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Our Picks
Author: Harry
Connick, Jr.
Illustrated by Dan Andreasen
Hardcover: $ 17.99
ISBN: 9780061288791
Publisher: HarperCollins
Eubie is the happiest elf at the North Pole. More than anything else, he
longs to be a part of Santa’s sleigh team. Instead, he’s stuck checking the
naughty-or-nice lists. Until one Christmas Eve he sees something strange: In
the whole town of Bluesville, not a single person has been nice. So with a
pinch of elfish magic and a magical whoosh, Eubie’s off to Bluesville. But
can he turn a whole town of naughty children nice in just one day?
Based on the beloved holiday song “The Happy Elf” by Grammy Award winner
Harry Connick, Jr., and with vibrant illustrations from Dan Andreasen, The
Happy Elf is a new holiday classic for the entire family.
Author: Mark Mossa, S.J.
Paperback: $ 14.99
ISBN: 0867167653
Publisher: St. Anthony Messenger Press
Fr. Mark Mossa can help you find the ways God is already in your life. Mossa provides an honest and entertaining account of how he, as a younger adult, now a Jesuit priest, attempts to find God's will for his life. Mossa's friends tell him that he has a talent for making weird (they politely say different) connections. He responds that images, lyrics, and repeatedly quoted lines from popular culture stick with us because they connect with something deep down inside of us and say something meaningful about our human experience. We need only take some time to reflect on our experience--and that is what Mark Mossa helps us to do--and we'll see that God has already been trying to communicate with us in unexpected and surprising ways.
Author: Mark E. Thibodeaux, S.J.
Paperback: $ 14.95
ISBN: 0829428615
Publisher: Loyola Press
Learn to discern God’s will by developing your spiritual intuition.
Many of us do not trust our own thoughts, feelings, and desires when it comes to discerning God’s will. Instead we look outside ourselves to determine what God wants from and for us. In God’s Voice Within, spiritual director Mark E. Thibodeaux, SJ, shows us how to access our own spiritual intuition and helps us understand that the most trustworthy wisdom of all comes not from outside sources, but from God working through us.
Catholic and Ignatian in content, God’s Voice Within is intended for people who know that there is more to the spiritual life than they are currently experiencing and are ready to take the next step in their walk of faith.
As Fr. Thibodeaux equips us to look inside ourselves to make effective discernment a daily and lifelong practice, he describes how the decisions we make in life are always undergirded by one of two spirits: the false spirit or the true spirit. He then explains how to recognize each of these spirits, how to respond to each one, and how to move from the process of discerning spirits to actually making decisions.
Ultimately, God’s Voice Within teaches us to discern what is at the root of our actions and emotions, which in turn allows us to respond to God’s promptings inside us rather than unconsciously reacting to life around us.
Author: Todd Burpo
Paperback: $ 16.99
ISBN: 1587680645
Audio Book Unabridged 4 CDs: $19.99
ISBN: 1598599194
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven. Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn't know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear. Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us. Told by the father, but often in Colton's own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle
Author: Richard Rohr
Paperback: $ 15.99
ISBN: 1616361573
Publisher: St. Anthony Messenger Press
The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous is Americas most significant and authentic contribution to the history of spirituality, says Richard Rohr. He makes a case that the Twelve Steps relate well to Christian teaching and can rescue people who are drowning in addiction and may not even realize it. To survive the tidal wave of compulsive behavior and addiction, Christians must learn to breathe under water and discover Gods love and compassion. In this exploration of Twelve Step spirituality, Rohr identifies the Christian principles in the Twelve Steps, connecting The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous with the gospel. He draws on talks he has given for over twenty years to people in recovery and those who counsel and live with people with addictive behavior. Rohr offers encouragement for becoming interiorly alive and inspiration for making ones life manageable for dealing with the codependence and dysfunction (sin) rampant in our society.
A Lever and a Place to
Stand:
The Contemplative Stance, the Active Prayer
Author: Richard Rohr
Paperback: $ 15.00
ISBN: 1587680645
Publisher: HiddenSpring
Explores the challenges, the rewards, the call, and the possibilities of integrating a sincere inner life with an active life of engagement with the pain of the world.
The Gift of Blessed John Paul II:
A Celebration of His Enduring Legacy
Author: Cardinal Donald Wuerl
Paperback: $ 14.95 US
ISBN: 9781593251956
Publisher: Word Among Us
In
this book, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, explores the
spiritual and pastoral wealth of Blessed John Paul's legacy as found in his
encyclicals and post-synodal apostolic exhortations. Cardinal Wuerl, who is
know for his gift of teaching the faith, presents the pope's writings in a
clear and understandable way and shows us how we can apply these teachings
to the challenges we face as Christians in the world today.
The Golden Thread
Author: Louis de Wohl
Paperback: $16.95
ISBN: 0898708133
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Here is a skillful weaving of the story of St. Ignatius Loyola’s conversion and pilgrimage with the colorful and dangerous history of Spain and Italy in the early sixteenth century. The life of the very human, very great Basque nobleman who founded the Jesuit Order, makes for one of de Wohl’s finest novels.
The Quiet Light A Novel About Thomas Aquinas
Author: Louis de Wohl
Paperback: $17.95
ISBN: 0898708133
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Louis de Wohl presents a stimulating historical novel about the great St. Thomas, set against the violent background of the Italy during the Crusades. The author weaves an intricate tapestry of love, violence and piety as he brings the saint to life.
Citadel of God: A Novel about Saint Benedict
Author: Louis de Wohl
Paperback: $17.95
ISBN: 0898708133
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Another of the popular historical novels by the distinguished de Wohl,
telling the dramatic story of St. Benedict, the father of Western
monasticism, who played such a major role in the Christianization and
civilization of post-Roman Europe in the sixth century. De Wohl weaves an
intricate tapestry of love, violence and piety to recount with historical
accuracy the story of St. Benedict and the tempestuous era in which he
lived.
Jesus Our Brother: The Humanity of the Lord
Author: Wilfrid J. Harrington, OP
Paperback: $14.95
ISBN: 9780809146710
Publisher: Paulist Press
A noted biblical scholar, revered teacher, and graceful author writes movingly and with profound insight about Jesus as human being.
Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words
Author: Brian D. McLaren
Hardback: $25.99
ISBN: 0061854018
Publisher: HarperOne
Controversial church leader McLaren does here for spirituality what he did for Christian beliefs in "A New Kind of Christianity": offering spiritual practices that can transform us and shunning old practices that no longer work and actually hinder growth.