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Love Like a Conflagration
There is not a poem in this remarkable book that will leave you unchanged or be forgotten ... Each of these poems is as permanently current as it is consummate. [Greer] puts on the page the passion long absent from American poetry. I've never read a book as poetically and beautifully frank as this. --Samuel Hazo, past poet laureate of Pennsylvania
The Wedding
Father Bill Laughlin's Saturday begins ominously at 6 a.m. with an unsettling call from the would-be bridegroom -- insisting upon a meeting, immediately, with his ex-bride-to-be. What follows is a confusion of misleading signage, misheard instructions, misguided guests, and misanthropic thoughts. The day tumbles and stumbles on, moved forward by armed threats from the would-be groom, liquor-fueled madness, and the energy and idiosyncrasies of ordinary parishioners. It ends ... well, as with life itself, you'll see where it ends, and it will probably surprise you.
Last Priest Standing and Other Stories
Seven Stories of Grace The list of authors who have illuminated the life of the Catholic clergy is impressive: G.K. Chesterton, Georges Bernanos, J.F. Powers, Edwin O'Connor, and Graham Greene. To that list you can now add Richard Infante, a priest himself and a master of the art of fiction. This volume gathers his already-published stories with a new novella, "Saints and Sojourners." The drama in the stories emerges from matters peculiar to priestly life, yet applicable to every vocation. In priesthood as in family life, there are generation gaps. There are crises. There are infidelities - and near-infidelities. And there is always grace, though it sometimes arrives in a distressing disguise. "These stories are something more than realist. They're real. And so they hit a reader not the way words usually do, but rather the way life does." From the foreword by Mike Aquilina
Praying in the Presence of Our Lord with St. Thomas Aquinas
Tantum ergo Sacramentum Veneremur cernui Down in adoration falling, Lo! The Sacred Host we hail These words, written by the great theologian St. Thomas Aquinas, have inspired millions over the past seven centuries. St. Thomas's devotion to the Eucharist was profound. His brother Dominicans recalled that he would spend long hours kneeling before the tabernacle. When he faced a particularly difficult problem, he would lean against the tabernacle, as if to rest against the Master's heart as did the Beloved Disciple at the Last Supper. Now St. Thomas's immortal poems of praise - in both their original Latin and stunning translation - have been assembled along with insightful meditations and commentary by Mike Aquilina in Praying in the Presence of Our Lord with St. Thomas Aquinas.
Memorable Graces
Blessed Solanus Casey lived alife without the spectacle that's common in biographies of the saints -without the drama and gore we find in the stories of the martyrs. History remembers him for his hospitality, his listening ear, his simple counsel, his profound charity. He reached people, not large congregations, but ordinary people, one by one, one on one. He accepted this role obediently when his religious order judged him unfit for preaching and hearing confessions. His superiors made him porter - the friar who answered the door and the telephone - and he served in that role with a degree of perfection that seems miraculous. His intercession for friends worked miracles during his lifetime and continues to do so today. This book gathers testimony from those who knew him, especialy during his decade in the small town of Huntington, Indiana. In its pages you'll find holiness, a path to God, that anyone can imitate in ordinary circumstances, anywhere.
No God, No Civilization
What does the world get from God? What does the world lose when it loses reason?For centuries an aggressive secularism has fought to occupy the place once held by religion in Western society. Its intellectual leaders are ambitious. Their goal is to remove God from public discourse and then from memory. While they claimed that godlessness would bring about an era of peace, it brought history's bloodiest century instead. Civic institutions founded on Judeo-Christian principles began to crumble apart from them. Firm and commonly held ideas - about rights, duties, and dignity - have vanished when their divine origin was denied.Alberto Martinez Piedra, a respected scholar and former U.S. ambassador, tells the intellectual story of our time in a sweeping overview that places the New Atheism in its proper context and valiantly upholds the greatness and incomparable richness of the Judeo-Christian tradition.Sir Winston Churchill said in 1948: "Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it." This book aims to help opinion leaders and policymakers of today avoid the tragic mistakes of the past.
All In
Many are called - but how do you really know if you're chosen?This book speaks to the most common objections raised by young men considering the priesthood.I can't be celibate.My family and friends are unsupportive.I just need to take more time to discern.I am unsure.Marriage is better.I'm not worthy.This book looks at every difficulty - and overcomes them all, so men can simplify their discernment and take active steps to discern God's will in their lives.
Outspokenly Yours,
None
Sharing Christ's Priesthood
With the recent declaration of the Year of the Priest made by Pope Benedict XVI and the forthcoming proclamation of St. John Vianney as the patron saint of all the world's priests, this book provides an excellent resource for those who yearn to deepen their understanding of the Church and the Catholic Faith. Sharing Christ's Priesthood: A Bible Study for Catholics provides guidance on breaking the Bible into manageable parts and step-by-step guidelines on reading, meditating, praying, contemplating, and applying the Bible, both by yourself and with others. Respected author, scholar, and television host Mike Aquilina takes this wonderful tool for learning to a whole new level of excellence and completeness in an easy-to-understand language.
The Tomb
In this captivating retelling of a classic biblical story, Jesus shocks the town of Bethany with Lazarus’s resurrection from the dead, leading Martha—a seemingly perfect woman trapped by the secrets of her past—to hope and a new life. Everyone in Bethany admires Martha—the perfect Jewish woman. She feeds and clothes her loved ones, looks after the family farm, and meticulously follows every precept of the Pharisees’ strict laws. But Martha is hiding a secret. At her sister’s marriage feast, she gave her heart and her innocence to a young musician who promised to return and marry her, but instead betrayed her love and abandoned her. Seven years later, only two people in Bethany kn...
