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To Set Before A Queen
Techniques of Icon and Wall Painting
 Aidan Hart This book is a comprehensive and clear explanation of the techniques and materials needed for egg tempera panel painting, gilding, fresco and secco wall painting, written by someone with over twenty years proffesional experience. Although the context is the icon tradition, the techniques covered will be equally useful for any practitioner and student of these mediums. It also explains the history and theology of these sacred images. The last two decades have seen a bourgeoning interest in icons in the west, as much outside the Orthodox Church as inside it. Icons are being commissioned by Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals and churches, as well as by individuals of many demoniations. This very broad interest in icons and the attraction of the Orthodox spirituality behind the icon has greatly increased the number of people who want to learn about the art of iconography. Gloriously illustrated in colour and with a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales. |
| 978 085244 215 9 480 pages hardback £40.00 (Available in USA from Liturgy Training Publications www.ltp.org) |
Festa Paschalia
A History of the Holy Week Liturgy in the Roman Rite
Philip Goddard
This new Gracewing title provides the first comprehensive history in English for eighty years. Describing how the first apostles and disciples, and their immediate successors, came during 33AD to celebrate an annual feast of the Resurrection, and the form which this first century celebration took. It goes on to explain the subsequent changes, elaborations, innovations and developments to the ceremonies which made them as they are today.
978 085244 764 2 - 352 pages £15.99
Pope Benedict XVI and the Liturgy
Anselm Gribbin
Joseph Ratzinger has been a well-kn
own figure in Catholic circles for the last forty years. His views have made him a source of controversy to some, while to others he is seen as a prophetic and fearless voice in an increasingly secular world. He has spent his life as a theologian and now a prominent and inescapable feature of his pontificate is the attention which he has given to the sacred liturgy.
978 085244 755 0 256 pages £12.99
Edmund Campion
A new and definitive life of Campion. Richard Simpson's classic biography has been thoroughly revised and enlarged by Fr Peter Joseph. With a foreword by Cardinal Pell. St Edmund Campion, born in London in 1540, was an outstanding student and orator from his early years. After schooling at St Paul's, and Christ Church, he entered St John's College, Oxford, where he studied philosophy, theology and the classics.
As Master of Rhetoric at Oxford, he became legendary for his eloquence, talents and winning personality. Caught in the middle of the Elizabethan Reformation, he compromised his Catholic faith at University, took the Oath of Supremacy, and was ordained an Anglican deacon. After a change of heart and retreat into Ireland, he spent two years at Dr Allen's seminary at Douay, and then went to Rome to enter the Society of Jesus in 1573. In 1580 he was commissioned by the Jesuit General to minister to the persecuted Catholics in England. He entered England in June 1580 and began a secret ministry, passing from home to home in thirteen counties, via an underground Catholic network. A nationwide man-hunt was begun for him, but he evaded his pursuers and secretly printed his book, Ten Reasons, which caused a sensation. Betrayed by a false Catholic, Campion was captured in July 1581, imprisoned in the Tower of London and tortured on the rack. On 1st December 1581, before an enormous crowd at Tyburn, he was fearlessly martyred by hanging, drawing and quartering. 978 085244 734 5 688 pages £25.00 hardback 
Newman: His Life and Spirituality
An Intellectual & Spiritual Biography of John Henry Newman
Louis Bouyer
The author studied important unpublished documents by Newman at Birmingham Oratory and addressed the delicate question of Newman's sensitive temperament, the key to entering the world of this great theologian. For Bouyer, one of the principle elements of the spiritual universe of Newman is a genuine mysticism of Christ: "Irreplaceable mirror outside of which God's radiance eludes fallen man and only appears as a shadow."
Bouyer shows that St.Augustine was the great apostle to the early Church, and St.Thomas Aquinas was to the Middle Ages, so is Newman that for modern times. A work of major signifance for anyone who wants to approach the towering figure of John Henry Newman.
978-1-58617-502-3 410 pages £15.99
The Virgin Martyrs 
A Hagiographical and Mystagogical Interpretation
Michael J.K.Fuller
This unique book gives us the interpretive skills to re-read the lives of the saints. In modern times, the medieval stories of the saints have been ever simply ignored or have been iterpreted as colourful examples of cultural history, all the while ignoring their central character and intial purpose: Christ. But the legends and stories of the saints were always told within and around the sacramental and liturgical life of the Church: in catechesis, in homilies, even in the names by which people were baptised. In other words, the saints were tools in preaching and promoting the Gospel of Christ. This clearly written book is a search for a way to read the medieval legends of the saints-all saints-through the stories of the Virgin Martyrs, so that their original and powerful stories speak to us once again.
978-159525-022-3 262 pages £15.99
Stories of Karol Gian Franco Svidercoschi
What events, what forces, what relationships shaped the man who would walk in the shoes of the fisherman? Numerous biographies have told the work of the bishop of Cracow, the brilliant university professor, and the young Polish priest. But what of the boy born in Wadowice and his more private life? This book tells the story of the future pontiff from the new perspective, a perspective that allows us to met him and know him as Karol
978 085244 396 5 - 162 pages £7.99.
Confirmed in the Faith
Dora Nash
This book is the answer to my prayer. It is a wonderfully practical and yet thorough course for confirmation. It will be welcomed by all those who prepare children for confirmation, in parishes, schools, as well as parents. It is inexpensive so pupils can have a copy each and then keep it as a souvenir of confirmation. Catholic Times
The ideal course for older children: a comprehensive introduction to commitment to Christ through the Sacrament of Confirmation in six sessions.
978 085244 545 7 64 pages £4.99
Learning to Love
at the School of John Paul II and Benedict XVI
Livio Melina (translated by Joel Wallace)
This beautiful little book places the reader at the feet of Pope John Paul II and his successor, Pope Benedict XVI to learn the "fascinating beauty" of human love. At this "school of love", one is drawn to the human mystery, since "Christ reveals man to himself and makes known to him his sublime calling".
"..Learning to Love is a masterpiece, a message every heart is ready for." Prof Carl A.Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus 978 085244 778 9 - 92 pages £6.99
In Memory of Me
A Meditation of the Roman Canon
Milton Walsh
The Roman Canon, also known as the First Eucharistic Prayer, holds a privileged place among texts used in the Mass. With the release of a new English translation of the Latin Roman Missal, Father Milton Walsh's timely meditation on the Roman Canon can help priests, religious, and laity deepen their understanding of the text that for centuries was the only Eucharistic prayer used in the Roman Rite.
978-158617-608-2 165 pages £12.99
Daily Lenten Meditations Prayerful reflections from John Paul II
This volume is a small representation of John Paul II's teaching presented as a help to those who wish to live the Christian Church's season of Lent more meaningfully. The texts have been chosen to help readers, day by day, consider, examine and pray over a theme that is relevant to Lent's call to faith and conversion.
978-085244-278-4 100 pages£7.99hb
Doctors of the Church is the latest Pope Benedict XVI volume published by Our Sunday Visitor. Their teachings and insights not only brought peace and understanding to the Church of their time, but continue to anchor the Church today. Taken directly from the pope's weekly addresses.
978-161278-576-9 240 pages £12.99hb
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