Stories of Hymns

Religion & Spirituality

Rutler, Fr. George

Christian Books & Bibles

EWTN Publishing, Inc.

Mother Angelica's meditations combine the spiritual insights of a master with the warmth of a loving mother. Her short but powerful reflections will lift your soul to Heaven and lead you into a thoughtful and penetrating reflection on the love of God and the life of Our Lady. Beloved by countless Catholics when they were first released in the 1970s, these devotional meditations including the Mysteries of the Rosary, the Way of the Cross, and other original prayers are a treasury that will allow you to pray as Mother faithfully taught. Keep this beautiful hardback edition by your side and you'll integrate the spiritual wisdom of Mother Angelica into your prayer life while experiencing the traditional devotions of the Church in a fresh and rewarding way.

Praying with Mother Angelica

Mother Angelica

From the founder of EWTN Global Catholic Network comes this profoundly practical, humorous, and common-sense approach to answering life's most vexing questions. Mother Angelica gently confronts your real-life struggles, lifting your heart to God and leading your soul to heaven as she provides answers from a life dedicated to God not the promises of a world entrenched in vice. Mother Angelica will become your trusted companion in the battle for virtue as you read through her advice and answer her call to grow closer to Christ. She'll help you conquer your most deeply rooted sins, and she'll lead you to overcome the fear of death, the pain of guilt, and the seemingly benign attachments you have to the things of this world. She'll also lead you to a more profound understanding of the spiritual life, explaining why it's so hard to be good, why suffering must happen to even the best of us, and why God doesn't answer all your prayers. With Mother Angelica as your guide, you'll also learn: <li>How to pray even when God seems distant or silent.</li> <li>Ways to overcome the difficulty in believing in God.</li> <li>The five steps to discovering God's will for you.</li> <li>The eight kinds of suffering and how each can shape and purify your life</li> <li>Ways to avoid the most common mistakes in praying to God.</li> <li>What to ask for and what not to ask for in prayer</li> <li>Ways to overcome lust and what God is trying to teach you with this affliction.</li> <li>How to throw your guilt into the ocean of God's mercy.</li> <li>How to forgive, even when your pain is justified.</li> <li>The difference between good pride and bad pride.</li> <li>How to listen as your guardian angel cautions and inspires you.</li> <li>How Jesus gives meaning to your loneliness. </li> <li>Why there is a heaven and what you'll do there.</li>

Mother Angelica's Answers, Not Promises

Join Mother Angelica on a penetrating tour into the sacramental life of the Church. In these pages, Mother Angelica will lead you to discover the spiritual secrets embedded in each of the seven sacraments and how those secrets can help you live the sacramental life to its fullest. Mother Angelica combines the personal reflections of a saintly life with the teachings of a master catechist, providing you with a spiritual handbook that will help you get more out of Holy Communion, expose you to the grace God desperately wants to give you in Confession, the beautiful gifts found only in the Sacrament of Matrimony, and how you can enter into the mystery of Christ in Adoration. Written while embracing the charism of her order which is Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, you'll notice that the words written here are unmistakably Mother's work, but also unmistakably the work of the Holy Spirit. If you want to understand the many gifts God is offering you through the seven Sacraments, there is no better guide than this book by EWTN's foundress, Mother Angelica.

Mother Angelica's Quick Guide to the Sacraments

From the spiritual writings and reflections of Mother Angelica comes this lucid and life-transforming book for anyone who struggles with suffering, or finds difficulty in persevering in your daily responsibilities. Mother Angelica provides consolation and advice that only a spiritual mother can provide, helping you to understand the purpose of suffering, how it can be redemptive, and when to know you re allowing your suffering to go to waste. You'll also learn about dryness in prayer and how it can be a gift, as well as how to respond to what she alls spiritual hangovers. You'll learn how Christ is closest to you when He is silent, and how His silence can be one of the most powerful and purifying elements of the spiritual life. Finally, Mother Angelica shows you that what Jesus needs most from you is gratitude, trust, and, indeed, weakness. Follow the advice Mother Angelica offers in these pages, and you'll soon find yourself consoled and reawakened to the generous grace God is daily offering to you.

Mother Angelica on Suffering and Burnout

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Mother Angelica revolutionized Catholic media and popularized the universal call to holiness, bringing this fundamental Catholic teaching to generations of the faithful. Here is the essence of Mother's thought on this topic, presented in ways that only she can teach. It's Mother Angelica at her best as teacher and mother informing you about holiness while deftly but gently guiding you along the narrow path to sanctity. Imbued with all that Mother learned from her decades in cloistered religious life as well as from her ventures in mass media, these pages will help you grow quickly in love of Christ and His Church. Mother Angelica's Guide to Practical Holiness: essential reading for every Catholic who is seeking holiness in our difficult times.

Mother Angelica's Guide to Practical Holiness

As Mother Angelica spent time in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, she d write down insights she was given on the life of Jesus and His Immaculate Mother. Those insights have now been collected in this first-of-its-kind volume, bringing you to a deeper appreciation for the life story of Our Lady, the personality of Jesus, the depths of His love, the Beatitudes, and His Sacred Heart. With Mother Angelica as your guide, you will not only come to know Our Lord and His Mother in an intimate way, you will understand the essential messages they deliver to you and to the rest of the world. This is a perfect companion to provide you with material to meditate on before or after Mass, during Adoration, or simply during a quiet time of prayer during the busy day.

Mother Angelica on Christ and Our Lady

He seemed to have it all a beautiful family, a big house, and the celebrity that comes with being a star player in the National Football League. In the late 60s and early 70s, Danny Abramowicz was the toast of New Orleans, but as his Catholic faith faded into the background he felt alone and helpless against the temptations and expectations of fame. And so one day he called out that simple prayer: Lord, please help me! This book is about the answer to that prayer. Danny Abramowicz gives an inside view of his life in the NFL alongside the reinvigoration of his Catholic Faith and the development of a prayerful relationship with Jesus Christ. Join him on his journey from cultural Catholic to EWTN television host and evangelizer of Catholic men across the country. Even if you didn't play and coach professional football with the likes of Archie Manning and Mike Ditka, you will find Danny's down-to- earth telling of his story approachable and relatable. Most of all, Danny brings the hope of brotherhood in Christ to all men who have felt, or are now feeling, the despair of professional, personal, and spiritual failure. Our world needs courageous men of Christ to step into the breach, armed with the virtues of faith and love and hope. Learn about becoming a leader not just from Danny's coaching experiences, but also from his work forming and sustaining men's groups in nearly every city in which he has lived. Finally, in this book Danny presents his spiritual fitness workout a time-tested way to build up the muscles of faith to go to spiritual battle in a hostile world.

Crossing the Goal

Danny Abramowicz

The wisdom of the Church is timeless, and the grace She bestows on the faithful is everlasting. In Graceful Living, you will experience the truth and grace of the Catholic faith through daily pearls of wisdom from two thousand years of spiritual masters from the first years of Christianity through the present day. Each day brings you a delicate sample of the truth of the Catholic faith, as well as practical and incisive questions to stimulate prayer and reflection that have been written by Johnnette Benkovic, host of EWTN's Women of Grace. Johnnette has collected these spiritual gems over the course of many years and has brought them together for the first time in this book for daily meditation. These reflections will challenge you to go deeper in your prayer and self-examination, bringing to light aspects of each quotation that might be missed at first glance. Moreover, they will help you start your day by lifting your heart, soul, and mind to God. Throughout the year you'll read and be introduced to scores of saints. You'll read Venerable Fulton Sheen on the nature of love, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross on women's spirituality, St. Thérèse of Lisieux on prayer and her Little Way, St. John Paul II on evangelization, Sts. Kateri Tekakwitha and Josephine Bakhita on finding grace in the hardest of times, as well as rare Christian poetry that hasn't been published in decades. You will also find grace-filled stories from Johnnette's own experiences throughout these pages, along with all new short biographies of key saints whose lives exude the grace we are all called to share in. Begin each day by reading Graceful Living and you'll be exposed to a rich treasury of Catholic wisdom that will remain fresh year after year.

Graceful Living: Meditations to Help You Grow Closer to God Day by Day

Johnnette Benkovic

Hymns are more than beautiful musical compositions; they provide us with a heightened language for praising and speaking to God, all while teaching us theology that reflects both the depth and complexity of Our Lord. Sacred hymns in our day have given way to fifth-rate poetry set to fourth-rate music, as C.S. Lewis once remarked. At times, the music used in worship can make us feel as though the culture is usurping the Church rather than being transfigured by it. There is a clear and present need to resurrect those distinctively different songs with a distinctively different vocabulary for people who want to live distinctive lives as followers of Christ. In these pages, Fr. George William Rutler introduces and reflects upon dozens of the greatest hymns written from the earliest years of the Church through the Twentieth Century. The text and composition of each hymn is included, as well as inspiring accounts of their authors and composers, fascinating stories and historical events connected with them, and notes on the significant contributions each one made to theology and music. Fr. Rutler has recovered here a rich musical legacy that will help us to give glory to our God who is Lord of all.

The Stories of Hymns

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Fr. George William Rutler

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