A new edition of Gregory Dix's masterpiece, still essential reading for students and scholars and in print constantly for fifty years.Dom Gregory Dix's classic account of the development of the Eucharist rite continues to be the definitive and authoritative work on the subject. He presents his massive scholarship in lively and non technical language for all who wish to understand their worship in terms of the framework from which it has evolved. He demonstrates the creative force o...

First Published in 1995. This book first appeared in 1937, and includes the Apostolic Tradition of St Hippolytus which is generally recognised as the single more illuminating single source of evidence on the inner life and religious polity of the early Christian Church. With a revised preface as well as the original first edition preface.

The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their letters, we follow the path of their romance from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard's pupil, through the suffering of public scandal and enforced secret marriage, to their eventual separation.

In this age of relentless activity it is easy for Christians, particularly those involved in good works, to fall into the pattern of the activist. But mere activity and material results are not sufficient for a successful apostolate.In his classic work The Soul of the Apostolate, Dom Chautard demonstrates that the very foundation of all apostolic work must be the Interior Life. The apostle of Christ will grow to become an instrument and true channel of God’s graces to the world only throug...

"The honor of Mary is so intimately connected with the honor and glory of Jesus that to deny the one is at the same time a denial of the other." – Bl. William Joseph Chaminade.The Catholic Church has taught since Apostolic times that Jesus Christ can never be rightly known in isolation from his mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. Rejecting the unique person and role of Our Lady Saint Mary in God's salvation plan leads inexorably to the rejection of Christ. Mary matters! And there can ...

The Essential Works of Christianity gathers a sweeping library of Christian thought, devotion, controversy, and imagination, tracing the faith's intellectual and literary presence from late antiquity to the modern age. Its range is unusually broad: patristic theology, medieval mysticism, Reformation polemic, devotional counsel, epic poetry, allegory, historical fiction, philosophical critique, and practical spirituality all stand together. The volume's significance lies in this breadth, wh...

From Scripture, Fathers & Doctors of the Church, St. Thomas, official pronouncements, holy writers. Their creation, test, fall, nature, powers, duties, Saints who conversed with, nine choirs, famous Angels, etc. 189 Pp. . Impr.(Formerly: Beyond Space).

These classic reflections on Christ’s passion by St Alphonsus retain their timeless relevance. They are enriched by a brief biography of Alphonsus, a selection of prayers penned by him, and a word on the history and value of the Way of the Cross as a ‘way of divine mercy’. This edition contains new colour illustrations to assist prayerful devotion.

Philip Schaff's History of the Christian Church is a monumental survey of Christianity from the apostolic age through the Reformation, combining narrative history, theological analysis, and careful engagement with primary sources. Written in a learned yet lucid nineteenth-century prose, it situates doctrinal development, ecclesiastical institutions, councils, controversies, worship, and leading figures within the broader movements of European and Mediterranean civilization. Its literary co...

The Pensees (literally, "thoughts") represented a defense of the Christian religion by Blaise Pascal, the renowned 17th century philosopher and mathematician. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensees was in many ways his life's work."Pascal's Wager" is found here. The Pensees is in fact a name given posthumously to his fragments, which he had been preparing for an Apology of Christian Religion which was never completed. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the ...

From the Council of Trent to Benedict XVI's Motu Proprio a new generation of Catholics is discovering the beauty, reverence, appropriateness, and efficacy of the Tridentine Mass. The Traditional Latin Mass, as the saying goes, is "the Mass the martyrs died for." It is also the Mass the faithful lived for and which gave life to them and to the Church itself. This small volume is designed to humbly guide you in an appreciation of the Traditional Latin Mass' beauties, coherence, logic, aesthe...

This ebook about how St Thérèse prayed for priests out of love for them and for the souls they touch. We can share with Thérèse in this work of prayer, praying a special Novena for priests, including excerpts of her correspondence with missionary priests.