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As
we prepare to celebrate the feasts of two giants of the Church, St.
Mark the Evangelist and St. Catherine of Siena, let us be inspired to
examine what they can teach us about the richness of the Catholic faith.
Read St. Mark’s divinely inspired words with the added insight of
Biblical scholars and theologians Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch with the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible Edition of The Gospel According to Mark . Discover what makes St. Marks Gospel distinct from the other three as you read Cardinal Schoenborn’s Behold, God’s Son! Travel back in time with Nobel Prize winning author Sigrid Undset as she brings St. Catherine of Siena to life in her historical novel Catherine of Siena . Introduce your younger children to the life of St. Catherine by watching St. Catherine of Siena: My Catholic Family together. Finally, don’t forget your older children, share with the beauty of St. Catherine’s life with them as you read  Louis de Wohl’s Lay Siege to Heaven together.



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Last but not least, take advantage of this week's offer of 20% off new releases, including: Bakhita: From Slave to Saint , the newest booklet of the Ignatius Study Bible series, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon and two new Pope Francis titles, On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family, and the Church in the Twenty-First Century and Pope Francis: His Life in His Own Words.


St. Mark and St. Catherine of Siena

Mark Meditations on the Gospel of Mark

Adrienne von Speyr

These meditations on the Gospel of Mark, with the exception of the second part on the Passion, were given by Adrienne von Speyr
between 1945 and 1958 to members of the Community of St. John, which
she founded with the renowned theologian, Fr. Hans Urs von Balthasar.
Adrienne is speaking to young adults who have decided to live the state
of the evangelical counsels in a secular profession, as part of a
recently established secular institute. Nevertheless this contemplative
commentary can be very useful for all who seek to meditate on Holy
Scripture. The points for meditation are not primarily for spiritual
reading, but an introduction to personal prayer. They are meant only to
point out a path, because it is the Holy Spirit who directs
contemplative prayer in all liberty. As one reads through this book, he
will find in it a kind of synthesis of Adrienne von Speyr's
spirituality.

Also available as an e-book

Regular price: $31.95, sale price: $25.56

The Gospel According to Mark (2nd Ed.): Ignatius Catholic Study Bible

Scott Hahn

Large format, featuring large text size and additional
margin space for personal annotations! The larger format enhances both
individual and group study.

Based on the Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition,
this volume leads readers through a penetrating study of the Gospel of
Mark, using the biblical text itself and the Church's own guidelines for
understanding the Bible. Ample notes accompany each page, providing
fresh insights and commentary by renowned Bible teachers Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch, as well as time-tested interpretations from the Fathers of the Church.
These helpful study notes make explicit what St. Mark often assumes. Or
they provide rich historical, cultural, geographical or theological
information pertinent to the Gospel - information that bridges the
distance between the biblical world and our own.

Regular price: $11.95, sale price: $9.56

Behold, God's Son!: Thoughts on the Gospel in the Year of St. Mark

Christoph Cardinal Schoenborn

Cardinal Schonborn, former student of Pope Benedict XVI and
well-known as a brilliant theologian, presents his second volume of
reflections on the person of Christ, this time as found in the Gospel of Mark. Sunday after Sunday, Cardinal Schonborn
uses the Gospel readings from Mark to explain the beauty of the Gospel
in clear and understandable words. He says that no other Gospel writer
talks in such a human way about Jesus as Mark. Anger and sorrow, Jesus’
passionate emotional responses, are more explicitly mentioned in Mark
than in the other Gospels. But however human Jesus may appear here, it
is also Mark in particular who also strongly emphasizes his divinity.
Believing in Jesus, having faith in him, is what Mark is all about.

Regular price: $16.95, sale price: $13.56

Praying with Saint Mark's Gospel Daily Reflections on the Gospel of St. Mark

Fr. Peter Cameron, O.P.

Delve deeply into Mark's Gospel, which is read during the liturgical year 2011-2012. Edited by Magnificat's Fr. Peter Cameron, O.P.,
this book is a clear-cut and effective way to meditate daily on Saint
Mark's Gospel. Read the entire Gospel within one year! An entry for each
day of the calendar year includes:

a short quotation from Saint Mark's Gospel

an original, down-to-earth reflection composed by one of the book's twenty-three gifted spiritual authors, including Anthony Esolen, Fr. Vincent Nagle, Fr. George Rutler, and Fr. Joseph Lienhard, S.J.

a thought-provoking final prayer

Regular price: $12.95, sale price: $10.36

Catherine of Siena

Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset’s Catherine of Siena is critically
acclaimed as one of the best biographies of this well known, and amazing
fourteenth-century saint. Known for her historical fiction, which won
her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1928, Undset based this factual
work on primary sources, her own experiences living in Italy, and her
profound understanding of the human heart. Catherine of Siena was a
particular favorite of Undset, who also was a Third Order Dominican. An
extraordinarily active, intelligent, and courageous woman, Catherine at
an early age devoted herself to the love of God. The intensity of her
prayer, sacrifice, and service to the poor won her a reputation for
holiness and wisdom, and she was called upon to make peace between
warring nobles. Believing that peace in Italy could be achieved only if
the Pope, then living in France, returned to Rome, Catherine boldly
traveled to Avignon to meet with Pope Gregory XI. Also available as an e-book and audio download or an audio book on CD .

Regular price: $17.95, sale price: $14.36

Lay Siege to Heaven: A Novel of St. Catherine of Siena

Louis de Wohl

Continuing his popular series of novels about saints of the
Church, de Wohl devotes his considerable talents to an interpretation of
one of the most unusual women of all time, Saint Catherine of Siena.
Her career was extraordinary. In that confused and dangerous era of
history, the Pope was living at Avignon: Catherine persuaded him to
return to Rome. The City-States of Italy were at war with each other:
Catherine subdued them. There was pestilence: Catherine served and
saved. She performed miracles, she received the stigmata, she drew about
her a crowd of devoted men and women. A saint who would not let the
Lord God alone, she really did lay siege to heaven—and changed the face
of her world. This novel, which is also a vivid biography, brings
Catherine of Siena to life in a remarkable way. She lives on every page.

Also available as an e-book

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New Titles

Bakhita: From Slave to Saint

Roberto Italo Zanini

When she was about nine years old, Josephine Bakhita
was kidnapped near Darfur, Sudan, by Arab slave traders. For several
years she was subjected to brutal and humiliating treatment until she
was ransomed and taken to Venice, Italy, where she became a Catholic and
a nun. Joyfully and serenely Bakhita served in a convent, school and
infirmary run by Canossian sisters in a small, obscure town in northern
Italy until her death in 1947. Based on Bakhita's autobiography, which
she dictated to a Canossian sister in obedience to her superior, the
canonization files and many other sources, Roberto Zanini records the
life, virtues and miracles of this daughter of Africa who has become a
sister to the whole world.

Regular price: $16.95, sale price: $13.56

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon: Ignatius Catholic Study Bible

Scott Hahn, Curtis Mitch

Large format, featuring large text size and additional
margin space for personal annotations! The larger format enhances both
individual and group study.  

Based on the Revised Standard Version - Second Catholic Edition, this 15th volume in the popular Bible study series
leads readers through a penetrating study of the Books of Proverbs,
Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon using the biblical text itself and the
Church's own guidelines for understanding the Bible. Ample notes
accompany each page, providing fresh insights and commentary by renowned
Bible teachers Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch, as well as time-tested interpretations from the Fathers of the Church.
They provide rich historical, cultural, geographical or theological
information pertinent to the Old Testament book - information that
bridges the distance between the biblical world and our own.

Regular price: $11.95, sale price: $9.56

On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family, and the Church in the Twenty-First Century

Jorge Mario Bergoglio & Abraham Skorka

From the man who became Pope Francis--Jorge Mario Bergoglio
shares his thoughts on religion, reason, and the challenges the world
faces in the 21st century with Abraham Skorka, a rabbi and biophysicist.
On Heaven and Earth, originally published in Argentina in
2010, brings together a series of these conversations where both men
talked about various theological and worldly issues, including God,
fundamentalism, atheism, abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia,
same-sex marriage, and globalization. From these personal and
accessible talks comes a first-hand view of the man who would become
pope to 1.2 billion Catholics around the world in March 2013.

Regular price: $22.00, sale price: $17.60

Pope Francis: His Life in His Own Words

Francesca Ambrogetti and Sergio Rubin

On March 13, 2013, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio,
longtime Archbishop of Buenos Aires, now Pope Francis, was elected to
succeed Pope Benedict. He is the first Latin American pope, the first
Jesuit pope, and the first to take the name Francis, after St. Francis
Assisi, the 13th century monk known for his charity and kindness. A
learned and introspective man, he does not avoid the uncomfortable
subjects: the declining numbers of priests and nuns; celibacy;
the sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the Church; and his opinions
about and experience with the military dictatorship of his own
crisis-riddled country. Through his own words, we come to know a man
whose actions and words reflect his deeply-rooted humility. The book
concludes with the Pope's own writings and reflections, full of wisdom
and inspiration.

Regular price: $24.95, sale price: $19.96

 

Films

Catherine of Siena

Take a breathtaking journey to Catherine of Siena's native Italy,
as actress Mary McCown brings this medieval saint to life. While
visiting the houses, palaces and churches where St. Catherine served God
and the Church, Fr. Jacques Daley reveals the spiritual lessons of this
holy woman who spent her life addressing the political powers of the
time and caring for those stricken with the plague. This documentary DVD
set is a teaching series shot both on-location and in studio with
various letters and scenes from St. Catherine’s life dramatically
re-created by actress Mary McCowan.

Regular price: $39.95, sale price: $31.96

St. Catherine of Siena: My Catholic Family

The life of St. Catherine of Siena and the value of suffering are explored.

In the wonderful new animated series, My Catholic Family, Thomas
and his wife Helen help their children Alex and Sarah come to a greater
understanding of the importance of virtue by teaching them about the
lives of the Saints. Each Saint, whose story is told in the film, has a
particular important lesson from their lives to teach the children as
revealed in these entertaining and educational films that children will
love.

Regular price: $14.95, sale price: $11.96

Catholic World Report



Christianity and Islam: Cooperation or Conflict?



By William Kilpatrick

A review of Robert Spencer's Not Peace But a Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam.



Robert
Spencer has written a dozen books on Islam, as well as thousands of
pages of commentary on Islamic law, scripture, and tradition, but this
may be his most significant book yet because of its potential to alert
Christians to a dangerous gap in their knowledge of Islam. Christian
leaders are badly in need of a wake-up call about Islam and this is a
wake-up call that is hard to ignore. Not Peace but a Sword asks
questions about the relationship between Christianity and Islam that
few others are asking, even though they are questions that beg for
answers. The main question is whether the differences between
Christianity and Islam can be worked out or whether there is an
unbridgeable chasm between the two faiths.  Spencer is not saying that
individual Muslims must necessarily be at odds with individual
Christians but he is asking whether Islam’s doctrinal hostility toward
Christianity can be overcome, or whether it is of the essence of Islam.
Continue reading, here.





Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Fifty Years Later–Vatican II’s Unfinished Business



By Fr. Regis Scanlon, O.F.M. Cap.

Today, 50 years after the opening
of Vatican II, the misinterpretation of one of its most salient
documents, Lumen Gentium, continues to drive a number of Catholics in
the United States into one of two camps, the “right” or the “left.”



For
most American Catholics over 50, it is an accepted fact that dissent
from the magisterium of the Church is widespread, tolerated, and, in
some quarters, even welcomed. The breaking point, of course, was Paul
VI’s 1968 prophetic encyclical, Humanae Vitae, which condemned
contraception as “intrinsically disordered.”  The encyclical became one
of the most controversial documents of the century, if not many
centuries. The widespread dissent by Catholics was led with enthusiasm
by huge numbers of Catholic theologians, professors and intellectuals.
The onslaught of bright, articulate academics turning on the Pope
encouraged many Catholics in the pews to do the same. Why would so many
educated Catholics—who should have been ready and able to defend the
teaching authority of the Church—turn against the Pope with such force?
How could they justify it? Continue reading, here.