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 • Anger and Forgiveness (3rd Edition)

 • Healing (2nd Edition)

 • Psychology from the Heart: The Spiritual Depth of Clinical Psychology
 

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 • Guided Imagery Relaxation: The Catholic Way
 

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 • Guide to Praying the Liturgy of the Hours

 • Breviary & Lectionary Pronunciation Guide

 • Beyond the Veil: The truth about masturbation

 • Catholic Compassion: When they tell you that the Catholic Church is wrong about sexuality

 • Desire and Distraction: How to increase your desire for God and overcome self-sabotaging distractions
 

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  • Prayer to Saint Rita

  • Swept Away (English and Spanish)

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  • Supplement to the Liturgy of the Hours

 

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Desire and Distraction

If you desire success, you will likely achieve it, but if, somewhere deep in your heart, you desire failure, all your attempts to achieve success will fail.

If you don’t desire to be healed, that’s proof that you really can’t do it all yourself. That’s proof of your need for God. With divine grace, you can be inspired to desire healing. But maybe you have never learned to care much about yourself, and when you don’t care much about yourself, you don’t care about much at all—and when you don’t care about much at all, you end up desiring failure.
   You can remain in this place of not caring and just keep on walking to your destruction. Or, if you were to notice that God has been trying to get your attention, you would know that there is more than destruction, something so beautiful and desirable that only one thing can resist its pull: hate.
   So now, and in every moment until you die, you will have a choice between the ugliness of hatred and the beauty of God. That decision has to come from you.
   You will go where you desire.

5" x 8"  Softcover booklet, 41 pages

ISBN 13: 978-0-9831171-4-8
ISBN 10: 0983117144

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Beyond the Veil

Why is this booklet called Beyond the Veil ? Well, all your friends would snicker if they saw you reading a booklet called How to Stop Masturbating.

Nevertheless, this booklet is about a veil—the veil of illusion that draws you into temptation, day after day. Armed with the truth herein, you will be able to ask for the strength and courage to persevere through your frustration into confident trust in divine protection. You will learn to seek out the humility of confidence, not the satisfaction of competing with others to make yourself feel stronger. You will learn to admit your wretchedness and seek the grace to love, and to pray for everyone—even your enemies—despite the mistreatment you received from your parents as a child and continue to receive, even now, from others. And you will learn to seek the desire for holy love that will grow in you and overshadow every other desire. Do this and you will not only understand love, you will be living it.

5" x 8"  Softcover booklet, 12 pages

ISBN 13: 978-0-9831171-0-0
ISBN 10: 0-9831171-0-1

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Catholic Compassion

All of us—but especially children and young adults—are tempted today by those who try to convince us to doubt the moral teachings of the Catholic Church. We are induced to look with desire at behaviors that separate us from a holy life, saying to ourselves, “How can there be anything wrong with something that seems so nice?” This booklet, in explaining real Catholic compassion, can help you understand how friends, teachers, professors, the entertainment industry—and even priests—can lead you away from God under the deceptive guise of “being compassionate.”

 

5" x 8"  Softcover booklet, 19 pages

ISBN 13: 978-0-9831171-2-4
ISBN 10: 0-9831171-2-8

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Breviary & Lectionary Pronunciation Guide
In English

Have you ever questioned the pronunciation of a word with someone who then scoffs and says, “God doesn’t care if I don’t pronounce every word correctly!” Well, it isn’t the words themselves that God cares about, it’s our desire to be good servants that God cares about—and to be a good servant is to put our hearts into making liturgy as pure and beautiful and correct as possible. Carelessness about anything only defiles the holy. So strive, therefore, for excellence in everything.

Athough other books can be found to assist a reader with the pronunciation of Biblical names, they all have two deficiencies. First, they are all books—that is, they are stiffly bound and relatively thick—and so they can be cumbersome to carry around on a daily basis. In contrast, the present booklet can be carried easily for constant reference. Second, other books neglect many names, such as the names of saints and ancient writers who appear often in the Liturgy of the Hours, especially in the Office of Readings.

I have searched through several dictionaries of the English language, as well as dictionaries and pronunciation guides for languages such as Latin, French, Spanish, and Italian, to collect suggested pronunciations for a comprehensive list of names that appear in English liturgy.

4" x 6¾"  Softcover booklet, 47 pages

ISBN-13: 978-0-9786627-3-8
ISBN-10: 0-9786627-3-3

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