My Own Mass Booklet


Book Description

These keepsake booklets are tailored to each sacrament. Each provides an opportunity for children and parents to actively grow in prayer and knowledge of the Mass.




Jesus with Us


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A history of the Eucharist, that sacrament of the Catholic Church in which, by partaking of bread or wine, one receives the body and blood of Jesus.




Sacrifice As Gift


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Sacrifice as Gift is a timely presentation of a forgotten vision of eucharistic sacrifice, one that reconfigures the current philosophical and theological divide between sacrifice and gift.




The Night Before My First Communion


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A brother and sister celebrate and prepare for this Catholic rite of passage in the twenty-fourth title in Natasha Wing's best-selling paperback series featuring rhyming text in the style of the classic Clement C. Moore holiday poem. On the night before their First Communion, a brother and sister get ready for this important event. All the family is there--family, grandparents, godparents--to help them prepare for the following day.




Page a Day Children's Bible


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"An illustrated page-a-day Bible for children"--




My First Holy Communion


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An appealing gift for children aged 7+ to give as a memento of the occasion and a guide to the meaning of the life of faith




Jesus Speaks to Me on My First Holy Communion


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"I am Jesus. And I want to say, 'Happy First Holy Communion Day!'" In this unique gift book, Jesus speaks warmly and lovingly to children who are receiving him in the Eucharist for the first time. In twelve scenes from Scripture from Creation to Pentecost, Jesus explains that it is his Father's plan for each child to be part of their family of love. He invites the child to be his friend and to draw close to him in the Eucharist and in prayer. Each Scripture scene is colorfully illustrated by Italian artist Maria Cristina Lo Cascio. This book also features An opening dedication page; Pages to record memories, including photos, church programs, and a space for children to write or draw; Traditional prayers such as the Our Father and Hail Mary.




Can You Find Saints?


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Fourth in a series of award-winning children's books, Can You Find Saints? Introducing Your Child to Holy Men and Women teaches children and the adults in their lives about saints and the holy lives they led. Full of colorful and witty illustrations, the book invites children to search the illustrations for a variety of objects relating to the featured saints, from well-known saints such as Mary, Francis of Assisi and Bernadette to lesser-known saints such as Linus, Jane Frances de Chantal and Juan Diego. More than a dozen searches introduce children to saints in the Bible, patron saints, saints who worked miracles, saints who were popes, saints who founded religious orders, saints whom the Church celebrates in a special way, saints from various walks of life, saints who lived in recent times, and those people who can be called "saints in the making." To help start family and classroom discussion, a complete guide for adults is included, explaining the special items in each illustration and giving thumbnail biographies of each saint.




Spiritual Gifts in the Local Church


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Practical instructions for use of the gifts of the Spirit in the congregation. An ideal text for class teaching and discussion.




Gift and Communion


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Gift and Communion offers a critical presentation of John Paul II's theology of the body, understood in the light of Christian theological tradition. The main thesis of the book is that John Paul II's theology of the body forms a new, inspiring approach to Christian ethics and the theology of marriage and family, as well as to theological anthropology. A central thrust of Gift and Communion is to treat theology of the body - as it deserves - in all its philosophical and theological seriousness and to present it as an important stage in the historical development of Catholic theology