living reality of the present.

The readers of this insightful work will find that the Passion of Jesus as told by Mark continues to hold meaning for the present. Paperback, 176 pages, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"

(Item #92996) $16.95

The Word of the cross is a living word, crying out for reinterpretation as life takes new shape and expression. Reinterpreting the Gospel was particularly compelling for Matthew's church because his Christians lived in a time of profound transition. The Passion of Jesus, then, was not simply a story of suffering out of the past but a point of identification for the Christians of Matthew's own time.

For us twentieth-century Christians, who also know the peculiar suffering and hope of living in an age that is both dying and being born, the Passion of Jesus according to Matthew has special meaning. Paperback, 200 pages, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"

(Item #92995) $16.95

EVERYONE'S WAY OF THE CROSS- LARGE PRINT Combines full-page photos with a dialogue between Christ and the reader. Each meditation is an authentic application of Jesus' suffering to our personal lives. A handy-sized booklet, ideal for either private devotion or public Stations of the Cross; for adult parish Lenten programs and high school use. (Item #97370) $2.75