Ave Maria Press Spring 2017 Trade Catalog

New Titles and Select Backlist

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“Daniel Mitsui’s images offer something new while remaining rooted in timeless ideals.”

Zoe Romanowsky Catholic writer, blogger, and lifestyle editor at Aleteia

November The Saints

An Adult Coloring Book DANIEL MITSUI Inspiration. Creativity. Calm.

Experience all three as you focus on coloring handdrawn illustrations of the saints by renowned Catholic artist Daniel Mitsui.

Following on the heels of Daniel Mitsui’s first adult coloring book, The Mysteries of the Rosary, The Saints contains thirty elaborate images, including Mary and Joseph, John the Baptist, Peter, Paul, Francis, Lucy, and Brendan in the style of medieval illustrated manuscripts and traditional Chinese and Japanese art.

Enter into a contemplative space as you color Mitsui’s beautiful images of saints and the elements they are associated with from the history of the Church. You can use any type of media to color images such as Brendan the Navigator, styled in traditional Celtic, and St. Peter the Apostle, following the traditional Chinese style.

Careful attention to coloring these delightful illustrations of the saints is a wonderful way to reflect on their lives and virtues.

“Daniel Mitsui’s beautiful renderings are sure to inspire the mystic artist hidden inside all who use this inspiring coloring book.”

Mickey McGrath, O.S.F.S. Author of Good St. John XXIII

“Adult coloring books can be a powerful portal into creative meditation.

These images are beautiful as well as inspiring, inviting you to ponder their themes through both inner reflection and active illumination.”

Christine Valters Paintner Author of Illuminating the Way

FEATURES & BENEFITS • The Vatican commissioned Daniel Mitsui to illustrate a new edition of the Roman Pontifical, which he completed in 2011.

• Mitsui and his work have been featured several times on Aleteia and he has been invited to speak about his art at Franciscan University in Steubenville.

• The Saints builds on the overall appeal of adult coloring books in the market and on Mitsui’s first adult coloring book, The Mysteries of the Rosary, in particular.

Artist DANIEL MITSUI specializes in ink drawing. Ave Maria Press published his first adult coloring book, The Mysteries of the Rosary, in the summer of 2016. In 2012, he established Millefleur Press, an imprint for publishing fine books and broadsides of his artwork and typography. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Michelle, and their four children.

978-1-59471-724-6 • 64 pages • $9.95 Available Now Foreign Rights: World • 8.5" x 11" • Booklet Category: Catholicism / Coloring Book Imprint: Ave Maria Press

AUTHOR’S OTHER TITLE The Mysteries of the Rosary ISBN: 978-1-59471-584-6, $9.95

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“Pope Francis is a revolutionary. The revolution he proposes is a revolution in the self-understanding of the Catholic Church: a re-energizing return to the evangelical passion from which the Church was born, and a summons to mission that accelerates the great historical transition from institutional-maintenance Catholicism to the Church of the New Evangelization.�

George Weigel

December The Complete Encyclicals, Bulls, and Apostolic Exhortations Volume 1 POPE FRANCIS For the first time, all five major writings of Pope Francis—his encyclicals, bulls, and apostolic exhortations—are gathered into one volume.

Pope Francis—the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church—was elected on March 13, 2013. Since then, he has been the most influential religious leader in the world, drawing praise and admiration from people of all faiths.

The impact of his writings has been felt not just in the Catholic Church for which they were intended but throughout the world. Each of the five works collected in The Complete Encyclicals, Bulls, and Apostolic Exhortations is a book unto itself, so this volume is one that can be cherished, read, and reread by all Catholics and devotees of Pope Francis for many years to come.

Volume 1 contains: • Lumen Fidei, June 29, 2013: The Light of Faith • Evangelii Gaudium, November 24, 2013: The Joy of the Gospel • Misericordiae Vultus, April 11, 2015: The Face of Mercy • Laudato Si’, May 24, 2015: Praise Be to You: On Care for Our Common Home • Amoris Laetitia, March 19, 2016: The Joy of Love

FEATURES & BENEFITS • This is the first time that Pope Francis’s major writings have been published in one volume.

• This omnibus edition will be a handy volume for students, parish study groups, teachers, priests, deacons, and anyone who wants to understand what the pope thinks.

• Future writings will be collected into additional volumes.

978-1-59471-739-0 • 512 pages • $27.95 On-Sale Date: December 26, 2016 Foreign Rights: World-English • 6" x 9" • Paperback Category: Catholicism / Theology Imprint: Ave Maria Press

“Laudato Si’ seems destined to go down as a major turning point, the moment when environmentalism claimed pride of place on a par with the dignity of human life and economic justice as a cornerstone of Catholic social teaching. It also immediately makes the Catholic Church arguably the leading moral voice in the press to combat global warming and the consequences of climate change.”

John L. Allen Jr.

“Pope Francis’s groundbreaking new document Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love) asks the Church to meet people where they are, to consider the complexities of people’s lives and to respect people’s consciences when it comes to moral decisions.”

Rev. James Martin, S.J.

POPE FRANCIS was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to parents of Italian descent. He was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1969, ordained auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires in 1992, installed as bishop in 1998, and elevated to cardinal in 2001. He was elected by the College of Cardinals in March 2013 as the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and took the name Francis for St. Francis of Assisi. He is the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first non-European pope in more than twelve centuries.

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March The Discerning Parent

An Ignatian Guide to Raising Your Teen TIM AND SUE MULDOON Blending personal experience and practical advice with wisdom they’ve learned from Ignatian spirituality, Tim and Sue Muldoon offer guidance for Catholic parents raising teens and tweens.

978-1-59471-689-8 • 192 pages • $15.95 On-Sale Date: March 17, 2017 Foreign Rights: World • 5.5" x 8.5" • Paperback Category: Family and Parenting Imprint: Ave Maria Press

TIM MULDOON is a theologian and the author and editor of several books on Ignatian spirituality, marriage, and family. He is the coauthor, with his wife, Sue, of Six Sacred Rules for Families.

SUE MULDOON is a therapist and religious educator who has worked in clinical, collegiate, and parish settings. She is the coauthor, with her husband, Tim, of Six Sacred Rules for Families.

AUTHORS’ OTHER TITLE Six Sacred Rules for Families ISBN: 978-1-59471-372-9, $14.95

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The Muldoons draw from their professional experience working with teens and their parents in high schools and colleges—Sue as a counselor and religious educator, Tim as a theologian and professor—to explain how the Ignatian practice of discernment is an excellent tool for the healthy parenting of teens and pre-teens. They share their hard-won wisdom as parents of three to offer you encouragement and practical guidance.

Tim and Sue describe discernment as slowing down, listening, being receptive, praying, examining our lives, and sifting the conflicting forces at play around us. In this wise and personal book, they share how Ignatian spirituality and discernment can help us keep a clear-eyed, prayerful perspective on the difficult decisions you and your teens face.

This thoughtful approach shows you how to talk with your children openly about freedom vs. limits, friendships, family time, sexuality, the use and abuse of technology, faith and Catholic practice, recognizing the needs of others, and getting through hard times together. You’ll discover when to be tough and when to be forgiving, when to control and when to give freedom, when to give feedback and when to wait.

FEATURES & BENEFITS • Daily and weekly prayers, devotions, and meditations will guide you as the Muldoons show how this is a time of discernment for you as well as your teens—and create a way for you to move through these challenging years together.

“A solid guide to parenting done the right way. Tim and Sue Muldoon have done all parents a service with this gracefully written volume, a practical manual for raising holy young men and women.”

Chris Stefanick

Founder of Real Life Catholic

March All In

Why Belonging to the Catholic Church Matters PAT GOHN In this passionate and unapologetic account of why her faith in Christ and the Catholic Church are the source of meaning and joy in her life, Pat Gohn invites you to become more confident in the power of the Catholic faith to transform your life as well.

What’s the one thing that defines your life and brings you the most good, the most love?

Gohn knows what her one thing is: Belonging to Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church. “Faith gives meaning to everything in my life.”

Being a cradle Catholic, cancer survivor, wife, and mother are all a part of her story. But in this appealing, personal book, Gohn shares why her relationship with Jesus and her confidence in his Church are so much bigger than her medical diagnosis, more powerful than her family history, and more significant than her career path.

Gohn ardently shares why belonging to the Church will strengthen and nurture your relationship with God. It will keep you connected with Jesus and the sacraments—conduits of grace, forgiveness, healing, wisdom, and renewal.

Gohn’s confidence in her faith emerged despite and even out of a struggle with disillusionment. Working in a parish when news of the sex abuse scandals broke in Boston, she confronted heartbreak and anger within herself and her fellow parishioners.

Yet she never left the Church and relates how she found a way to dig deeper and discover reasons to stay faithful.

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • Pat Gohn is a frequent speaker at parish retreats and large diocesan conferences.

“With clarity, wisdom, candor, and joy, Pat Gohn reminds us that to fall in love with the Lord is to be ‘all in’ love.

Count me as someone who was won over by this wise book’s tender charms and penetrating good sense.”

Deacon Greg Kandra

Catholic blogger and journalist at Aleteia

978-1-59471-677-5 • 192 pages • $15.95 On-Sale Date: March 3, 2017 Foreign Rights: World • 5.5" x 8.5" • Paperback Category: Catholicism / Women’s Spirituality Imprint: Ave Maria Press

PAT GOHN is a Catholic writer, retreat leader, conference speaker, catechist, and author of the award-winning book Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious. She is the host of the Among Women podcast and editor of Catechist magazine. Gohn lives in North Andover, Massachussetts.

AUTHOR’S OTHER TITLE Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious ISBN: 978-1-59471-370-5, $15.95

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“Joyce Rupp is one of the best Christian spiritual guides writing today.”

Rev. James Martin, S.J. Author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage

March Prayer Seeds

A Gathering of Blessings, Reflections, and Poems for Spiritual Growth JOYCE RUPP Some of Sr. Joyce Rupp’s most perennially popular books have been collections of her original prayers, blessings, poems, and reflections. In Prayer Seeds, the bestselling author and retreat leader offers new selections on a variety of themes such as the feasts and seasons of the liturgical year, compassion, ministry, difficult times, and important events—all suitable for personal or group prayer.

People who attend Joyce Rupp’s retreats or workshops often approach her to ask for a copy of a prayer that she composed for the event. In 2000, she collected her prayers in the book Out of the Ordinary. Written since the publication of the first collection, Prayer Seeds follows up with almost a hundred never-before-published prayers. The prayers are organized thematically.

Rupp’s warmth and closeness to God along with her sensitivity to the joy and sadness of life make her an ideal prayer companion. Her prayers are like seeds planted in your soul.

Tended and watered by love, they will grow and bear a rich harvest in your life.

Excerpt from Prayer Seeds: Eucharist comes in many forms.

Yesterday at dawn I stepped onto the round, white stones of Lake Michigan’s vast shore; I felt the deepest communion with all that exists, especially with the One who woos my heart.

I thought of my friend, Janet, holding out her open hands at Mass to receive the Gift she holds dear.

Today, as the retreat house bell calls the women to come receive, I stand before the full-bodied, incandescent maple tree, sunshine illuminating its golden leaves like a host held high in the blue sky.

I stand in creation’s communion line, bow my head, open my heart, and receive Eucharist once again.

—Joyce Rupp

FEATURES & BENEFITS • Prayer Seeds is a sequel to Out of the Ordinary, which has been published in two editions (2000 and 2010) with combined sales of more than 70,000 copies.

• Joyce Rupp’s prayers are one of the most popular features of her many books.

• Rupp’s thirteen Ave Maria Press/Sorin Books titles have sold more than a million copies.

JOYCE RUPP is a bestselling and awardwinning Catholic author, international retreat leader, and conference speaker.

She is a member of the Servite (Servants of Mary) community and is the codirector of the Institute of Compassionate Presence.

Rupp lives in West Des Moines, Iowa.

AUTHOR’S OTHER TITLES 978-1-933495-98-9 • 224 pages • $15.95 On-Sale Date: March 3, 2017 Foreign Rights: World • 6"x 9" • Paperback Category: Prayer / Spirituality Imprint: Sorin Books

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April The Life of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

The Original Biography Commissioned by Her Sister AUGUST PIERRE LAVEILLE Foreword by Susan Muto This remarkable biography of Thérèse of Lisieux, one of the most popular Catholic saints of all time, was commissioned by her sister and religious superior and was the first published in English in 1928. Msgr. August Pierre Laveille was able to portray Thérèse, as well as her parents Zélie and Louis who were canonized in 2015, with exquisite detail, having interviewed those who knew them best.

978-0-87061-302-9 • 416 pages • $18.95 On-Sale Date: April 28, 2017 Foreign Rights: World English • 5.5" x 8.5" • Paperback Category: Catholicism / Biography Imprint: Christian Classics

AUGUST PIERRE LAVEILLE (1856–1928), the vicar-general of Mieux, was commissioned by the Mother Prioress of the Carmel of Lisieux, St. Thérèse’s sister Pauline, to write the official biography of the Little Flower. Msgr. Laveille also wrote several other popular biographies, including those of Belgian Cardinal Désiré Mercier and St. Louis de Montfort.

SUSAN MUTO, executive director of the Epiphany Association, is a renowned speaker, author, teacher, and dean of the Epiphany Academy of Formative Spirituality.

When the autobiography of the life of Thérèse, The Story of a Soul, was first published a year after her death in 1898, the response was immediate and overwhelming, with tens of thousands of copies of her book sold in just a few short months. It was decided that an official biography should be written from the documents that had been gathered on the life of Thérèse Martin, whose cause for canonization was taken up without the customary fifty-year waiting period.

This exhaustive record of the life of one of the most beloved of all Catholic saints includes biographical information about her parents and grandparents, her early years at home, her years in the cloister, her illness and death, and information about the miracles attributed to her after her death, when she made good the promise on her deathbed that she would “spend her heaven doing good on earth.”

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • The earliest biography of one of the most beloved Catholic saints of all time that includes details about her parents, her early family life, as well as the miracles attributed to her after death.

“This new edition of Msgr. Laveille’s biography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux is a welcomed addition to the literature about her because it offers a window into how Thérèse was presented to the world at the time of her canonization.”

Maureen O’Riordan

Curator of the website Saint Therese of Lisieux: A Gateway

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April Joined by Grace

A Catholic Prayer Book for Engaged and Newly Married Couples JOHN AND TERI BOSIO Joined by Grace introduces engaged and newly married couples to the rich traditions of Catholic prayer: how Catholics pray, texts of our most commonly used prayers, and a primer on devotions.

A warm invitation to the faith and a simple approach to Catholicism, Joined by Grace is a book for beginners and those who want to know more about Catholic prayer life. The book offers guidance about the ways to pray, background information on prayers and devotions, and simple how-toinstructions. Family members and friends, as well as pastors, mentor couples, and others working in marriage ministries will find this a perfect gift for engaged and newly married couples.

Couples can learn how to pray spontaneously, offer thanks and praise, petition God, and express sorrow. There is guidance on blessings, praying with scripture, and liturgical prayer. The book also can be used to learn common Catholic prayers such as the Our Father, Doxology, and Hail Mary. Beyond the most essential Catholic prayers, the book offers insight and instruction for participating in the great devotions of the Church such as the Stations of the Cross, the Rosary, the Angelus, and Eucharistic Adoration. The last part of the book offers meditations on the seven sacraments as conduits of grace in our everyday lives.

978-1-59471-727-7 • 128 pages • $8.95 On-Sale Date: April 7, 2017 Foreign Rights: World • 5" x 7" • Paperback Category: Prayer / Relationships Imprint: Ave Maria Press

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • Ave Maria Press reaches nearly 100,000 engaged couples each year with its bestselling wedding preparation book Together for Life and has a growing line of books for married couples and families.

“Praying together as a family is the most important thing you will ever do. Read this book and you’ll know why.”

Jon Leonetti

JOHN AND TERI BOSIO are active in parish and family ministry, serving parishes and dioceses around the country. The Bosios lead couples retreats and workshops on family ministry for deacons and priests. They wrote Joined by Grace, a marriage preparation program from Ave Maria Press, and produced two parish-based marriage enrichment programs: Six Dates for Catholic Couples and The Beatitudes: A Couple’s Path to Greater Joy. A third, Four Dates for Catholic Couples: The Virtues, is in production. The Bosios live in Nashville, Tennessee, and have two daughters and one grandchild.

Catholic radio host and author of Your God is Too Boring

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“Kate Wicker captures the beautiful, painful reality of motherhood perfectly as she guides those fortunate enough to read her words on a journey to discover the peace that surpasses all understanding.�

Hallie Lord Catholic speaker and author of On the Other Side of Fear

March A CatholicMom.com Book

Getting Past Perfect

How to Find Joy and Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood KATE WICKER Foreword by Rachel Balducci Afterword by Lisa M. Hendey With honesty, humor, and practical wisdom, Getting Past Perfect helps moms overcome Pinterest-inspired perfectionism by replacing your deepest fears and anxieties with a steady trust in God and the freedom to love authentically.

If you have ever felt that you were not “enough” as a wife or mom, or if you’re someone who struggles to do it all, Getting Past Perfect offers a realistic and reassuring portrait of Catholic womanhood, placing motherhood in the context of every woman’s primary role as a child of God. Kate Wicker—journalist, popular speaker, and author of the highly-acclaimed Weightless—shares how she shook off doubt and negative self-perception, finding self-acceptance as a mom and the desire to stop controlling everyone around her. Getting Past Perfect invites you to make this same journey as you learn to embrace the primacy of your role as a daughter of God, even amidst the daily chaos of raising children. Each chapter is designed to debunk the lies and expectations that moms often face, replacing negative self-perceptions with the truths of a woman’s true calling.

Wicker openly shares how she unwittingly transferred her preoccupation with having the perfect body to being the perfect parent. By honestly sharing her mistakes and triumphs in the trenches of motherhood, Wicker reveals several common falsehoods mothers tell themselves in different seasons of their lives and how speaking the truth can liberate women to become better parents and the truest versions of themselves.

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • Kate Wicker is a popular national speaker, writer, and podcaster. She is a regular guest on Relevant Radio, a nationally syndicated platform and is well known in Catholic media articles.

“Kate Wicker is a myth buster on motherhood. Taking on many false truths Catholic moms hold dear, she unveils the unvarnished grace of the muddled and beautiful vocation of Catholic motherhood. This book is a must-read for all Catholic women, whether they are mothers in body or in spirit.”

Mary Lenaburg

Catholic writer, blogger, and speaker

“With edgy wit and frank, personal testimony, Wicker makes a convincing case for motherhood as an imperfect science—which, she persuades her readers, is exactly as God intended it.”

Peggy Normandin

Host of EWTN’s Call Me Catholic

KATE WICKER is an author, speaker, health columnist for Catholic Digest, and regular contributor to Relevant Radio’s Morning Air program. She is the author of Weightless: Making Peace with Your Body and contributed to The Handbook for Catholic Moms and Word by Word.

Wicker lives with her family in Athens, Georgia.

RACHEL BALDUCCI is a Catholic writer, author, newspaper columnist, and the cohost of CatholicTV’s The Gist.

LISA M. HENDEY is Catholic blogger, speaker, creator of CatholicMom.com, editor of The Catholic Mom’s Prayer Companion, and author of The Grace of Yes, The Handbook for Catholic Moms, A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms, and The Chime Travelers children’s fiction series.

978-1-59471-716-1 • 160 pages • $14.95 On-Sale Date: March 3, 2017 Foreign Rights: World • 5.5" x 8.5" • Paperback Category: Christian Living / Women’s Spirituality Imprint: Ave Maria Press

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More Rebuilt Parish Books More than 150,000 copies sold!

Rebuilt

Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, and Making Church Matter MICHAEL WHITE AND TOM CORCORAN Drawing on the wisdom gleaned from thriving mega-churches and innovative business leaders while anchoring their vision in the Eucharistic center of Catholic faith, Rev. Michael White and lay associate Tom Corcoran present the compelling and inspiring story of how they brought their parish back to life.

ISBN: 978-1-59471-386-6, $17.95 Also available in Spanish.

The Rebuilt Field Guide

Ten Steps for Getting Started MICHAEL WHITE AND TOM CORCORAN In The Rebuilt Field Guide, award-winning authors Rev. Michael White and Tom Corcoran walk you through ten essential steps for getting started with your church’s reawakening.

ISBN: 978-1-59471-701-7, $9.95

Tools for Rebuilding

75 Really, Really Practical Ways to Make Your Parish Better MICHAEL WHITE AND TOM CORCORAN In Tools for Rebuilding: 75 Really, Really Practical Ways to Make Your Parish Better, Rev. Michael White and Tom Corcoran share seventy-five foundational tactics that helped to rejuvenate their parish.

ISBN: 978-1-59471-444-3, $17.95

Rebuilding Your Message

Practical Tools to Strengthen Your Preaching and Teaching MICHAEL WHITE AND TOM CORCORAN In Rebuilding Your Message, the award-winning authors share their carefully honed communication practices to help priests, staff, volunteers, and parishioners better proclaim the irresistible and lifechanging Gospel of Jesus Christ at every level.

ISBN: 978-1-59471-578-5, $15.95

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January Rebuilding Confirmation

Because We Need More Than Another Graduation CHRISTOPHER WESLEY All too often, the sacrament of Confirmation feels like a graduation from religious obligation, according to Christopher Wesley, director of student ministry at Church of the Nativity in Timonium, Maryland. In Rebuilding Confirmation, Wesley shares how to reimagine Confirmation preparation in new or existing programs so that teens will become active members of the Church.

At Church of the Nativity—the parish behind the bestselling book Rebuilt—Wesley has created a Confirmation program that uses parish-selected mentors and small faith-formation groups to provide teens with an intensely transformative encounter with Christ and the Church. Instead of teens seeing the sacrament as the end of faith formation and weekly Mass attendance, they are becoming engaged in the life of the Church.

Wesley’s story, vision, and rock-solid advice will strengthen your existing program or help you create a strong framework upon which to build a new one. He will show you how to create a ministry of witness and support to accompany youth as they prepare for Confirmation and set a course for their future in the Church.

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • Rebuilding Confirmation is the sixth book in the Rebuilt Parish series. The first five books in the series have sold more than 150,000 copies.

“I trust Chris Wesley’s vision because he is in the trenches of ministry every day.

I encourage anyone, whether veteran or rookie, to pick up Rebuilding Confirmation and incorporate its wisdom into your own program. You will not be disappointed with what you find and your parish will greatly benefit!”

Katie Prejean McGrady

Freshman theology teacher and author of Room 24

978-1-59471-585-3 • 128 pages • $9.95 On-Sale Date: January 27, 2017 Foreign Rights: World • 5.5" x 8.5" • Paperback Category: Pastoral Ministry Resource Imprint: Ave Maria Press

CHRISTOPHER WESLEY is director of student ministry at the Church of the Nativity in Timonium, Maryland. He has a bachelor’s degree in communication arts, electronic media, from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. The author of Rebuilding Youth Ministry, Chris writes the blog Marathon Youth Ministry (christopherwesley.org) and is the host of the weekly Rebuilt podcast. He and his wife, Katherine, have two sons, and they live in Pikesville, Maryland.

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Rebuilding Youth Ministry ISBN: 978-1-59471-576-1, $9.95

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“Praying the Angelus is a necessary read for those seeking to develop an interior life based around the discipline of prayer. With the gift of a teacher, Dees treats the Angelus not simply as an ancient practice but as a school of prayer for the modern person.”

Timothy O’Malley, PhD Director, Notre Dame Center for Liturgy

March Praying the Angelus

Find Joy, Peace, and Purpose in Everyday Life JARED DEES The Angelus is a centuries-old Catholic devotion that recalls the annunciation of Christ’s birth by the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary. Popular author and speaker Jared Dees reinvigorates the devotion, shares intimately from his own experience of it, and shows us how to begin and enrich the practice with original meditations to reflect on the words of both the Angelus and the Regina Caeli.

Dees was twenty-seven and in his fourth year of teaching religion in a Catholic school when he first experienced the Angelus. He allows the devotion to anchor his prayer life and challenge him to daily conversion of heart and will.

Dees introduces the Angelus and explores its rich history and significance for the Church. He offers meditations on the words and images of both the Angelus and the Regina Caeli.

We find lessons about the power of repetitive prayer, the humility of being a disciple, the importance of admitting time belongs to God, the wisdom of taking time with discernment, and the joy of resting in the Lord’s presence. He shares personal stories of the life-change power of the Angelus and guides both newcomers and those already familiar with the prayer to contemplate the mysteries of salvation that lie at the heart of the devotion—the Annunciation, Incarnation, and Resurrection.

Named for the opening words of the devotion’s first prayer in Latin, “The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary,” the Angelus is typically prayed at 6 a.m., noon, and 6 p.m. each day.

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • Praying the Angelus is supported by Dees’s website, TheAngelusPrayer.com, which has attracted more than 95,000 visitors since its launch in 2013.

“Excellent, excellent work by Jared Dees. The best explanation of the Angelus I’ve seen yet, expanded with background, solid Catholic teachings, and personal anecdotes that bring this traditional Catholic devotion to life. This really is a keeper!”

Marge Fenelon Author of Our Lady, Undoer of Knots

JARED DEES is the creator of the popular website The Religion Teacher and the author of 31 Days to Becoming a Better Religious Educator, and To Heal, Proclaim, and Teach. He has volunteered at and worked in a variety of Catholic ministries, including Catholic schools, parish religious education, youth ministry, campus ministry, RCIA, and adult faith formation. Dees is the digital marketing manager at Ave Maria Press. He lives in South Bend, Indiana, with his family.

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31 Days to Becoming a Better Religious Educator ISBN: 978-1-59471-384-2, $9.95 978-1-59471-673-7 • 128 pages • $12.95 On-Sale Date: March 3, 2017 Foreign Rights: World • 5" x 7" • Paperback Category: Catholicism / Prayer Imprint: Ave Maria Press

To Heal, Proclaim, and Teach ISBN: 978-1-59471-619-5, $16.95

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April Lift Up Your Heart

A 10-Day Personal Retreat with St. Francis de Sales JOHN BURNS Lift Up Your Heart is an unique introduction to the writings of St. Francis de Sales, offering readers a personal, ten-day mini-retreat based on ten famous meditations from de Sales’s spiritual classic, Introduction to the Devout Life. Inspired by this essential guide to holiness and his own experiences with de Sales’s spiritual writings, popular young adult speaker Rev. John Burns gives you a basic road map for living a more intentional and dynamic faith.

For more than four hundred years, Introduction to the Devout Life by Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales has been regarded as the essential guide to holiness and loving God. This spiritual classic takes on new life in Lift Up Your Heart, where Rev. John Burns has interpreted ten meditations for the modern reader and distilled them into a ten-day mini-retreat that can easily be completed in the midst of a busy life.

978-1-59471-720-8 • 192 pages • $13.95 On-Sale Date: April 28, 2017 Foreign Rights: World • 5" x 7" • Paperback Category: Catholicism / Spirituality Imprint: Ave Maria Press

REV. JOHN BURNS is pastor of St. Mary’s Parish in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. He speaks extensively, provides spiritual direction to the Missionaries of Charity, and is an adjunct professor of moral theology at Sacred Heart School of Theology.

This practical book goes right to the heart of helping you kick the habit of floating along on your spiritual journey to start actively pursuing holiness and devotion to God. During the course of the retreat, you’ll learn the basics of forming a daily prayer routine, including how to offer yourself to God, meditate on his love, and maintain peace in the face of suffering and clarity in the midst of temptation.

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • The appendix contains the ten original meditations written

by St. Francis de Sales.

“This is an altogether beautiful book filled with wholesome and attractive spiritual wisdom.

It presents the spirituality of St. Francis de Sales in a lively, accessible style that is utterly sincere.”

John C. Cavadini

Professor of theology and director of the Institute for Church Life University of Notre Dame

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February Be Transformed

The Healing Power of the Sacraments BOB SCHUCHTS Whether it is the wound of past hurts, the strain in our relationships, or the stress of daily life, we all need to be comforted and made whole by Christ. In this follow-up to his bestselling Be Healed, Bob Schuchts explains how the sacraments can fuel your emotional and spiritual healing and bring you closer to God. Based on more than thirty-five years of experience as a therapist and decades spent leading retreats, Bob Schuchts shows how the seven sacraments can transform your perspectives and well-being in ways you’ve never imagined.

You’ll discover that each sacrament can help you heal from wounds that can impede your relationships and sense of selfworth. With Schuchts’s gentle help, you’ll learn how: • Baptism can heal feelings of rejection.

• Confirmation gives courage in the face of powerlessness.

• Holy Eucharist reminds you that you are never abandoned.

• Reconciliation releases you from the clutches of shame.

• Holy Orders restores faith in God’s providence.

• Marriage can heal wounds of mistrust.

• Anointing of the Sick cures hopelessness.

Be Transformed offers all of the tools you need to understand, undergo, and implement a fresh understanding of the sacraments, including reflection questions, scripture meditations, prayers, and inspiring stories. You’ll come away hungry for the sacraments in a way you never knew possible.

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • Bob Schuchts’s first book, Be Healed, has sold more than 12,000 copies since its release in February 2014.

“What a beautifully simple and transforming book! With each sacrament, Bob Schuchts marvelously reveals the often-unseen healing grace contained within the sacraments.”

Dave Pivonka, T.O.R. Author of Breath of God

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BOB SCHUCHTS is the bestselling author of Be Healed and founder of the John Paul II Healing Center in Tallahassee, Florida. In December 2014 he retired as a marriage and family therapist after thirty-five years of practice. Schuchts and his wife, Margie, have two daughters and eight grandchildren.

They live in Tallahasee, Florida.

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“Insightful, practical, and balanced. Greg Popcak gets at the heart of what men think and feel, busting the myths and charting a path to authentic Catholic fatherhood. Highly recommended for any man seeking to be a better dad and to lead his family closer to God.�

Marc Cardaronella Author of Keep Your Kids Catholic

March BeDADitudes

8 Ways to Be an Awesome Dad GREGORY K. POPCAK Internationally known marriage and family expert Greg Popcak draws on more than twenty years as a counselor as well as his own experience as a father to show how the Beatitudes can be viewed as a practical guide to understanding the love of God and applying that love to being a better father.

In the first book to uniquely focus on the Beatitudes and fatherhood, Popcak helps you stop focusing on yourself and instead focus on God, learning how to be the father God wants you to be by becoming a servant leader in your home.

As a father of three children, Popcak realized that Jesus’ call to be humble in the first Beatitude—Blessed are the poor in spirit—stands in direct opposition to what modern men learn growing up. Instead, they are taught they should live a life of unbroken success, defined by promotions at work and beautiful wives and honor students at home.

Popcak shows that when you practice meekness, you will connect with your family by asking questions and listening closely to their responses. By practicing mercy, you come to know your own sins, the difficulties that lie on the path to sainthood, and how your family needs to hear about God’s grace in their lives.

In BeDADitudes, you discover the profound love of God found in the Beatitudes and understand how that love can transform you into being an awesome dad.

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • The Popcaks are nationally syndicated radio hosts and have coauthored more than a dozen books on marriage and family life. The two founded and direct the Pastoral Solutions Institute as well as the Catholic Attachment Parenting Corner.

“In BeDADitudes, Greg Popcak issues a compassionate and convicted call to return to the fatherhood found in the heart of God. With humor, insight, and an accessible style, he answers common misconceptions and challenges men to embrace the greatness of being a vocational dad.

I highly recommend this book.”

Sam Guzman

Founder of The Catholic Gentleman

GREGORY K. POPCAK is a psychotherapist, the executive director of Pastoral Solutions Institute, and the author or coauthor of more than twenty popular books and programs integrating Catholic theology and counseling, including Just Married and Then Comes Baby.

He and his wife, Lisa, have three children and live in Steubenville, Ohio.

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April The Way of Catechesis

Exploring Our History, Renewing Our Ministry GERARD F. BAUMBACH Drawing on more than forty years of experience as a catechist, parish DRE, textbook publisher, and founding director of the Echo Program at the University of Notre Dame, Gerard F. Baumbach explores contemporary catechesis in light of its history. This landmark book is an essential resource for every catechetical leader and will spur a new appreciation of the opportunities and challenges of catechesis in the Church today.

978-1-59471-714-7 • 352 pages • $24.95 On-Sale Date: April 28, 2017 Foreign Rights: World • 6" x 9" • Paperback Category: Catholicism / Religious Education Imprint: Ave Maria Press

GERARD BAUMBACH is professor emeritus in the Institute of Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and director emeritus of the Institute’s Echo Program. He joined the faculty in 2003 after a distinguished career in publishing, writing, and parish catechetical leadership. He was the founding director of Echo.

The Way of Catechesis offers a new and timely perspective on the vital ministry of catechesis at a pivotal moment in the work of New Evangelization. Gerard F. Baumbach shows how today’s catechists can follow the pedagogy of Jesus and he invites readers to an understanding that includes both the process and the content of handing on the faith and also a way of living in union with Christ the Teacher.

Baumbach invites readers to consider how key issues and questions throughout the Church’s history shed light on today’s questions and concerns. Numerous reflection questions help the reader prayerfully reflect upon and personally integrate the lessons.

He emphasizes four characteristics of the catechetical process in each historical era—belonging, believing, discerning, and living—to highlight the distinctive characteristics of each period and their relevance to catechesis today.

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • As the director of Notre Dame’s Echo Program from 2003 to 2013, Baumbach established a network of diocesan leaders and religious educators who are a ready audience for this book.

“Jerry Baumbach has been fighting the good fight of authentic catechetical renewal for decades.

What a blessing to have his perspective on our disciple-making ministry!”

Ken Ogorek

Director of Catechesis, Archdiocese of Indianapolis

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April 5 Minutes with the Psalms and the Wisdom Books Spiritual Nourishment for Busy Teachers EDITED BY LOU DELFRA C.S.C., AND ANN PRIMUS BERENDS

Continuing the tradition of 5 Minutes with Christ and 5 Minutes with the Saints, this uplifting book of meditations by members of the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) at the University of Notre Dame draws on inspiration from the Psalms, Proverbs, and the books of Wisdom in the Bible.

These timeless insights of scripture can provide inspiration and encouragement for all of those on the front lines of Catholic education.

Written by teachers for teachers, this book is also a valuable resource for pastors, principals, administrators, and school board members as they seek to motivate others and to reflect on their own role in education. More than seventy meditations will help you get back in touch with Jesus, the source of all wisdom who gives meaning and coherence to your life as a teacher.

With contributions from teachers who work in a variety of subject areas at all levels of elementary and high school, the book will be a welcome reminder of the dignity of the teaching vocation and a gentle source of encouragement for educators struggling to meet the needs of their students each day.

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • A sought-after resource for the more than two thousand ACE-trained teachers who work with the two million students in Catholic schools across the country.

“In their service to the Gospel as educators, Catholic teachers are on the front lines of the New Evangelization.

These reflections by Catholic teachers offer daily help to those who share in this important mission to keep their focus on Jesus Christ, Word and Wisdom made Flesh, and so embody his truth and love to those they serve.”

978-1-59471-709-3 • 192 pages • $12.95 On-Sale Date: April 7, 2017 Foreign Rights: World • 5" x 7" • Paperback Category: Catholicism / Religious Education Imprint: Ave Maria Press

REV. LOUIS A. DELFRA, C.S.C., serves as a faculty member and director of pastoral life at the University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education.

ANN PRIMUS BERENDS is associate director of the Education, Schooling, and Society program at the University of Notre Dame and also works as its director of undergraduate studies.

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5 Minutes with Christ

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5 Minutes with the Saints ISBN: 978-1-59471-448-1, $12.95

Most Rev. Kevin C. Rhoades Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend

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March God Moments

Unexpected Encounters in the Ordinary ANDY OTTO In God Moments, Catholic blogger Andy Otto shows you how to discover the unexpected beauty of God’s presence in the story of ordinary things and in everyday routines like preparing breakfast or walking in the woods. Drawing on the Ignatian principles of awareness, prayer, and discernment, Otto will help you discover the transforming power of God’s presence in your life and better understand your place in the world.

978-1-59471-647-8 • 160 pages • $14.95 On-Sale Date: March 17, 2017 Foreign Rights: World • 5.5" x 8.5" • Paperback Category: Catholicism / Spirituality Imprint: Ave Maria Press

ANDY OTTO is a Catholic writer, speaker, blogger, spiritual director, and podcaster who teaches theology and is the campus minister at Mercy High School in Red Bluff, California.

He writes for Busted Halo, Ignatian Spirituality, and his own blog, God in All Things.

Otto found God’s presence in surprising moments during his life—when, as a Jesuit novice, he taught children in Jamaica and also as he discerned the call to marriage with his wife. By combining elements of Ignatian spirituality with the lessons that came from his experiences, Otto identified three practices that helped him find God in all things: • Awareness—Gain an understanding that God is present in the ordinary messiness of our lives, such as battle with depression or sharing in the struggle of a friend.

• Prayer—Develop a prayer life using Ignatian practices such as asking for a morning grace and examining how your prayer was answered at the end of the day.

• Discernment—The more you are aware of God’s presence and draw closer to him in prayer, the better you can learn how to plug into God’s narrative of the world in a way that enables you to participate in the divine story through the use of your gifts and talents.

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • This book will appeal to those who are interested in the Ignatian practice of “seeing God in all things.”

“In an earnest and accessible way, Otto gives us a trademark, joy-filled take on Ignatian spirituality. God Moments is equally compelling and nourishing to any reader seeking a closer relationship with God.” Matt Weber

CatholicTV host and author of Operating on Faith

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February Couriers of Grace

My Daughter, the Sacraments, and a Surprising Walk of Faith NANCY JO SULLIVAN Testifying to the life-changing and joy-giving power of the sacraments, Catholic author Nancy Jo Sullivan shares how moments in her life and that of her late daughter Sarah—who had Down syndrome—unexpectedly triggered a renewed faith and deeper relationship with God and others.

With startling and courageous clarity, Sullivan recalls the journey that led her to renew the faith of her childhood that had gone dormant until she experienced it through the eyes of Sarah, her child with Down syndrome. Her story challenges us to see the sacraments anew, deepening our own faith and reminding us of the beauty in each sacrament.

Small events in Sarah’s life—in which her daughter’s vision and voice helped those around her to realize the preciousness of their life and faith—trigger Sullivan’s reflections on moments in her own life and on the sacraments. Childhood memories of almost drowning surface at Sarah’s baptism, as Sullivan feels the same powerlessness at the thought of raising her disabled daughter that she felt when she thrashed desperately in the water. Through the words of the priest as he pours the baptismal waters on Sarah, Sullivan realized how Baptism draws us from the overwhelming waters in our life to the light of life with God. Our journey with Sullivan continues through the sacraments until the end of Sarah’s life, when memories of Sullivan’s father’s fatal heart attack collide with her internal debate of whether it is time for Sarah to receive the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. Sullivan realizes that this sacrament, so often associated with death, is really meant to give us life and hope.

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • Nancy Jo Sullivan speaks at national conferences and facilitates retreats as well as grief groups. Recent engagements include the WINE Conference 2015.

“Anyone who knows and loves a person with special needs will relate to the stories and reflections shared so skillfully by Nancy Jo Sullivan in this book.”

978-1-59471-679-9 • 128 pages • $13.95 On-Sale Date: February 10, 2017 Foreign Rights: World • 5.5" x 8.5" • Paperback Category: Catholicism / Women’s Spirituality Imprint: Ave Maria Press

NANCY JO SULLIVAN is a Catholic author, speaker, and retreat leader who has spent more than twenty-five years as a faith formation director and coordinator at a number of parishes in Minnesota. Sullivan has published articles in a variety of publications including Catholic Digest, Guideposts, Reader’s Digest, and Huffington Post.

She lives in Richfield, Minnesota.

David and Mercedes Rizzo

Authors of Spiritually Able and The Adaptive First Eucharist Preparation Kit

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April On My Way Home

A Hospice Nurse’s Journey with Terminal Cancer JOYCE HUTCHISON Foreword by Joyce Rupp Joyce Hutchison, a pioneer in the hospice movement who twice chronicled her work as an oncology nurse in the popular books May I Walk You Home? and Now That You Have Gone Home, reveals her own journey with lung cancer as her death approaches. Hutchison shares the heartbreak and pain she experienced, and her continued sense of God walking with her during these challenging times.

978-1-59471-729-1 • 128 pages • $13.95 On-Sale Date: April 7, 2017 Foreign Rights: World • 5" x 7" • Paperback Category: Christian Living / Death and Dying Imprint: Ave Maria Press

JOYCE HUTCHINSON (1940–2016) was Iowa’s first hospice nurse and an expert on care of the dying. She is the coauthor, with Joyce Rupp, of two bestselling books: May I Walk You Home? and Now That You’ve Gone Home.

JOYCE RUPP is a bestselling and award-winning Catholic author, international retreat leader, and conference speaker.

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May I Walk You Home?

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When Hutchison received the diagnosis of stage-four lung cancer, she couldn’t believe it. As she shared the painful news with her children, endured the hardships of chemotherapy, and coped with weakness and exhaustion, she came to the realization that she wanted to share this journey with others.

Hutchison gives an account of the physical, emotional, and mental challenges of each step: when chemo made her dreadfully sick, when her emotions fluctuated wildly in a matter of minutes, how she felt when people told her she looked so good. She shares how her sense of humor helped her cope with the weariness of yet another procedure and the isolation that accompanies cancer.

Despite her suffering, Hutchison held fast to faith. Supported by her family and friends, she tells how she experienced God’s love in a new way. A foreword and afterword by Joyce Rupp, Hutchison’s writing partner on her two previous books, provide context for the book and relate the circumstances of Hutchison’s death on May 7, 2016, and the Mass of the Resurrection that followed.

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • Joyce Hutchison’s two previous books have combined sales of more than 67,000 copies.

“Knowing others might benefit from reading her book gave Joyce significant pleasure. She felt this was one last service she could give others.”

From the afterword by Joyce Rupp Catholic writer, speaker, and retreat leader

March The Wisdom of the Body

A Contemplative Journey to Wholeness for Women CHRISTINE VALTERS PAINTNER The distorted view of the perfect female body created by popular culture, television, movies, and the media often causes women to become uncomfortable with their own bodies. Christine Valters Paintner, popular author of nine books and abbess of the online retreat center Abbey of the Arts, draws from Celtic, desert, and Benedictine traditions to help women connect with their bodies through writing, visual art, and movement.

In The Wisdom of the Body, Christine Valters Paintner focuses on the true meaning of the Incarnation—God became flesh— and points to the spiritual importance of appreciating the bodies God gave us.

Each of the book’s ten chapters is a mini-workshop designed to lead us to new ways of being in relationship with our bodies.

Starting with the senses and shifting toward emotions and desires, Paintner explores their role as thresholds to discovering the body’s wisdom. She draws from Christian tradition to offer principles and practices such as stability, hospitality, and gratitude to lead us on a journey that ends with a sense of deep peace and self-acceptance.

Through expressive arts and creative movement, Paintner demonstrates a new a language and way of integrating and sharing our discoveries. By exploring the lives of women in the Bible and in the Christian tradition—including Eve, Mary, Hildegaard of Bingen, and Amma Syncletica—she introduces us to companions that accompany us on our journey.

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • Paintner’s five previous books with Sorin have combined sales of more than 35,000 copies.

“Inspiring and possibly life-changing for those who struggle with body issues, but also meaningful for those comfortable within their body.”

Heidi Schlumpf

978-1-933495-82-8 • 224 pages • $16.95 On-Sale Date: March 3, 2017 Foreign Rights: World • 6" x 9" • Paperback Category: Christian Living / Women’s Spirituality Imprint: Sorin Books

CHRISTINE VALTERS PAINTNER is the author of nine books on monasticism and creativity, including The Eyes of the Heart; Water, Wind, Earth, and Fire; The Artist’s Rule; The Soul of a Pilgrim; and Illuminating the Way. She is a columnist for the progressive Christian portal at Patheos. She is living out her commitment as a Benedictine Oblate in Galway, Ireland, with her husband, John.

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November Daily Devotions for Lent 2017 TOM FOX

Popular Catholic columnist, blogger, and podcaster Deacon Tom Fox guides you along the path to renewal with simple, yet spiritually challenging devotions for every day of Lent, the Triduum, and Easter Sunday. These daily gospelbased devotions will thoughtfully lead you from the solemnness of Ash Wednesday and the passionate sorrow of the Cross to the exuberant joy of the Resurrection.

In Daily Devotions for Lent 2017, Fox shares the wisdom he’s gained from more than a decade of preaching and teaching in Catholic parishes and through his ministries at Catholic Vitamins and Rim Catholic Radio. He calls you to spiritual renewal and conversion of heart and mind during this season of repentance as you prepare for Easter. Each two-page devotion offers a simple, five-step blueprint with brief Bible verses, prayers, Fox’s theological reflection on the gospel for the day, and a practical exercise for ongoing spiritual growth.

The Living Gospel devotionals for Lent and Advent offer spiritual insight and practical wisdom from popular Catholic preachers, speakers, and homilists. A new voice each season and a simple, five-step format invite Catholics to hear and embrace the living Word of God.

FEATURES & BENEFITS: 978-1-59471-705-5 • 96 pages • $1.95 Available Now Foreign Rights: World • 4.25" x 6.75" • Paperback Category: Lent Imprint: Ave Maria Press

DEACON TOM FOX serves in parish ministry in the Tucson Diocese in Payson, Arizona. Fox writes columns and records audio reflections for websites such as CatholicMom.com and Catholic Moments. He also has been a periodic columnist for Catholic Family. In 2009, Fox and his wife, Dee, started the Catholic Vitamins website and podcast. In 2015, he and three colleagues began KPIH 98.9 Rim Catholic Radio in their north central Arizona community.

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• Their compact size and affordable price make these books attractive for bulk purchase in parishes and other Catholic organizations.

November Sacred Reading for Lent 2017 APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER DOUGLAS LEONARD

This powerful Lenten prayer book from the Apostleship of Prayer (The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network) engages and inspires readers with the Church’s daily scripture readings from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, introducing Catholics and other Christians to the traditional spiritual devotion known as lectio divina, or “sacred reading,” in a new way.

Lent is a season of solemn repentance that leads to the most important celebration of the Catholic Church year, the Resurrection of Christ on Easter Sunday. The Apostleship of Prayer leads you through the season in an accessible, six-step process that will help create moments of serenity during your busy day so you can listen to God’s Word, prayerfully respond, and easily explore ways the gospel reading can be applied to your daily life.

Sacred Reading for Lent 2017 is inspired by Ignatian spirituality and guides you through the Church’s daily gospel readings as well as readings for solemnities and feast days, asking you to

• know that God is present • read the gospel • notice what you think and feel • pray for yourself and others • listen to Jesus • ask God to show you how to live today

The Sacred Reading series is a catalyst for an intimate encounter with Christ through reading, reflecting, praying, and responding to the Word of God in a way that is both familiar and fresh. It is a perfect, affordable resource for parish distribution.

FEATURES & BENEFITS: • Ideal for parish-wide distribution during Lent.

• The Apostleship of Prayer (The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network) was established in 1844 and has more than 35 million members worldwide.

978-1-59471-699-7 • 128 pages • $1.75 Available Now Foreign Rights: World • 4.25" x 6.75" • Paperback Category: Lent Imprint: Ave Maria Press

THE APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER (The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network) is an international Jesuit prayer ministry that reaches more than 35 million members worldwide through its popular website, ApostleshipofPrayer.org, and through talks, conferences, publications, and retreats. The Apostleship’s mission is to encourage Christians to make a daily offering of themselves to the Lord in union with the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

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