"For those who want the minds and hearts of God's 'little ones' to know and love Scripture in a most understanding and beautiful way, the answer is, Saved by the Alphabet. This is done not only in its clear and simple text, but also in the beauty of its art. God bless you!" -Mother Mary Assumpta Long, OP, Co-Foundress, Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist Saved by the Alphabet is a scriptural alphabet book for children. Children will learn their ABCs while learning about their Catholic Faith because each letter of the alphabet represents an actual person found in Sacred Scripture who plays a role in our history of salvation. Written to be enjoyed by the entire family, Saved by the Alphabet is the perfect companion book to Counting on Faith, a scriptural counting book also available from Divine Providence Press.

Saved by the Alphabet

Religion & Spirituality

Prater, Maurice

Christian Books & Bibles

Divine Providence Press

***OFFICIAL PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 18, 2014***
“I have lived an American life not unlike many others. I was raised in the suburbs by loving parents.
I was a good, but not exceptional, student. I played sports and had friends and did the sometimes-smart, but oftentimes-foolish things that teenagers do. I went to college. I got a job. I got a better job. I changed careers. I fell in love. I got married. My wife and I had children. We are raising them the best we can, and not unlike the way we were raised. Life is good.
. . . [But] in my life of recognizable broad strokes, of familiar small moments, something quite unusual and remarkable did happen to me: on the morning of November 2nd, 2011, All Souls Day, God visited me.”
So begins the prologue of Andrew McNabb’s memoir, Eight Days, his recounting of the ecstatic mystical religious experiences that took place in his life over an eight day period in 2011. With literary attention, this career short-story writer, husband, and father of four details how he was swept up into a place “not quite here” and “not quite there,” a place in which he experienced both the ethereal and the terrifying, the awe-inspiring and the confounding.
“Over these eight days,” he writes, “in addition to direct ecstatic union with the individual members of the Blessed Trinity, I was given key spiritual insights and illuminations, and was witness to awe-inspiring divine manipulations of both nature and humanity . . . [but] perhaps most disturbingly, in addition to all the good, I was also given an awareness of the real presence of evil—and even interaction with it.” McNabb’s experiences are often thought to be the exclusive domain of medieval saints. While the author admits he is far from saintly, his account provides crucial insight into—and perhaps even an answer to—the most important question ever asked: Does God exist?
Published here under the same cover is Virtue, Andrew McNabb’s book-length prose poem, or “mystical prayer.” These two works are inextricably linked; as he details in Eight Days, it was at the very moment that McNabb typed the period which would end Virtue that his odyssey began in emphatic fashion.
Virtue is a paean, a poetic and prayerful work that seeks, also, to be instructive by way of a logical progression which culminates, ultimately, at that highest point on the spiritual mountain: union with Him in true love.
Andrew McNabb grew up in Massachusetts, and is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and New York University. He is the author of The Body of This, a critically acclaimed short-story collection. He lives in Portland, Maine.
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Eight Days & Virtue

McNabb, Andrew

Counting on Faith is a scriptural counting book for children. Children will learn to count while learning their Catholic Faith because each number represents an important truth found in Scripture. Written to be enjoyed by the entire family, Counting on Faith will stir the soul and inspire the mind.

Counting on Faith

This work by Aquinas begins by discussing different types of political systems, using the classical classifications. Only rule which is directed "towards the common good of the multitude is fit to be called kingship," he argues. Rule by one man who "seeks his own benefit from his rule and not the good of the multitude subject to him" is called a "tyrant." He argues that "Just as the government of a king is the best, so the government of a tyrant is the worst," maintaining that rule by a single individual is the most efficient for accomplishing either good or evil purposes. He then proceeds to discuss "how provision might be made that the king may not fall into tyranny," stressing education and noting that "government of the kingdom must be so arranged that opportunity to tyrannize is removed." He then proceeds to consider what honor is due to kings, to discuss the appropriate qualities of a king, and to make some points on founding and maintaining a city. Principium autem intentionis nostrae hinc sumere oportet, ut quid nomine regis intelligendum sit, exponatur.

De Regno: On Kingship

Politics & Social Sciences

AQUINAS, ST. THOMAS

Philosophy

Gabriele Kuby and Michael D. O’Brien, internationally published authors, cry from the rooftops what many feel and think in the midst of the crisis of abuse of sexuality in the Catholic Church: Admit the truth, repent, clean the house of the Lord, whatever the cost. They deplore the fact that this course of action has not even begun—too extensive, too powerful are thenetworks of those who would rather change the perennial teaching of the Church than convert. As Catholics who love the Church, the authors believe that behind the visible darkness is the light of a divine plan leading to the ultimate victory ofChrist.Gabriele Kuby, author of the book The Sexual Revolution: Destruction of Freedom in the Name of Freedom, sees the crisis of the Church as an outflow of the abuse of sexuality in the whole of Western society. Michael O’Brien famous for his novel Father Elijah, accounts for the first time his devastating personal experience of abuse in a Catholic boarding school and reflects on lessons we must learn from the current crisis. As compass and map in a disorientated world, Abuse of Sexuality in the Catholic Church includes two important documents by true shepherds of the Catholic flock, Gerhard Cardinal Müller and Pope Benedict XVI. em

Abuse of Sexuality in the Catholic Church: with an essay by Michael D. O’Brien as well as Gerhard Cardinal Müller’s Manifesto of Faith & Benedict XVI em.’s The Church and the Scandal of Sexual Abuse

O'Brien, Michael D.

Kuby, Gabriele

The human community is never more endangered than when totalitarianism appears to be benevolent. The new totalitarian’s idealism, his “humanitarianism,” his public image, may all communicate to us many good things, and thus our imagination is captured to the detriment of real discernment. We soon find ourselves succumbing to a magnetic attraction, and voting for leaders whose agendas mix admirable elements and fatal flaws. We then discover that we have elevated to positions of maximum influence men who would sacrifice human lives for the sake of “peace” or a thriving economy or some other value. Our guilt is denied, our sense of personal responsibility is numbed, to the degree that we perceive the sacrificed lives as statistical abstractions and our personal comforts as more real. By such choices we are revealed to ourselves. Where our treasure is, there is our heart. By and large, in the once-Christian democracies of the West we have been measured in the scales and found wanting.Author Biography: Born in Ottawa in 1948, Michael O’Brien is the author of twenty-eight books, notably the novel Father Elijah and eleven other novels, which have been published in fourteen languages and widely reviewed in both secular and religious media in North America and Europe.His essays on faith and culture have appeared in international journals such as Communio, Catholic World Report, Catholic Dossier, Inside the Vatican, The Chesterton Review and others. For seven years he was the editor of the Catholic family magazine Nazareth Journal.He has given hundreds of public talks and lectures at universities and churches throughout Europe and North America, and has frequently appeared as a guest on television programs in several nations. Since 1970 he has also worked as a professional artist and has had more than 40 exhibits across North America. Since 1976 he has painted religious imagery exclusively, a field that ranges from liturgical commissions to visual reflections on the meaning of the human person. His paintings hang in churches, monasteries, universities, community collections and private collections throughout the world.O’Brien lives near Combermere, Ontario. He and his wife Sheila have six children and ten grandchildren.

The Family & the New Totalitarianism

"What Color is Heaven?" is a scriptural picture book that is visually stunning, revealing brilliant colors found in the Bible. While learning their colors from this book, children will be captivated as they also learn about their Catholic Faith. Written to be enjoyed by the entire family, "What Color is Heaven?" is the perfect companion book to "Counting on Faith" and "Saved by the Alphabet," scriptural counting and alphabet books also available from Divine Providence Press.

What Color Is Heaven?

Children's Books

Religions

Kiss Me Goodnight is about the innocent love a family has for one another. Real to life, and rooted in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, this is a book for the ages everlasting. Written to be enjoyed by the entire family, Kiss Me Goodnightis the perfect companion to other faithful books by Divine Providence Press: Counting on Faith, Saved by the Alphabet, and What Color is Heaven? May God bless your family with the wholesome kiss of eternal joy!

Kiss Me Goodnight

Literature & Fiction

About the Author\nR. Jared Staudt, PhD serves as the Director of Formation for the Archdiocese of Denver and as Visiting Associate Professor at the Augustine Institute. He earned his undergraduate and master's degrees in Catholic Studies from the University of St. Thomas and his doctorate in systematic theology from Ave Maria University. He is the author of The Beer Option: Brewing a Catholic Culture Yesterday & Today, as well as the editor of The University and the Church; Don J. Briel's Essays on Education. He and his wife, Anne, have six children and he is a Benedictine oblate.\nRestoring Humanity weaves together a many-colored coat of cultural evangelization, centering on how the Christian faith renews all aspects of human life. The book lays out a vision of history and culture that flows from the Incarnation as a ground for a sacramental reality. In turn, the human person, who searches for tangible meaning, is torn by the tension between beauty and vanity, even as fallen humanity seeks redemption in the beauty of Christ. From these general principles, the book examines foundational elements of culture in the land, family life, and education. Land grounds the primordial cultural mission given to Adam and Eve and plays a crucial role in salvation history. The home serves as a central place to build a coherent Christian culture through familial prayer, work, leisure, and mission. Education builds upon the family’s primordial role by forming the mind in a coherent vision of life, as well as developing habits that will leaven the wider world. Finally, the Church seeks to renew all of society by restoring faith to its central and unifying role, which it accomplishes by engaging in the New Evangelization that St. John Paul II linked directly to the renewal of culture. R. Jared Staudt, PhD serves as the Director of Formation for the Archdiocese of Denver and as Visiting Associate Professor at the Augustine Institute. He earned his undergraduate and master's degrees in Catholic Studies from the University of St. Thomas and his doctorate in systematic theology from Ave Maria University. He is the author of the The Eucharist: What Every Catholic Should Know (forthcoming) and The Beer Option: Brewing a Catholic Culture Yesterday & Today, as well as the editor of The University and the Church; Don J. Briel's Essays on Education. He and his wife, Anne, have six children and he is a Benedictine oblate.

Restoring Humanity: Essays on the Evangelization of Culture

Staudt, R. Jared

Kiss Me Goodnight is about the innocent love a family has for one another. Real to life, and rooted in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, this is a book for the ages everlasting. Written to be enjoyed by the entire family, Kiss Me Goodnight is the perfect companion to other faithful books by Divine Providence Press: Counting on Faith, Saved by the Alphabet, and What Color is Heaven? May God bless your family with the wholesome kiss of eternal joy!

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Saved by the Alphabet

Eight Days & Virtue

Counting on Faith

De Regno: On Kingship

Abuse of Sexuality in the Catholic Church: with an essay by Michael D. O’Brien as well as Gerhard Cardinal Müller’s Manifesto of Faith & Benedict XVI em.’s The Church and the Scandal of Sexual Abuse

The Family & the New Totalitarianism

What Color Is Heaven?

Kiss Me Goodnight

Restoring Humanity: Essays on the Evangelization of Culture

Kiss Me Goodnight