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No doubt, the word love is the most misused and misunderstood word in American society. The word love has been used to justify crimes against God and nature. It is often considered synonymous with lust. What is love to the Christian? Father Shamon goes to great lengths to explain what love is by focusing on St. Paul's description in 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7. there are in the end three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love. A beautiful guide for those seeking insight into Christian love.
A teaching guide to help candidates grasp the essentials of the Faith in preparation for Confirmation. This handbook for candidates and sponsors includes a straight forward discussion of morality, the nature of the Church, and the need for Confirmation. Parish DREs, high school teachers, and catechists will find the discussion questions and activities of great use to them as well. Perhaps its greatest strength is the way this book engages the teenager in a frank discussion of their culture.
Most everyone knows what prayer is, but not everyone knows how to pray. Using the messages coming from Medjugorje, Father Albert Shamon outlines Our Lady's teachings about prayer and shows how these teachings can be applied to our everyday lives.
Laughter is a gift from God. In fact, St. Francis de Sales used to say, A sad saint is a sorry saint. Smile Awhile is a collection of jokes that Father Shamon uses to soften up his audience while giving lectures on the Faith. This is a real knee-slapping, soup-spittin, ' fall-down-on-the-floor book full of Irish and priestly wit.
An excellent refresher course on the importance of sacramentals and blessed objects in the tradition of the Church. What is a sacramental? Why does God make use of sacramentals? This book will prove to be a handy tool for apologists who are bound to encounter questions concerning the Church's use of sacramentals.
Archimedes said, 'give me a lever and a fulcrum, and a place whereon to stand, and I'll move the world.' The lever is the seven Sacraments, the fulcrum is prayer, and the place whereon to stand is the Church. With these 'masterworks of God' we can move the world to love, peace, and joy--to God. This is an indispensable guide to understanding the Sacraments.
In this book, Fr. Shamon highlights the importance of the Creed, providing new insights and reaffirming forgotten truths. He quotes several occasions where Our Lady, in her messages at Medjugorje, specifically requests the praying of the Creed. As we continue our life long journey of faith, Fr. Shamon invites us to a deeper understanding of the Creed, its meaning, its purpose--all to the end of supporting us in this journey.
The Rolling Stone reporter’s “fascinating . . . globe-trotting, first-person spiritual odyssey” into the Catholic Church’s investigations of reported miracles (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). In a tiny, dilapidated trailer in northeastern Oregon, a young woman saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in an ordinary landscape painting hanging on her bedroom wall. After some skepticism from the local parish, the matter was placed “under investigation” by the Catholic diocese. Investigative journalist and Rolling Stone contributor Randall Sullivan wanted to know how, exactly, one might conduct an official inquiry into such an incident. So began his eight year immersion into the world of “Mira...
In the last apparition of Our Lady at Fatima, October 13, 1917, Our Lady appeared as the Queen of the Holy Rosary. In one hand she held the rosary and in the other the scapular. Once she told St. Dominic that the rosary and the scapular would one day save the world. That day is today!
On August 6, 1982, Our Lady gave an astounding message: 'Monthly confession will be the remedy for the Church in the West.' In December 1983, she repeated the same message. Isn't that marvelous! Such a simple solution to such complex problems--monthly confession! Here is a fantastic defense in clear-cut language of the purposes and importance of this often misunderstood Sacrament.