Read-aloud Books

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...

First Communion Days and True Stories for First Communicants

This collection of First Communion stories has delighted and inspired children since the original volumes first appeared in 1919 and 1920. Their enduring appeal is easy to understand: they are...

Mother Margaret Bolton

God's Hour in the Nursery Guidance Book

      God's Hour in the Nursery is a pair of books for teacher and student that ar

Mother Margaret Bolton

God's Hour in the Nursery Activity Book

God's Hour in the Nursery is a pair of books for teacher and student that are designed to introduce the youngest children to the first lessons of the Baltimo

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...

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...

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

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...