"The most amazing combination of experience, common sense, and down-to-earth sanctity that has yet been printed." —Sister Mary de Lourdes, St. Joseph's College
First published fifty years ago, How to Raise Good Catholic Children is a rare treat for today’s parents: a wise and readable book on child care that derives its wisdom from the Catholic home rather than from psychologists.
Author Mary Reed Newland here draws on her own experiences as the mother of seven to show how the classic Christian principles of sanctity can be translated into terms easily applied to children — even to the very young.
Because it’s rooted in experience, not in theory, nothing that Mrs. Newland suggests is impossible or extraordinary. In fact, as you reflect on your experiences with your own children, you’ll quickly agree that hers is an excellent commonsense approach to raising good Catholic children.
Let Mrs. Newland show you how to introduce even your littlest ones to God and develop in your growing children virtues such as:
224 pages paperback Sophia Institute Press, Fall 2004.
Our times cry out for saints! But how can we grow holy? In these pages, the wise Jesuit priest Raoul Plus teaches us two ways to do so.
First, he explains how we must come to see ourselves as nothing, so we can practice a life of generosity — a life in which all we have and all we do is for God . . . without reservation.
Then he shows how, through recollection and complete devotion to prayer, we can achieve intimate union with God, even in the midst of troubles and distractions.
Does it take strong souls to attain such holy ends?
Certainly. But if you were not strong — and called by God already — you never would have begun reading these lines about a book that promises to teach you how to make “progress in divine union.” Clearly, union with God is something you desire. For souls like you these pages were written. 144 pages paperback Sophia Institute Press, Fall 2004.
Surveys indicate that as many as 50 percent of the population have felt the presence of a loved one who has died. Catholics, especially, have a strong belief in the communion of saints, and this collection of gentle stories will be a comforting reminder that at death, life is not ended but merely changed.
