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In
December of last year, in response to the large number of requests we
receive for resources related to the Liturgy of the Hours, we
introduced a new book - Evening Prayerbook - Sunday Vespers.
This
book quickly became popular after we featured it in one of our
newsletters, and now we are pleased to bring you the second book of
this inspiring series: Night
Prayerbook - Compline.
The books are as beautiful as they are useful, reminding us of
illuminated manuscripts with their detailed artwork, which is
color-coordinated to the liturgical year. Never has there been such an
easy and pleasing way to unite your voice in prayer with that of our Holy
Mother Church.
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Evening
Prayerbook - Sunday Vespers, Liturgy of the Hours
Here is one of the easiest ways to begin praying with the Church. This
beautiful book helps you rediscover the Church's prayer every Sunday
Evening, allows you to return each week to celebrate Sunday’s mystery
with the depth of the best Bible prayers, and to re-live the mysteries of
Christ's life as presented by the liturgy throughout the year’s seasons.
Evening Prayerbook - Sunday Vespers is dedicated to Sunday
vespers (one of the two most important Hours of the Divine Office - also
known as the Liturgy of the Hours). In our Church today, when the Hours are prayed by
clergy and lay persons alike, even in private, we are united in this
beautiful prayer, and participating with fellow Catholics all around the
world, praying the official prayers at the same time.
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here view a sample page.
Features include:
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Each Sunday’s prayers laid out on one attractive page
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Simplified Liturgical Calendar helps you locate any Sunday quickly
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Cross Reference guide to the Book of Christian Prayer.
- Prayer pages
are beautifully typeset, with page borders in colorful designs that remind
us of ancient manuscripts.
Book dimensions: 8.5" x 11" - Laminated softcover.
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Night
Prayerbook - Compline,
Liturgy of the Hours
The Church has been encouraging us for decades to restore the Liturgy of
the Hours to the place it once held in our personal prayer life. The
challenge for the laity has been to overcome the difficulties of learning
how to use the breviary.
Night Prayerbook, and it’s earlier companion
volume Evening
Prayerbook - Sunday Vespers, Liturgy of the Hours, were created with this challenge in mind. Both books make it easy for
the beginner, to pray the official prayer of the Church – without the
distraction of searching around for the right prayer, hymn, or antiphon.
Night Prayerbook contains Compline or “night prayer” for every night
of the year and is designed with the same easy to use format as found in
the Evening
Prayerbook.
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here view a sample page.
Features include:
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Complete Evening or Night Prayer on a two-page spread (eliminates
the need to flip around looking for the right prayers)
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Margin-notes with rubrics (instructions) for how to pray
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A tutorial page, which carefully explains each prayer and rubric, and
how to alternate responses for group settings
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An easy to use liturgical
calendar
Book dimensions: 8.5" x 11" - Laminated softcover.
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Book dimensions: 4" x 7"
Hardcover.
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Christian
Prayer: The Liturgy of the Hours
This one volume
edition contains: complete morning, daytime, evening, and night prayer,
office of the dead, 4-week Psalter for office of readings, and selections
of biblical and non-biblical readings.
The "Divine Office" is the former name for the official daily
liturgical prayer by which the Church sanctifies the hours of the day. The
“Office” is the full cycle of canonical “Hours”, the official
daily public prayer of the Church. The term was borrowed from the custom
of the Jews, and passed into the speech of the early Christians. In the
Acts of the Apostles there is reference to prayer being designated by the
hour at which it was said. In our Church today, when the Hours are prayed
by clergy and lay persons alike, even in private, we are united in this
beautiful prayer, and participating with fellow Catholics all around the
world, praying the official prayers at the same time.
The Second Vatican Council, valuing highly this long-standing custom of
the Church and wishing to renew it, provided a new form for the prayer,
revised so that it could more fittingly be used by all members of the
Church in the circumstances of modern life. With Vatican II came the
renamed Office – The Liturgy of the Hours.
The Hours consist of:
- Morning Prayer (Lauds) and Evening Prayer (Vespers) – the “hinge
Hours” upon which the whole cycle of daily prayer depends.
- Midday Prayer – More brief than Morning and Evening Prayer, texts are
provided for Midmorning, (Terce), Midday (Sext) and Midafternoon (None)
Prayer.
- Night Prayer (Compline): to be said before retiring.
- Office of Readings – Three psalms or sections of psalms followed by a
scriptural reading and a patristic reading. In contemplative communities
this is to retain its “nocturnal character,” evoking the ancient
Christian discipline of “keeping vigil” for the Lord’s return.
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Measures 22" x
14" - Large enough to be seen by the
entire family or
the entire class! Softcover.
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example pages.
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Get
ready for the Month of the Rosary! |
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is the Month of the Rosary! Are you looking for a way to renew
your family's prayer life? Do you have
trouble keeping your children engaged in prayer? Is your
class struggling to remember the words to the Rosary?
This
book is perfect for you!
Rosary
Book - Joyful Mysteries
Follow the story of
Christ's Incarnation, birth and childhood with over 50
exquisite images and 50 Scripture passages illuminating the
Joyful mysteries. A great family gift! The book also includes a quick tutorial
and the Holy Father's Apostolic letter on the Rosary! This
volume is the first in an upcoming series that, when completed, will
include all of the mysteries of the Rosary.
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How
important children are in the eyes of Jesus!
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Pope John Paul II, 1994 Christmas Message to the Children |
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A
Child's Missal
This book presents an unusual approach to bringing children and parents alike into the
mysteries of the Mass. A harmonious mix of artwork, photos, Scripture,
and text, presents the story of how Christ’s life and the Mass are one.
Going beyond the obvious connections of the Mass with the Last Supper
and the Crucifixion, it shows how the rich symbolism of the Mass touches
upon the rest of Christ’s life. Soon enough we realize how far reaching
were Christ’s words when he said of the Mass, “Do this in memory of
me”.
Lofty though the ideas are, the story is told quite simply. The
beautiful artwork is inspired by the best of Catholic icon tradition but
re-created in a child-friendly style. The photographs from the Mass blend
seamlessly with this art to create an integrated expression of what is
being remembered in the Mass with what is being done.
Throughout the book, a guardian angel appears who guides a boy (called
“Adam”) and teaches him about the Mass. The text that accompanies the
angel is filled with explanations and good advice addressed to each child reading or being read to.
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here to see example pages.
This durable, hardbound Missal also makes a worthy catechism.
It is highly visual, richly theological, and poetically beautiful. It will
open the eyes of any child of God to the mysterious and wondrous reality
of Christ’s life in the Mass.
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Book
Dimensions: 7" x 9" Hardcover.
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