Ministry

Children s Daily PrayerMargaret Burk and Vivian E. Williams Designed to be led by students, these short prayer services will deepen and enrich classroom prayer every day of the school year. For teachers, parents, principals, and religious educators, helpful introductions provide background on each liturgical season, along with advice on preparing the worship space and getting children involved in the service. Prayers are also provided for use at home, before meals, and at the end of the day to...

Learn how to rebuke the devil and avoid his snares with this new book from Pope Francis’s teachings. In this powerful collection, the pope lays bare the devil’s ploys and tactics, to help you avoid getting ensnared. Listen with care, as the pope tells the story of the devil’s history, character, and works, and consider the pope’s suggestions about what you can do to see victory over the devil. Rebuking the Devil will be an important and sobering awakening to those who have forgotten the...

At Home with the Word 2020 At Home with the Word guides you to a deeper understanding of the Sunday Scriptures, providing the readings for this liturgical year, insights from Scripture scholars, and action steps. (Additional reflection questions and action steps for families, Christian initiation, and adult faith-sharing groups may be downloaded from the LTP Website.) The book also includes prayers and citations for weekday readings. Bulk pricing makes At Home with the Word an economical...

At Home with the Word 2020- Large Print Edition At Home with the Word guides you to a deeper understanding of the Sunday Scriptures, providing the readings for this liturgical year, insights from Scripture scholars, and action steps. (Additional reflection questions and action steps for families, Christian initiation, and adult faith-sharing groups may be downloaded from the LTP Website.) The book also includes prayers and citations for weekday readings. On the cover, James B. Janknegt...

2020 Sourcebook for Sundays, Seasons, and Weekdays : The Almanac for Pastoral Liturgy For over thirty years, Sourcebook for Sundays, Seasons, and Weekdays has been a trusted resource for preparing the various liturgies of the Church. This annual resource has been reenvisioned, reorganized, and redesigned to bring you more concise and helpful material to enlighten and inspire those who prepare the liturgy, especially the Sunday Mass, the “source and summit of the Christian life.” The new...

The Catholic Handbook for Visiting the Sick and Homebound 2020 is the essential resource for lay ministers of care, especially extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion. This portable, annual resource has been updated to include all the official rites a lay minister will need from the Book of Blessings and Pastoral Care of the Sick: Rites of Anointing and Viaticum to bring Holy Communion to as well as to pray and share the Gospel with those who cannot regularly worship with their parish...

These rites include: �Communion in Ordinary Circumstances �Communion in a Hospital or Institution �Celebration of Viaticum Outside Mass �Orders for the Blessing of the Sick �Order of Blessing of a person Suffering from Addiction or Substance Abuse �Order of Blessing for the Victim of a Crime or Oppression �Order for the Blessing of Parents after a Miscarriage �Visits to the Sick and to a Sick Child �Pastoral Care of the DyingThis resource also includes a pastoral introduction providing...

Manual para proclamadores de la palabra 2020Feliciano Tapia Bahena Manual para proclamadores de la palabra provides the ongoing instruction and advice that readers need. It assists them in preparing their assigned reading on specific occasions, and when read every week as a way of reflecting on and learning about the Scriptures, it strengthens proclamation skills and deepens their spiritual lives. This resource contains the readings in large print for practice (with suggestions for...

Called to Be the Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification by Carl E. Olson, David MeconiThis book gathers fourteen Catholic scholars to present, examine, and explain the often misunderstood process of "deification". The fifteen chapters show what "becoming God" meant for the early Church, for St. Thomas Aquinas and the greatest Dominicans, and for St. Francis and the early Franciscans. This book explains how this understanding of salvation played out during the Protestant...

by Paul Turner and Virginia Meagher You�ll want all of your lectors to read this new guide. Effective for training those new to the ministry and for rejuvenating the work of veterans, the book can be used by individuals or groups. It gives lectors the background and tools they need to study, pray, and proclaim scripture well, it offers sound advice for dealing with the practical everyday challenges of parish liturgies, and it nurtures spiritual growth in the minister.Inside you�ll find a...

A parish doesn�t just communicate its mission from the pulpit. Teaching and preaching also happen in classes and small groups, in bulletins, on the church website and social media, and through volunteers who welcome visitors through its doors. In Rebuilding Your Message, Michael White and Tom Corcoran�authors of the bestselling books Rebuilt and Tools for Rebuilding�share dozens of strategies to help Catholic parishes establish and sustain excellent communications.White and Corcoran believe...

As human beings we are constantly engaging and disengaging in everything we do. We engage and disengage at work, in marriage, as parents, in our quest for health and well-being, in personal finances, environmentally, politically, and, of course, we engage or disengage spiritually.If you walk into any Catholic church next Sunday and look around, you will discover that some people are highly engaged, others are massively disengaged, and the majority are somewhere in between. Why? What is the...