This treasure of a book, originally published in 1921, was written in response to a student's appeal for instructions along with "little stories" to help her prepare for Holy Communion. To fulfill this request, Mother Loyola of the Bar Convent in York, England, wrote a simple story that illustrates Jesus' desire to share an intimate relationship with each one of His children. Although written many years ago for a young child, this book remains a masterpiece of timeless Catholic literature suitable for all ages. This edition has some updated language, but quite deliberately, does not contain...

RACE for Heaven study guides use Mary Fabyan Windeatt's saint biographies to teach the Catholic faith to all members of your family. Written with a family's various learning levels in mind, the RACE study guides succeed as stand-alone unit studies or as curriculum supplements. Thirty to sixty minutes per day will allow your family to experience the spirituality and holy habits of the saints while spending quality read-aloud time with spiritual living books. Use these study guides to increase critical thinking and reading comprehension skills, and to incorporate history and geography into your...

In the 1940's and 1950's, Mary Fabyan Windeatt-"the storyteller of the saints"-wrote a series of twenty saint biographies for Catholic children of various ages. This series illustrates the beauty and depth of the Roman Catholic culture and doctrine as lived by each of these saints in the pre-Vatican II era. Use this dictionary to help you and your family understand more fully the vocabulary and practices of those-and our-times. Containing over 450 entries, this dictionary provides an easy reference to many unfamiliar Catholic words found in Mary Fabyan Windeatt's saint biography series. Many...

The characters chronicled in Mary Fabyan Windeatt's saint biographies demonstrate for us a rich variety of holy habits. Saint Paul, one of the Windeatt saints, urges us to imitate him just as he imitates Christ (1 Corinthians 11: 1). This book is a compilation of the Growing in Holiness sections of RACE for Heaven's Catholic study guides for the Windeatt saint biography series and presents 344 examples of saintly behavior, one for nearly every chapter in each of these twenty biographies. As you and your family enjoy these Catholic living books, enhance your encounter with these saints by...

The forty-five book report ideas included in this RACE for Heaven resource encourage critical thinking for ages seven to fourteen. These ideas are intended to provoke a reflection on those themes and topics that support and encourage Catholic living as well as some that may conflict with our Faith. Many report topics require an examination of our personal faith life and prompt us to take a lesson from the book to strengthen our own faith in God. The suggested activities vary from written exercises to creative art projects and include twenty-one topics specifically designed for saint...

First published in 1923, this classic story of the persecution of Scottish Catholics contains chapter-by-chapter aids to assist readers in assimilating the book's strong Catholic elements into their own lives.