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Prepare your heart to welcome the Prince of Peace.This pocket-sized Companion follows a practical, page-a-day format and features original meditations on each day''s Gospel by one of twenty gifted authors.Each year''s Advent Companion is different from the last, and contains these one-of-a-kind extras that you won''t find anywhere else:- A variety of beautiful and practical blessings- An Advent Penance Service- Specially commissioned poetry- Advent Stations- The O AntiphonsAdvent is that sacred season of anticipation and expectation in which we come to terms with the deepest yearning of our soul—a yearning fulfilled only in Jesus Christ. As we wait in longing for the coming of the Christ Child at Christmas, we turn over to him all the false satisfactions—the compromises—of our life. To live Advent is to live in the awareness of a Presence that changes us. Our Advent preparation is marked by vigilance—custody of the heart, in which we keep our soul fixed on the Lord. For what we see incarnate in the infant Jesus we desire for ourselves: purity, innocence, childlikeness restored. In the birth of this Child we know the promise of our own spiritual rebirth.This rich spiritual companion will accompany you like a beloved friend through the four weeks of Advent with poignant scriptural reflections for each day of the season. You will also find a wealth of meditative prayers, essays, and poetry, an examination of conscience, and a unique feature: the Advent Stations. If you long for the nearness of God in your life, this invaluable little booklet promises to bring you ever closer to the One who promised: I am with you always (Mt 28:20).

Lent is a time to refocus our hearts and revive our love of the Lord and one another.A Companion for the Forty Days of Lent (from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday)Designed in a convenient, easy-to-use format:- Inspiring daily reflections from some of the most gifted Catholic writers- Faith-filled essays- Prayers, poetry, and devotions- Meditations for the Way of the Cross- A treasury of spiritual insightsBy spending a few moments meditating on the inspiring daily reflections and the short prayers that follow them, you will accompany Jesus through his Passion and Death, emerging on Easter Sunday to the overflowing joy of his Resurrection.Let the profound yet practical insights you will find in this little spiritual treasury form and focus your spiritual life, filling it with new conviction and purpose.

Prepared by the Benedictine monks of Conception Abbey in Missouri, this edition presents these moving passages of the Bible in an accurate and poetic translation, while keeping a smooth cadence especially suited to singing and recitation. It establishes the definitive form of psalms and canticles that will gradually appear in official Catholic liturgical books such as future editions of the Liturgy of the Hours and the Lectionary for Mass.Liturgy directors, composers, parish music directors, and the clergy, religious, and lay faithful will value this collection. Anyone who loves to study and pray with Sacred Scripture will find this work to be a timeless treasure.Official version approved by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). It is my sincere hope that this translation of the Psalms and Biblical Canticles will be a source of spiritual nourishment for the liturgy and the private prayer of all who use them. Abbot Primate Gregory Polan, O.S.B.

A practical, spiritual guide designed to accompany you in personal and liturgical prayer on a pilgrimage through the land of the Bible. Whether you are experiencing the Holy Land in person or simply making a spiritual pilgrimage at home, this pocket-size guide will forever change your walk on our journey toward the heavenly Jerusalem. For more than 30 holy sites you will find: - A text detailing the significance of each site - A prayer for the day, modeled after the Liturgy of the Hours - Mass with prayers and readings specific to the site, drawn from the missal of the Custody of the Holy Land - A meditation selected from among the writings of the Fathers of the Church, spiritual masters, and great modern Christian thinkersIncludes the Ordinary of the Mass, well-known hymns, favorite psalms, and beautiful prayers.

Insight. Inspiration. Instruction.A unique opportunity to join our Holy Father''s invitation to priests and laity alike to deepen and strengthen our awareness of the gift of the priesthood, and to grow in intimacy with Christ the great High Priest.The Magnificat Year for Priests Companion is a one-of-a-kind spiritual guide designed to accompany you with:- Prayers, devotions, meditations, and essays celebrating the priesthood- A special Novena in honor of the Priesthood, each day highlighting a different dimension of the priestly vocation (Father, Man of Prayer, Preacher, Forgiver of Sins...)- Meditation texts on significant facets of the priesthood by Saint John Vianney, Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II, Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Fr. Walter Ciszek, S.J., Sister Briege McKenna, O.S.C., Alec Guinness, and many others- 11 beautifully reproduced pages of sacred art masterpieces