Read-aloud Books

Mother Mary St. Peter

The Queen's Festivals

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 marked the spot where Mary's great basilica was to be...

E. Vincent Wareing

An Alphabet of the Altar

What does a Catholic child see when he looks around a church—and what does it all mean? An Alphabet of the Altar begins with the familiar simplicity of an alphabet book: A is for Altar, B for Bell, C...

Mother Mary St. Peter

Mary the Queen

  Did you know that ancient Catholic tradition tells us that the Virgin Mary died and was laid in a tomb before her Assumption into Heaven? Or that she was raised in the Temple precincts, along with...

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...

Mother Mary Loyola

The Child of God

      The Child of God bears the fitting subtitle What Comes of Our Baptism, for it takes up the great question of what it means to become a child of God,

Dom Bede Camm, O.S.B.

The Voyage of the PAX

  Written originally to be read aloud to the boys in his charge who were preparing for Benedictine life, Dom Bede Camm's The Voyage of the PAX transforms the spiritual life into a rollicking...

Mother Mary Loyola

The Soldier of Christ

      Any book on the Sacrament of Confirmation can explain what Confirmation is, but The Soldier of Christ sets out to show, in the most ori

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...

Mother Mary Loyola

Forgive us our Trespasses

      Mother Loyola's work on the subject of Confession forms one of the most remarkable of her strengths. She understood how easily the Sacrament of Penance can become something feared, postponed,...

Mother Mary Loyola

First Confession

  The greatest challenge in preparing young children for the Sacrament of Penance lies in helping them to approach the confessional willingly and without fear. What children experience at their First...

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. Rather than simply teaching...