Finding Your Treasure

A Monastic Journey through Lent

The Benedictine Monks of Münsterschwarzach Abbey

The way to yourself, to your own center, is seldom straightforward and often full of surprises. Finding Your Treasure helps us discover something new and perhaps forgotten. For example, answers to the questions: What do I really want? What sustains me? What do I need for my life to succeed? But even rocky terrain must be crossed, dark sides appear. But one thing is certain: only those who set off can arrive. But we can travel with the certainty that God joins us with every step. In fact, he already expects us. We come to realize that we find God when we are at home with ourselves.

Paperback   –   ISBN: 978-08091-5459-3   –   $14.95

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Via Crucis

Meditations on the Stations of the Cross

Ralph Wright, OSB

Besides being a meditation on the Way of the Cross, this book reminds the reader that, in Jesus, our God, who as John’s First Letter reminds us, "is love," has revealed his complete, personal, and total love for each person that he has created.

Our freedom, which makes us capable of responding to this love, is the "only entity" that can, by sin, prevent this happening. In the measure that we "want" to receive this conversion, the Holy Spirit mysteriously kicks off the process.

The realization of how much Jesus loves me and has already suffered for me evokes this free response even when we can’t understand how the two things work together—grace and my freedom.

The "purgatorial" process of healing that needs to go on in each of us, damaged as we are by our sins, happens in ways that only God decides. Only my "free will" can stop him.

He is head-over-heels in love with each person he died for.

Paperback   –   ISBN: 978-08091-5477-7   –   $9.95

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What Are We Hoping For?

Reflections on Lent & Easter

Richard Leonard, SJ

What Are We Hoping For? presents Fr. Leonard's contemporary perspective and insight in a series of refreshing stories and reflections that will assist the reader in understanding the seasons of Lent and Easter. The reflections are both thoughtful and challenging, making them an ideal resource for prayer. They will help readers reflect on the gospel stories and will provide an excellent aid to homilists seeking new ideas for these popular seasonal readings.

Highlights:
• Reflections on Lent and Easter by a bestselling author
•  Based on the gospel stories of the liturgical seasons
•  Stories are concise, accessible, fresh, and engaging, based upon experience
•  Ideal for parish group reflection and discussion

Paperback   –   ISBN: 978-08091-4966-7   –   $9.95

eBook   –   ISBN: 978-15876-8548-4   –   $6.67

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A Path into Life

Reflections for Lent and Easter

Walter Kasper

Cardinal Walter Kasper offers here thought-provoking reflections on Lent and Easter, inviting us to ask, "Why and for what am I here? What is the meaning of my life? What is my vocation as a Christian? Where am I going? Have I made a mistake as regards my path and my direction, or am I on the right path?"

Kasper emphasizes that "When we think about our life in this way, each of us has a reason to repent and to direct his and her life anew toward Christ and toward Easter. With this new orientation, contemplating the passion of Christ becomes a path of Easter, a path of transition, of transformation, and of grace, a path of hope. On this path, we find life" (from the introduction).

Hardcover   –   ISBN: 978-08091-0656-1   –   $16.95

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Disciples of the Risen Christ

Cardinal Carlo Martini on Lent and Easter

Cardinal Carlo Martini

Cardinal Martini's book of reflections on the celebrations of Lent and Easter are a wonderful tool for deeper, less distracted spiritual meditation with emphasis on the sacraments, the Holy Spirit, and what it means to be a Christian.

"The reflections of Cardinal Martini set forth in this volume revolve mainly around three main themes: the Eucharist, Easter Sunday, and Pentecost. In instituting the Eucharist during the Last Supper, we contemplate the foreshadowing of what happens in the passion and resurrection of Christ (Jesus freely giving the gift of life for every single sinner) and at the same time, the merciful love of Jesus for his church, and the assurance of his very presence now and forever through the sacrament."
"Cardinal Martini's meditations in the end invite the reader to a more lively Christian experience around the Eucharist, starting with a renewed commitment to the inner life, culminating in a more generous exercise of charity."
      —from the Introduction

Paperback   –   ISBN: 978-08091-4943-8   –   $16.95

eBook   –   ISBN: 978-15876-8534-7   –   $11.36

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Thirst

Our Desire for God, God's Desire for Us

José Tolentino Mendonça

Here is the retreat Fr. Mendonça preached before the papal household during Lent 2018.

The theme Mendonça explores is that of thirst, returning again and again to the story of Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at the well. The thirst is mutual: we go to the well to meet Jesus, and Jesus goes there to find us. This theme recurs throughout the scriptures, in both Old and New Testaments—to the very end of the Book of Revelation:

The Spirit and the bride say, "Come."
And let everyone who hears say, "Come."
And let everyone who is thirsty come.
Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift.

There is also an element of restlessness in it, reminiscent of Augustine, "our hearts are restless until they rest in you."

Paperback   –   ISBN: 978-08091-5438-8   –   $17.95

eBook   –   ISBN: 978-15876-8833-1   –   $12.03

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