The Seven Swords

Starting in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, we travel as far as China, Ethiopia, and Iraq, meeting saints, sailors, popes, emperors, and the occasional elephant as we go. Historical account of first 1000 years of Christianity Stories from all over the world Information that will surprise and amaze Enjoyable for adults and children Read as a family to learn little known facts about t Author: Roy Peachey 224 Pages Hardcover Written in an accessible style, Popes, Emperors, and Elephants can be enjoyed by children and adults alike.

  The importance of keeping the Sabbath Why we need a day of rest  How to design your own personal Sabbath practice Thought-provoking reading in today's overworked culture Perfect reminder for those too busy to Author: Charlotte Ostermann Hardcover 128 Pages.Souls At Rest is a profound exploration of the meaning and practice of Sabbath for contemporary readers; a restful, poetic counterpoint to the velocity and noise of today's world, and a cure for its primary woes. Souls at Rest: An Exploration of the Eucharistic Sabbath Readers are invited to cultivate interior freedom by designing a contemplative and personal Sabbath practice.

We and Our Children: How to Make a Catholic Home   All things central to a child's life—play, work, school, creative activity, family responsibilities, prayer, the sacraments, and the Mass—are shown to be occasions for encouraging a spiritual outlook and the formation of sound Catholic habits.

In the Beginning was the Word: An Annotated Reading of the Prologue of John In this extended meditation, Anthony Esolen looks, phrase by phrase, at the majestic Prologue to the Gospel of John, which with good reason he calls “the most influential paragraph in the history of man..” He unfolds its theological richness by showing how the Apostle John has in mind, not only what he saw Jesus do and heard him say, but also the whole witness of Scripture before the time of Jesus, and the way the young Church proclaimed him.

” He unfolds its theological richness by showing how the Apostle John has in mind, not only what he saw Jesus do and heard him say, but also the whole witness of Scripture before the time of Jesus, and the way the young Church proclaimed him. Esolen's decades-long immersion in Christian poetry and Scripture uniquely positions him as a guide to the astonishing and life-changing “poem” of the Prologue. In the Beginning was the Word: An Annotated Reading of the Prologue of John In this extended meditation, Anthony Esolen looks, phrase by phrase, at the majestic Prologue to the Gospel of John, which with good reason he calls “the most influential paragraph in the history of man.A unique feature of this remarkable work is how Esolen “hears” (and we with him) the Hebrew/Aramaic underlying John's Greek (which was not his mother tongue), echoing those languages in such a way that, all at once, what we thought could never be more profoundly expressed bursts forth in a renewed poetic splendor that brings into ever keener relief the whole panorama of the theology of the God-Man.