Student Reading

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,

Rev. F.X. Lasance

The Young Man's Guide

After the success of The Catholic Girl's Guide in 1906, Father Lasance followed it with The Young Man's Guide in 1910, offering Catholic boys and young men a companion volume written especially for...

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

Rev. Bonaventure Hammer

Mary Help of Christians

Why do Catholics seek the intercession of the saints? How should we prepare for a novena, and what makes our prayers fruitful? And who were the Fourteen Holy Helpers, once so widely invoked by the...

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."...

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...

Rev. F.X. Lasance

The Catholic Girl's Guide

The members of the Little Flowers Girls' Clubs will recognize the Maiden's Wreath of Virtues in this beloved Catholic classic, whose floral emblems helped inspire their familiar flower badges. From...

M.B. Coussinier

A Pictorial Catechism

What if a child could not only learn the truths of the Catholic Faith, but see them? First published in 1862, A Pictorial Catechism takes a very different approach from the familiar...