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

      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...

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

      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

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 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...

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...