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Highway to Heaven Series

The Magnificat Readers: Fifth Reader

    The Magnificat Readers are a collection of excerpts from nearly a dozen vintage Catholic school readers, dating from the late 1800s to the early 1930s.  For the most part, the selections found...

Highway to Heaven Series

The Magnificat Readers: Fourth Reader

    The Magnificat Readers are a collection of excerpts from nearly a dozen vintage Catholic school readers, dating from the late 1800s to the early 1930s.  For the most part, the selections found...

Clare Dawson

Loving & Giving

“Friday’s child is Loving and Giving.” This little nursery rhyme gives such a sweet title to this book, which introduces the child to the Christian faith through that very lens: how we must love and...

Rev. Jerome D. Hannan

Teacher Tells a Story: Book Two

You may recognize Dr. Hannan as the co-author of the popular textbooks The Story of the Church and The Bible Story. Encouraged by the success of his first volume of stori

Rev. Jerome D. Hannan

Teacher Tells a Story: Book One

You may recognize Dr. Hannan as the co-author of the popular textbooks The Story of the Church and The Bible Story. This volume contains a wealth of stories for teachers

Rev. George M. Dennerle

Leading the Little Ones to Christ

In the early 20th Century, German educators Dr. H. Steiglitz and Rev. Michael Gatterer, S.J. developed a method of teaching the Catechism to children inspired by Our Lord's teaching in parables. By...

Mother Margaret Bolton

A Little Child's First Communion

Mother Margaret Bolton began her career in 1892 as a public school teacher in New York City before entering the Convent of the Cenacle of St. Regis in 1913, where she soon became Director of...

My Picture Book of First Communion

This beautifully illustrated book, with its companion, My Picture Book of First Confession, was originally written by a Dutch religious, Brother Maria Cassianus Versteeg, as one among a series of...

My Picture Book of First Confession

This beautifully illustrated book, with its companion, My Picture Book of First Communion, was originally written by a Dutch religious, Brother Maria Cassianus Versteeg, as one among a series of...

Highway to Heaven Series

The Magnificat Readers: Third Reader

    The Magnificat Readers are a collection of excerpts from nearly a dozen vintage Catholic school readers, dating from the late 1800s to the early 1930s.  For the most part, the selections found...

Mother Margaret Bolton

The Spiritual Way: Book 4

Around the year 1912, Mother Bolton of the Cenacle of St. Regis in New York began working on lessons for use in instructing novices entering the convent.  As she developed them further, she began...

Mother Margaret Bolton

The Spiritual Way: Book 3

Around the year 1912, Mother Bolton of the Cenacle of St. Regis in New York began working on lessons for use in instructing novices entering the convent.  As she developed them further, she began...