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G.K. Chesterton - St Francis of Assisi St Francis brought new inspiration to the Christian life by being a mirror of Christ. His defiance of the secular standards of success enabled him to have a Christlike impact on the world. Chesterton's biography captures the spiritual greatness of St Francis - how he abandoned wealth to embrace the poverty of his Divine Master, how he projected an inner beauty and simplicity in place of a worldly gran...

Father Brown is not an ordinary detective. Father Brown is an ordinary parish priest with extraordinary common sense. He never goes looking for mysteries but mysteries always find him. Knowing the very heart of man, with all its weaknesses and wiles, he sees the truth where others are blinded by their own illusions. In these twelve stories, G.K. Chesterton's second published Father Brown collection, Father Brown finds himself once more seeing ...

Father Brown is not an ordinary detective. Father Brown is an ordinary parish priest with extraordinary common sense. He never goes looking for mysteries but mysteries always find him. Knowing the very heart of man, with all its weaknesses and wiles, he sees the truth where others are blinded by their own illusions. In these twelve stories, G.K. Chesterton's first published Father Brown collection, Father Brown meets the world famous, or infam...

When a souls surrenders to Jesus, He gives Himself in turn. It is the law of friendship, and there is no friend like Jesus. Anyone who wishes to enter into that intimate friendship will find in this little book the simple steps required for making one's life a continual offering to the glory of God and the salvation of our neighbour.

Chesterton's biography of St Thomas Aquinas is the picture of a saintly genius - by a literary artist who himself had claims to intellectual splendour and heroic goodness. It has been praised by professional scholars who appreciate Chesterton's grasp of St Thomas' thought, as well as by ordinary readers who admire his flair for presenting the richness of this thought in such a compelling way. Yet it is not a conventional biography, aboundin...

In his Spiritual Exercises, St Ignatius of Loyola famously encourages us to ask for the grace of an "intimate knowledge" of Our Lord Jesus Christ. This is exactly what God wants for us: Now this is eternal life: that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent (Jn 17:3). Throughout this little book, a saintly disciple of St Ignatius, Venerable Luis de Ponte, develops this salutary thought so that we too may com...

The Everlasting Man is Chesterton's Christian vision of the human past. It is grounded in historical fact while being imaginative in conception and unfolding. He reveals the startling nature of God's creative love. In the first of the book's two sections, "On the Creature Called Man, " he shows the human being to be unique, an artist endowed with a mind and will and a spiritual life rather than an animal subject to earthly appetites. In the bo...

Dom Germain Morin's classic study of the monastic life shows its foundations in the life of the first generation of Christians as described in the Acts of the Apostles. Drawing from his baptismal consecration, the monk does nothing more than live his Baptism to the full and draw from it the ultimate conclusions. This book makes it clear that, far from being a medieval invention, monastic life is grounded in the teaching of the apostles, and as...

St Paul tells us that "for those who love God, all things work together unto good" (Rm 8:28). If this is so, then God is secretly at work in every event of our lives, guiding all things to their eternal goal. In that grand scheme of things, we have our role to play. By doing good we further the plans of Divine Providence, we become His co-workers. This book, which seeks to delve into this mystery, will change your life and give you renewed inc...

This classic of the first female Doctor of the Church presents itself as a conversation or dialogue between the saint and God the Father, and is composed of four treatises: on Divine Providence, on Discretion, on Prayer, and on Obedience. It covers a very wide range of topics surrounding the Catholic faith and the spiritual life and exhales the tremendous love for God and zeal for souls for which the virgin of Siena is so well known.

St Benedict, the Father of Western Monks, teaches that there are Twelve Degrees or Steps of Humility. This little book explores each of these steps, prayerfully seeking out their meaning and proposing practical ways in which they can be reached and lived out in day to day life.

Prayer is the one thing the devil strives hardest to prevent, for it is the most powerful weapon we have against his wiles. In this priceless little book, St Alphonsus develops the numerous reasons we have for devoting time to prayer each day. You don't pray when you have time, you make time to pray. Prayer is literally the answer to all our problems, it is consolation in sorrow and calm in prosperity. It opens for us the gate of a blessed ete...

Prayer is the one thing the devil strives hardest to prevent, for it is the most powerful weapon we have against his wiles. In this priceless little book, St Alphonsus develops the numerous reasons we have for devoting time to prayer each day. You don't pray when you have time, you make time to pray. Prayer is literally the answer to all our problems, it is consolation in sorrow and calm in prosperity. It opens for us the gate of a blessed ete...

All things work together unto good for those who love God", wrote St Paul (Rom 8:28). These inspired words of the apostle are, as it were, the leitmotiv of Father de Caussade's classic work, which contains the secret to true and lasting peace of heart. This book will radically change your life.