In his latest book Angels and Saints: A Biblical Guide to Friendship with God’s Holy Ones, Scott Hahn leads the reader on a journey to discover the heavenly realm of the spiritual. As always he presents his topic deeply rooted in scriptual facts. You will come away from this book with the realization that angels and saints truly are our friends along our journey of life. The book is divided into two parts. The first part details what it means... Read more
PETE: The title of your book “The Urgency of the New Evangelization”, certainly puts a stake in the ground. For those who have yet to read the book, why the urgency? RALPH MARTIN: While we have been very good at emphasizing the mercy and love of God for many years now a certain indifference, even presumption, has crept into many minds and hearts, to the effect: since virtually everyone will be saved there is no real urgency to evangelize. Of... Read more
This week Our Sunday Visitor sponsors the CBB giveaway. One lucky winner will receive a copy of The Urgency of the New Evangelization by Ralph Martin. Click here to read my review of this book. I use Rafflecopter to run my giveaways which makes it simple for you and me! Enter below. The contest starts at midnight tonight EST and will end 12AM EST Friday 5/30 with a winner being announced later that day. Good Luck! a Rafflecopter giveaway Read more
“As Christian culture collapses and we again face a situation that has more in common with the early Church than anything we’ve known in our lifetime, the words of the early Church become more and more meaningful and applicable.” These are the words of author Ralph Martin. They appear later in the book but I feel adequately describe the situation our society is faced with. Dr. Martin uses his latest book The Urgency of the New Evangelization: Answering the Call... Read more
PETE: Your book Through, With and In Him: The Prayer Life of Jesus and How to Make It Our Own, brings into focus an often overlooked point, that Jesus was a practicing Jew. How does this influence us as Catholics? SHANE KAPLER: I don’t think it’s possible to overstate its influence. So much of our liturgy flows directly from the synagogue and Temple liturgy participated in by Jesus and the Apostles. Jesus was adamant that He did not come to abolish the... Read more
This week Angelico Press sponsors their first CBB giveaway. One lucky winner will receive a copy of Through, With and In Him by Shane Kapler. Click here to read my review of this book. I use Rafflecopter to run my giveaways which makes it simple for you and me! Enter below. The contest starts at midnight tonight EST and will end 12AM EST Friday 5/23 with a winner being announced later that day. Good Luck! a Rafflecopter giveaway Read more
There are many books on the market about prayer. Sometimes one comes along that takes a unique approach to the topic. Such is the case with the recently released Through, With, and In Him: The Prayer Life of Jesus and How to Make It Our Own. Author Shane Kapler’s approach to prayer (as the title suggests) is to look at the prayer life of Jesus Christ himself. Its an approach that works and one that reveals a prayer life we... Read more
PETE: Your new book Jesus: A Pilgrimage for lack of better words is massive. How much time went into writing this book? FATHER JAMES MARTIN: In a sense, I’ve been working on it for 25 years—ever since I entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1988. It was then that I started to study and pray about Jesus in earnest. But the book itself took me about five years from start to finish. But every day I worked on it was a... Read more
This week Harper One sponsors their first CBB giveaway. One lucky winner will receive a copy of Jesus: A Pilgrimage by Father James Martin. Click here to read my review of this book. I use Rafflecopter to run my giveaways which makes it simple for you and me! Enter below. The contest starts at midnight tonight EST and will end 12AM EST Friday 5/16 with a winner being announced later that day. Good Luck! a Rafflecopter giveaway Read more
Jesus: A Pilgrimage, the latest book by Father James Martin, is one of those rare books that come along once in a lifetime. Based upon his personal journey to the Holy Land in 2012, the book is hard to fit into any one category. Part journal, part bible study, and part personal reflection, this book is one thing if nothing else…….exceptional. Story after story is depicted in this manner. First you will find out how Father Martin made it to... Read more
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