Best of
Catholic

1986

Furrow


Josemaría Escrivá - 1986
    Josemaría’s rich interior life and extensive experience as a pastor. Aphoristic and perfect for meditation, Furrow was written in order to encourage and ease personal prayer. These 1000 points for spiritual reflection are directed toward the whole human person: body and soul, nature and grace. With the skillful hand of an experienced and holy priest, St. Josemaría interweaves the divine and human and helps you see how to bring them into harmony in your own life.

'In the Beginning...' A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall


Benedict XVI - 1986
    ‘In the Beginning . . .’ also serves as an excellent homiletic resource for priests and pastors.

Essays on Woman


Edith Stein - 1986
    Teresa Benedicta of the Cross O.C.D.) 2d ed., revised (1996), translated by Freda Mary Oben, Ph.D. Eight essays on the theme of woman and her vocation, with index.  With reason Edith Stein has been called "the most significant German woman of this century." Her writings on woman are the fruit of both reflection and debate with other leaders of the Catholic feminist movement in German-speaking countries between the World Wars.      This second revised edition of Essays on Woman includes textual corrections, important new supplementary data, and previously unavailable material on the spirituality of the lay and religious woman. These essays crystallize long hours of experience teaching in the classroom and on the speaker's platform in the pursuit of fulfilling roles for women in all walks of life. Reviews      "Every page of these essays reveals a mind, never doctrinaire or ruffled, but rather serene, graceful, wide-ranging, fearless, and deeply dedicated to a search for truth." - Keith J. Egan, Horizons      "This newly revised edition…is a valuable text." - Review of Metaphysics      "One would hope that these essays will be read widely and carefully by both men and women." - The Thomist

The 12 Steps to Holiness and Salvation


Alfonso María de Liguori - 1986
    Alphonsus Liguori and is rated as one of the most beautiful and inspiring books by numerous TAN readers. St. Alphonsus develops, in the most simple language, yet with the greatest learning, the 12 key virtues necessary for salvation: faith, hope, love of God, love of neighbor, poverty, chastity, obedience, meekness or humility, mortification, recollection, prayer and self-denial or love of the cross. This book is written with such an encompassing view that its message is for all—religious or layman, the young or the old, the pious or the wayward. The reader will marvel at the balance, the simplicity, the learning, the interest, the calm and the holy unction that penetrate this work. And he will find himself repeatedly marking significant passage and returning to them again and again for instruction and edification. Here is a book, quite simply, for everyone who would save his soul.

Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion


Peter Kreeft - 1986
    This in-depth analysis of the meaning of the virtues and their connection with the Beatitudes also summarizes a scriptural and theological wisdom on leading a holy life. Includes the accumulated wisdom of St. Paul, C.S. Lewis, and many others.

Behold the Pierced One: An Approach to a Spiritual Christology


Benedict XVI - 1986
    This synthetic and meditative work is theological without being abstract or dry, and spiritual without being sentimental. The pierced heart of Christ must be the heart of theology and Christian life as well.Proceeding from the prayerful dialogue between the Incarnate Son and his Eternal Father, Joseph Ratzinger shows how one can approach the mystery of the Heart of Christ only through the imitation of this prayer. To know and understand Jesus we must participate in his prayer. The prayer of Christ must be the interior life of all who are joined to him in his Body, the Church. Using the Old and New Testaments and the Church Fathers, Ratzinger shows that the ecclesial community (the Church) was born from the pierced Heart of Christ on the Cross.

Making Sense Out of Suffering


Peter Kreeft - 1986
    This account of a real and honest personal quest is both engaging and convincing. Written from a deep well of wisdom derived from experience and careful observation, Making Sense Out of Suffering is a book for empty hearts, not full ones. Read it if you are hungry for insight into the mystery of suffering. A Servant Book.

The Poem of the Man-God, Vol. 1


Maria Valtorta - 1986
    Part 1 of a long and epic novel narrating in detail the life and teachings of Jesus Christ according to 20th century Catholic visionary Maria Valtorta.

Augustine Day By Day: Minute Meditations For Every Day Taken From The Writings Of Saint Augustine


John E. Rotelle - 1986
    Each day concludes with a prayer from the Saints. Illustrated and printed in two colors. Includes ribbon marker.

Those Who Saw Her: Apparitions of Mary, Updated and Revised


Catherine M. Odell - 1986
    The Laus apparitions, approved in 2008, were the first Marian apparitions approved by the Church in the 21st century.Let Mary's prophetic messages bring comfort and hope to your life in this thorough and compelling presentation of the extraordinary visits of the Mother of God to her children around the world.

The Catholic Prayer Book


Michael Buckley - 1986
    Filled with a wide range of prayer from the rich tradition of the Church-including personal, family, and liturgical prayer and prayer for special occasions. The Catholic Prayer Book serves as a treasury of Catholic worship from ancient times up to the present day. LEATHERETTE EDITION ALSO AVAILABLE— CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS. A Servant Book.

The Guillotine and the Cross


Warren H. Carroll - 1986
    In the midst of the terrors which unfettered Enlightenment ideology unleashed on the West, Christian hope arose anew to bring true light to one of history’s darkest hours.

Treasury of Novenas


Lawrence G. Lovasik - 1986
    More than forty popular Novenas carefully arranged for private prayer in accord with the Liturgical Year on the Feasts of Jesus, Mary, and favorite Saints.

Seek That Which Is Above: Meditations Through the Year


Benedict XVI - 1986
    This book also includes thoughts on other spiritual and secular themes such as the true nature of peace, why it is difficult for so many to experience joy, the relationship between spirit and matter, vacation and rest, etc. These inspiring insights from the man who became Pope, show how Joseph Ratzinger’s deeply spiritual and theological experience, together with his wide literary and cultural interests are a gift to the Church in the modern world. Here is a shepherd leading the faithful entrusted to his care to deep springs of refreshing, life giving water.Within the pages of this gem of a book, readers from all backgrounds will find helpful and encouraging wisdom which can be referred to again and again. It is a perfect gift, as well as inspirational and instructive spiritual reading for oneself throughout the year.  Includes Silk Ribbon Marker .

The Beatitudes: Soundings in Christian Traditions


Simon Tugwell - 1986
    . . a reflection nourished by all kinds of dippings into the traditions of the Church as well as sources which are not Christian and these, too, come from a variety of ages and localities."

This Is My Body, This Is My Blood: Miracles of the Eucharist


Bob Lord - 1986
    In this second volume by Bob and Penny Lord, twenty additional miracles related to the practice of the Eucharist are cited for the edification and encouragement of today's believers who need miraculous intervention in their own situations.

Jesus, the Word to Be Spoken: Prayers and Meditations for Every Day of the Year


Mother Teresa - 1986
    Speaking to her own Missionaries of Charity, this great woman reveals to us what it means to live a life completely for Jesus. With words at once practical and profound, her insights into humility, prayer, love of God and neighbor, self-sacrifice, and obedience mirror the example of her life. May they inspire you to do small things with great love, as Mother Teresa often admonished us. This book contains the statutes for the Third Order of the Missionaries of Charity, which provides new service opportunities for religious and lay people alike.

The Seven Spiritual Weapons


Catherine of Bologna - 1986
    Catherine of Bologna, much venerated in her own city, has been little known outside of her native region but interest in her is now increasing. The outline of her life is clear and her own work, The Seven Spiritual Weapons, tells a good deal about her inner experiences and early years in the cloister. The introduction to this translation situates her life in the history of Ferrara and Bologna and studies how the external history of the community impinged on Catherine's own religious experience and how it was interwoven with her successful struggle against depression.

They Followed His Call: Vocations and Asceticism


Adrienne von Speyr - 1986
    As a remarkable contemporary woman teacher of the Church, she points out the many ways we flee from the demands of our vocation.

A Vacation with the Lord


Thomas H. Green - 1986
    Thomas Green, S.J., draws on his vast background as a retreat master and spiritual writer to make available to a much wider audience the retreat experience based on the classic Spiritual Exercises by St. Ignatius of Loyola. While many scholarly and professional treatments have been done on the Spiritual Exercises, for the"grassroots Catholic", St. Ignatius' classic is often too mechanical and hard to grasp.This book can be used in many ways. It can be used by retreat directors for one-to-one direction of retreatants; by retreatants making a retreat with a director; or by more experienced retreatants who wish to be "alone with the Lord". In addition, this work can be used for a closed retreat of eight days as broken down in the chapters. Or it could be used for a "retreat in daily life" where a person could devote 30 to 60 minutes a day to the themes of this book and prolong the retreat over several weeks or months.