Lectio Divina of the Gospels (for the liturgical year 2024-2025) takes the reader through the traditional process of lectio divina with reading, meditation, prayer, and contemplation, focused on the Gospel for each Sunday and major feast day. A unique guide is offered for each Gospel reading to help explore the sacred texts with greater attention and to allow the Word to permeate one's mind and imagination more deeply. Each week's lectio divina includes space for writing out reflections, t...

Lectio Divina of the Gospels (for the liturgical year 2025-2026) takes the reader through the traditional process of lectio divina with reading, meditation, prayer, and contemplation, focused on the Gospel for each Sunday and major feast day. A unique guide is offered for each Gospel reading to help explore the sacred texts with greater attention and to allow the Word to permeate one's mind and imagination more deeply. Each week's lectio divina includes space for writing out reflections, t...

Lectio Divina of the Gospels (for the liturgical year 2026-2027) takes the reader through the traditional process of lectio divina with reading, meditation, prayer, and contemplation, focused on the Gospel for each Sunday and major feast day. A unique guide is offered for each Gospel reading to help explore the sacred texts with greater attention and to allow the Word to permeate one's mind and imagination more deeply. Each week's lectio divina includes space for writing out reflections, t...

The edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church read by Fr. Mike Schmitz in The Catechism in a Year podcast.The Catechism contains the truth and beauty of the Catholic Faith’s most foundational teachings applied to the modern day. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Ascension Edition makes the wisdom of this foundational document accessible through the Foundations of Faith approach.Now, everyone can learn and understand the teachings of the Catholic Faith.This...

2020 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards, Gold: Religion/Spirituality2020 Living Now Book Awards, Gold: Children's Picture Books2020 Catholic Press Association, 2nd Place: Children's BooksInspired by the USCCB's statement "Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love, A Pastoral Letter Against Racism," Everyone Belongs empowers young readers to reflect on the reality of racism in our society, to see it through the lens of hist...

Award-Winner in the "Children's Picture Book: Softcover Fiction" category of the 2015 International Book AwardsGreen Street Park contains colorful pictures and an engaging story that helps children understand important lessons of how to work for justice and peace and to help those in need.This is a story about Philip who loves his neighborhood. However an area of the Green Street Park is in need of improvement. Philip learns about how St F...

“Brant Pitre is one of the most compelling theological writers on the scene today.” –Bishop Robert BarronBestselling author of Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist casts new light on the Virgin Mary, illuminating her role in the Old and New Testaments.Are Catholic teachings on Mary really biblical? Or are they the "traditions of men"? Should she be called the "Mother of God," or just the mot...

A compelling exploration of the biblical foundations, contemplative practices, and spiritual path of Jesus himself—from the bestselling author of The Case for Jesus“What happens when a biblical theologian explores classic spirituality? This book. Pitre’s students have asked, Why have we never heard this before? The reader wonders the same.”—Dr. David Fagerberg, author of Liturgical MysticismThe pa...

Hahn explores the "covenant love" God reveals to us through the Scriptures and explains how God patiently reaches out to us—despite our faults and shortcomings—to restore us into relationship with his divine family. Join Hahn as he follows the high adventure of God's plan for the ages, beginning with Adam and Eve and continuing down through the generations to the coming of Christ and the birth of the Church. You'll discover how the patient love of the Father revealed in the Bible is the sa...

A major new work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest sacred documents of Judaism, which reveals their surprising connections to early Christianity.“A luminous treatment of a fascinating subject! Highly recommended!”—Scott Hahn, author of The Fourth CupFrom award-winning scholar John Bergsma comes an intriguing book that reveals new insights on the Essenes, a radical Jewish community predating Christianity, whose existence, beliefs,...

“This book will prove to be a most effective weapon against the debunking and skeptical attitudes toward the Gospels that are so prevalent, not only in academe, but also on the street.”—Robert Barron, author of CatholicismFor well over a hundred years now, many scholars have questioned the historical truth of the Gospels, claiming that they were originally anonymous. Others have even argued that Jesus of Nazareth did not think he was God and never claimed ...

In Jesus the Bridegroom, Brant Pitre once again taps into the wells of Jewish Scripture and tradition, and unlocks the secrets of what is arguably the most well-known symbol of the Christian faith: the cross of Christ. In this thrilling exploration, Pitre shows how the suffering and death of Jesus was far more than a tragic Roman execution. Instead, the Passion of Christ was the fulfillment of ancient Jewish prophecies of a wedding, when the God of the universe would wed ...