Prepare your heart for Christmas this year with St. John Henry Newman. His masterful command of language and in-depth understanding of sacred scripture unlock for any reader rich spiritual preparation for Christmas, a deep entering into the joy of Christ’s birth, and a an abiding awe and wonder at the lasting mystery of the Epiphany which illumines the way for us on to live Christian life in the blessings and encounters of every day.
The crises of faith and faithfulness, the failures of leadership across all segments of the Christian people both ecclesiastical and lay, point us to the urgent necessity of renewal – renewal in the way we think about Christian leadership, the way we live as Christians, and the way we form our communities (and the ways they form us).
No matter where you’ve been or what you’re going through, this collection of poems and prayers by the Catholic Church’s newest Saint will connect you with God and St. John Newman, through heart speaking to heart.
This volume includes meditations by Cardinal Newman interspersed among his journeying poetry that provide very practical material for prayer and meditation as you develop in your journey of Christian life.
This newly edited volume includes an easy to learn, simplified—and thus memorizable—form of the liturgical prayers of the Church for the various times of day.
In addition to these prayers for the traditional hours, it also contains formal prayers for various occasions in life such as a Song of Giving Thanks, a Preparation for Confession & Communion, Litany of Supplication, Prayers for the Deceased, and others.
In my own research and teaching over the years I’ve been able to delve into chivalric literature and the evolution of nobility, and what I’ve uncovered from the tomes of history I share now with you, men and women of all ages, in this simple guide — a chivalric code drawn from the ancient text that over the centuries gave birth to the ideal of a Christian chivalry.