Book of Heroes By Amy Welborn Publisher: Loyola University Press What a breath of fresh air to read a book written for children about real HEROES. Amy Welborn has an incredible gift of relating deep truths to children in an easy manner. Her description of “What a hero is” alone is worth getting this treasure…
Paola’s Book Bites: Catholic Bibles
Best Catholic Bibles ever, reviewed for you by age group with details.
Paola’s Book Bites: Purity
Here are my go to list of books for passing onto family and friends, on the virtue of purity. Each book or video offers something practical and more importantly spiritual for fostering purity in our own lives and those most near and dear to us! Choosing Beauty: A 30-Day Spiritual Makeover for Women By Gina…
The Feast Days of Advent – Make Way for Baby Jesus!
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St. Andrew Christmas Novena Holy Card
St. Andrew Christmas Novena Holy Card We’d like to offer you this St. Andrew Christmas Novena holy card, at no charge, as a token of our appreciation for you to help get ready for our Lord’s birth as we enter the season of Advent! This two-sided holy card features classical artwork on the front side and the…
Paola’s Book Bites: Apologetics Catholic Style
THE PROVE-IT SERIES By Amy Welborn Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor Finally! Finally! Finally! These books are excellent, well grounded in truth, but also fun, funny, and simply marvelous! So many apologetic books are simply too dense for those of us who are not experts. This series speaks to teenagers in a way that inspires, and…
Featured Author: Hilda Van Stockum
Want the perfect read aloud books for the family? One that will be enjoyable to a range of ages? Our family has fallen in love with all of Hilda van Stockum’s stories! Every time we finish reading aloud one of her books, we feel as if the characters have become old friends and a part of…
Cor Unum! One Heart & The Sacred Heart
The von Trapp family, of the Sound of Music fame, called their home in Vermont “Cor Unum” – Latin for: One Heart. They dedicated it to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and in so doing, called their family to be of one heart for our Lord. Theirs was a touching and beautiful gesture that we repeated when we purchased…
The Power of Prayer this Lent
“For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one’s eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it’s a vast, supernatural force which opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus.” – St. Therese of Lisieux…
The Feast Days of Advent
In Advent, the season of preparation, it is not a coincidence that the Church gives us some very special feast days …..beginning with our family favorite, the Feast of St. Andrew on November 30th…. we stand in thanksgiving for his “Yes” to follow Christ, to be a first disciple and bring in other disciples such as…