Read-aloud Books

Mother Mary St. Peter

The Queen's Festivals

      An Explanation of the Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary Do you know the story of Our Lady of Mount Carmel?  Can you point to Lepanto on a map?  Have you ever heard about the miraculous August snow that signified where...

E. Vincent Wareing

An Alphabet of the Altar

      This is perhaps the most beautiful book we have come across in a long time, and it was a labor of love to reprint it for you.  Each lavishly illustrated page is mesmerizing in its detail but even more so for its love of the...

Mother Mary St. Peter

Mary the Queen

      Did you know that the Virgin Mary died and was buried before she was Assumed into Heaven? Or that she was raised in the Temple Precinct, along with other Jewish maidens--called Almas--until she reached marriageable age? Learn more...

Mother Mary Loyola

The King of the Golden City

      The book that began it all... Mother Mary Loyola had used the simple allegory of a little maid and the gracious King who deigned to visit her as a catechetical tool for many years...a brief sketch of this story appears in The...

Mother Mary Loyola

The Child of God

      Mother Mary Loyola's treatment of the meaning of Baptism takes shape as a sort of Baltimore Catechism in conversational form.  Because it is written for a younger audience, she relies heavily on anecdotes and stories to...

Dom Bede Camm, O.S.B.

The Voyage of the PAX

      In writing this allegory to help explain the religious life to the boy oblates in his charge, Dom Bede drew upon the struggles he experienced during his conversion, as well as an experience from his Oxford years, when shipwrecked off...

Mother Mary Loyola

The Soldier of Christ

      Any book on the sacrament of Confirmation can explain what Confirmation is, but this is the only book that explains, in the most original and engaging manner, what Confirmation does.  It is both a dialogue and a travelogue,...

Mother Mary Loyola

Jesus of Nazareth: The Story of His Life Written for Children

      James Cardinal Gibbons was Archbishop of Baltimore when he asked Mother Loyola to write this story of the Life of our Lord. As a revered author himself, and considering the number of such stories available even then, we can only...

Mother Mary Loyola

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;...

Mother Mary Loyola

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 to...

Mother Mary Loyola

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 teachings...