Catherine Gandeaktena died in 1673, held in such high regard that her priests believed she would immediately attain the bliss of heaven. Her wonderful story is scattered in the accounts of the Canadian Jesuits as well as the biographies of St. Kateri Tekakwitha. For the first time ever, they have been assembled here into a short readable biography of her life, with particular attention to the virtues that marked her passage from her childhood in the Erie and Oneida villages to her marriage, Baptism, and holy death.

Take All Hallows Eve back for Holy Mother Church with this fantastic collection that includes Mass and Breviary texts for All Hallows Eve, powerful prayers against evil spirits and the occult, and devotions for souling, for the benefit of the Church suffering in Purgatory.

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Spend your Lent profitably with this handy collection of prayers that you can carry in your pocket wherever you go. These excellent devotions from traditional sources will keep your focus on Christ crucified and help stir up a lively repentance and contrition for your sins.

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A collection of traditional prayers and devotions to Saints Augustine and Monica, including commemorations, triduums, a litany, a chaplet, and other prayers. Also includes the traditional morning and evening prayers of the Augustinian Order.

Includes prayers and devotions to the saints of Roman Africa, such as St. Cyprian of Carthage, Perpetua and Felicity, Cyril of Alexandria, and the three African Popes. Also includes a Litany to the African Saints based on one composed at Carthage by Cardinal Lavigerie.

Featuring litanies, novenas, and prayers to and by the American Saints, this collection includes Elizabeth Ann Seton, John Neumann, Katherine Drexel, Kateri Tekakwitha, the North American Martyrs, Francis Xavier Cabrini and more.

Catherine Gandeaktena died in 1673, held in such high regard that her priests believed she would immediately attain the bliss of heaven. Her wonderful story is scattered in the accounts of the Canadian Jesuits as well as the biographies of St. Kateri Tekakwitha. For the first time ever, they have been assembled here into a short readable biography of her life, with particular attention to the virtues that marked her passage from her childhood in the Erie and Oneida villages to her marriage, Baptism, and holy death.

Journey with St. Katharine Drexel, the beloved Philadelphia heiress-turned-saint, as she recounts in her own words a 1922 trip through the Southwest and her visitation of the Navajo mission that she helped finance. Mother's first-hand perspective shines throughout, from her leaving the Motherhouse of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament at Cornwells Heights, Pennsylvania, to all the other sights she observed on her trip: a view of the pueblos from the railroad car, the baptism of a dying Indian child, her tour of the school, and her encounter with medicine-man Hastin Yazhi. Features five photos taken on the journey and two contemporary maps.

A historically important contribution to black Catholic hagiography, Sister Mary Petra OSP's life of St. Benedict the Moor provides a great introduction to this beloved saint and is a historically important contribution to black Catholic hagiography. The son of slaves, Benedict endured prejudice from his peers, dissolution of his hermitage, and the menial work he assumed among the Franciscans, Benedict was eventually celebrated as the patron saint of Palermo and the Africans of the diaspora.

This novena to the Canadian Martyrs dedicates a day to each of the eight martyrs plus one to Our Lady of Martyrs, and features a historical account of each martyr, followed by a reflection and then a Collect and a prayer of petition.

This set of prayers honors the North American martyrs who died at the Mohawk village of Ossernenon near Auriesville, NY. It makes an excellent devotion for the three-day Pilgrimage to Restoration, with a historical accounts followed by reflections, a brief litany, and prayers honoring the martyrs and St. Kateri Tekakwitha.

This novena dedicated to the eight North American Martyrs and St. Kateri Tekakwitha was written by Fr. Anthony G. Schirmann, SJ, consisting of a historical account of each martyr, followed by a reflection, a brief litany, and other prayers.

This booklet compiles a number of traditional devotions to the eight North American Martyrs, including Mass propers, texts from the Divine Office, a litany, novenas, and other prayers to Sts. John de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues, and their companions.

An easy way to integrate the traditional Divine Office into your morning prayers! This simplified office of Prime in English was specifically recommended for morning prayer by the American bishops in the 1880s.

Keeping this booklet on your nightstand makes it easy to integrate the Divine Office into your bedtime prayers. This full Office of Compline in English was produced expressly for the use of the laity by the same American bishops who authorized the Baltimore Catechism.

The handy pocket guide to Sunday Vespers. Features the full text of the Sunday office in both Latin and English. Includes the standard Sunday Psalms 109 through 113 as well as the other Psalms sung in special seasons and on feast days.

This office is among the Church's most solemn commemorations of a departed soul. It was most often recited on All Souls' Day and on the anniversary of a loved one's death, and it was an important component of the medieval Book of Hours. This traditional English version of the Office, including Matins and Lauds, was prepared for the laity by American bishops in the 1880s.

Follow the liturgical year with this catalog of African sanctity highlighting over 300 saints in the Martyrology who lived or suffered in Roman Africa: including Saints Augustine, Cyprian, Perpetua and Felicity, and the martyrs of Carthage. Also includes the saints long honored in the African diaspora.

We've scoured old prayer books to put together this unique collection of commemorations, litanies, novenas, and other devotions traditional to the African diaspora in America. Includes prayers to Our Lady and St. Joseph as well as Saints Benedict the Moor, Peter Claver, Martin de Porres, and more.

A fantastic collection of traditional prayers for the nation, including Archbishop Carroll's Prayer for the Church and Civil Authorities as well as litanies and devotions to Our Lady, the North American Martyrs, and the Guardian Angel of the United States.

Continue the celebration of All Hallows Eve all through Hallowtide! This collection brings together devotions for All Saints' Day and its octave from traditional Catholic sources. Includes ancient favorites like the Mass prayers from the feast, hymns from Vespers, and the Litany of the Saints, as well as new devotions in a traditional style, like the Little Hours of all Saints and the Litany of Our Lady, Queen of the Saints. Invoke the protection of all heaven with these powerful prayers.

The Life of Ascanius, son of Aeneas and founder of Alba Longa.

This set features special Carnival editions of three of our seasonal volumes in the colors of the liturgy and the New Orleans Mardi Gras parade: Epiphany gold, Post-Epiphany green, and Septuagesima purple.

Exclusive! These distinctive initial capitals were sold by the Cincinnati Type Foundry in the 1880s, and they saw use in Catholic books for decades, including the Manual of Prayers of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore and the prayer books and missals of Rev. Francis Xavier Lasance (1860-1946).

Featuring centuries-old Mass settings in the Mohawk language, as sung in the Indian mission of Lake of Two Mountains, Quebec (Kanesatake/Oka). This spiral-bound choir edition includes half-dozen Mass Propers for various seasons in the liturgical year, six settings of the Mass ordinaries, and the Requiem Mass.

Drawing from the rich Byzantine tradition, Lynne Wardach has compiled decades of teaching, crafting, cooking, and teaching catechism into a book to help Catholic families make the Lenten climb toward heaven.

Drawing from the rich Byzantine tradition, Lynne Wardach has compiled decades of teaching, crafting, cooking, and teaching catechism into a book to help Catholic families prepare for the Advent of Christ.

These 11 booklets will give you everything you need to live the liturgical year from Advent to the end of the Post-Pentecost season. Buy them as a set and save over 15% off the price of the individual volumes.

Our entire collection of devotional booklets: 44 in all. Save almost 25% off the price of purchasing them individually.

Render thanks to Almighty God for the old year and prepare yourself for the new year with this collection of devotions, featuring acts of Thanksgiving, meditations, supplication and resolutions, and propers and devotions for the feast of the Circumcision.

A collection of wonderful prayers for Epiphany and its octave, including selections from the Divine Office, the Mysteries of the Sacred Infancy, a litany, novenas, and many prayers, as well as home devotions such as the chalking of the lintels and prayers for a Three Kings party.

This volume covers the Post-Epiphany period and focuses on the life and ministry of Christ as well as the Adoration of God. Includes commemorations from the Divine Office as well as other prayers, litanies, and Psalm 96.

St. Alphonsus Liguori wrote this wonderful devotion for the Epiphany octave, with meditations and prayers for each day, dedicated to themes and events in the early life of Our Lord.

Recover the ancient tradition of the pre-Lenten season with special devotions including the burial of the Alleluia, prayers for Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima, and devotions for Shrovetide and Mardi Gras.

Spend your Lent profitably with this handy collection of prayers that you can carry in your pocket wherever you go. These excellent devotions from traditional sources will keep your focus on Christ crucified and help stir up a lively repentance and contrition for your sins.

A timeless classic! One of the most beloved devotions for Lent is the Stations of the Cross, and few versions are as popular as the one composed by St. Alphonsus Liguori. This edition includes 14 engravings you can meditate along with the images of each Station even if you are standing still in a pew, at home, or traveling. Also includes the verses of the Stabat Mater that are often sung between each station.

This traditional devotion, specially suited for Lent, goes back centuries and was not only recited by religious but also commonly prayed by the laity from Books of Hours. It consists of seven Psalms of a penitential character--6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, and 142--followed by the Litany of the Saints, Psalm 69, and a series of final prayers.

As your Lenten observances intensify, you will appreciate this collection of devotions that will keep your focus on Christ crucified. Carry it in your purse or pocket wherever you go! We've brought together numerous beautiful prayers from traditional sources that will take you through the final two weeks of Lent and Holy Week.

A great addition to your Lenten practices, this book contains devotions especially for the night of Holy Thursday and throughout Good Friday, from the Agony in the Garden to the death and interment of Christ. A great booklet to take with you to your Good Friday meditations in church, and equally useful for home devotional use to concentrate your focus on the Passion from 12:00 to 3:00 PM.

How can you sustain your good Lenten practices throughout the year? It's easy with these devotions for Eastertide! We've assembled some of the best Easter litanies, novenas, family and other prayers in this unique collection.

This quite rare devotion, perhaps originating with the English Oratorians in the 1850s, leads the pious soul through 15 mysteries of the risen and glorified Christ, from the moment of His triumph over death to His sacred humanity being the crown, summit, and perfection of all creation. Drawing from the classic English Five Wounds tradition, this is a perfect Eastertide complement and completion to the Lenten Stations of the Cross.

These wonderful traditional devotions for Ascensiontide will help you crown your Easter devotions and prepare for the great feast of Pentecost. Few prayer books focus very much on the Ascension, but now we've made it easy to get into the spirit of the season. Pray morning, noon, and night, and throughout the traditional octave.

This devotion is especially appropriate for Ascensiontide, from the Ascension itself to Pentecost, but is also recommended for any season to obtain the grace of divine love, as a preparation or thanksgiving for Holy Communion, or to obtain detachment from some creature.

Celebrate Pentecost with this handy collection of prayers that includes the Octave of the Holy Spirit, a set of daily prayers for the entire octave, as well as litanies, novenas, prayers, and family devotions.

These devotions are especially appropriate for the Pentecost season but can also be used throughout the year, particularly on Mondays, which are traditionally dedicated to the Holy Ghost.

This all-in-one devotional booklet for Corpus Christi features the Propers for the Mass, hymns and prayers for the Procession, and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, as well as litanies, novenas, and other prayers.

As far as we know, this is the first ever devotional book to focus on the post-Pentecost liturgical season. Includes aspirations for the Sundays, prayers for the Church, and prayers for hope.