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YEAR FOR PRIESTS
Pope Benedict has declared June 2009 to June 2010 as a Year for Priests in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the "dies natalis" of John Mary Vianney, the patron saint of parish priests worldwide. Following up on the Year of St.Paul, The Year for Priests holds a special significance for all as an example of living a counter-cultural life of faith.
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Eucharistic Meditations
Extracts from the writings and instructions of St.John Vianney: The Curé of Ars
St.John Vianney was a peasant priest. In the aftermath of the French Revolution and Napoleonic rule, in a time of anti-clericalism and social and economic disarray, he was appointed parish priest of the obscure and dispiretd village Ars. Over the next forty years he was the agent of a complete spiritual, social and material reform of his parish, which became a joyful refuge and a place of pilgrimage. Men and women would travel for weeks simply to confess before the humble and holy man. His particular devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is manifest in this book of twenty-seven meditations, which had its first English edition two years before his canonization in 1925. St.John is now celebrated as the patron of parish priests.
978 0 940147 03 4 160 pages £6.99
Old Testament Priests and the New Priest
According to the New Testament
Albert Vanhoye
This new edition presents a scriptural study of the meaning of the priesthood in both aspects: as ministerial, and that of all Christians. Recent decades have seen passionate debate in the church about the nature of priesthood. Cardinal Vanhoye's classic study, originally published in English in 1986, provides a much needed exegesis following the New Tesrtament texts that speak of priests and priesthood. By listening to the New Testament and being guided by the texts we share an increasing realisation of the profound meaning of priesthood.
978 085244 003 2 333 pages £14.99 
Priests for the Third Millennium
Sharing Christ's Priesthood
A Bible Study for Catholics
Mike Aquilina
An engaging and insightful Bible study that shows how we are all called to be mediators between God and humanity - especially during Pope Benedict's Year for Priests. Guided by the example of Christ himself, Scripture, and the ordained priests in our midst, renowned author Mike Aquilina reveals the depth of our baptismal call to live and share our faith at home, at work, and in our community.
978 159276 678 9 96 pages £6.99
Vita Communis
The Common Life of the Secular Clergy
Jerome Bertram
Vita Communis - "the common life" - is the term used for community life among priests and other clerics, as opposed to monks and friars. While monasticism is familiar, few are aware that pastoral ('secular') priests have lived in communities for most of the Church's history. Many people have suggested that they could do so again, and that this might help with some of the problems facing solitary priests in the modern world. By exploring what was done in the past, we can suggest what might work in the future, learning from the successes as well as the failures of previous priestly communities.
978 085244 201 2 330 pages £15.99
The Holy Eucharist
Studies on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, its Celebration and Concelebration
Joseph de Sainte-Marie, OCD
Without calling for a change in the post-Conciliar discipline of the Latin Church, the author offers a complete and trenchant historical and dogmatic critique of the recent neglect of the individuallly celebrated mass in favour of concelebration.
978 085244 310 1 472 pages £20.00 due February 2010
Clerical Celibacy in East and West
Be to Me a Father and a Priest
Priestly Celibacy
The Catholic Priest, Image of Christ 
Through Fifteen Centuries of Art
Steen Heidemann - Editor
"Usually images speak louder than words and are more expressive than words and, therefore, a work devoted to the priesthood acquires a very special dimension when, alongside the various texts, the reader can look at illustrations chosen from paintings of the Old Masters who portrayed eminent priests at various stages of their lives.
The priestly minstry is a fundamental element of the Church, exactly as Our Lord Jesus Christ wished. He Himself was and is, for all eternity, the sovereign and eternal Priest of the New Covenant, because, as the Epistle to the Hebrews teaches us. He offered to the Father, on the Cross, the sacrifice of perfect adoration, of thanksgiving, propitiation of sins of the world and the granting of grace for all the spiritual and temporal needs of mankind. In this holiest of Sacrifices which is made by the whole Church every time the Eucharist is celebrated, Christ is present as Priest, Victim and Altar.
This is the Catholic image of the priest and this handsome book will greatly help towards appreciating its very rich facets and the endless ways the grace of God shines through each priest for the glory of the Blessed Trinity and the spiritual welfare of the Church and each Christian within Her."
His Eminence Jorge Cardinal Mendina Estévez
978 085244 178 7 320 pages 560 colour illustrations £40.00hb
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Men of Brave Heart
A Priest Forever
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