Student Reading

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...

Rev. F.X. Lasance

The Young Man's Guide

      Father Lasance's Catholic Girl's Guide, published in 1906, found immediate success among Catholic readers, and the natural demand for a companion volume gave rise to The Young Man's Guide in 1910. Both have a similar format and...

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,...

Rev. Bonaventure Hammer

Mary Help of Christians

      This timeless classic, originally published by Benziger Brothers in 1909, is the sort of book every Catholic should have on the family bookshelf.Contents include: The importance, as well as the benefits, in seeking the intercession...

Father Charles J. Carmody

Learning to Serve

      This 1961 classic contains all the valuable information that a young man needs in order to learn how to serve the traditional Latin Mass--yet it is so much more than just "nuts and bolts." After reading this book, boys will come away...

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...

Rev. F.X. Lasance

The Catholic Girl's Guide

      The members of the Little Flowers Girls Clubs are sure to recognize the Maiden's Wreath of Virtues in this classic, on which their flower badges were based. Father Lasance explores in depth the virtues of the Catholic Girl, as...

M.B. Coussinier

A Pictorial Catechism

      This was the first book of its kind to combine the benefits of a solid catechism and the finest artwork with an affordable price. The Apostle’s Creed, the Ten Commandments, the Commandments of the Church, Sin, Virtue, the...