Widely acclaimed study of the character of language and its role in the perception of reality.

The Language of the Rite

Grainger, Roger

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Classics

Song of Bernadette

[Library Edition Audiobook CD in Vinyl case.](Translated by Ludwig Lewisohn)[Read by Johanna Ward] The Song of Bernadette is considered one of the greatest novels of simple and triumphant religious faith to be published in the twentieth century. How the book came to be written is itself an inspirational, even miraculous, story in its own right.  In June 1940, famed Austrian author Franz Werfel and his beautiful wife, Alma Mahler, were on a desperate flight across France, seeking to escape certain death at the hands of the Nazi invaders. Franz had written many articles and given many radio speeches denouncing their tyranny. Repeatedly thwarted in their attempts to cross the French border into neutral Spain, they found temporary refuge in the small town of Lourdes, home of the famous shrine where the virtuous Bernadette received visions of the Virgin Mary and where millions came in faith to seek a miracle.  During his time in Lourdes, Werfel became fascinated with Bernadette's story, and then, as his faith grew, he began to visit the sacred grotto every day, taking the waters and swearing an oath that, should he and his wife be granted escape from the Nazis, he would write the story of Bernadette for all the world to savor.  Franz's prayers were answered. In a harrowing ascent over the Pyrenees mountains, he and Alma fled to Spain and then on to America. Once there, Franz kept his promise. He wrote The Song of Bernadette, his masterpiece, a beautiful fusion of faith and craft.

Literature & Fiction

Werfel, Franz

Genre Fiction

1984, trade paperback edition, Sheed & Ward, London, U.K., 122 pages.

Bio-Ethics and Belief: Religion and Medicine in Dialogue

Medical Books

Mahoney, John

Medicine

The Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God

Right Rev. Bishop Ullathorne

Creed and catechetics ; a catechetical commentary on the creed of the people of God

Kevane, Eugene

The Via Media of the Anglican Church: Illustrated in lectures, letters and tracts written between 1830 and 1841 (The works of Cardinal Newman ; [v. 28, 29])

John Henry Cardinal Newman

The Works of Cardinal Newman - The Via Media of Anglican Church (Volume Ii)

John Henry Newman

<p>First written in the mid-eighteenth century, Butler's Lives of the Saints, now available in a four-volume set was revised in 1956 to include 2,565 saints compared to the original 1,486. Carefully edited by Herbert J. Thurston, S.J., and Donald Attwater to retain the charms of Butler's original prose style, this work of devotion and scholarship offers truths central to Christianity and underlying themes of Christian love.</p>

Butler's Lives of the Saints (4 Volume Set)

Saints belong to the whole history of the church but are especially visible today. One of the most visible legacies of the papacy of John Paul II has been the acceleration and multiplication of processes of beatification and canonization, mainly of figures from the recent past - martyrs under Nazism and Communism, for example. They also reflect the new universality of the Church, including more men and - increasingly, with belated justice - women from the New World and the Third World. These trends are reflected in this volume. It provides a fresh consideration of one saint or blessed for daily reading, selected mainly from among those in the new full edition of "Butler's Lives of the Saints" - with a few more recent examples. The aim is to give a simple, factual presentation of flesh and blood figures. This is also seen as the most truly devotional approach, drawing on Alban Butler's original insight in presenting saints as examples rather than intercessors: 'In the lives of the saints we see the most perfect maxims of the gospel reduced to practice". This is indeed true: if the saints and blessed collected here share one overarching characteristic it is to have put their love of God to work for their fellow men and women as they saw fit - through austerity of life, contemplative prayer, or a myriad embodiments of what we would now call social work. They are holy and examples to us because they lived and died for others, for us.

Butler's Lives of the Saints (Volume 1)

Christian Books & Bibles

Herbert Thurston

Donald Attwater

Catholicism

Butler's Lives of the Saints, Vol. 4

alban-butler

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