Mother Mary Loyola Books

Mother Mary Loyola

Blessed are they that Mourn

      By the early years of the twentieth century, Mother Mary Loyola had cemented her reputation as one of the best Catholic writers of her generation, but the First World War prompted her to write a book of consolation for the...

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Confesión y Comunión

“Existen, para casi todos nosotros, temporadas y estados de ánimo, durante los cuales nose s, no ya útil, sino necessario, el servirnos de libros de piedad para prepararnos a recibir los santos sacramentos de la Confesión y...

Mother Mary Loyola

Confession & Communion

    We have recently retypeset this popular book as a purse-size prayerbook to make it easier to bring to church! Those who frequently avail themselves of these Sacraments will appreciate this devotional aid which presents a fresh...

Mother Mary Loyola

Coram Sanctissimo: Before the Most Holy

      Forty Hours. One Guide. In these meditations before the Blessed Sacrament, Mother Mary Loyola's distinctive style skillfully guides the reader toward prayerfulness without supplying any preformulated prayers. From Catholic World,...

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El Re de la Ciudad de Oro

“Había una vez un Rey que vivía en una tierra en la que siempre brotaban las más bellas flores.   Su palacio de marfil se erguía en el centro de una ciudad por la cual fluía un río de aguas...

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First Communion

      Around the year 1890, a rather extraordinary nun began writing a very extraordinary book: one that would help children prepare for the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist. It would revolutionize children's catechesis by making the...

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First Confession

      The greatest challenge in preparing young children for the Sacrament of Penance is in making confession a habit to which they will be voluntarily attracted. We can require their presence at catechism class, and compel them to go...

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Forgive us our Trespasses

      Mother Loyola's work on the subject of Confession is not merely groundbreaking, but seems to form one of the most crucial of her strengths, given that the Sacrament of Penance has always been the most avoidable and avoided of all;...

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Hail! Full of Grace

      In Hail! Full of Grace, Mother Loyola brings her full talent for storytelling to bear on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary. Like a tourguide to the Holy Land, she brings the reader along on a journey through the lives of our...

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Heavenwards

      In Heavenwards, Mother Loyola explores, in a series of 52 brief scriptural meditations, the challenge of being in the world, but not of it.  Manny times it seems the narrow gate is not merely narrow, but overgrown with...

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Home for Good

      The unassuming title "Home for Good" and the original motivation Mother Loyola had in writing this book--that is, to help young ladies who were finishing boarding school to make the right choices in life--both utterly belie the...

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Il Re della Città D’Oro

“C’era una volta un Re che viveva in una Terra sempra adorna dei più bei fiori.  Il suo Palazzo era di avorio e si ergeva nel mezzo di una città attraverso la quale scorreva un fiume limpido come il cristallo...