Modern life is fast-paced. Even worse, it's often chaotic and confused. But it doesn't have to be that way. Our days and our weeks are part of God's created order; the sun setting and rising, the regular shift from work to rest: all of these form a rhythm for our lives, a rhythm that the church has historically observed through a set calendar of feasts and fasts. Maybe you've used an Advent calendar to count down the days till Christmas. Or you might...

Practical Guidance for Pastors Each compact topical ministerial handbook in the new Pastoral Pocket Guides series helps equip and empower pastors and church leaders to carry out the day-to-day work of Christian ministry with excellence and confidence. In the Faith and Baptism guide you'll find: • Proven ways to share the good news personally and also extend an invitation from the pulpit • Scriptures to know and sample prayers • Practical baptism...

What are the doctrines taught by this movement infiltrating the church of Jesus Christ as a whole? And it is not confined to any specific denomination or Christian group. This book gives more detail on the dangers of this movement spreading rapidly through the Christian world.

Combining careful Bible study with enlightening historical survey and practical suggestions, this book provides a rich resource for deepening and renewing a central practice of the Christian faith.

Since 1917, when three Portuguese shepherd children received apparitions of the Virgin Mary, the Child Jesus, and Saint Joseph, Fátima has been the destination of many millions of pilgrim visitors. The apparitions occurred at a time of great turmoil in the history of mankind: The Great War was in its third year, and Russia was in the throes of revolution that would lead to Communism taking hold. The so-called "Third Secret" of Fátima foretold the...

A bold new elegant invitation to enter into the mysteries of the Christian faith. This graceful book explains to Catholics and non-Catholics alike the mystical heart of the Catholic faith: the Seven Sacraments.

Christian practice of the Lord's Supper is radically dissimilar from the silent, solemn, individualistic eating of bread crumbs and drinking sips of wine that many churches practice today. Instead, says Hicks, our practice of the supper should be a joyous communal meal as it was in earliest Christianity. The contemporary practice of the suppers needs to be "revisioned" according to biblical values. Combining careful Bible study with gentle, practical...

Il existe une différence radicale entre la vie spirituelle orientée par la croyance, de celle qui a son fondement dans l'expérience. Mais la croyance est le chemin vers l'expérience. De la même manière que le doute précède la croyance, la foi vient avant l'expérience du divin. La simple croyance se transforme en foi lorsqu'on la met en pratique, lorsqu'on la vit. Et si cette pratique est soutenue de manière persévérante, on aboutit alors...

Among the breath stealing natural wonders of the vast, wild expanse of the universe loom mysterious places, beliefs and practices perverse with myths, legends and dogma which prove that nature and humans are never less than impressive. Superstitions that are as strange as they are fearsome and beliefs that one event is the cause of another without any physical process linking the two are firmly clung to as if lives depend on such. "The Bizarre,...

In this informative and entertaining critique of music in the Catholic Church, Thomas Day outlines a stinging indictment of the influence of popular culture on American Catholicism, particularly as expressed in church music. Taking aim at the Irish-American repertoire of songs that overwhelms Catholic music in America, Day assails the secularization of liturgical practices that began, in the author's view, with the Second Vatican Council in 1962....