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Character Building: A Guide for Parents and Teachers
David Isaacs
With the family under fire as never before, even faithful Catholic
parents often don’t know where to turn for trustworthy guidance about
childrearing. That’s why this book is so urgently needed. David
Isaacs, an experienced parent and teacher, gives you practical direction
on how to teach children of all ages the human virtues: generosity,
fortitude, optimism, perseverance, orderliness, responsibility, respect
for others, sincerity, modesty, moderation, flexibility, loyalty,
industriousness, patience, justice, obedience, prudence, audacity,
humility, simplicity, friendship, understanding, and patriotism.
Contains questions for self-assessment and teaching tips for each
virtue.
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Call Him Father - How to Experience the Fatherhood of
God
Edward G. Maristany
Here is a delightfully practical guide to attaining joyful intimacy with
God, and to knowing Him truly as your Father. Edward Maristany leads you
through a simple approach to getting to know God through prayer and
service. He elucidates the crucial role of parents in introducing
children to the love of our heavenly Father, and explains the role of
Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and Mary in fostering this love. He shows you
how even your times of difficulty can lead you to deeper love for and
trust in God your Father.
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Navarre Bible - New Testament, Compact Edition
The University of Navarre
The entire New Testament of the Navarre Bible is now available in one
hardback volume at an attractive price. This new compact 756 page edition
is less than a third the size of the original 2400 pages of the 12 volume
set. This new edition offers a freshly-edited commentary drawn from a
greater variety of sources as compared with the original Navarre
commentaries. These include early Christian authors, Eastern and Western
fathers of the Church, Vatican II and the Catechism of the Catholic
Church, as well as prominent spiritual writers. These commentaries help to
explain the text and its application to daily life. This New Testament
includes the full English text of the Revised Standard Version (RSV)
Catholic Edition, and all the RSV notes. The Latin text has been omitted. |
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Successful Fathers - The Subtle but Powerful Ways
Fathers Mold Their Children's Characters
James B. Stenson
It takes hard work to become a good father, and one of the most
formidable obstacles confronting fathers is the difficulty of finding
good guidance on fatherhood. This booklet gives men much-needed
directions on problems fathers face, and reveals “twelve commandments
of successful fathers”: how good fathers raise their children well.
Veteran educator James Stenson shows how to defuse adolescent boys’
defiance and how to form positive father-daughter relationships. Best of
all, he details what fathers must do — and not do — in order to
instill religious faith in their children.
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Why the Cross?
Edward Leen
Jesus Christ’s death on the Cross is the central act of human
existence; according to Edward Leen, it also holds the key to human
happiness. In this book, Leen explains why you will never find true joy
by trying to avoid suffering, but only by embracing it willingly and
following in the footsteps of Christ. Why the Cross? helps you reject
non-Christian assumptions about suffering that Christians can pick up
unwittingly from the secular culture — and to face your life’s
trials with joyful confidence in God.
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Paul of Tarsus
Joseph Holzner
In Paul of Tarsus, Joseph Holzner weaves together the New Testament’s
often sketchy information about the life and mission of St. Paul into a
unified and inspiring biography. With a novelist’s ability to take you
into a scene and a historian’s rigorous concern for accuracy, he
traces this noble Apostle’s life from his early years as a disciple of
the celebrated rabbi Gamaliel through his zealous persecution of the
Church as a Pharisee, through his miraculous conversion, his tireless
efforts to spread the Gospel, and his martyr’s death in imperial Rome.
Along the way, he provides instructive background information about the
religious and social situation of Paul’s times and the circumstances
of his New Testament epistles. Here, then, is a complete and
enlightening introduction to the man for whom “to live is Christ, to
die is gain.”
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