Advent/Christmas

Keeping the Seasons for Advent and Christmas 2021–2022

Bilingual Print and Digital Resources for Your Parish Kathryn Ball-Boruff • Each of the beautifully illustrated handouts in this resource can be reproduced for parish bulletins, worship aids, or a parish website!

Digital content, 8 1⁄2 x 11, 8 pages Bilingual: English and Spanish 978-1-61671-608-8 Order code: BKSA22 $35

Fling Wide the Doors

An Advent and Christmastime Calendar Steve Erspamer, sm, Artist • Forty doors open to reveal the saints shining like stained glass when this six-sided centerpiece is illuminated. Family size, 12” high | Order code: ADCAL $15

Advent Calendar Activity Sheet

Help families in your parish rediscover the Advent season with this calendar full of activities and reflections.

Unbound or Loose Sheets, 11 x 17 978-1-56854-831-9 | Order code: ADCAS 1-4 copies: $10 | 5-24 copies: $8 each 25 or more: $5 each

Create Your Own Christmas Season Booklet Activity Sheet

This resource invites children to create colorful booklets as prayer-filled guides. Unbound or Loose Sheets, 8 1⁄2 x 11 978-1-56854-833-3 | Order code: CCSBAS Pack of 16 1-4 packs: $10 each | 5-24 packs: $8 each 25 or more: $5 each

Build Your Own Bethlehem

A Nativity Scene and Activity Book for Christmastime

Gertrud Mueller Nelson with Peter Mazar

This full-color activity book suggests eight occasions for using the figures to tell a portion of the nativity Gospels. Saddlestitched, 8 1⁄2 x 11, 48 pages 978-1-56854-448-9 | Order code: BETH $15

La Navidad Hispana

At Home and At Church

Miguel Arias; Mark Francis, csv; Arturo

Pérez-Rodríguez • Stories and bilingual rites to help your parish incorporate the rituals of Hispanic homes into your Christmas and Advent liturgies.

Paperback, 8 x 10, 120 pages 978-1-56854-357-4 | Order code: LANAV $18

What Am I Doing for Advent This Year?

Paul Turner • This little booklet presents Advent as an opportunity for spiritual focus and renewal at a usually hectic and exhausting time of year. Saddlestitched, 5 3⁄8 x 8 5⁄16, 32 pages English: 978-1-56854-790-9 | Order code: EDADV Spanish: 978-1-56854-792-3 | Order code: SDADV 1-24 copies: $1 each | 25-299 copies: $.60 each 300 or more: $.40 each

The Firstborn of God

The Birth of Mary’s Son, Jesus, Luke 2:1–21

Eugene LaVerdiere, sss; Paul Bernier, sss

Challenging readers to rediscover the first Christmas story, LaVerdiere offers a powerful reflection on the tensions that bind manger and Cross.

Paperback, 6 x 9, 114 pages 978-1-56854-609-4 | Order code: FGBMS $12.95

Keeping Advent and Christmastime

This volume contains morning, evening, and night prayers, meal prayers, and a variety of blessings for the seasons of Advent and Christmas Time.

Saddlestitched, 4 ¼ x 6, 48 pages 978-1-56854-027-6 | Order code: KAC3 1-4 copies: $3.50 each | 5-24 copies: $2.50 each 25 or more: $1.50 each

Water, Light, and Life

A Lenten Parish Mission

Paul Radkowski, Rodica

Stoicoiu • This multigenerational prepackaged mission is practical, adaptable, and easy for any parish staff to organize and implement as they work to animate the parish community’s Lenten journey into Easter. Package Item, 8 1⁄2 x 11 978-1-61671-639-4 | Order code: WLL $89.95

Available in December 2021

Water, Light, and Life

Participant’s Booklet Order additional packs of 25 participant booklets to supplement the 25 booklets included in your mission kit when you purchased Water, Light, and Life: A Lenten Parish Mission. Pack of 25 978-1-61671-641-7 | Order code: WLLWAP $24.95

Available in December 2021

Keeping the Seasons for Lent and Easter 2022

Bilingual Print and Digital Resources for Your Parish

Catherine Johnson, Mary

Kathleen Kelley, ssj • Each of the beautifully illustrated handouts on the resource’s website can be manipulated and reproduced for parish bulletins, worship aids, or a parish website! Digital Product, 8 1⁄2 x 11 Bilingual: English & Spanish: 978-1-61671-609-7 Order code: BKSL22 $45

Living Your Baptism in Lent

Weekly Reflections for Your Journey

Dennis Strach, csc

Living Your Baptism in Lent: Weekly Reflections for Your Journey is a Lenten reflection book that helps readers foster a deeper relationship with God that is rooted in their Baptism. Each week’s reflection ends with questions and Scripture passages to use in individual prayer. A guide for leading small groups in these reflections is also included. Saddlestitched, 5 3⁄8 x 8 3⁄8, 48 pages English: 978-1-61671-516-8 | Order code: ELBL Spanish: 978-1-61671-517-5 | Order code: SLBL 1-4 copies: $5.95 each | 5-24 copies: $4.95 each 25 or more: $3.95 each

Glory in the Cross

A Journey through the Paschal Triduum

Corinna Laughlin

This inspiring booklet provides a spiritual journey through the Three Days by exploring the rituals that take place on Holy Thursday evening, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. The questions at the end of each short chapter will help readers to glory in our Lord’s Cross and live it in their lives.

Saddlestitched, 4-1⁄4 x 5-1⁄2, 32 pages English: 978-1-61671-492-5 | Order code: EGCT Spanish: 978-1-61671-493-2 | Order code: SGCT 1-49 copies: $1.50 each | 50-299 copies: $1 each 300 or more: $.75 each

A Light for My Path

Praying the Psalms on the Way of the Cross Michael Ruzicki • This fresh approach to the Stations of the Cross connects excerpts from the Book of Psalms to the Gospel accounts of Christ’s Passion and Death.

Paperback, 5 3⁄8 x 8 3⁄8, 32 pages 978-1-61671-190-0 | Order code: LMP 1-4 copies: $4 each | 5-24 copies: $3 each 25 or more: $1.75 each

A Light for My Path

Praying the Psalms on the Way of the Cross, Leader’s Guide

Michael Ruzicki

The order of prayer includes pastoral reflections, short Scripture readings, and sung responses with original music for guitar, cantor, and choir. Saddlestitched, 8 1⁄2 x 11, 96 pages 978-1-61671-191-7 | Order code: LMPL $30

The Way of the Cross

Scriptural Version This contemporary Roman version of the Stations of the Cross focuses on the Gospel accounts of Jesus’s crucifixion.

Paperback, 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2, 32 pages 978-1-56854-435-9 | Order code: WAYROM 1-4 copies: $1.75 each | 5-49 copies: $1.25 each 50 or more: $.75 each

¿Qué haré este año para la Cuaresma? Segunda edición

Paul Turner • This very popular Spanish booklet, now in its second edition, presents Lent as a powerful opportunity for spiritual growth and renewal. Saddlestitched, 5 3⁄8 x 8 5⁄16, 32 pages Spanish: 978-1-56854-528-8 | Order code: SDL2 1-24 copies: $1 each | 25-299 copies: $.75 each 300 or more: $.50 each

What Am I Doing for Lent This Year? for Teens

Paul Turner • This interactive workbook guides teens through a personal Lenten retreat, offering space to record plans for seasonal prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Saddlestitched, 5 3⁄8 x 8 5⁄16, 32 pages 978-1-56854-808-1 | Order code: DLTEEN 1-24 copies: $1 each | 25-299 copies: $.75 each 300 or more: $.50 each

What Am I Doing for Triduum This Year? Second Edition

Paul Turner • This workbook helps individuals to plan their observance of the Triduum as a personal retreat in the midst of their parish’s communal celebration.

Saddlestitched, 5 3⁄8 x 8 5⁄16, 32 pages 978-1-56854-453-3 | Order code: EDT2 1-24 copies: $1 each | 25-299 copies: $.75 each 300 or more: $.50 each

What Am I Doing for Triduum This Year? for Teens

Paul Turner • Introduce seventh and eighth graders to the three most holy days of the year with this portable personal retreat, complete with introductory catechesis.

Saddlestitched, 5 3⁄8 x 8 3⁄8, 32 pages 978-1-56854-807-4 | Order code: DTTEEN 1-24 copies: $1 each | 25-299 copies: $.75 each 300 or more: $.50 each

What Every Catholic Needs to Know About Lent, Triduum, and Easter

A Parish Guide to the Paschal Season

Kevin McGloin • Resource Publications

This booklet guides the entire congregation through the history of Lent, Triduum, and Easter seasons, their various rituals, and their role in the liturgy. Saddlestitched, 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2, 48 pages 978-0-89390-540-8 | Order code: WECL $5.95

A Lent Sourcebook

Various authors including J. Robert Baker and Evelyn Kaehler

Enrich your journey through the Lenten season with this twovolume collection of vivid poems, ancient hymns, familiar stories, and treasured prayers.

Paperback, 6 x 9, 492 pages 978-0-92965-036-4 | Order code: 2LENT $32

An Easter Sourcebook

The Fifty Days

Various authors including Gabe Huck and Gail Ramshaw

Journey through the rich scriptural images of Easter with this treasured collection of ancient and contemporary prose, poetry, and song.

Paperback, 6 x 9, 184 pages 978-0-93046-776-0 | Order code: EASTER $18

Daily Lenten Meditations

Prayerful Reflections from John Paul II

Edited by Fr. Max Polak

This collection of excerpts from Pope John Paul II’s homilies and official letters forms a spiritual pilgrimage through the Lenten season.

Hardcover, 4 3⁄4 x 7, 100 pages 978-1-56854-530-1 | Order code: DLM $14.95

Guide for Celebrating Holy Week and the Triduum

Corinna Laughlin, Kristopher Seaman, Stephen Palanca

This guide provides a detailed overview of the rubrics surrounding the various liturgies, rites, and devotions of the Paschal Mystery of Jesus’ life, Death, and Resurrection.

Paperback, 6 x 9, 160 pages 978-1-61671-292-1 | Order code: EGCHWT 1-2 copies: $10.95 each | 3 or more: $9.95 each E-book: $8.95

A Journey through the Three Days

Theological Reflections on the Paschal Triduum

Donna M. Eschenauer

This resource provides a spiritual journey through the Three Days of the Sacred Paschal Triduum. Each chapter reflects on the Triduum from a unique perspective and includes questions for discussion as an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the sacred mysteries of the Catholic faith. It illustrates the Triduum as the highest form of worship, ritually enacting human life and its set of relationships with God and each other. Donna Eschenauer clarifies and develops a theology of the Paschal Mystery as revealed through the rites of the Triduum, ultimately offering a foundation from which to understand all Catholic liturgy and to uncover its power to form Christian disciples.

Paperback, 6 x 9, 96 pages 978-1-61671-479-6 | Order code: EJTD $13.95 E-book: $11.95

A Triduum Sourcebook

Joan Halmo, J. Frank Henderson

A Triduum Sourcebook presents the Scripture readings and prayers for the season, along with a treasury of hymns, poetry, homilies, and reflections.

Paperback, 6 x 9, 560 pages 978-1-56854-099-3 | Order code: TRIDR $45

The Three Days

Parish Prayer in the Paschal Triduum

Gabe Huck

This trusted guide will assist liturgical ministers in shaping the spirit of the Paschal Triduum and managing the practical details of the liturgy.

Paperback, 7 x 10, 206 pages 978-0-929650-51-7 | Order code: 3DR $18

An Introduction to Lent and Eastertime

Gabe Huck

This introductory guide will increase the understanding, participation, and devotion of your community during Lent and Eastertime.

Paperback, 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2, 16 pages 978-0-930467-72-2 | Order code: ILE 1-24 copies: $1 each | 25-299 copies: $.50 each 300 or more: $.30 each

Forty Days and Forty Nights

A Lenten Ark Moving Toward Easter

Peter Mazar, author Judy Jarrett, artist

Count down the forty days of Lent aboard Noah’s ark with this collection of prayers and stories from Scripture. Open one window for each day of Lent! Activity Sheet, 12” high 978-1-56854-088-7 | Order code: ARK $15

Bible Stories for the Forty Days

Melissa Musick Nussbaum

Share the stories of the Bible with your children with this beautifully illustrated collection of forty well-known stories: one for each day of Lent!

Paperback, 8 1⁄2 x 11, 96 pages 978-1-56854-179-2 | Order code: ARKBK $15

The Three Days to Save [PDF]

The Three Days to Save is a down- loadable resource that helps a parish or Catholic school community learn more about the centrality of the days leading to Easter.