Marriage and Family Living

ENGLISH & SPANISH VERSIONS AVAILABLE Celebrating Sunday for Catholic Families 2023–2024 is the perfect resource for those looking to enrich their family’s life of faith! Simple and approachable, this book is designed to guide even the busiest families in more fully integrating the Sunday Gospel into their everyday lives. Encouraging family attendance and participation at Sunday Mass, this resource provides parents with a guide for reflecting on the Gospel as a family. Prompts for conversation...

Our Family Book of LifeCelebrate and record the important events of your family�s faith life in this elegant calligraphic keepsake book. The sections are arranged according to the sequence of the sacraments as they are presented in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Each sacramental celebration has two pages of religious commentary plus ample space to record your family�s sacramental history. Includes 13 pages of genealogical charts and lots of space for pictures. Pages numbers and a table...

The Catholic Faith and Family Bible, NRSVThe first Bible of its kind for Catholic families! Renowned for its beautiful balance of scholarship and readability, the NRSV faithfully serves the Church in personal spiritual formation and in the academy. Grow in faith together! The NRSV Catholic Faith and Family Bible is designed to make the Bible easier to read and understand, helping you and your family grow in faith together as you discover God’s message for your life today. Instead of being...

Living Life By Connecting The Dots: BIRTHING OUT THE FORMATIVE STAGES OF LIFE, SERIES 1 (Living Life By Connecting The Dots 2,3) by Dr. Tonya K. Stewart (Author), Jennifer Harris (Editor), Dwayne Lesueur (Contributor), Walter Williams (Contributor) Character Development produces ethical change in the mindset which impact moral behavior patterns attitudes. Attitudes valued and implemented properly produce self-discipline and obedience. "In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s...

Living Life by Connecting the Dots: Series 2 and 3: The Development Process Birthing Out The Finish Work of Christ Inside Out by Dr. Tonya Stewart (Author), Jennifer Harris (Editor), Dwayne Lesueur (Illustrator), Walter Williams (Photographer) LIVING LIFE BY CONNECTED THE DOTS Seeing A Vision That Can Happen in Your Life creates a positive mind-set and assists in focusing on the goals that awaits for each of us to accomplish. The word of the Lord is utilized as Spiritual components for each...

From author, mother, and holistic wellness advocate Sarah Humphrey comes a heartfelt devotional filled with guidance and spiritual wisdom for mothers everywhere. 40 Days to a Joyful Motherhood offers mothers the chance to dive more deeply into what it means to understand your identity, let go of comparison, and embrace the beautiful mess that so often defines motherhood. With poignant truths on self-care, grace, and spirituality, Humphrey shares her wisdom for the joyful moments, the difficult...

A new baby�s arrival is an occasion of excitement and anticipation. Yet for a young child, it can be cause for bewilderment and distress. Hand-in-hand with endearing elf characters, author Emily Menendez-Aponte shows the way to help a child welcome the new arrival into the family with open arms! Written By Emily Menedez-Aponte. Illustrated by R.W. Alley. 32 pages; 8? x 8?. Softcover; full-color illustrations throughout.

Do you know anyone who is looking for straightforward information about adoption for themselves or others? Are you interested in learning more about adoption and finding answers to common concerns? In his latest book, Adoption: Should You, Could You, and Then What?, Dr. Ray Guarendi — renowned clinical psychologist and father of ten adopted children — provides authentic answers to challenging, real-life questions. With humor and wisdom, Dr. Ray draws from professional and personal experience,...

Supportive to both laity and clergy alike, it can be considered everyone's handbook on the family. It offers words of encouragement and practical guidance to all who find themselves amid the myriad challenges facing families around the world, including unemployment, migration, poverty, addictions, polygamy, and societal norms that pressure longstanding Catholic teachings on marriage.In this document Pope Francis continues to tap on the pastoral experience and wisdom of bishops throughout the...

Few topics in the Catholic Church are more misunderstood than annulments. In Annulments & the Catholic Church, canon and civil lawyer Edward N. Peters answers common questions on annulments including: ● How is an annulment different from a divorce?● Are there too many annulments granted today?● Does the length of a marriage affect an annulment case?● How do people begin the annulment process?● Does a wedding between a Catholic and a non-Catholic require an annulment?● Is alcoholism or physical...

Be a Happier Parent or Laugh Trying This isn't that parenting book. You know, the kind that makes you feel utterly inadequate and convinced you’ll probably mess up your little humans. As author, speaker, and mom Betsy Kerekes is here to tell you it’s not about being a "better" parent, it’s about being a happier parent. Not when your kids are older, not when your kids are easier, but right now. Today even. And it’s possible, with a little laughter. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll discover in Be...

Be Devoted: Restoring Friendship, Passion, and Communion in Your Marriage Drawing from his popular healing conferences, forty years of marriage, and decades of clinical work as a couple’s therapist, bestselling author Bob Schuchts presents his first resource for married and engaged couples and those who desire true love in their relationships: Be Devoted. This highly anticipated guide delivers sound Catholic teaching, rich storytelling, and practical tools for healing, along with psychological...

The classic Catholic marriage manual used by over 3 million engaged and newly married couples has been updated and revised for the twenty-first century. Written in a breezy, accessible style, Beginning Your Marriage is used by dioceses and parishes throughout the world as a basic text for marriage preparation. It offers a comprehensive, insightful presentation from a Catholic perspective of the issues central to the institution and sacrament of marriage, including love, fidelity,...

Parents need support and care in helping to raise their child--not just with physical needs, but spiritual ones, too. Author Kara O’Malley is a parent of children pre-school age and offers her own wisdom in helping to raise faith-filled children. This resource enables parishes to provide parents with basic formation on the sacrament of Baptism and offer ways to begin cultivating a spiritual life at home during the early years before child begins formal religious education. Families will also...

“Every day is joyful. Every day is a gift. Every day I can thank God from the bottom of my heart.” Kelly Mantoan wasn’t always able to say these words. As a mother of five children, two with profound disabilities, all her energy and attention was focused on her children’s diagnoses and round the clock care. Drained and struggling, Kelly wondered if she had what it took to be the kind of parent they needed. She craved support as a Catholic mother with special-needs children, but felt lost and...

By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Carol Mc Adoo Rehme, and Patricia Cena EvansThis is Chicken Soup for the Soul's first book on a very emotional but exciting time for parents - sending their children off to college or new homes and careers. It's a must-read for empty nesters or soon-to-be empty nesters grappling with their own bittersweet new freedom

Discipleship Parenting Planting the Seeds of Faith by Kim Cameron-Smith As Catholic parents, we have one fundamental mission: to raise children who know and love God, and who are so in love with Christ that they can't help but share his message. We are called not only to be disciples ourselves, but to be discipleship parents, evangelizing our children so they become disciples, too. That sounds great, but we know this is not always easy. The culture often stands in the way of our raising whole...

What is a monastery? A monastery is a place set apart—a place to learn the blessings of powerlessness, and that time is not ours but God’s. Our home and our duties can, just like a monastery, teach us those things. The vocation of monastic men and women is to physically withdraw from the world. But the principle is equally valid for those of us who cannot go off to monasteries. Certain vocations offer the same kind of opportunity for contemplation, and provide a desert for reflection.In ten...

Eleven Cardinals Speak on Marriage and the Family Essays from a Pastoral Viewpoint Edited by: Winfried Aymans Marriage and the family are in crisis. In October 2015, a Synod of Bishops will meet in the Vatican to discuss this important subject. In preparation for the event, eleven Cardinals from around the world have written powerful essays on some of the problems to be discussed: the challenge of providing adequate marriage preparation in a secularized world; the need for evangelization and...

Popular author Donna-Marie Cooper OBoyle is back, this time with a book that addresses the vocation of motherhood, with all its joys and challenges. Using personal recollections, stories, Scripture, papal writings, and quotes from the saints, Donna-Marie encourages women to fully embrace their calling as mothers. The book takes an honest look at family planning, raising sons and daughters in our media age, overcoming perfectionism, single parenting, and dealing with the tough issues todays...

Every Parent's Battle: A Family Guide to Resisting Pornography Ever struggled to find the right words to talk about the threat of pornography with your kids? Too many of us avoid the subject, depending on simple technology filters to protect them. Yet children at very early ages are under attack and at risk to fall prey to pornography addiction. As parents, we must be prepared to deal with the issue head-on. Parents, by their vocation of marriage, are called to protect their family against...

Demons wage war against families because families are vital to God’s plan of salvation. This stark reality requires that your family members become well-trained spiritual warriors who actively secure your home and fight to keep it off-limits to demonic activity. In A Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Kathleen Beckman offers you potent advice from her 12 years of active participation on an exorcist’s team. She shows you how to “clean up” your household by cultivating in your family a...

Family, the Church, and the Real World REDEMPTORIST PASTORAL PUBLICATIONFamily life is both messy and holy!If you embrace only the holiness, or if you just get lost in the messiness, then you miss the fullness of the experience that is living as a family - both in the domestic church and the Institutional Church. Here you'll find inspiration from Scripture and modern advice that does more than just tell you how family life is "supposed" to be. This book gives you real, practical wisdom on how...

This volume aims to open parents' hearts and minds to a deeper understanding of their Catholic faith. It asks them to confirm their own beliefs as they prepare to share their faith with their child. Parents are offered basic information as well as new insights on the topics of baptism, sin, grace, faith, and the baptismal rite and its symbols.

By Lisa M. Hendey With warmth and wisdom, Hendey creates an environment where Catholic moms can reflect peacefully upon often-competitive topics like parenting style, types of schooling, and working outside the home. By sharing her own story, Hendey inspires readers to better balance their own needs with the demands of family life and faith commitment.

Are your adult children away from the faith or lukewarm about their faith? You are not alone! Almost 70 percent of Catholics no longer attend Mass. In this engaging new book, bestselling authors Dr. Greg and Lisa Popcak, present easy and relatable opportunities for engaging your children right where they are. You will read about how you can support your adult children while disagreeing about aspects of your faith. Learn how to trust in the Lord and discuss what matters most with the people who...

Hope and a Whole Lotta Prayer Daily Devotions For Parents Of Teenagers by BARBARA CANALE Are you blessed with perfect teens? Teens who never argue, disobey, or talk back? Teens who do as they're told the very first time, or even before you ask? If your answer is "yes," then you can move on. This book isn't for you. If, however, your answer is "keep dreaming," "I wish," an eye roll, or any variation of the word "no," then this might be the book for you. A teenager's life is full of change,...

How Our Family Prays Each Day A Read-Aloud Story for Catholic Families Author: Gregory K. Popcak Illustrated by: Jacob Flores-Popcak Are you looking for an easy way to teach your young children how to talk with Jesus throughout the day? How Our Family Prays Each Day is a read-aloud book for children ages 4 to 8 that emphasizes the importance of praying together as a family and offers lessons on how to pray and spend time with God each day. This 32-page hardcover book includes charming,...

How To Survive Being Married to a CatholicUses a lively cartoon format. This book gives clear and honest answers to over 80 questions often asked by non-Catholic partners in interfaith marriages.

“The question of human procreation, like every other question which touches human life, involves more than … biology, psychology, demography or sociology. It is the whole man and the whole mission to which he is called that must be considered: both its natural, earthly aspects and its supernatural, eternal aspects.” – Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae Pope Paul VI’s prophetic encyclical Humanae Vitae, issued in 1968, presented the Church’s consistent teachings on marriage and contraception to the...

This dictionary explains important words of the Catholic faith. Set up in a kid-friendly format, Look It Up! incorporates clip art and pronunciation aids to promote learning. This book is perfect for kids ages 10 - 14, and their parents and teachers looking for quick responses to those difficult questions kids ask! An indispensable resource for Catholic families, libraries, schools, and parishes. Winner of a Catholic Press Association Award!

When you begin to see the Bible as a book of love, it will change the way you view love, sex, marriage, family, and your personal relationship with God. Walk with popular scripture scholar John Bergsma from the creation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden to the wedding between the Lamb and the New Jerusalem in the Book of Revelation to learn how marriage in the Bible represents the love between God and his people. Bergsma focuses on what nine biblical marriages tell us about God’s...

You can be angry-and still be good. That�s normal. Through understanding what anger feels like and what triggers it, we can learn and teach healthy ways to handle it. �Mad Isn�t Bad� offers kids a positive and honest view of anger-and what to do with it. Written by Michaelene Mundy. Illustrated by R.W. Alley. 32 pages; 8? x 8?. Softcover; full-color illustrations throughout.

Ours is not a culture that publicly appreciates motherhood, and it is time for that to change. Feminism, while winning certain victories for women, has wrongly left motherhood behind. Many women today, including faithful Catholics, are ambivalent about motherhood or see it as something that will compromise their careers, lives, and happiness. In Motherhood: An Extraordinary Vocation, Dr. Kathryn Rombs invites women to enter this vocation or reengage with it, newly aware of its meaning, beauty,...

Believe it or not, the Catholic family isn’t primarily a human institution. It’s a divine one. By uniting with the sacramental life of the Church, your common, ordinary, crazy family becomes something sacred, a “domestic church." Family therapist and parent Gregory Popcak and his wife, Lisa, are back with Parenting Your Kids with Grace. Building on their best-selling book Parenting with Grace, first published twenty years ago, this new volume draws on the same parenting principles and provides...

Being a parent of adolescents is tough work. Trying to raise faithful teens and tweens can seem like an impossible mission. Today’s Catholic parents need access to the best tools and most up-to-date research to help them fully cooperate with God’s grace. That’s what Dr. Greg and Lisa Popcak seek to help you do in Parenting Your Teens and Tweens with Grace. Building on their best-selling book Parenting with Grace, first published twenty years ago, this new volume draws on the same parenting...

When our children become adults, we cant hold them on our laps and protect them like we used to. We need new strategies for caring for them. And the most important strategy of all is to lift up our adult sons and daughters in prayer and place them in the heart of God. When we do so, Gods love is unleashedin them and in us. God can replace our worries and discouragement with refreshment and hope. Our Father moves mountains of worry and discouragement, leaving new refreshment and delight in its...

Raising an Original, by popular speaker and blogger Julie Lyles Carr, will help parents discover their children’s God-given gifts, find the distinctive temperament of each child, and help them set their child on the path of God’s purpose. With practical tools and assessments, readers will better understand themselves and their unique child. Parents and those who work with children will find inspiration and practical tools for raising children based on each child's unique gifts and talents....

A practical guide for parents who want to form their children in the faith.The mission of every married couple is to generously welcome children as gifts from God…then what?As any parent knows, raising children is beautiful, exhausting, and often bewildering. And then we have their vocations to think about. It’s the job of parents to raise children who are able to cultivate the gift of Faith and really listen to what God is calling them to do with their lives.While God gives all the grace and...

*NEW* Expanded 2nd edition includes:* Forewords by Jason Evert and Father Dwight Longenecker.* Afterword by Anthony Esolen* Expanded throughout--34 more pages than the 1st edition to address the rapidly changing culture!Anxiety among Catholic mothers is sky high. How do we teach our sons to be chaste when a sex-obsessed culture is ready to drag our boys into the pit at every turn? All we want to do is protect the innocence of our little ones and the honor of our teens, yet the snares of...

In the midst of a culture that is increasingly confused about sexuality, love, life, and our very identity as persons, the Church offers us the truth of who we are. For women, this truth is rooted in motherhood — not just biological but, even more, spiritual — because women are the bearers and nurturers of life. Yet it’s difficult to understand and defend the true value of motherhood when the lies that permeate secular culture have seeped into our own way of thinking, even in the Church....

�It�s a good way to be-and a way to be good,� say the authors of this helpful, yet entertaining children�s book. �It�s a way to care about others, ourselves, and our world. When we have the virtue of respect, we try to treat people and our whole world with extra love and kindness.� By Ted and Jenny O�Neal Illustrated by R. W. Alley 32 pages; 8? x 8?. Softcover; full-color illustrations throughout.

While Catholic teens drifting away from the Faith is increasingly common, it's not inevitable. We as parents are uniquely qualified to lead our teens to a relationship with Christ. During the difficult teenage years, youth ministers, teachers, and effective parish programs are pivotal, but parents are the single most powerful factor in our children's faith development. In Rooting Your Teen in the Faith, family coach, catechist, author, and mom Kim Cameron-Smith empowers parents to shepherd...

by Kelly Ann Guest The lives of the saints are a great source of inspiration and reassurance for us. The holy women in Saintly Moms can help us better to understand motherhood as a vocation, just like any other calling from God, and a path to holiness. Whether you’re a new mom, a grandmother, or somewhere in between, this book will encourage all mothers in their vocation as they identify themselves in the lives of these saints, who also experienced the joys and challenges of being a mom. Their...

By Christine Gibson Christine Gibson's Saints on Call will help mothers in every walk of life to pray and reflect on the opportunities for holiness found in daily life. Designed with the on-the-go mom in mind--and featuring over 50 reflections--this book is helpfully categorized by a mother's daily situations and struggles. In just a few minutes, read about the life of a saint, learn from their example, and be led with them in prayer for the needs of your day. From the practical problems of...

Saving the Family The Transformative Power of Sharing Meals with People You Love by Fr. Leo Patalinghug Family meals make for happy families … when you approach them properly! These hale and hearty pages show you how to transform your family mealtimes into joyful occasions that even teenagers will love. From hundreds of happy families worldwide, acclaimed television chef Rev. Leo Patalinghug has gathered scores of practical tips that foster gratitude and conviviality at mealtimes. They’ll work...

Self-Gift: Essays on Humanae Vitae and the Thought of John Paul II By Janet E. SmithJanet E. Smith has been among the world’s preeminent voices in the study of the issues raised by Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical letter Humanae vitae. Self-Gift: Essays on Humanae Vitae and the Thought of John Paul II presents Smith’s critical collection of essays on the vocation of marriage, human sexuality, contraception, and more. Her groundbreaking scholarship touches on all the areas implicated in Humanae...