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tiempo es que nace en el año 1956 de la mano del sacerdote claretiano Alfonso Milagro Editorial Claretiana de Argentina. Él comenzó a recorrer el camino de la evangelización a través de la Palabra teniendo como objetivo principal ser y estar al servicio de la evangelización. La Iglesia nos ha trazado el camino a través del Magisterio que, sumado a nuestro carisma, nos llama nuevamente a renovar nuestro servicio en una fuerte tensión misionera.

It is such enriching yet not simple task that Editorial Claretiana assumes with joy and dedication, insisting in both good times and bad times for the Word of God, our priests and of all the Latin-American people, to be incarnated and multiplied in each and every one of our publications. Our books have been developing along the years ‘with one ear in the Gospel and the other in the people’. In this way, it tries to reflect a pastoral and simple style which, faithful to the Church’s mission, is inserted in the life of men and women of our time. Currently we own 7 evangelization centres and we supply to the vast majority of commercial centres which spread the Word of God; it’s a privilege for us to be able to reach all America through our commercial representatives. One of our biggest challenges is the merging of all the publishing houses into Claret Publishing Group, which we have been developing as a joint project since 2011. The cities where the Claret Publishing Group is present are Bangalore, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Chennai, Colombo, Dar es Salaam, Lagos, Madrid, Macau, Manila, Owerri, São Paulo, Warsaw, Yaoundè.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Collection: Consecrated life Author: Luis Casalá

CONSECRATED LIFE

Pages: 96 / 144 Size: 17x11 cm Price: 8 / 9.50 USD Topics: Consecrated life. Lifelong learn ing. Reflection. Consecration. Sexuality. Ecclesial. Discernment.

Solely time for the Kingdom!

Collection

Consecrated life LUIS CASALÁ, SM

Consecrated life is to be a sign of faith, hope and charity. We are presenting this selection of studies and reflections, together with Marianist priest Luis Casalá. This selection will facilitate a more joyful, mystic and prophetic religious life if attention is paid to its continuous development. On the preface, Msgr. Juan José Chaparro, Bishop of Bariloche (Argentina) shares: ‘These books are lavish on life in order to obtain more Life. What my brother and friend is giving us here is the rumination of that lived, his personal testimony, his years of listening and interpellating religious life; accompanying novices, religious, meetings and retreats. And the promise of that to be lived.’

Consecration and Vows

978-950-512-869-3 Código SKU: 9505128693 A heartfelt and insightful piece of work about living the evangelical vows and consecration.

Do we dare to be happy?

Difficulties and transfiguration 978-950-512-871-6 Código SKU: 9505128716

To be the reflection of his love

Its aim is to restate the presentday so as, in the end, to be able to have a vital and joyful rebirth of consecrated life.

LUIS A. CASALÁ was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied Sociology and later on Theology at Argentinian Catholic University (Universidad Católica Argentina). He was ordained a priest within the Company of Mary our Lady and for fourteen years he was Argentinian Marianists Major Superior. He taught novices at the Latin-American novitiate of the Society in Chile, and he was a Theology of Vows professor for Chilean Religious Conference (CONFERRE - Conferencia de Religiosos y Religiosas de Chile). His ministry has been mostly oriented towards the esprit of Consecrated Life. He took an active role in the Argentinian National Religious Meeting (Junta Nacional de Religiosos de la Argentina) and in the Interdisciplinary Team on Reflection (EIR - Equipo Interdisciplinar de Reflexión) for Argentinian Religious Conference (CONFAR - Conferencia Agrentina de Religiosos y Religiosas). He has been the author of numerous published articles in several Latin-American consecrated life magazines.

CONSECRATED LIFE To be the reflection of his love

Let’s be clear and honest! Humanization and sexuality

Do you want to leave? Accompaniment and discernment

978-950-512-873-0 Código SKU: 9505128730

978-950-512- 874-7 Código SKU: 9505128747

A clear and renovated vision on the religious sexuality.

Focused on fidelity crisis, one of the most challenging experiences to go through in Consecrated Life.

Twinning the differences Communion and ecclesiality

What are we looking for? Perseverance and education

978-950-512- 870-9

978-950-512- 872-3

Código SKU: 9505128709

Código SKU: 9505128723

An exceptional piece of work in which he combines his history, ups and downs, and suggestions towards communal living.

It highlights that training exceeds the mere studies or acceptance of Constitutions.

TALITHA QUM CONSECRATED LIFE

A NEW RELIGIOUS LIFE FOR A NEW DISCIPLESHIP SIMÓN PEDRO ARNOLD, OSB Collection: Awaken the World Is there a future for Consecrated Life? The ancient recipes have exhausted and the statu quo has become unfeasible. But should it be agonising, it would be time to dare and imagine another Religious Life, radically different to that disappearing.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE EXCEPT FRANCE AND CANADA. Title: TALITHA QUM. A new Religious Life for a new disciplesh ip Author: Simón Pedro Arnold Collection: Awaken the World Pages: 160 Size: 20x14 cm Price: 12.25 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-899-0 SKU Code: 9505128990

BACK COVER/ REVIEW It currently looks as if Consecrated Life has stopped being ‘useful’ to God. Or at least in the shape it so strongly cherishes. Moreover, it is not only a few who behave as if Religious Life would no longer be Life. Is there a future for it? The ancient recipes have exhausted and the ‘status quo’ has become unfeasible. Now, should it be agonising, it would be time to dare and imagine another Religious Life, radically different to that disappearing. This is what the author explains and describes in a thoughtful selection of articles. These will provide the consecrated with lights to go back to their path and to feed on real faith in Jesus Christ, making a renewed mystical experience possible and alluring.

To be the reflection of his love

Topics: Consecrated life. Disciplesh ip. Mystique.

SIMÓN PEDRO ARNOLD was born in Belgium. Being a Benedictine, he founded and became a member of the Resurrection Monastery (Chucuito, Perú). He was ordained priest in 1981. He studied music, and he obtained a PhD in Communication as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Theology. He has been working as a professor and communicator for many years, in addition to being prior and novices’ teacher in the monasteries where he has lived. He has published several books, both in French and in Spanish, as well as released liturgical and religious music records.

Fidelity through time CONSECRATED LIFE

Theological notes on the use of the concept in religious women’s life

MERCEDES NAVARRO PUERTO, MC Collection: Awaken the world ‘Every year I look back in time, trying to see myself throughout my history. On this occasion, the perception of temporariness was more acute, and that question which rushes into me in good and bad times, every now and then, started to resound in me in a different way: Why am I still here?’ (Mercedes Navarro Puerto). RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Fidelity through time. Theological notes on the use of the concept in religious women’s life Author: Mercedes Navarro Puerto Collection: Awaken the world Pages: 128 Size: 20x14 cm Price: 10 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-889-1

BACK COVER/ REVIEW In that way, from her own religious experience, Mercedes Navarro Puerto, invite us to reflect upon the value of fidelity, to crumble down the meaning that has been ill-treated by time and patriarchal culture, and subjected to a synonym that does not reflect its genuine semantics. It’s the whole history of a term what the author reconstructs in its real meaning, for it to ‘become a sign, a shining reference and a bearer of hope. ‘Fidelity requires audacity, bravery, risk and its uncertainty, paradox of hesitation…’ in order to bring us closer, in any aspect of life, to a fidelity that introduces the eternity of time.

SKU Code: 9505128891

To be the reflection of his love

Topics: Female consecrated life. Theology. Temporality. Church.

MERCEDES NAVARRO PUERTO was born in Jerez (Cádiz, Spain). She is a Mercedarian Sister of Charity. She has obtained a PhD in Psychology and in Theology as well as Bachelor of Science in Biblical Studies. She has been, for many years, an Old Testament and Psychology of Religion professor at Pontifical University of Salamanca (Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca), Spain. She is the General Manager of the Hispanic linguistics department for the collection La Biblia y las Mujeres (Women and the Bible) and co-manager of the collection Guías de Lectura del Nuevo Testamento (New Testament Reading Guide) both of EVD. She has published numerous books and articles in scientific journals.

Anawim

Catechesis for people with intellectual disabilities

CATECHESIS

MARCELA P. ANDRINO The word anawim means ‘poor’, he who places all his trust in God because he knows He is enough to survive. In the Old Testament, God always helps the anawim, the same who later Jesus will pronounce: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

BACK COVER/ REVIEW RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Anawim Catechesis for people with intellectual disabilities Author: Marcela P. Andrino Pages: 112 Size: 18 x 26 cm Price: 15.10 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-880-8 SKU Code: 9505128808

To be a witness of his love

Topics: Religious formation. Disabilities. Sacraments of in itiation.

People who suffer from intellectual disabilities sometimes experience the misunderstanding of others. This catechesis will allow us to put ourselves in their place. We will learn to embrace their fragility and to acquire the necessary tools to convey, in an accurate and tailored way, everything that is needed for the preparation of the Reconciliation and for their First Communion; but most of all to discover the nearness of God. Each and every session will help us build the right conditions to get to know each child and to learn from them. ‘It is wonderful to see the catechesis’ results after a year of sharing the experiences and sessions with the Word of God. As a priest, I am a witness of the religious sensitivity and the growth in faith of the children with intellectual disabilities who, recognising their sins, went to the Reconciliation Sacrament with their drawings (penance activity) repenting what they had done wrong. And it was delightful to discover how God’s Mercy, of which our dear Pope Francis so highly speaks of, is spilled with simplicity on the youngest ones’ (Msgr Juan Carlos Ares, Auxiliary Bishop of Archdioceses of Buenos Aires, Argentina).

MARCELA P. ANDRINO is a teacher who also has a Bachelor Degree in Psychopedagogy. She studied at Mary Help of Christians Institute where she obtained her Catechetical Diploma and subsequently specialized in catechesis for people with disabilities. She is currently teaching catechesis at Our Lady of Balvanera (Buenos Aires, Argentina) as well as teaching children in hospital who are going through oncology treatment and diverse pathologies, at hospital school ‘Dr Ricardo Gutiérrez’. Her book is the fruit of her years of work dedicated to transmitting Jesus Gospel to our dearest brothers and sisters.

First Announcement Kerygmatic sessions to unfold into the gift of God

CATECHESIS

CARLOS TAZZIOLI – ALBERTO DAGORRET – BEATRIZ CASIELLO ‘The “real First Announcement” is in the act of grace that occurs in the encounter: God passionately goes to the encounter of mankind, talks to their heart and, during this dialogue, mankind responds: adhere or not.’ Once ignited in us, this desire drives us to be part of the community and to transmit the Good News; it hastens us to the mission. But... Where to start?

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: First Announcement Kerygmatic sessions to unfold into the gift of God Author: Carlos Tazzioli, Alberto Dagorret, Beatriz Casiello Pages: 128 Size: 26x18 cm ISBN: 978-950-512-892-1 Price: 15.10 USD SKU Code: 9505128921 Topics: Bible. Meetings. Commun ity. Evangelization. Kerigma.

BACK COVER/ REVIEW Due to the changes that have been happening in the world and a Church that could not keep pace with the circumstances, we need, first, to retrace the path in order to start a new one. F. Carlos Tazzioli, F. Alberto Dagorret and Sr. Beatriz Casiello teamed up to present the fruit of their experience in a marginalized parish from the Dioceses of Concordia (Argentina). Their proposal is to go back to ‘the source’, untangling together in the shape of community sessions and under the Holy Spirit’s enlightenment, what the living and effective Word of God says to each one of us. ‘The encounter with the Word of God shared in ecclesiastic communion, illuminating life and reorganising it, according to God, are the theological fundamentals that support this experience. Perhaps, it may help to uncover a new paradigm for today’s catechesis. I am happy and grateful to present this proposal and feeling identify with its authors, I join in the endorsement of this practice at the top of my voice’ (Msgr Héctor Cardelli, Bishop of San Nicolás, Argentina).

To be a witness of his love

ALBERTO DAGORRET, priest from the dioceses of Concordia (Argentina), studied Theology at University of Vienna (Austria). He has been dedicating his work to the pastoral care of disadvantaged areas which suffer from poverty and exclusion. He is co-author of several books on catechesis for adults. BEATRIZ CASIELO, Daughter of Mary Help of Christians religious, is a Catechetic as well as a Literature Teacher. She is the author of 40 books on catechesis, mostly on catechesis at schools and evangelization. She is a member of The LatinaAmerican Catechetical Society (SCALA), and founder and director of the Institute of Catechesis (La Casa de la Catquesis) in Rosario (Argentina). She worked as Editorial Assistant in Didascalia Magazine for 30 years. She attended the International Catechesis Congress (Spain 1992) as a delegate and the IV Latin American Episcopal Conference in Santo Domingo (1992) as an authorized journalist. CARLOS A. TAZZIOLI, priest from the dioceses of Concordia (Argentina), has obtained a Bachelor Degree in Theology, specializing in Youth Pastoral and Catechesis at Salesian Pontifical University in Rome. He has vast pastoral experience in urban and suburban areas, especially in districts and neighbourhoods with poverty, exclusion and disadvantage; and in the education of catechists and pastoral agents. He is the co-author of several books on Catechesis for adults, consultant for Catechistic Meetings and a member of the Latin-American Catechetical Society (SCALA). He is the author of Promover la dignidad. Un servicio catequístico desde el pobre (Fostering Dignity: a catechist service from the poor) from our publishing house.

TEKORA project CATECHESIS

Religious education in schools

An itinerary of religious education which invites us to live in harmony with the Creator. It is inspired in LAUDATO SI, the encyclical letter which Pope Francis dedicated to the environment and ecolog y.

BACK COVER/ REVIEW This project, inspired in Praise be to you, my Lord, Pope Francis’ ‘green encyclical letter’, addresses religious education in the classroom from a different place. TEKORA is the looking after of the earth with our body, the water with our blood, the air with our breath, the fire with our spirit according to the Guaraní people. In it resounds all the voices of the native peoples, unreachable as the wind, reminding us the duty of honouring life in all its forms and protecting God’s dream for the Earth. TEKORA project transforms the classroom in an exploratory environment where the teacher and students rediscover together the gift of the creation, learn to recognise in a new way the presence of God in everything that exists, and to look after and being responsible for themselves, their brothers and sisters and nature, from a very young age. It focuses on comprehending the world as ‘the sacrament of communion’ and it announces that Jesus, with his Easter, makes everything new.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Care for life 1, 2 y 3 Pages: 128 Size: 23x21 cm ISBN 1: 978-950-512-998-0

To be a witness of his love

ISBN 2: 978-950-512-904-1 ISBN 3: 978-950-512-905-8 Topics: Religious instruction in schools. Itinerary. Creation. Ecology. Environment. Life.

CATECHESIS

Care for life 1

Care for life 2

To be a witness of his love

Care for life 3

SPIRITUALITY

Five minutes of Blessed Oscar Romero EZEQUIEL FERNÁNDEZ Collection: Spirituality Five minutes of Blessed Oscar Romero gathers vital material to learn about the essential thinking of the Martyr Bishop of El Salvador. Romero’s phrases have been compiled under different titles and topics that group sayings and reflections from an inserted spirituality in the option for the poor. RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Five m inutes of Blessed Oscar Romero Author: Ezequiel Fernández Collection: Spirituality Pages: 192 Size: 17x11 cm Price: 9.80 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-999-7 SKU Code: 9505129997

To meditate faith in your heart and make it germinate in life

Topics: Martyrdom. Marginalization. Daily thoughts. Pastors. Holiness.

BACK COVER/ REVIEW ‘The martyrdom, the being Church, the preference for the marginalized, the combination action-prayer are topics which Romero considered as pillars in Latin America in the seventies’ context. These words are still interpellations that affect us and they allow us to open a spiritual perspective or deepen it, considering the Other who we don’t usually consider as close to us’ (Ezequiel Fernández). ‘In that beautiful Central American country, bathed by the Pacific Ocean, Our Lord granted his Church a jealous Bishop, who loving God and serving his brothers and sisters, became an image of Christ the Good Shepherd. In times of difficult coexistence, Monsignor Romero knew how to lead, defend and protect his flock, remaining true to the Gospel and in communion with the whole Church. His ministry was distinguished by his especial attention to the most poor and marginalized. And in the time of his death, while celebrating the Holy Sacrifice of love and reconciliation, he received the grace to identify fully with He who gave his life for his sheep’ (Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis to Msgr Escobar Alas, archbishop of San Salvador).

EZEQUIEL FERNÁNDEZ, claretian missionary, fulfils his pastoral work in Cordoba’s community, Argentina. He has recently been ordained deacon; his words become an echo of this experience: ‘The “cloud of witnesses” that resounded through the litanies, is giving me the cue to channel what I aim to become my service amongst the People. Not in vain did I choose Msgr Romero, Alberto Hurtado or Charles de Foucauld for this cloud; I believe that on each name there is a story that inspires my pilgrimage...’

Five minutes of Saint Teresa SPIRITUALITY

Analuisa Cusán, OCD Collection: Spirituality

When you pray, remember to make Jesus Christ present; he is next to you, and look in what a loving and humble way he is teaching you […] God will not forsake you, he will help with your difficulties, he will be everywhere. Do you think such friend next to you is not enough? (C 26,1)

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Author: Analuisa Cusán Collection: Spirituality Pages: 240 págs. Size: 17x11 cm Price: 12.25 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-881-5 SKU Code: 9505128815

To meditate faith in your heart and make it germinate in life

Topics: Spirituality. Teresian writings. Daily thoughts. Holiness.

BACK COVER/ REVIEW ‘The great mystic Teresa did not play with phrases. She let Who lived in her speak for her, as definitively spoken to us, as we Christian confess, by the lips of a man who resembles us, Jesus of Nazareth’ (F. Maximiliano Herráiz, ocd). ‘These phrases, gleaned from her writings, will give us every day the freshness of her thoughts. Inviting and current, they touch the coordinates of our own lives. They allow us to reach aspects of her search, her dreams and her difficulties. Supported on who has given meaning to her existence, she approaches God with the confidence of the Samaritan, the Canaanite woman, and the brave love of Martha... After the jubilee celebration commemorating the 500th Anniversary of her birth, let Teresa be a friendly hand that brings us closer to Jesus, -‘our Goodness’ and ‘our Light’-(...)’ (Sr. Analuisa Cusán, ocd).

ANALUISA CUSÁN is a Discalced Carmelite from Mar del Plata’s convent (Argentina). Inspired by her passion for Saint Teresa of Jesus, she has written several articles in the Ibero-American magazine of communitarian personalism Persona. Among them are Santa Teresa de Jesús: Camino de Perfección (Saint Teresa of Jesus: Way of Perfection) written as a review and a comment for the book Teresa de Jesús: Fundaciones (Teresa of Jesus: Foundations). She took part in the first congress of Latin-American and German Female Theologians in 2008, where she presented her paper Conversaciones sobre la vida consagrada desde las mujeres. Encuentro y diálogo con Teresa Porcile y Joan Chittister. (Conversations on the consecrated life from women. Encounter and Dialogue with Teresa Porcile and Joan Chittister).

We are called to trust A path to heal self-sufficiency

SPIRITUALITY

LEONARDO DI CARLO Collection: Dalmanutá The contemporary man is afraid of asking for help, afraid of acknowledging his weaknesses, afraid of showing his limits. All in all, he is losing his notion of being human that, as such, cannot fulfil his own needs and requires the help of others and the Other, in capital letters, that is God.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: We are called to trust A path to heal self-sufficiency Author: Leonardo Di Carlo Collection: Dalmanutá Pages: 80 Size: 14x10 cm Price: 6.15 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-895-2 SKU Code: 9505128952

To meditate faith in your heart and make it germinate in life

Topics: Self-sufficiency. Personal itinerary. Confidence. Prayer. Reflection.

BACK COVER/ REVIEW We are acquiring the habit of believing that we can live without anyone’s help. We cannot trust ourselves to God’s love and this absence guides us to a cul-de-sac, burdening us with worries. F. Leonardo will teach us how to heal the wounds that self-sufficiency brings along, as well as offering us prayers and guidelines to work individually in order to overcome it. ‘In this small book, the first one I adventure in sharing with you, I will try to become your road partner in order to look for Christian solutions once faced with these realities, which make men’s soul and body fall ill. I have endeavoured to look for the spiritual roots of self-sufficient illnesses: anxiety disorders, depression, panic attacks, gastritis, dermatopathy, among others. Our body screams through our illnesses the pain of the deepest wounds’ (Leonardo Di Carlo).

LEONARDO DI CARLO, born in Mendoza (Argentina), is a surgeon (National University of Córdoba, 2005) and priest from Mendoza’s diocese, ordained on 17th March 2012. He obtained a Bachelor Degree in Theology (Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina - UCA, 2011) and completed his Master in Bioethics in the Bioethics Institute of the School of Medical Science in UCA (2013). He is currently writing his thesis on ‘Surrogate Motherhood’.

Oh, good Jesus, hear me SPIRITUALITY

Spiritual exercises from the prayer Soul of Christ

MSGR JORGE RUBÉN LUGONES, SJ Collection: Dalmanutá Based on the experience that took placed in a Parish, these ignatian Exercises are available to a wider and more varied audience in the written form. With adaptations and profound reflections in order to foster the personal encounter with the Lord.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Oh, good Jesus, hear me Spiritual exercises from the prayer Soul of Christ Author: Jorge Rubén Lugones Collection: Dalmanutá Pages: 224 Size: 14x10 cm Price: 10.60 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-897-6 SKU Code: 9505128976

To meditate faith in your heart and make it germinate in life

Topics: Spiritual Exercises. Prayer voice, mental, acceptance, delivery, request repetition. Word of God.

BACK COVER/ REVIEW Saint Ignatius wrote Spiritual Exercises (SE) which were aimed to be carried out in thirty days, but from the beginning he explained that, due to different reasons, not everyone can complete them. These ignatian exercises were thought for busy people who after returning from their work, they wanted to ‘take a break in God’. They are offered under the different types of praying: vocal, mental, acceptance, deliverance, penance and repetition, always focusing in the Word of God. Here they are accessible for all of those who would like to deepen the encounter with the Lord, taking as motivation the last five petitions from the old Prayer Soul of Christ; which Saint Ignatius chose as the opening for his book.

JORGE RUBÉN LUGONES was born in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. He graduated as Veterinary Medic at National University of La Plata; he joined the Society of Jesus, where he obtained his degrees as a Philosophy Teacher and Bachelor in Theology. He was assistant to the novice teacher, spiritual director and teacher of the Interdiocesan Seminar of Resistencia, president of San Javier Foundation ‘Homeless children’ and ‘Children in risk’, and director of spiritual exercises of La Casa “San Ignacio” (‘San Ignacio’ Institute). In 1999, he was designated Bishop of Orán (Salta) and, since 2008, he has been Bishop of the dioceses Lomas de Zamora (Buenos Aires). He is a member of Episcopal Commission of Social Pastoral.

One word from your AGUSTÍN CABRÉ RUFFAT

SPIRITUALITY

Collection: Dalmanutá The Word of God is not only pronounced, but also called to be turned into actions, and actions into life. Through brief and profound reflections on some of the teachings of the Gospel, let us initiate a dialogue with the Lord when approaching the altar to receive the communion. In this way, we let the Word touch our hearts and become life in each one of us.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: One word from your Author: Agustín Cabré Ruffat Collection: Dalmanutá Pages: 48 Size: 14x10 cm Price: 2.90 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-883-9 SKU Code: 9505128839

To meditate faith in your heart and make it germinate in life

Topics: Word of God. Gospels. Eucharist. Personal prayer. Reflection. Thanksgiving.

BACK COVER/ REVIEW Agustín Cabré invites us to enjoy, understand and live the Word of God, to comprehend the concept of the live word that saves us and redeems us, to celebrate Lord’s supper as true protagonists of the encounter between the Creator and Redeemer with his beloved people. Let us not be mere spectators and reciters of empty formulas, but fervent examples of the healing Word of God. This book will help you find words to express the need to thank God for his unselfish and sacramental deliverance for your salvation. And to be able to proclaim aloud: Lord, one word from you will suffice to save me!

José Agustín Cabré Rufatt was born in 1940 in Santiago de Chile. He was ordained as presbyter as claretian religious in 1968. After that he obtained his degree in Journalism in the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1976. He has written numerous books among which we can mention Evangelizador de dos mundos (Evangelizer of two words) published in Venezuela, Spain, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Russia; La Palabra de Dios no está encadenada (The word of God is not enchained); and Relatos breves para acariciar la tarde (Short stories to caress the evening). He is currently managing Ediciones y Communicaciones Claretianas (ECCLA) as well TELAR and Cartas del Sur magazines; he is also staff member in Punto Final and Reflexión y Liberación magazines.

Novena to Saint Mary and Saint Joseph SPIRITUALITY

for families that are separated or going through difficulties

SONIA ARÉVALO AND CRISTINA AMITRANO Collections: Mercies ‘Christians […] are called to imitate the good Shepherd. Especially Christian families can collaborate with Him, by taking care of the wounded families, accompanying them in community’s life of faith. Everyone must fulfil their part by assuming the attitude of the good Shepherd, who knows every one of his sheep and excludes no one from his infinite love’ (Pope Francis). RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Novena to Saint Mary and Saint Joseph for fam ilies that are separated or going through difficulties Author: Son ia Arévalo y Cristina Am itrano Collections: Mercies Pages: 48 Size: 14x10 cm ISBN: 978-950-512-909-6 SKU Code: 9505129096

To meditate faith in your heart and make it germinate in life

Topics: Novena. Devotion. Prayer. Fam ily. Separation. Crisis.

BACK COVER/ REVIEW The family has suffered considerable changes during this century. For different reasons, irreparable ruptures are produced and the family is left wounded. The Church has to accompany the most fragile of its sons in a patient and merciful way. (Cf. Relatio Syondi, 25). Therefore, as committed Christians we should attend, listen and help every family or person who is going through difficulties, whether or not they are believers; be there for them, pray for them and accompany them from our love. This novena invites us to pray for the families in crisis, those who are going through separations, those who are living a new union; and to trust them with the protection and loving care of Saint Mary and Saint Joseph. ‘[…] the awareness has truly grown that it is necessary to have a fraternal and attentive welcome, in love and in truth, towards the baptized who have established a new relationship of cohabitation after the failure of the marital sacrament; in fact, these people are by no means excommunicated — they are not excommunicated! — and they should absolutely not be treated as such: they are still part of the Church.” (Pope Francis, General Audience, August 5th, 2015)

SONIA ARÉVALO, a mother of three, has obtained her degrees in Systems Analyst and Bachelor in Food Technology. She has maintained and collaborated with Blogs on raising children, breastfeeding and giving birth. She has assisted pre-baptismal and adolescent catechesis; and she is currently collaborating with the Pastoral for Pregnant Women at Cathedral of Morón (Buenos Aires). She is a catechist at the Diocesan Catechetical Seminar San Pío X, Morón. CRISTINA AMITRANO is a teacher and has a Bachelor degree in Documentation and Library Science. She has worked for educational institutions and for the Teacher’s Library of Buenos Aires Government (Biblioteca del Docente), Argentina. She is a catechist at the Diocesan Catechetical Seminar San Pío X, Morón. They are the authors of Novena a nuestra Señora de la Dulce Espera (Novena to Our Lady of Expectation) and Novena a nuestra Señora de la Leche y el buen parto (Novena to Our Lady of Milk and good Birth) from our publishing house.

The Age of the Butterfly SPIRITUALITY

Spirituality in chrysalis process

SIMÓN PEDRO ARNOLD, OSB Collection: Our burning heart ‘The new paradigms, such as Postmodernity, are the starting point for reflection, they are not the finishing point. Many surprises are still awaiting for us, and it would be naïve to stop here as it would be to hold on to the premodern past.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE EXCEPT FRANCE Y CANADA Title: The Age of the Butterfly Spirituality in chrysalis process Author: Simón Pedro Arnold Collection: Our burn ing heart Pages: 240 Size: 20x14 cm Price: 17.80 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-894-5 SKU Code: 9505128945

To meditate faith in your heart and make it germinate in life

Topics: Spirituality. Symbolic theology. New paradigms. Postmodern ism. Believer. Relationsh ip faith / culture.

In some way, it is not so much about a discussion between faith and new consciences, but faith’s inherent reflection lived in this new reality. What does it mean and what will it mean to be a believer from now on? How to babble and implement this new language in the core of a new worldview, with its concrete consequences?’ (Simón Pedro Arnold).

BACK COVER/ REVIEW The world we live in nowadays is very different to the one from centuries ago. The current epochal change is a reality that affects everything, and this includes the Church itself and every disciple. It is time to recognise the signs of our time in order to live and adapt to them; and, in this way, grow in following Jesus to live our faith in a renewed way. As the author says: ‘I propose an intuitive encounter, from a spiritual theology, to today’s and tomorrow’s challenges. As at the beginning of Christianism, when we had to transplant our Jewish roots in a Hellenistic world, in order to achieve a new fecundation, it’s our job to forge.

Fifteen motivations to be a missionary SPIRITUALITY

To walk along Pope Francis

VÍCTOR MANUEL FERNÁNDEZ Collection: Our heart was burning ‘In Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis asked us to be on ‘a permanent state of mission’ (EG 25), and demanded us to be ‘audacious and creative’ (EG 33). He also told us that in order to defeat the comfort that detains us, is important to ‘stop and rekindle some motivations (EG 263)’ ( Víctor Manuel Fernández).

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Fifteen motivations to be a m issionary. To walk along Pope Francis Author: Víctor Manuel Fernández Collection: Our burn ing heart Pages: 96 Size: 20x14 cm Price: 8 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-896-9

BACK COVER/ REVIEW To be Christians is to be bearers of a treasure that is joyful to transmit. However, many times we feel the cracks in our jars of clay and we feel disheartened. We need encouragement. It is now that we are motivated to assume the missionary commitment and to live it with joy, profoundness and enjoyment. These meditations by Víctor Manuel Fernández have great value as they bring us closer to the heart of Aparecida’s message. In this renewed edition, these are completed by presenting, as well, the fundamental nucleus of Pope Francis’ teaching, so clearly expressed in Evangelii Gaudium.

SKU Code: 9505128969

To meditate faith in your heart and make it germinate in life

Topics: Spirituality. Mission. Disciplesh ip. Evangelization.

VÍCTOR MANUEL FERNÁNDEZ, ordained priest in the dioceses of Río Cuarto (Córdoba, Argentina), has a Bachelor in Theology and Bible Studies from Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome; and a Doctorate in Theology obtained in the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA). He collaborated as an expert in V General Conference of the Episcopate of Latin America in Aparecida (2007) and took part in the writing of the Final Document. He has been the rector of UCA since 2009 and titular archbishop of Tiburnia since 2003. Among books and scientific articles, he has over 200 publications all over the world. It’s worth mentioning Los cinco minutos del Espíritu Santo (Five Minutes of the Holy Spirit), published by Editorial Claretiana.

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With our feet and our heart in the neighbourhood PATRICIA INÉS BLATTER Collection: Belonging to the Way A religious sister is asking us to relive with her, her fifteen years of consecrated life; the warmth in her writing involves us in every adventure, feeling the life that beats in every encounter with the Other. A spirituality that comprehends the following of Jesus from an incarnated experience. RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: With our feet and our heart in the neighbourhood Author: Patricia Inés Blatter Collection: Belonging to the Way Pages: 160 Size: 20x14 cm Price: 10.50 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-907-2

BACK COVER/ REVIEW The beauty of giving oneself to others provides us with a profound joy that irradiates and spreads. It is about touching the other person’s heart and accompanying life with its joys and sorrows. Everyday rhythm, the language of simple thing, natures’ wisdom, some bittersweet experience…are some of the things that make us perceive and enjoy the love of Jesus. Sister Patricia recounts a moment of her life, mostly of her daily work in Misiones Province (Argentina). But she does not want to give us only a testimony. She is inviting us to make a personal experience so everyone can discover within themselves their own vocation of service.

SKU Code: 9505129072

To meditate faith in your heart and make it germinate in life

Topics: Consecrated Life inserted. Experience. Spiritual motherhood. Vocation. Society. Poverty.

PATRICIA INÉS BLATTER was born in San Jerónimo Norte (Santa Fe, Argentina) and she is a religious sister from Our Lady of Calvary congregation. She lived on different Argentinian communities where she did insertion experiences within working-class districts in Buenos Aires, Chaco and Misiones. She worked in youth pastorals and was part of Women Domestic Violence Care Centre in Puerto Iguazú. She is currently a member of the Animation Team for her Congregation in Argentina.

Jesus noticed Women and they professed his faith

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GLORIA LADISLAO Collection: Rúah The author proposes a biblical exegesis which will encourage us to underline the role of each of these passionate women who, some silently and some effusively, accompanied Jesus and made his teaching their life.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Jesus noticed Women and they professed h is faith Author: Goria Ladislao Collection: Rúah Pages: 112 Size: 20x14 cm Price: 10.30 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-861-7 SKU Code: 9505128617

BACK COVER/ REVIEW All throughout the Gospel, several encounters of Jesus with women are mentioned. It highlights how He could see where no one else could, and perceived each one of them in their real dignity, even in those who were rejected or left aside due to their condition. We will read again all those times when the Master goes to their encounter. Travelling around the Palestinian map, we will see how in each city where Jesus was, there were women who followed him and who He himself invited them to follow him. We will try to purify our perspective and look at them with the Lord’s eyes. It is also an invitation to work in the biblical text even in a deeper way through reflections to do in groups or alone.

To rediscover the female presence in the life of the Church

Topics: Bible studies. Gospels. Women.

GLORIA LADISLAO is a lay catechist who studied theology at Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. She is a teacher and she obtained her Bachelor Degree by specializing in Holy Scriptures. She has been working as Holy Scripture teacher for many years and she teaches in several catechetical seminars. She also works in the radio and is the author of the book Palabras y pasos (Words and Steps) published by our publishing house.

Facing the storm To withstand and trust is the key

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SEBASTIÁN ESCUDERO Collection: Healing IN THE SPIRIT Through his own personal testimony and some biblical examples, Sebastián Escudero transmits his experience. He discovered that by withstanding and trusting we can overcome the crisis and storms in our lives. We just have to learn how to rest on God’s wisdom and goodness.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Facing the storm. To withstand and trust is the key Author: Sebastián Escudero Collection: Healing IN THE SPIRIT Pages: 96 Size: 20x14 cm Price: 8.25 USD

BACK COVER/ REVIEW There are unannounced storms in our lives. They just come and they settle in the gate of our heart in order to take away our peace, happiness and joy. They come in the shape of illnesses, financial crisis, family crisis, death of a loved one, dark temptations, etc. If we manage to withstand and trust, we will come out transformed by the power of God and we will be able to thank him for allowing the visit of the mastering storm.

ISBN: 978-950-512-891-4 SKU Code: 9505128914

To celebrate the charismas of the Holy Spirit in Church

Topics: Charismatic spirituality. Testimony. Crisis. Wisdom of God. Healing.

SEBASTIÁN ESCUDERO, preacher, musician, missionary, theology teacher and writer, was born in Córdoba (Argentina). Together with his wife, they share the itinerant evangelization calling. Invited to preach and sing in different Christian events, he has been announcing the Word of God to thousands of people in England, United States, Mexico and most of Latin America for over 18 years. He has written: Enfrentando la tormenta (Facing the storm, 9 editions), El amor que nos devuelve la identidad (The love that restores our identity, 5 editions), Líder, llegó tu hora (Leader, your time has come, 5 editions), No me digas que no podrás (Don’t say you can’t, 2 editions), Pan de héroes (Bread for Heroes, 2 editions) and Hemos conocido el amor (We have known love). Additionally, he has recorded several CDs on catholic music.

Bread for Heroes A collection of inspiring messages

ECCLESIASTICAL MOVEMENTS

SEBASTIÁN ESCUDERO Collection: Healing IN THE SPIRIT Through examples of popular stories, films and contemporary songs, personal anecdotes, verses from the bible and other Christian sources, Sebastián Escudero manages to communicate, in a positive way, messages of faith and hope.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Bread for Heroes a collection of inspiring messages Author: Sebastián Escudero Collection: Healing IN THE SPIRIT Pages: 192 Size: 20x14 cm

BACK COVER/ REVIEW Like Israel People needed manna to survive in the desert, we need our spiritual bread for our day-to-day life. Even though they were thought and written for secondary school students, they are addressed to readers of all ages. These brief comments are a valuable contribution for achieving a praying climate, appropriate for meditating in groups or individually.

Price: 13 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-890-7 SKU Code: 9505128907

To celebrate the charismas of the Holy Spirit in Church

Topics: Charismatic spirituality. Short messages. Personal prayer. Hope. Healing.

Don’t say you can’t

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SEBASTIÁN ESCUDERO

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Collection: Healing IN THE SPIRIT It is based on two very simple ideas that are often found in personal development books; human thinking and their internal programming is what drives them to succeed or fail in life. Escudero’s addition is that this would be impossible without the help of Jesus Christ. Through examples of biblical characters and famous contemporary people, with a dynamic and uncomplicated style typical in him, he manages to transmit the zealous message of faith.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Don’t say you can’t Author: Sebastián Escudero Collection: Healing IN THE SPIRIT Size: 20x14 cm Topics: Charismatic spirituality. Search. Personal growth. Word of God. Healing.

BACK COVER/ REVIEW It’s a book on personal development in light of the principles established by the Word of God. If we do not let God change our way of thinking, we will never change our way of living. The Bible can help us, because, in fact, is the best book on personal growth from all times. History, from start to end, provides us with testimonies of men and women who have proven with their lives that whenever we think in an adequate way, whenever we fight for our dreams, no matter where we start, we can succeed in life. Embellished with films, stories and personal anecdotes; this book will try to reach your heart and focus on this truth: Yes you can, yes you have, yes you are. And the most important and original fact – the very author will be a personal witness of this.

To celebrate the charismas of the Holy Spirit in Church

‘If only one person in the history of humanity, by reading this book, is convinced that he can do all things through Him who strengthens him (Philippians 4:13); then all the time invested in this fourth book, that the Lord has asked me to write, will be worth it’ (Sebastián Escudero).

Leader,

your time has come

To celebrate the charismas of the Holy Spirit in Church

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SEBASTIÁN ESCUDERO Collection: Healing IN THE SPIRIT As it was for Joshua in the Bible, after spending 40 years in the desert fighting at the right hand of Moses with the Israelite tribes, one day God will come to tell us that desert time is over… it is time to go through it. And in order to do so, there is the need for leaders who can move the masses.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Leader, your time has come Author: Sebastián Escudero Collection: Healing IN THE SPIRIT Size: 20x14 cm Topics: Charismatic spirituality. Leadersh ip: characteristics and challenges. Personal motivation. Word of God. Healing.

BACK COVER/ REVIEW This work presents a series of biblical principles needed to exercise leadership correctly. The characteristics, topics and challenges of a true leader are enumerated: a praying life which is essential to have, the vision and planning that must be possessed to lead the flock that the Lord has entrusted in them, the passion to influence people’s life and temptations, the facing of dangers and risks. ‘This book is the harvest of everything I have learnt in life on leadership. Let God talk to you, my dear leader, as He did over 4000 years ago to a young Israelite, to tell you: Leader, your time has come!’ (Sebastián Escudero)

The love that restores our identity

To celebrate the charismas of the Holy Spirit in Church

ECCLESIASTICAL MOVEMENTS

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SEBASTIÁN ESCUDERO Collection: Healing IN THE SPIRIT The passionate love story that Jesus narrated, known as The Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15, 11-32), has the father as the main character; a father who goes to the encounter of his two sons, who were lost in the path of life. One was lost by going to a foreign country, the other by staying home. Yet they both went to the same place for the encounter: the arms of their father.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: The love that restores our identity Author: Sebastián Escudero Collection: Healing IN THE SPIRIT Size: 20x14 cm Topics: Charismatic spirituality. Christian identity. Mercy. Conversion. Word of God. Healing.

BACK COVER/ REVIEW Resentment, jealousy, envy, lack of self-esteem, fear, emotional and affective disorders, insecurities, self-pity, fear of god’s punishment, lack of courage disguised as arrogance, complexes, constant feeling of guilt… These are just some of the indicators showing us that we need to urgently go back to the only One who can tell us exactly who we are and how much we are worth. To the arms where we can feel eternally happy and peaceful, like children do. The home where we can restore the dignity the devil has stolen. In the end, the Love that heals every one of our wounds and returns our identity.

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The river of intergenerational inheritance Healing the personal and family history

GUSTAVO JAMUT, OMV Collection: Healing IN THE SPIRIT

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: The river of intergenerational inheritance Healing the personal and fam ily h istory Author: GUSTAVO JAMUT Collection: Healing IN THE SPIRIT Pages: 224 Size: 20x14 cm Price: 13.60 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-885-3 SKU Code: 9505128853

An interesting invitation to travel through our personal history as well as the inheritance of our ancestors in order to heal, with the enlightenment of prayers, negative aspects that influence in our personality. It is not an easy task, only Jesus has the complete and entire message of our families throughout the generations.

BACK COVER/ REVIEW Each one of us is on earth to discover our own path and to be happy. But we will never achieve plenitude if we follow other people’s path instead of following the one that God has prepared for each of us. Moreover, personal fulfilment and lasting happiness are also associated with inherited and learned family models. We need to learn to see them with serene objectivity, and revalue the healthy and positive intergenerational inheritance. Let us discover what diminishes, within us, our quality of life, to allow God heal us, liberate us and bless us; not only us but our children, grandchildren, nephews and nieces and all descendants.

To celebrate the charismas of the Holy Spirit in Church

Topics: Charismatic spirituality. Personal and fam ily healing. Heritage. Prayer.

GUSTAVO E. JAMUT was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina). He is an important exponent of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. He is the founder of the evangelising community ‘Messengers of Peace’ (Mensajeros de la Paz), present in all the provinces of Argentinian, United States and Canada. For many years, he has been working as advisor of the Movement at San Roque Parish in Buenos Aires; and he is invited to give seminars, conference and retreats in different places. He was the witness of many people’s healing who due to fear, resentment or past situations, were carrying spiritual and even physical wounds. He has written numerous books where he shares his healing experience and testimony.

Effatá ECCLESIASTICAL MOVEMENTS

Healing communication and family ties

GUSTAVO JAMUT, OMV Collection: Healing IN THE SPIRIT A spiritual approach on the topic of interpersonal dialogue. From a selection of biblical texts, Father Jamut develops different aspects regarding communication among members from diverse communities. Dealt in a simple and pleasant way, they include reflections and prayers directed to the reader, trying to heal the wounds that lack of communication generates in marriages and families, as well as in religious groups and in the work environment. RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Effatá. Healing commun ication and fam ily ties Author: GUSTAVO JAMUT Collection: Healing IN THE SPIRIT Pages: 112 Size: 20x14 cm Price: 10.70 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-886-0 SKU Code: 9505128860

BACK COVER/ REVIEW Human beings have received the wonderful gift of communication. In this way, we can express ideas, feelings, provide information or, simply, ask for help. Now, reality teaches us that we are fragile beings and this precious gift appears wounded. This creates misunderstandings which result in numerous difficulties, seriously affecting our relationships with others. From a selection of biblical texts, Father Jamut will explain in a simple and pleasant way the origin of problems such as physical and psychological deafness, the silence, the impossibility of expressing, and anger. Through prayers and reflections, he presents the means through which God touches us and heals our wounds.

To celebrate the charismas of the Holy Spirit in Church

Topics: Charismatic spirituality. Commun ication. Links. Interpersonal dialogue. Healing. Prayer.

We have known love SEBASTIÁN ESCUDERO

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Collection: Families today 2000 years have passed since apostle Paul, on his first letter to the Corinthians, majestically defined the nature of true love. However, the meaning of such definition is still unknown for many couples. Nowadays, there are thousands of courtships and marriages in crisis because they do not understand nor practise true love.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: We have known love Author: Sebastián Escudero Collection: Fam ilies today Pages: 272 Size: 20x14 ISBN: 978-950-512-913-3 Topics: Charismatic spirituality. Couple. Fam ily. Daily Reflections.

BACK COVER/ REVIEW Much is constantly said about couples’ love everywhere: in songs, books, films, etc.; but very few times is about love as God intended us to love. Sebastián Escudero’s new book is a glose to Stephen & Alex Kendrick’s text The Love Dare to which the author, after many years of investigation and personal experience, adds a transcendental perspective and a new point of view from Christian marriage. It offers 150 reflections to continue deepening on what true love ‘is’ and ‘is not’. He invites us to enjoy the everyday couple, trust, overcoming of routines, fidelity and the reaching of this true love.

Margin: To live faith in the transforming commitment of reality

Whether we have been in a courtship for a day or have been married for over 60 years, we need to learn how to love.

Family in adolescents’ territory PASTORAL

How to grow together with our children

JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ, CMF Collection: Families today ‘Adolescence is more than just a difficult problem; it is a new opportunity for all family members to grow. But in order to do so, we should not fall in the comfort of repeating old formulas or to be content with doing or not doing what the majority of people do’. Good advice for those families who still haven’t found the best way to accompany the adolescent road. RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Fam ily in adolescents’ territory. How to grow together with our children Author: Javier Fernández Collection: Fam ilies today Pages: 224 Size: 20x14 cm Price: 16.80 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-983-6 SKU Code: 9505129836

Margin: To live faith in the transforming commitment of reality

Topics: Fam ily. Adolescence. Personal growth.

BACK COVER/ REVIEW Children reach that stage where, leaving childhood behind, they start questioning who they really are. That path affects the family as a whole. Parents have to face the new challenge of accompanying and guiding their children who swing between rebelliousness and the need of protection. F. Javier presents in the shape of a story, and in the context of a family –whether real or not -, the conflicts, encounters, achievements and difficulties that adolescents undergo. It is narrated in the first person by the mom, expressing her own concerns as well as her husband’s, leaving at the end of each story a question to reflect and discover how to respond in similar situations. ‘Lately I have been living intense moments when encountering with several families, and some of them are parents of adolescents. This has shown me homes where people are still working with faith and love for everyone’s best interest, even if there is the fear of mistakes and failures. These, instead of discouraging, are the source for new attempts, as those which I propose in my writings’ (Javier Fernández).

JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ, CMF, is a claretian missionary priest who, from his experience as spiritual companion for marriages and families, has written several books on personal growth. He wants for people to see their own experiences reflected and to understand these from that point of view. He is the author of Si yo cambiara (If I would change), After is never (Después es nunca), Pasión por vivir (The passion for living), Ahora soy feliz (Now I’m happy) and ¡Viva la familia! (Hurray, Family!) from our publishing house.

Stolen Childhood A fight for life’s dignity

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EDITORIAL TEAM – JUPIC TEAM Collection: Cry to heaven today This book wants to collect the testimonies of the protagonists, a team of professionals and volunteers who, together with Sr. Martha Pelloni, are fighting for a change in the system by deactivating the mechanism of exploitation which so deeply hurts human dignity. In your hands you have a book and an opportunity to depend that crucial question from God to humanity: Where are your brothers and sisters?

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Stolen Ch ildhood. A fight for life’s dign ity Author: Editorial team - JUPIC team Collection: Cry to heaven today Pages: 128 Size: 20x14 cm ISBN: 978-950-512-887-7 SKU Code: 9505128877

BACK COVER/ REVIEW The N.G.O Stole Childhood (Infancia Robada) was born in the inland of Argentina, where abuse and violence of all sorts are less publicly known than in the bigger cities. From that place, Sr. Martha Pelloni decided to give an effective and organized answer to all the suffering cries of reality: boys, girls, adolescents and women, expropriated of their basic human rights. Together with a group of volunteers and professionals, this organization is proposing to stand from the victim’s place and, from there, accompany them in the process of regaining dignity and liberty.

Margin: To live faith in the transforming commitment of reality

Topics: Social m in istry. Dign ity. Human rights. Exploitation. Comm itment. Fellow man.

MARTHA PELLONI, Argentinian religious from the congregation Missionary Teresian Carmelites, is a teacher of Philosophy and Pedagogy from the National University of Cuyo (Argenitna). She has been a teacher and the rector of different Institutes of the congregation. In 1990, while she was the rector of a school, one of the students was assassinated. This event marked her life. It made her committed with children’s rights and social justice. She created the Santa Teresa Foundation, aimed to help and train the peasantry. In 2008, she established the Stolen Childhood Network (Red Infancia Robada), a non-governmental organization, made of 21 Argentinian social forums.

Short stories to caress the evening EVERYDAY LIFE

JOSÉ AGUSTÍN CABRÉ RUFATT Collection: lLst in thoughts Short and light-hearted topics that, despite being a contribution to healthy distraction -as intended by the Author-, are not ‘empty nor banal’, as imitating the adjectives used in a doctoral tone by a distant seminar teacher. Quite the opposite, far from being futile, they leave in the reader the aftertaste of an enjoyable and fruitful reading.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Title: Short stories to caress the even ing Author: Agustín Cabré Rufatt Collection: Lost in thoughts Pages: 160 Size: 20x14 cm Price: 10.80 USD ISBN: 978-950-512-906-5 SKU Code: 9505129065

BACK COVER/ REVIEW This stories are better defined as micro narratives written with great fluidity and an exquisite vocabulary. It is a compilation of historical memories, anecdotes, own experiences and thoughts. All, of these, set in different countries or places, go from fiction and legends to short anecdotes of some real characters. Humour and kindness combined with a profound critical vision are blended with brief and impacting historic reconstructions which immediately transport us to the intended scene. A book highly recommended for active reflections and for accompanying the daily public transport or to soothe the waiting moments we usually have on a daily basis.

to enrich the pauses of our daily activities

Topics: Stories. Brief pause. Break. Critical view. Anecdotes. Stories.

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Once upon a time, and still today… CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Stories to tell, build and believe

MARTA BOIOCCHI Universal values are in the state of seeds in the soul of all human beings. By stimulating those seeds with education, the child will recognise these in themselves and discover that they can and should grow. The stories in the Gospel are an important reference for the formation of temperament. They open the door for children to discover the value that is already in their heart, waiting to be awaken. RIGHTS AVAILABLE Collection: Once upon a time, and still today… Author: Marta Boiocch i Ilustration: Ram iro Pazo Pages: 32/48 Size: 17x22 cm Topics: Word of God. Short story. Values. Celebration. It includes an insert with a sheet of stickers.

REVIEW Children love storytelling, stories and narrations. They asked for them to be repeated over and over again. These stories to tell, build and believe try to take advantage of the innocence of the heart to present them with Jesus and God Father. On a biblical level, the book offers new interpretations of the Word of God, so as not to simply repeat the story of the Gospel and to lead to a fundamentalist reading of it, but to offer a simple presentation of God’s message - specially of the New Testament - accordingly with a respectful reading of the texts and contexts which joins life and faith. On a didactic level, they are entertaining stories which children will want to hear over and over again; which will awake their most noble feelings and will open their hearts to the Word of God, like a flower opens to the warmth of the sun.

To experience the fondness of Jesus and the values in the Gospel

These books want to encourage action and celebration by proposing the interaction with the characters, stickers, games and activities; as well as to offer the assimilation of the message of each story from a community point of view.

MARTA BOIOCCHI, convinced that the Word of God is powerful to transform people and structures, has focus her efforts in the creation of working-class Bible schools in Latin America. As a lay missionary who lived among the poorest people in Haiti, was the promoter for the translation of the Bible into creole. She is currently giving courses and workshops on the Word of God, catechesis and Bible groups in diverse Latin American communities, aiming to recreate a new Church that is more faithful to the Gospel and more committed to the causes of life.

Little Miracles CHILDREN’S BOOKS

The works of Mercy

PROJECT: EDITORIAL TEAM/ TEXTS: W. ALEJANDRO LUNA / ILLUSTRATIONS: MA. GABRIELA GARCÍA GUERRA A lively and curious group of friends will live adventures which will make them grow in the love. With children’s everyday experiences as a starting point, each book will develop a Work of Mercy: an act of love for the Other, a little miracle.

RIGHTS AVAILABLE Collection: Little Miracles. The works of Mercy Project: Editorial team Texts: W. Alejandro Luna Illustrations: Ma. Gabriela García Guerra Pages: 32 Size: 16x17 cm Topics: Mercy. Short story. Values. Gestures of love. Activities. Suggestions of work.

To experience the fondness of Jesus and the values in the Gospel

It includes sheets and extra materials to work each story.

Very valuable material for catechists, parents and families with children from 3 to 6. It contains suggestions on how to approach and rediscover each story, to deepen the meaning of each text and to reflect about the different attitudes and gestures of the characters. The first titles of the collection includes the following works: - Feed the hungry - Teach who does not know - Shelter the pilgrim - Forgive the offences

REVIEW ‘Jesus we are here to ask you to change our heart so we can do good. With Jesus, we can make everyday miracles. Making the sad smile is miracle. Accompanying a grandfather who is alone is a miracle. Feeding the hungry is a miracle. Every miracle presupposes an act of love. This act of love can be done with Jesus’ (Cardinal J. M. Bergoglio -Pope Francis-, Children’s archdiocesan Mass, 2011). Iván is the main character of this story. His name, which comes from the Hebrew, means ‘God is merciful’. Every time, him and his friends will find themselves facing an event, having to decide what to do, and resolving it with an act of love: the work of mercy. Short and simple stories, with illustrations full of warmth and details to explore, with a special twist for the youngest children.

MARÍA GABRIELA GARCÍA GUERRA is an Arts teacher who works at Claret Institute in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ALEJANDRO LUNA is a Religious Studies teacher. They are married couple who, for the first time, have developed a project together by combining what they are passionate about and what drives them on their daily life: to bring the message of Jesus closer to the youngest children.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

My first Bible

It contains the same narrations as the Holy Scriptures but in a brief and simplified way, dedicated to the youngest children. Its colourful format and its friendly illustrations get the message closer in their first stages of a child’s life. Each story, accompanied with illustrations, is to be read and interpreted in light of the Good News. It includes characters who are close to children’s life, and little twists -for both children and adults- to let themselves be reached by the living and efficient Word of God.

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RIGHTS AVAILABLE FOR ILLUSTRATION ILLUSTRATION: Ram iro Pazo

The Bible is full of lovely and moving stories. Its texts bring messages of peace, courage, respect and love.

Pages: 96 Size: 17x22 cm

The selected stories summarise, in chronological order, the love and salvation plan that God has for us.

Topics: Word of God. Biblical characters. Old and New Testament. Values. Salvation h istory.

Génesis 3

My first Bible is an enriching and entertaining way to get closer to God and to learn his teachings for the rest of our lives.

Hasta que un día, cuando estaban paseando muy cerca del árbol grande y del que les estaba prohibido comer sus frutos, fueron sorprendidos por una serpiente, que les dijo:

La desobediencia

—¿Saben por qué Dios les prohibió que comieran de esos frutos? Es porque no quiere que ustedes tengan el mismo poder que él.

El paraíso donde Adán y Eva vivían era un inmenso jardín que se llamaba Edén.

Antiguo Testamento

El lugar era lindo, y ninguno de los dos necesitaba preocuparse por nada. Ahí había comida en abundancia; la misma naturaleza se encargaba de servir los alimentos que precisaban.

Relata los acontecimientos desde el principio de la creación del mundo, hasta la llegada de los profetas que anunciaron la venida de Jesús.

En ese momento, Adán y Eva creyeron a la serpiente, desobedecieron y comieron de esos frutos. Dios se puso triste y decidió expulsar a Adán y a Eva del paraíso.

En el centro del jardín tenían un árbol muy grande. Dios les dijo:

Entonces ellos tuvieron que enfrentar una cantidad de problemas de violencia, de dolor,… cosa que nunca antes les había sucedido.

— A ustedes les doy toda la libertad pero con una condición: no pueden comer los frutos de ese árbol, el más grande. Fue así que Adán y Eva comenzaron a ser felices.

1 Samuel 17; 2 Samuel 5

David y el gigante

Salmo 22 (23) El Señor es el único Pastor que me guía.

Los filisteos eran un pueblo que vivía continuamente en guerra con los israelitas. En una de esas batallas un enorme gigante, que se llamaba Goliat, se apareció para luchar al lado de los filisteos:

Soy como una oveja que está siempre atenta a la voz de su Pastor. Aunque tenga que pasar por situaciones difíciles, no voy a desistir, pues sé que el Señor me protege.

— Yo

v oY a v e n c e r a c u a l q u i e r a que venga a luchar conmigo.

El pueblo de Israel estaba con mucho miedo. David era un joven, pastor de ovejas y muy valiente. Él se animó a enfrentar a Goliat. Dijo:

— Dios

está conmigo; no le tengo mieDo a naDa.

Tomó cinco piedras y una honda, y se dirigió al lugar donde estaba el gigante. Todos se quedaron sorprendidos con lo que vieron: David le tiró una piedra a Goliat, y este se cayó inconsciente y derrotado por el joven. Viendo la escena, los filisteos salieron corriendo.

Mateo 1-2; Lucas 2

El nacimiento del niño Jesús En aquel tiempo, el gobernador dio una orden para que todo el pueblo la cumpliera:

Cada uno debía ir hasta la ciudad donde nació y presentarse ante las autoridades para ser censado.

María ya estaba finalizando su embarazo; el viaje fue muy difícil y molesto para ella. Cuando llegaron a Belén, María sintió que Jesús estaba por nacer. José estaba desesperado; anduvo por la ciudad buscando un lugar para alojarse y así tener un sitio apropiado. Pero nadie los quiso ayudar.

Poco tiempo después, algunos pastores de ovejas que andaban por la región, se iban enterando de la novedad. Muchos de ellos fueron a conocer al niño Jesús y a felicitar a sus padres.

¡no

—

¡jesús

e s u n g r a n p r o f e ta !

sé qué poDemos hacer!

El hijo Pródigo

Por causa de este sufrimiento, comenzó a recordar que en la casa de su padre nunca le había faltado nada, ni comida, ni cariño.

Para hablarnos del gran amor que Dios Padre nos tiene a todos nosotros, Jesús contó una historia que decía:

Se fue arrepintiendo del hecho de haberse ido de su casa; sentía vergüenza de volver; pensaba que si él volvía tal vez su papá no le iba a aceptar en su casa.

Un padre tenía dos hijos; el más chico un día resolvió irse de la casa, y le pidió al padre la parte de su herencia. El padre se quedó muy triste, pero igualmente le entregó lo que le pertenecía.

Así fue: cuando Jesús rezaba, Judas Iscariote, -que era uno de los discípulos- les indicó a los guardias romanos dónde estaba el Maestro, y se lo entregó a las autoridades romanas.

Los discípulos llenaron varios canastos con todas las sobras.

— Aquí hay un niño que tiene cinco panes y dos peces. ¡Es casi nada para tamaña multitud!

Las autoridades religiosas y los políticos romanos de la época se sentían incómodos con la fama de Jesús en el pueblo, por eso buscaban una manera de hacerlo quedarse quieto.

— Padre, en tus manos entrego mi espíritu.

Todos repetían:

Un día Jesús y los apóstoles atravesaron una región desierta, y millares de personas los acompañaban. Jesús los miró y se dio cuenta que estaban con hambre.

Todos comieron, quedaron satisfechos y todavía sobró mucha comida.

El discípulo le dijo:

La noche que nació era muy fría; María preparó como pudo un lugar cómodo para que naciera el niño. Las vacas y los burros, que estaban cerca de ellos, ayudaban a calentar al recién nacido.

Subieron a un lugar llamado el Monte de los Olivos.

En esa cruz, Jesús rezó:

Jesús bendijo los alimentos y pidió a los discípulos que distribuyeran la comida.

La buena fama de Jesús se esparcía. Una verdadera multitud iba detrás de él, por todos los pueblos que pasaba.

Jesús preguntó eso para saber qué pensaban los discípulos, pues él ya sabía lo que iba a hacer para dar de comer a toda esa gente.

José y María solo encontraron un establo, que es donde duermen los animales; y fue ahí donde Jesús tuvo que nacer.

Terminada la cena, Jesús comenzó a sentir una tristeza profunda, por eso invitó a algunos de sus discípulos para orar con él.

Jesús fue apresado y condenado a morir clavado en una cruz.

La multiplicación de los panes Llamó a uno de los apóstoles y le preguntó:

Jesús es condenado

Por esta causa, hasta el día de hoy, Judas es conocido como el discípulo que traicionó a Jesús.

— ¿Dónde compraremos comida para tanta gente?

Lucas 15

En ese momento, José y María vivían en Nazaret; pero como habían nacido en Belén, tuvieron que partir para ser censados en ese lugar.

Mateo 27; Marcos 15; Lucas 23; Juan 18

To know and to experience the values in the Bible

Mateo 14; Marcos 6; Lucas 9; Juan 6

Después de muchos años y ya de grande, David se convirtió en un rey muy bueno para el pueblo de Israel.

El joven se fue a dar vueltas por el mundo. Hasta que gastó toda su fortuna; y se volvió pobre. Su situación fue tan mala que hasta tuvo que comer la comida de los cerdos, por tanta hambre que sentía.

Después de eso, el cielo se puso oscuro aun en pleno día. La tierra tembló, hasta arrancar piedras. Jesús había muerto. Viendo todo lo que sucedió, muchos de los guardias afirmaban: — De

verDaDeramente, Dios.

este era

hijo

Aun así, tomó coraje y partió hacia la casa de su padre. Cuando el padre vio a lo lejos que su hijo estaba regresando, corrió para abrazarlo. Pidió a sus empleados que le prepararan la mejor ropa; hicieron una gran fiesta de bienvenida.

Con esta historia, Jesús nos quiso decir que Dios siempre nos perdona y quiere para nosotros solamente el bien.

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