A most unhappy family lived in one of the small villages of Portugal. The husband, not content on coming home at night and calling his wife bad names, used to beat her, kick her, and even threaten to turn her out of doors. The cause of such conduct can be easily guessed; he used to stay out late at night and frequented bad company. The poor woman, at last despairing of her husband turning over a new leaf, determined to destroy herself. One night, after her husband had gone to his usual haunts, just as she was fetching the rope which was to put an end to her misery in this world, she heard a...

If you have ever read or skimmed over a "Survival" book, listing all the things necessary and recommended for surviving the chaotic, anarchic, and violent times which would follow either an atomic electro-magnetic pulse (EMP), or some pandemic, or a thermo-nuclear World War, or a major comet or asteroid strike, or some other extremely unpleasant scenario involving especially the extended loss of our electrical power grid, you may have been tempted to just throw up your hands in despair or else just submerge the whole unpleasant idea into your subconscious while you continue living your normal...

Through her diary, found after her death, much more is learned about things that Rose Dawson (formerly Rose DeWitt Bukater) had kept in her heart during her life. After being rescued at sea, Rose lives in New York several years, goes to California, then to Wisconsin where she meets Jack Dawson's relatives, learns much more about Jack, and marries his cousin Jeremy, who is apparently murdered by her ex-fiance Caledon's men. Rose moves to Milwaukee and marries Darrell Calvert. Rose dreams often of Jack and feels his presence in her life. Jack helps Rose in various mysterious ways during her...

"When St. Dominic was preaching at Carcassone, in France, an Albigensian heretic, who was possessed by demons, was brought to him, because he had publicly spoken against the devotion of the most holy Rosary. The saint then ordered the demons, in the name of God, to declare whether those things which he had said concerning the most holy Rosary were true; and howling with rage they said: "Hear, oh Christians, all that this our enemy has said of Mary and of the most holy Rosary is entirely true." They added, moreover, that they had no power against the servants of Mary; and that many who at...

In this 250 page book, Saint Alphonsus de Liguori (1696-1787), bishop and Doctor of the Church, develops the celebrated text of St. Paul on the qualities of true love in 1 Cor. 13:4-8 ("Love is patient, love is kind...."). He explains in thirteen chapters the principal virtues that we ought to practice and the defects that we ought to avoid in order to render to our Lord love for love, and by doing so to attain eternal life. This book was originally published in 1768 and was described by one reviewer as "One of the masterpieces of St. Alphonsus, a book that speaks to all hearts...a very...

This book was written primarily to help modern women withstand the spread of the prevailing secularism among us, which is daily invading our homes more and more -- the minds and lives of parents as well as children. If we can preserve the Home from this destructive influence, by making of every mother a supernatural woman, living a life of faith, embracing above all things self-denial and self-sacrifice for the sake of her husband and children first of all, fondly attached to the heroic ways and virtues of our ancestors, then the Home will bring forth supernatural men and women - unselfish,...

Each year, the Church celebrates the Mysteries of Christ's birth, life, death, and resurrection. These are the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent, Holy Week, and Easter - and each is the source of a particular grace, each has its own special gift for us. "Christ in His Mysteries," first published in 1919 but now revised into modern English for today's reader, is Blessed Columba Marmion's great meditation on the treasure-house of grace Christ offers to us in the Church's liturgical year. Writing in the lively, compelling style that made him a best-selling author, Marmion explains: How the...

This book is meant to be a fruitful source for Christian meditation. In it are collected the most memorable words of Jesus Christ, including the Parables of the Sower, the Prodigal Son, the Rich Man and Lazarus, the Good Shepherd, the Vine and the Branches, and other parables; the words of Jesus to the Jewish Leaders; his words on the Eucharist; the Seven Words of Jesus on the Cross (including meditations on each); his words after his Resurrection; on the Last Judgment; and other memorable sayings of Our Lord. The book also contains two beautiful and prayer-inspiring illustrations, one of...