Doubts Loneliness and Rejection

Catherine De Hueck Doherty

Alba House

Poustinia: Encountering God in Silence, Solitude and Prayer The renowned modern spiritual classic! 
Catherine Doherty brings readers the profound traditions of Christian spirituality surrounding the Russian word poustinia, which means desert. Catherine combines her insights into the great spiritual traditions of the Russian Church with her very personal experience of life with Christ. 
How to create a hermitage in which you can taste the joy of Christian solitude, and meet God face to face in the midst of a godless world. 
Catherine emphasizes poustinia of the heart, an interiorized poustinia, a silent chamber carried always and everywhere in which to contemplate God within. Learn how our desert can be in the marketplace, in the midst of countless conferences, traffic jams, bus tripsor a hospital ward. Written by one who knows by experience, Poustinia brings consolation with its vision of a personal desert that can bloom in simple, profound prayer.

Poustinia: Christian Spirituality of the East for Western Man

Religion & Spirituality

Ave Maria Pr

These stories are alive with God! Published long before the "Chicken Soup For The Soul" series, "Not Without Parables" far surpasses it with profoundly REAL stories that touch not just surface emotions -- but penetrate deeply the depths of one's heart and soul... 
A magic fireside of symbol and myth, of fantasy and stark reality. This book is not for Christians only. It is for every seeker who hasnt forgotten how to cry tears of joy or sadness. Who hasnt forgotten how to listen to a good story, especially a timeless love story. 
In Part I of this extraordinary collection, Catherine brings us around the fireside of her childhood home in the Russia of old, where she sat wide-eyed at the feet of holy pilgrims who had knocked on her parents door asking for food and shelter on their way to and from shrines. 
In Part II she takes us through the Blue Door of Madonna House into an inspiring world of ordinary miracles, peopled by such famous figures as Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, Thomas Merton. Yet its true heroes are unforgettable people who perhaps never found fame, but found glory. The German Jew, the communist, the homeless men who became priests, the prostitute who discovered herself kneeling at Jesus feet, and more. 
In Part III we find out how things get better, as Lady Avarice grows Bountiful, Pity turns to Love, Sorrow becomes Joy, Pride becomes Humble, and Prudence becomes gloriously Imprudent. 
Look with new eyes at the people and events we encounter each day!

Not without parables: Stories of yesterday, today, and eternity

Ave Maria Press

Meditations and reflections on the unique charism, spirituality, and mission of the Priest! 
Are you a priest searching for clear answers to questions about the meaning of the priesthood, or a layman considering becoming a priest? 
Or are you a layperson seeking better awareness and appreciation of Gods gifts to the Church in and through His priests? 
Dear Father: A Message of Love to Priests, by Catherine Doherty, is the book for you. To read yourself or to give as a gift to challenge, encourage, reassure, inspire any priest or aspiring priest, or layperson in relationship with priests. 
A priest is a man whose goal is to be another Christ. A priest is a man who lives to serve... A priest is the hand of Gods mercy. A priest is the reflection of Gods love. 
Read these chapters and hear the laity in their cry: Dont Desert Us!, Give Us God!, Cry to the Lord for His Church! Understand priests struggle, and their role: Sharing Christs Loneliness, Christ Re-crucified, A Joy to the World, Holocausts of Love. 
- Understand better what it is to be a priest - Deepen your confidence as a priest or in your priests - Acquire greater clarity as to how to serve as a priest

Dear Father: A Message of Love to Priests

Worship & Devotion

Madonna House Pubns

The earth is weeping... how can we heal it? The heavy treads of our modern machinery pound the earth into submission our society has become expert at efficiently taking from the earth, but what do we give the earth in return? Is this the proper stewardship of the earth that God has entrusted us with? Concerns are growing about genetically engineered superfood and pesticide use. Animals are being cloned for use as organ donors, and human cloning may be just around the corner. The panic over Mad Cow Disease is a chilling example of the real price which we may all pay for cows being fed cheaply instead of nutritiously. In this remarkably prophetic work, Catherine Doherty helps shed some light on these important issues, with practical, down-to-earth guidance for farmers everywhere whether you are a backyard gardener or industry professional. Drawing on experience of her father's extensive farm in twentieth century Russia, Catherine Doherty pleads for integrity in making the earth fecund with healthy foods. Written from the perspective of a small farm named "St. Benedict Acres" developed by and for Madonna House (the community founded by the author), this book urges farmers to integrate Christianity into their farming, into the care of their portion of the Lord's vineyard.

Apostolic Farming: Healing the Earth

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

As problems, situations, needs and questions arose during the day-to-day life of the Madonna House Apostolate, Catherine Doherty sat down and penned these "Letters to the Children of My Spirit."

Dearly Beloved: Volume I (1956-1963) (Letters to the Children of My Spirit , Vol 1)

This collection of meditations will inspire you, encourage you, set you on fire, eager to live The Gospel Without Compromise. Learn how to live Gods great commandment to love; recognize His great love for us; find peace and happiness in loving Him back. Change the world and whatever needs changing through His transforming power. Discover the sublime challenge of His call to us to live the Gospel. How strange that modern Christians seem to miss the greatest point of their faith! To so many, God is The Man with the big stick. The great commandment to love God with all ones heart has been turned into a threat: Toe the line or else youll go to hell! Yet the gospel can be summed up by saying it is the tremendous, tender, compassionate, gentle, extraordinary, explosive, revolutionary law of Gods love.

The Gospel Without Compromise

Will the faith of Holy Russia help renew the faith of the West? 
Catherine Dohertys zeal for bringing people to Christ led her to write about the Christian customs of the Russia of her childhood in a way that feeds our faith. 
The faith of Old Russia endured through the Revolution and the Communist era and still endures today. My Russian Yesterdays is a book of the ordinary Russian people and of the solid, simple, yet abiding faith which was the joy and inspiration of their life. Is this the sort of example which will lead us to Gods peace and order in the midst of our modern, complex, and fear-burdened world?

My Russian Yesterdays

Christian Books & Bibles

Dearly Beloved: Volume III (1974-1983) (Letters to the Children of My Spirit , Vol 3)

Discover how Christians celebrated Christmas before the days of television, shopping malls, and the Internet... Catherine Doherty is well known for reviving many holy Christian traditions. In Donkey Bells: Advent and Christmas, Catherine s three-in-one book on this most expectant of holiday seasons, you ll receive wonderful gifts: Meaningful and heartwarming stories, the telling of which will surely become a family Christmas tradition. Including: The Little Christmas Angel O'Ryan, How Pride Became Humble, The Christmas Gift, Christmas in Harlem, The Bruised Reed, and others. Customs which you can adopt into your own Christmas celebration, such as: The Advent Wreath, The 'O' Antiphons, Baking Christmas Foods and Decorating, and The Blessing of The Christmas Tree. Traditions surrounding important Advent and Christmas feast days are presented, including: St. Nicholas, The Immaculate Conception, Feast of the Holy Family, New Year's Eve, Epiphany, and more. Earthy and inspiring meditations to prepare the entire family for Christ's coming, including: A Candle in Our Hearts, Little Things, The Gurgle of a Baby, Where Love Is God Is, Looking into the Child's Eyes, Advent: A Modern Bethlehem, A Short Season--A Long Journey, and many more. Volume two of this series is Season of Mercy: Lent and Easter Meditations and Traditions by Catherine Doherty also available.

Donkey Bells: Advent and Christmas (Seasonal Customs Vol. 1)

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