"We should not aim to be a great saint for the purpose of being a great saint. The saints' goal is to get as close to God as they can, not for their own sake, but for His sake."
- Mother Angelica
Quote taken from Mother Angelica’s Perpetual Calendar – Item #MAPC
FAMILY CONSECRATION TO JESUS THROUGH MARY
This book walks you through the simple process of doing just that. Its informed pages give you detailed instructions to help you lead your family (ages seven and up) through each of the 33 mini-retreat days recommended by Saint Louis de Montfort, the beloved eighteenth-century priest and confessor who tirelessly preached that Jesus is not known well enough because Mary is not known well enough...
PRIESTS IN LOVE WITH GOD AND EAGER TO WITNESS TO THE GOSPEL
Clerical sexual abuse, COVID-19, declining parishes, and racial unrest — these are some of the many challenges facing Catholic priests and bishops today. Where can they find the wisdom they need to address these and other daunting difficulties? Archbishop Emeritus Hughes draws on some of the greatest spiritual guides the Church has ever known to offer a vision for contemporary priestly life — Ignatius of Antioch, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and beyond...
This series on the seven Sacraments provides readers with a deeper appreciation of God’s gifts and call in the Sacraments through a renewed encounter with God's Word. In this volume, a leading Catholic scholar offers a biblical theology of the priesthood rooted in the Old and New Testaments. Half a millennium after the Protestant Reformation and in the midst of an ongoing clerical crisis in the Catholic Church, this book presents a comprehensive biblical vision and defense of the sacramental priesthood and an informed theological response to the problem of priestly sin...
In The Homefront Devotional: Navigate Military Life with Courage, Hope, and Faith, McMullen offers heartfelt wisdom and grace that sustained her and her family through deployments, moves, and the uncertainties of military service. Drawing from scripture, the lives of the saints, and the Catechism, she shows how faith can be a steadfast anchor amid the shifting tides of military life...
When you think of saints, what image comes to mind? Why do Catholics pray to dead people? How can we expect those same people to pray for us... and why would they want to? What about bowing to relics and statues? And where is all this in the Bible? Doesn't it say that we’re all saints? In The Saints Pray for You, Karlo Broussard brings the answers, backed up with the Bible...
