Barry Michaels
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Benedict XVI Made Simple
Your Guide to Spe Salvi:
Saved in Hope
$6.95
paperback, 85 pp.
Pauline Books and Media, 2008
Spe Salvi is a challenging but nonetheless truly rewarding endeavor for any reader. This convenient guide breaks down each of the encyclical’s complex topics, providing essential background information and clear explanations. An essential reading companion that makes the profound thought of Benedict XVI simple and accessible for readers everywhere.
"I highly recommend Your Guide to Spe Salvi to the interested individual reader but especially for use in an adult faith formation small group setting." -- Fr. Joseph Hennessey, St. Julia Parish, Weston/Lincoln, MA
"Barry Michaels' step-by-step guide through the complex teachings of Spe Salvi is most useful, especially for those of us who attempt tp speed-read the encyclical. We would miss everything if we did not meditate on every line of Pope Benedict XVI's illuminating exhortation to embrace hope." -- Andre Nguyen Van Chau, author of The Miracle of Hope: The Life of Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan
"I read the encyclical Spe Salvi as soon as it was released. However, it was only after reading through Your Guide to Spe Salvi that I more fully understood why the Pope speaks endlessly to the world about hope. If you decide to journey with Barry Michaels, I promise you will not be disappointed." -- Anthony Ruggiero
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IMAGES REFERRED TO ON PP. 74-75 OF THE GUIDE CAN BE VIEWED HERE:
Luca Signorelli's The Elect
Luca Signorelli's The Damned
Hans Memling's Last Judgment Triptych
Jan Van Eyck's Last Judgment
Michelangelo'sLast Judgment
Eucharist: The Church's Treasure
A Companion to Ecclesia de Eucharistia
$6.95
paperback, 100 pages
Pauline Books, 2004
Eucharist: The Church's Treasure is a prayer and study companion to Pope John Paul II's Ecclesia de Eucharistia, the final and crowning encyclical of a pontificate packed with remarkable teaching documents.
The companion book makes the Pope's work accessible to adult Catholics who might lack a strong theological background but still want to nourish their faith with the best the Church has to offer them! It has been used for adult education, RCIA, and parish prayer groups.
"A most accessible guide to a most remarkable document. Barry Michaels' book, like the Pope's encyclical, is itself a sustained spiritual communion. It can change the way you experience the Mass -- and live your life."
--Mike Aquilina
author of The Mass of the Early Christians and The Fathers of the Church
"Barry Michaels has done us all a favor by making the Church's rich teaching on the Eucharist accessible to a world that is starving for lack of Jesus Christ."
--Mark Shea
author of This Is My Body: An Evangelical Discovers the Real Presence
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Saints for Our Times:
New Novenas and Prayers
$12.95
paperback, 246 pages
Pauline Books, 2007
Saints for Our Times: New Novenas and Prayers is designed to help foster your devotion to some of the most impressive new saints and blesseds offered by the Church in recent years.
Each chapter includes biographical information on one new saint/blessed, a set of original and new novena prayers, and several other aids for your prayer and meditation.
The book features St. Katherine Drexel, St. Gianna Molla, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, and 12 other heroes of the Faith.
"Barry Michaels shows how the 'cloud of witnesses' canonized in recent years draw us ever more deeply into the mystery of Christ’s redeeming love and mercy. His novena and litany prayers open a personal devotional relationship between the reader and each saint."
-- Fr. Thomas Acklin, OSB
author of The Passion of the Lamb and The Unchanging Heart of Priesthood
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At the School of Mary
A Companion to Rosarium Virginis Mariae
At the School of Mary is a prayer and study companion to Pope John Paul II's apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae. RVM is one of this great pope's most personal, spiritual, and dramatic teaching documents, and At the School of Mary serves as a guided tour of the entire work.
With John Paul II as a spiritual guide, it will help readers reflect, pray, and study their way through the letter, deepened their relationship with Christ through His Mother.
"This guide will not only help [readers] understand the Rosary more deeply, but will also inspire them to pray and live more profoundly in the spirit of this prayer."
--Amy Welborn, author of The Words We Pray: Discovering the Richness of Traditional Catholic Prayers and Mary and the Christian Life
"This book is a must for devotees of the Holy Rosary."
-- Fr. Bert Buby, SM, Professor at the International Marian Research Institute
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