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October 4, 2022
by Msgr Rossetti, Ave Maria Press.www.avemariapress.com/products/The-Priestly-Blessing A renewed theology of priestly blessing, encouraging brother priests to embrace the habit of blessing people, objects, and events. This provocative and inspirational book shows how the blessing is integral to the identity of priests and crucial to the spiritual wellbeing of all the faithful. Many priests shy away from blessing people and objects because of a lack of awareness of the rich tradition of Church blessings and a deficit in training for this […]
by Bishop Athanasius Schneider with Diane Montagna, Angelico Press Bishop Schneider addresses such topics as widespread doctrinal confusion, the limits of papal authority, the documents of Vatican II, the Society of St. Pius X, antiChristian ideologies and political threats, the third secret of Fatima, the traditional Roman rite, and the Amazon Synod, among many others. Like his fourth-century patron, St. Athanasius the Great, Bishop Schneider says things that others won’t, fearlessly following St. Paul’s advice: “Preach the word, be urgent […]
by Fr. Armand de Malleray, FSSP. Arouca Press, 2020; aroucapress.com/books/x-rayof-the-priest This book identifies sinful hindrances and spiritual resources for a fruitful and rewarding priestly life in the twenty-first century. “Written with both imagination and rigour, and merits a wide readership” – Fr Aidan Nichols, O.P.“Fr de Malleray’s reflections on the nature of the priesthood are fascinating and perceptive, and will edify both clerical and lay readers.” Dr Joseph Shaw, PhD, Oxford, Chairman of The Latin Mass Society“Full of instruction yet […]
by Evelyn Oliver, Regina Press. Order: Amazon, LMS In this deeply Catholic novel, a sentimental encounter in Cairo leads to conversion and heroism. WhileIslamists and liberals connive to oppress Christians, Catholic beliefs and practices prove vital for protection and spiritual survival. The Egyptian Guide is a beautiful story of a woman’s faith journey. It contains a wide range of comparisons between life experiences and the realities of faith. The author uses rich descriptive language to explore the depths of conversion, […]
by Fr Bryan Houghton (a reprint from the 1970s prophetic original). Order: lms.org.uk/product/mitre-and-crook Bishop Edmund Forester, looking out over his little diocese of Stamford, was distressed at what he saw. In the early 1970s, a pragmatic bishop decides to allow the traditional Mass to go on. A novel unique in the annals of Catholic literature. It takes the form of letters from the bishop himself: a tough infighter—and a saint; a man of humility and charity—with a nose for humbug […]
a novel by St John-Henry Newman. Ignatius Press Mostly autobiographical: a pleasant opportunity to become familiar with the spiritual journey of the great 19th century convert. This novel about a young man’s intellectual and spiritual development was the first work John Henry Newman wrote after entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. The story describes the perplexing questions and doubts Charles Reding experiences while attending Oxford. Though intending to avoid the religious controversies that are being heatedly debated at the […]
by Henry Sire, Angelico Press. A concise summary of the history of Christendom as well as a prescient diagnosis of our modern situation. Serious and pious, yet simultaneously witty!
by Fr JeanPierre de Caussade S.J.This spiritual classic seems to have been written just for our times of worry and uncertainty.
by Cardinal Louis Billot, S.J. Arouca Press A very short book, essential to understand the root of the ideological disease affecting modern society.
by Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard A classic on the primacy of the interior life. Against the temptation of activism, or against helplessness when one is prevented from actively serving God, this book reminds clergy and laity that personal prayer is the key. The interior life seeks God in everything. It is a life of prayer, teaching us to live in the presence of God. It teaches us that God grants fruit to our initiatives in proportion with their root in mental […]