Prayer Books & Devotionals

Mother Mary Loyola

Coram Sanctissimo: Before the Most Holy

      Forty Hours.One Guide.In these meditations before the Blessed Sacrament, Mother Mary Loyola gently teaches us how to speak with Our Lord as with a friend. She suppli

Mother Mary Loyola

Confession & Communion

    Written for those who receive the Sacraments frequently, Confession and Communion offers fresh and practical help when our own prayers have become distracted, dry, or routine. Here Mother...

Mother Mary Loyola

Hail! Full of Grace

      In Hail! Full of Grace, Mother Loyola brings her full talent for storytelling to bear on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary. Like a tourguide to the Holy Land, she brings the reader along on a...

Mother Mary Loyola

With the Church, Volume 2: the Ascension to Advent

  When writing the first volume of With the Church, Mother Loyola took care to focus on the “meat” of the Church Year. Bedridden after a serious hip fracture and suffering one illness after another,...

Mother Mary Loyola

Heavenwards

      In Heavenwards, Mother Loyola explores, in a series of 52 brief scriptural meditations, the challenge of keeping our final destination before our eyes amid the distractions, hardships, and...

Mother Mary Loyola

Trust

  This last of Mother Mary Loyola's full-length works may also be the most personal. Having begun her long life as an orphan, she wrote Trust near its end while confined to bed with a broken hip,...

Mother Margaret Bolton

A Way to Achievement

In this life, all of us invariably meet with obstacles and problems.  To overcome these difficulties can seem like an impossible task, especially if one has not developed habits of self-discipline,...

Sister Mary Philip

The Sacred Heart and Mine in Holy Communion

The Sacred Heart and Mine in Holy Communion offers thirty-three brief meditations upon the titles of the Sacred Heart, intended especially for preparation before or thanksgiving after Holy Communion,...

Mother Genevieve Gallois

The Life of Little Saint Placid

Mother Geneviève Gallois began life as an artist in the anticlerical circles of turn-of-the-century Paris. After a spiritual crisis in 1917, she entered a Benedictine convent and dedicated her life...

Mother Mary Loyola

Blessed are they that Mourn

  By the early years of the twentieth century, Mother Mary Loyola had cemented her reputation as one of the best Catholic writers of her generation. But the First World War prompted her to turn her...

Lisa Bergman

Seven Visits

The tradition of visiting seven churches after attending the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday hearkens back to 1553, when, as a countermeasure to the hedonistic celebrations of Carnevale,...

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...