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Behind monastery walls, men of God spend their lives preparing for the passage of death. Best-selling French author Nicolas Diat set out to find what their deaths can reveal about the greatest mystery faced by everyone - the end of life. How to die? How to respond to our fear of death? To answer these and other questions, Diat travelled to eight European monasteries including Solesmes Abbey and the Grande Chartreuse. Through extraordinary interviews with monks, he learned that their death experiences are varied and unique, with elements of peace, pain, humility, sorrow, and joy.

A friend’s child dies; a parent gets a cancer diagnosis; your spouse loses their job. Sometimes life and God’s plan don’t make sense and we end up feeling hurt and angry. In Seriously, God?, Fr. Michael White and Tom Corcoran explore the denial, doubt, and betrayal we experience when we face hardship, pain, and grief, and they encourage us to lean into our feelings and to take each circumstance as a chance to learn more about God. This audiobook treats the problems of suffering and evil not as an argument to be overcome but as an invitation to a deeper faith.

Against the backdrop of a catastrophic pandemic that has spared nothing and altered everything, this remarkable document is a cry from the heart of a pastor to all peoples to see beyond their differences and to grow together to build a new and peaceful world. Pope Francis addresses his renewed call to universal fraternity to all people of good will, regardless of their religious convictions.

François et Jacinthe, après avoir vu la Sainte Vierge, sont restés extraordinairement fidèles à suivre ses recommandations en offrant chaque jour leurs peines du quotidien pour les pécheurs.

Starting with the birth of Jesus Christ and ending with the Eastern Orthodox/Roman Catholic split, Catholicism: Nine Events That Shaped the Early Catholic Church takes a vast subject and breaks it down into easy-to-understand pieces that form a whole. By focusing on just nine events, we are able to dive deeply into relevant history and politics while still bringing you a short history that covers the major occurrences in the early period of an important institution.

In just minutes a day, the energy of the Divine can guide your life into higher realms of positivity, success, and overall happiness. Here’s how: One of the greatest methods for restoring balance to your life is to call on the power of the Archangels through meditations and prayer. When we take the time to sit down and consciously connect with the divine power of their gifts, we open a portal into a realm of unlimited possibility.

Sohrab Ahmari was a teenager living under the Iranian ayatollahs when he decided that there is no God. Nearly two decades later, he would be received into the Roman Catholic Church. In From Fire, by Water, he recounts this unlikely passage, from the strident Marxism and atheism of a youth misspent on both sides of the Atlantic to a moral and spiritual awakening prompted by the Mass.

Prayer: The Key to Salvation by Fr. Michael Mueller, C.SS.R., Priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, is a book every Catholic should listen to because according to the ordinary course of Divine Providence, man cannot be saved without praying. It shows the necessity of prayer for the just and for sinners, the power of the prayer of children and of the just, the conditions and qualities of prayer, etc.

What is it about prayer and worship that so improve health, happiness, and longevity? There are actual physical effects within the brain. That, in turn, benefits both mind and body. Peppered with inspiring stories of transformed lives, Holy Health presents the faith factor’s many pathways to better health and well-being, and how you can take full advantage.

The promise of eternal life has been a clarion call to the saints for centuries, rousing them to action and heroic virtue. They knew that, compared with eternity, this life is but a shadow. We must seek the same destination as the saints in the midst of a world filled with amusements and vanities that constantly threaten our journey to Heaven.

In this popular abridgment of his monumental Preparation for Death, St. Alphonsus teaches the proper attitude toward Death, which is one of readiness; of always having one's "debts cleared". He cautions against letting even one day pass without reflecting on the certainty of death, the shortness of time and the length of eternity. Each chapter is a short consideration on some aspect of death, divided into three points easily understood by people in every state of life.

In Saints Who Saw Hell, you’ll find the scriptural witness to the reality of hell, including the warnings of Jesus, the prophets, and the Apostles.

The Practice of the Presence of God is a book of collected teachings of Brother Lawrence (born Nicolas Herman), a 17th-century Carmelite friar, compiled by Father Joseph de Beaufort. The compilation includes letters, as well as records of his conversations kept by Brother Lawrence's interlocutors. The basic theme of the book is the development of an awareness of the presence of God.

In The Blessed Eucharist, Father Michael Mueller describes how Christ's love for us moved him to create this most beautiful sacrament. He explains why our Lord veils himself in the appearance of bread - a garment so humble he is little known, little loved, even neglected and insulted. Fr. Mueller helps the listener discover what a treasure the sacrament is.

Tasked with choosing a pontiff to replace a previous incumbent (Paul IV) whose reign was marked by repression and brutality, and faced with the growing challenge of the Protestant Reformation, the conclave faced a critically important decision for the future of the Roman Catholic Church and was faction-ridden even by the standards of such polarised gatherings. France and Spain, both looking to extend their power in Italy and beyond, had very different ideas of who the new pope should be, as did the Italian cardinals.

Un libro que te ayudará a rezar los misterios luminosos del Santo Rosario. El Santo Rosario es una de las más famosas oraciones católicas, si no la más famosa. Pero puede que te cueste rezarlo, sé por experiencia que, sobre todo al principio, te puede parecer algo tedioso y repetitivo.O puede que el Rosario sea una oración habitual para ti, pero quieras profundizar aún más en los misterios de la vida de Cristo que vas recorriendo avemaría a avemaría.

In this second volume of the Called Out of Darkness trilogy, Father Robert Spitzer, S.J., draws together some of the best advice given by Catholic spiritual masters across the ages and brings it into harmony with modern scientific research, offering practical ways to live out the gospel in our busy days. It is a road map to a deeper relationship with the Lord and to authentic transformation through the imitation of Christ. Giving evidence that Jesus established just one Church, with Peter as its head, Spitzer shows that the Catholic Church continues to be fertile ground for conversion.

Spiritual Complement: The Heart of Christianity is a complementary work to, Spiritual Substance, by the same author, and the second volume in the ongoing three book series: The Heart of Christianity. It seeks to lead listeners more deeply into the spiritual journey to holiness and union with God through Jesus Christ our Lord, while continuing to focus on what is most essential or fundamental in the spiritual life. Here again, you will find classic Catholic spirituality, strong and clear, for contemporary Christians.

"How can we save civilization?" It's becoming a common question. As the world descends into chaos, Christians are thinking deeply about how to stem the tide. Many options have been presented to overcome Christian persecution and cultural decadence, but The Marian Option is one that is already in motion...and has been for centuries.

Christian writer, C.S. Lewis once made the point that people tend to either obsess over demons or deny their existence entirely - and the devil is equally pleased either way. The Bible is clear. Our battle is not with flesh and blood, but with spiritual forces (Eph. 6:12). At the same time, however, the Bible makes it clear that the evil forces, devils and demons, are powerless in comparison to God. If God is for us, who can be against us? Even the demons shudder in the presence of God (James 2:19).