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NEW!
2010
Respond and Acclaim Songbook
Provides psalm
and Gospel acclamation arrangements
for choir, cantor, organist, and
guitarist. The increased size of
music notes, chords, and texts make
it even easier to use than before,
and horizontal rules between verses
help singers keep their place.
(Item
#72234) $7.50
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NEW!
2010
Respond and Acclaim 3 CD Set
This three-CD set includes recordings of
the assembly response and two verses from every psalm in Respond
& Acclaim. 3 CD Set. (Item #OCP-101CD) $30.00 |
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NEW!
Olivia and the Little Way
Fifth grader
Olivia Thomas has moved to a new school
in a new state, and is eager to make
friends! Her best friend quickly becomes
someone she has never seen — St.
Thérèse of Lisieux.
Follow Olivia's trials as she tries
to fit in at St. Michael's School.
With the help of her grandmother,
she learns about the "Little Way" of
serving God and how it can change
everything!
Nancy Carabio Belanger's touching
book, targeted toward girls and boys
age 8-13, is beautifully illustrated
by Sandra Casali LewAllen. (Item
#81177) $10.95
2009 Catholic Press Association Book Award winner! |
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NEW!
My Sister/Brother is Annoying!
And Other Prayers for Children
By Fr. Joe Kempf
Children say the most wonderful things! This book of prayers, by Fr. Joe
Kempf and his furry friend, Big Al, is written the way children talk—and the
way they think! My Sister is Annoying is a beautifully illustrated,
fun way for children to talk to God about things that are important to them,
such as the joy of playing outside, celebrating a birthday, and trying to
figure out the right thing to do. Read the prayers and listen to the CD with
a child you love as Father Joe and Big Al introduce these prayers read by
children.
My Sister is Annoying will help children—and their parents—to pray
the way Jesus taught us to pray…simply and from the heart.
Audio CD included. (Item #94541) $16.95 |
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NEW!
Catholic St. Louis:
A Pictoral History
by William B. Faherty SJ and Mark Scott Abeln
The history of the Catholic Church in St. Louis is dominated by strong
personalities and architectural grandeur. In Catholic St. Louis, rich text
and photography capture the people and places that have defined Catholicism
in a historic, and historically Catholic, city. Renowned historian William
Barnaby Faherty, S.J., delivers concise historical sketches of the integral
people and the landmark houses of worship; and photographer Mark Scott Abeln
captures nearly forty different area churches in majestic fashion. 176
pages, hardcover, 8.5x11 (Item #81329) $32.95 |
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NEW!
St. Louis Hills
By Ann Zanaboni
Originally marketed as "country living in the city" by developer Cyrus
Crane Willmore, St. Louis Hills remains an idyllic, slow-paced suburb
within the city proper. The neighborhood has maintained its charm as
well as its small businesses-a meat market, a barbershop, and a frozen
custard stand. St. Louis Hills tells the story behind the famous Ted
Drewes, Hampton Village, the various corner churches and the pastoral
Francis Park. No two houses are alike in St. Louis Hills, creating a
unique architectural gem in the city of St. Louis. This is a unique and
fascinating look at one of the city's best-kept neighborhoods. 120
Pages, Paperback. 8.5x5.5 (Item
#83030) $18.00
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NEW!
To Whom Shall We Go?
Lessons from the Apostle Peter
By Archbishop Timothy M.
Dolan
To be a Christian today, to
follow Our Lord and accept His call to discipleship, demands heroic courage.
It takes deep faith to live the particular - special, unique - vocation
that's yours alone. Heaven knows it isn't easy. St. Peter knows it, too.
He's well aware that even the most enthusiastic and committed Christian can
become frightened and unsure, can make mistakes and betray a loved one, can
seek and receive forgiveness, can begin again and - with an even stronger
faith - can go on to face life's most difficult challenges.
To Whom Shall We Go?
presents the words and actions of St. Peter as it clearly shows how his life
- his strengths, weaknesses, joys, and sorrows - offers an example for all
of us. How it offers hope for each of us. (Item
#84057) $13.95 |
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A Book of Hours
Now in its seventh
printing!
Thomas Merton was the most popular proponent
of the Christian contemplative tradition in the twentieth century. Now, for
the first time, some of his most lyrical and prayerful writings have been
arranged into A Book of Hours, a rich resource for daily prayer and
contemplation that imitates the increasingly popular ancient monastic
practice of "praying the hours". Editor Kathleen Deignan mined Merton's
voluminous writings, arranging prayers for Dawn, Day, Dusk, and Dark for
each of the days of the week. A Book of Hours allows for a slice of
monastic contemplation in the midst of hectic modern life, with psalms,
prayers, readings, and reflections. Hardcover, 224 pages.
(Item #88541) $18.95 |
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NEW!
Tracking Virtue, Conquering
Vice
A Guide for Spiritual Survival
By Father Joseph Classen
Father Joseph Classen, author
of the popular Hunting for God, Fishing for the Lord, will be your
guide on a new expedition, where deep love for the great outdoors and good
humor intersect with spiritual truth in ways that will appeal to you,
regardless of your faith tradition.
Drawing upon a wealth of stories from his experiences as a
hunter and angler, Father Joe provides powerful and insightful connections
between real life and God's plan. Whether he is connecting the dangers and
pitfalls of the outdoors with the many obstacles that can derail your faith
life or providing clues on tracking your own path through unchartered
wilderness, Father Joe is an entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable guide in
this must-have book for any sports man or nature lover!
(Item #84510) $14.95 |
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NEW!
Wayfaring:
A Gospel Journey in Everyday Life
By Margaret Silf
In this
latest book from internationally best-selling author Margaret Silf, we are
guided through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. With a
nuanced understanding of Ignatian spirituality, Silf connects the structure
of creation, incarnation, death, and resurrection to an experiential journey
through the events and stories that are our map and compass for the route,
whatever our tradition. Silf's candid personal anecdotes, thoughtful
reflection questions, and charming metaphors assist us on our own journeys
of faith and prayer.
This
book is an ideal gift for fans of Ignatian spirituality, interfaith
spiritual seekers, and lovers of Silf's compelling prose. (Item #86426)
$16.95 |
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NEW!
God's
Enduring Presence: Strength for the Spiritual Journey
By Joyce Rupp
Who among us
hasn't longed for a deeper experience of God, especially during times of
suffering, doubt, pain, and weariness! Here bestselling author Joyce Rupp
offers us the spiritual assurance that God is always with us, God's presence
is enduring, and God gives us strength for our own spiritual journey. These
beautiful reflections are filled with hope and abiding faith in God's
presence and are intended to help readers discover that "deeper place"
within themselves. Recommended for all spiritual seekers--and a great
gift book! (Item #81710) $12.95 |
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NEW!
Gifts of the
Eucharist: Stories to Transform and Inspire
By Nancy Reeves & Bernadette
Gasslein
In this collection of
compelling personal stories and theological reflection, noted spiritual
guides Nancy Reeves and Bernadette Gasslein team up to revitalize Catholic
appreciation of the Eucharist as the communal center of the faith. Each
chapter is built around stories from a variety of believers that guide
readers to explore ten gifts received through the Eucharist:
1. Transformation
2. Remembrance
3. Thanksgiving
4. Reconciliation
5. Healing
6. Nourishment
7. Guidance
8. Embrace
9. Community
10. Celebration
Each chapter concludes with the authors' adaptation of a psalm, questions
for personal reflection or discussion in a small group, and a guided
spiritual exercise. (Item #83347) $12.95 |
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Tears of God
By Fr. Benedict GroeschelFr. Benedict
Groeschel, best-selling author and beloved spiritual teacher, writer, and
psychologist, wrote this latest book for all those who have suffered great
sorrow or catastrophe in their lives and for those close to such persons,
who share their deep suffering. Sorrow comes into the life of every person,
but only into the lives of some people comes catastrophe. These are
disasters that occur either suddenly or with terrible effects, like the
death of a child. They can be natural disasters like hurricanes, or they can
be horrific accidents or tragedies caused by people's evil acts. They can
also arise from wars and situations of great tension.
Fr. Benedict
has written previously about faith and sorrow (Arise from
Darkness) and
seeks in this book to study catastrophes of all different kinds in
relationship to our faith in divine providence, in God’s goodness and mercy,
and finally in the light of Christ’s suffering and death. Christianity is
the only religion which speaks of a God who suffered a terrible
catastrophe—crucifixion and death. Therefore, the Christian must, in the
midst of catastrophe, find his way to the foot of the cross, and there he
will find answers which cannot be given by any other religious faith.
All religions
attempt to deal with catastrophe, all confront the mystery of suffering and
of evil. Christianity invites you to share the burden of your catastrophe
with the person who is our Savior and Redeemer, one who Himself endured
great pain and sorrow, the son of God, Jesus Christ. (Item #81729)
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NEW!
Light and
Shadows: Church History amid Faith, Fact and Legend
By Walter BrandmullerThe Crusades, the
Spanish Inquisition, the Reformation, and the Renaissance popes conjure in
the imagination a corrupt Roman Catholic clergy hungry for wealth and power.
In this insightful, well researched work, the Vatican’s chief historian, Fr.
Walter Brandmuller, takes a thoughtful and understanding look at these and
other important chapters in Church history.
Without
denying, or flinching at, the human capacity for folly, failure, and evil,
Brandmuller moves beyond the caricatures and legends that often substitute
for real history to reveal a Church, both human and divine, fulfilling its
mission in every time and place. His goal is not
to whitewash any of
these past events or issues, but rather to illuminate them, and bring to
them a more in-depth, comprehensive historical understanding on the basis of
their causes, circumstances and effects. (Item #81730)
$16.95 |
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2009 OSV's Catholic
Almanac
by Matthew Bunson
604 pages. Paperback (Item #84399)
$28.95
CLEARANCE! $19.99
While Supplies Last
or thru 09/30/09 |
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NEW!
Fear Not: Learning From Your Cancer
By: Judy Gettis SmithJudy
Gattis Smith takes on an important and difficult topic – a faithful, yet
emotionally authentic response to cancer. In Fear Not! she offers a
biblically grounded exploration of how one’s response to cancer is part of
one’s faith journey. She shows how the crisis offers challenges and
opportunities that through God’s grace can transform survivors in deeply
healing ways.
The participants’ workbook plus a leader’s guide for facilitating the
weekly group meeting. Throughout both, Gattis sustains an intimate,
sensitive tone which invites personal reflection and growth. Using
storytelling, drawing, meditations, imagery, and Bible passages, she
encourages participants to name the many difficult aspects of life with
cancer. Then she helps them develop practices that help foster faith and
healing. These include using positive memories; choosing perspectives and
coping skills; finding ways to approach illness with endurance, courage, and
even humor; and discerning patterns in response that are shaping the larger
pattern of one’s life journey.
Excerpts from the poetry and journals of cancer survivors emphasize the
real-life struggle to find wholeness and meaning in illness. Gattis’ work is
a gift and an inspiration.
Your challenge with cancer…. This is an important event to consider
because it is a crisis moment – a time where both danger and opportunity
come together. You have begun looking at the fears, dreams, feeling,
experiences and thoughts cancer has brought you, trying to gain some
self-understanding through this experience, some reorganization of the your
life and your thinking now that you are a cancer survivor. You were given
dark nights. If not treated as growth they will destroy you. -
Chapter 6
Paperback
(Item #83820) $12.00 |
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NEW!
If God Disappears: 9 Faith Wreckers and What to Do about Them
By: David R. Sanford
Virtually
everyone has--or will--face crises of life and faith. These pivotal
times are part of everyone's spiritual journey. Why then do some people
emerge from the crisis with their faith intact while others give up on
God, the church, and holy living? If God Disappears comes
alongside the Christian who is spiritually drifting--or is on the
verge--or knows someone who is considering leaving God and the church
behind--and compassionately empowers them to re-embrace their faith.
Author David Sanford shares nine "faith wreckers" and nine "faith
builders" to help us better understand which circumstances and attitudes
undermine our faith and which ones draw us closer to God.
Back Cover Copy
Does it seem as if God turned out the lights and slipped away?
God often seems absent when we need him most. Some people respond to
this by seeking him even more wholeheartedly. Others feel shunned and
abandoned, and slowly drift away from their faith. Why do some
individuals emerge from such crises with their faith seemingly intact
while others all but give up on God, the church, and spiritual life? How
can we walk through troubling, even devastating times without
shipwrecking our trust in God?
If God Disappears comes alongside those who are already
spiritually drifting—or are on the verge—and compassionately empowers
them to re-embrace their faith. Author David Sanford explores a series
of nine "faith wreckers" and nine sometimes counterintuitive "faith
builders" to help us better understand which circumstances and attitudes
undermine our faith and which ones draw us closer to God.
You may feel that it's impossible to come back to God. You may fear God
wouldn't take you back anyway. But even if it feels like God has
disappeared . . . it's never too late.
Front Flap Copy
What's the greatest crisis among Christians today?
David Sanford believes it's the loss of faith. Not loss of salvation—but
loss of faith in God, in the Bible, in the church, or in Christian
beliefs.
Like most individuals, you probably know someone who has left the church
or experientially lost his or her Christian faith. Maybe it's even been
your own experience. Sadly, many people feel their church isn't a safe
place to talk about something like this and, as a result, of the nearly
75 million American adults who say they have made a commitment to Jesus
Christ, more than 31 million have quit going to church. Thousands more
will join their ranks this week.
If God Disappears drops the guilt and compassionately addresses
the personal, practical, biblical, and theological issues surrounding
this crisis. Is it really possible to lose one’s faith? Why did it seem
to happen to so many good people in the Bible? How can you help a friend
who is struggling?
This important and much-needed book will show you what to do if you
experience a personal crisis of faith, as well as how you can reach out
to those who are spiritually drifting. And it will remind you that no
matter what you’re going through, God is still there to be found.
Back Flap Copy
David Sanford and his wife, Renée, own Sanford Communications, Inc., a
company that works with leaders, organizations, and publishers to
develop life-changing books and other resources.
Over the years, David has been featured or interviewed and quoted by
leading news services, national broadcast networks, numerous Web sites
and blogs, stacks of magazines, and scores of newspapers including
USA Today and The Los Angeles Times. His detailed biography
appears in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in Media and
Communications.
David and Renée live "on the road to Damascus" outside Portland, Oregon,
where David serves as lay teaching pastor at Spring Mountain Bible
Church. They are the parents of five children.
Hardcover, 176 pages (Item #83821) $16.99
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There's No Place Like Hope: A
Guide to Beating Cancer in Mind-sized Bites
There are many books on cancer, but none so hopeful and
useful as Vickie Girard’s. The result of more than eight
years of working closely with thousands of cancer patients
and survivors, this is one cancer book that definitely has
its feet on the ground. In the very first chapter, the
author assures the reader to “immediately throw out any old
cancer horror stories. Times, treatments, and diagnoses are
all changing and improving as we speak.” The next 150 pages
is a powerful, practical and inspiring guide that will
empower millions of cancer patients to quickly understand
the new “Patient Empowerment Medicine”, so they can better
fight and better survive this disease. “Fear doesn’t defeat
cancer,” reminds Girard, “empowered treatment defeats
cancer.” Having survived one of the most deadly types of
cancer, she writes with unusual clarity and authority and
has taken her message to the floor of the United States
Senate and to thousands of cancer patients and survivors
throughout the world. Her personal mission is to “empower
and inspire people who have cancer and those who love them,”
and her long-awaited book truly delivers on that promise.
This is Vickie Girard’s long-awaited and completely
indispensable survival guide for cancer patients and their
families. Regardless of the type of cancer, here is an
immediate, practical, and inspiring guide that will empower
any patient to better fight and survive this disease.
Through her involvement with the Cancer Treatment Centers of
America and The American Cancer Society, Vickie Girard has
taken her message of “empowered patient care” to the floor
of the U.S. Senate and to thousands of cancer patients and
survivors throughout the world. The message is simple,
hopeful, powerful, and long overdue: “We must stop speaking
of cancer in whispers. We may have cancer, but cancer does
not have us. Cancer is a beatable, treatable, survivable
disease.”
In 1992 Vickie Girard was diagnosed with Stage Four
cancer and told to get her affairs in order. After coming to
Cancer Treatment Centers of America for a second opinion,
she chose to fight. She not only survived, she went on to
become one of our nation’s most compelling advocates of the
new “patient empowerment medicine.” She is a tireless
patient advocate, speaker and writer, crisscrossing the
nation, working with doctors, nurses and cancer support
groups. She has a toll-free cancer patient counseling line
and writes Vickie’s Spin for the nationally circulated “Link
To Life.” She received a Presidential Proclamation from
President Clinton and has appeared on NBC’s “Today Show,”
Lifetime TV’s “New Attitudes,” and countless local radio and
television news shows. Girard has testified on the Patients
Bill of Rights on the floor of the United States Senate,
received a Presidential Proclamation for her efforts in
health care reform. . .was recently nominated for a position
on the Council of Public Representatives at the National
Institute of Health in Washington, D.C., and awarded the
YMCA Women of Achievement Award for “truly outstanding
contributions to her community.”
"In all my years of counseling cancer patients, I never
found the one book that patients and their families were
always requesting. I finally gave up looking and decided to
write it. I come with vital information to share with cancer
patients at any stage of your battle, regardless of the type
of cancer you are dealing with. I write to tell you that,
yes, I have been down the road and I’ve come back to tell
you that, if you look closely, there are bread crumbs along
the path to guide you in defeating your cancer. I want to
assure you that even the worst of odds can be beaten and
overcome--that the hope of defeating cancer now exists for
us all. There is no such thing as 'false hope.' The day my
hope was fed is the day I began to get well. Even when it is
not probable, it is still possible to win against this
disease. I am living proof of this. Remember that cancer
does not have a brain, a heart, or a spirit. It is you who
has the brain, the ability to strategize and to plan the
cancer’s demise. So keep your pilot light burning brightly,
read this book, get ready to fight, and know that I’m with
you all the way." - Vickie
Paperback (Item #83822) $14.95 |
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