As war raged in 1940s Europe, Gemma Galgani, a young and beautiful Italian girl, was made a saint - the first to have lived in the 20th Century: she died in 1903. Born into the modern worldÂÂ, her life of goodness and suffering, together with her writings of the love of God, have left a role model of Christian living for many young people living in this secular age. She carried the five wounds of Christ and is considered by many a visionary and mystic.

Volume 1 of a collection of selected original acrylic and digital artwork from the brushes and pens of the celebrated Kent Artist Jan Kalinski who tragically died on Remembrance Day 2022. Based down the sleepy meandering leafy lanes of Kent, Jan had suffered from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for thirty years but never let that stop him from clutching on to a paint brush even though his fingers became numb. This collection of art much of which has never been seen before shares an insight into hi...

This new resource is primarily for those who wish to know about the Catholic Faith either as an enquirer or for those who wish to rekindle the spark of their own faith. The book focuses on what makes the Catholic Church unique, namely Jesus Christ at its centre as the Lord and Saviour of humankind and the seven sacraments of the One, Holy, True, Catholic and Apostolic Church. It is written in a simple and uncomplicated way and can be used as an RCIA guide for sharing the faith either to gr...

New for 2026 a specially revised and extended edition including a surprise new ending complete with photographs. The additional 45 pages features a prologue and epilogue by the legendary bands Hawkwind and Lindisfarne. It was 1979 and forgetting the politics, protests and strikes the music was ace. The glam rocker Marc Bolan had kick started the decade with a white swan and ten years later AC/DC were taking off on the highway to global domination with their powerfully loud and exciting liv...

Special 15th Anniversary Edition. Gemma Galgani was the very first canonized saint to have lived in the twentieth century. A young girl who inhabited a life hidden away in relative obscurity would eventually touch the lives of many.In reading this biography of St. Gemma many of the events will appear fantastic, supernatural and mystical all of which were witnessed and recorded at the time.I was fortunate to be given time and personal access to Gemma's residence and original...

Featuring a prologue by Suzanne Vega, an intermission sequence by Supertramp's Rodger Hodgson and an epilogue by kind permission of Anais Mitchell, this fourth collection of poetry features many autobiographical tales. There are also a few ghosts and storms that appear throughout the book, but these chronicles are tempered by other true saga's about the our mystical, natural and sensual world.About having a rebel nature; it may be shown in how a person acts, campaigns and stands up...

Special 20th Anniversary Edition. Following extensive research over three years including special access to monastery archives and visiting many times the beautiful Umbrian hilltop town of Assisi, Italy this new and complete biography reveals St. Clare's life to the full and she will hopefully become for contemporary readers an inspirational heroine of her time.

This book is my second journey of the Station's of the Cross and it was written to complement the original and traditional version called "Roll away the Stone". Over the years I have physically walked the more familiar stations with the larger than life size statues on the steep hillside of Lourdes in the foothills of the Pyrenees and followed the chapel sculptures winding through the hot burnished terrain and the shady olive groves of Fatima, Portugal. These like many other including fami...

The long awaited new collection of poetry and prose which in many ways is both a sequel and a prequel to the acclaimed 2011 volume "In Violet"And special thanks to one of Englands great singer songwriters Judie Tzuke for allowing two of her songs to feature as a prologue and epilogue for this collection of work. Many of the poems are autobiographical and recall true life events and the characters featured really did exist.Scattered throughout the book are a selection of Hai...

The idea behind these "Stations" originated in the immediate aftermath of those shocking and savage terrorist attacks on New York and London in 2001 and 2005.For twenty years these stations had been an unfinished work in progress until I was persuaded to revisit, resurrect and re-write the meditations.My early background and experiences as a forensic photographer in Liverpool in the 1970s and 1980s allowed me to become a very personal witness to some of the most disturbing ...

This book which also contains a compendium of devotional prayers aims to describe in simple terms what the Catholic Church holds and teaches about the Holy Souls and purgatory and to provide the reader with a reflective view on life, death and what awaits us all in the heavenly realm.

"In Violet" is collection of freestyle poems written from the 1970s to the present and those poems which are factual were historically true in the period that they were written as in "Sarajevo" and "Ariana".You will find a revealing eclectic mix of poems that are most certainly autobiographical, nostalgic perhaps, definitely environmental and geographical, occasionally lyrical, reflective and just maybe a little controversial.The poetic style varies as much throughout as it...