TAN Books has just published Meredith Hinds' highly anticipated Eucharistic Saints: Twenty Stories of Devotion to Jesus. Here is a preview of some of the saints highlighted in her book: With such a great cloud of witnesses, there is much we can learn from their personal experiences with Christ in the Eucharist. I love that the book includes holy youths like Blessed Carlo Acutis, St. Jacinta Marto, and Blessed Imelda, patron saint of First Communicants. Children will see how a love for Continue Reading
Sr. Mary Wilhelmina: “To Be Black is Nothing.”
Newly published by TAN, The Life of Sr. Mary Wilhelmina tells the story of the indomitable founder of the traditional Benedictine Sisters of Mary, whose body was found apparently incorrupt in May of 2023. The First Call An early vocation at the age of 17, Mary Elizabeth Lancaster was a descendant of black slaves from Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Faced with very few choices in terms of religious life due to her skin color, she joined the Oblate Sisters of Providence, a black order, in 1941. Continue Reading
A Beautiful Introduction to the Latin Mass for Children + a Book Giveaway
Interest in the Latin Mass is steadily growing, an unexpected blessing during the Covid lockdowns, and many Catholics are just now learning about this rite. If you're a new Latin Mass goer (or visitor), or have children and want them to get more out of each Mass, TAN has just published a beautiful new missal that you'll want to add to your library! Featuring the soft, richly detailed artwork of Adalee Hude, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus: An Introductory Latin Missal for Children is a slim, Continue Reading
The Prosperity Gospel Book Review + Two Giveaways
"Rags to riches" is a universally appealing theme in Western literature. How satisfying it is when the good guy is rewarded not only with a happy life, but a material windfall as well. The humble tailor must rise to a prince; the poor orphan girl will discover she's an heiress. The starving shoemaker will become fabulously wealthy and never want for anything again. After recently finishing The Inheritance (written by a 17-year-old Louisa May Alcott) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Continue Reading
TAN’s Book of the Year, Plus a $1.00 Calendar and Planner Sale
I was intrigued by TAN's choice of Meditations on Death by Thomas a Kempis for its 2023 Book of the Year. The title catapulted me back to my teenage years, reading Flannery O'Conner's humorous short story, The Life You Save May Be Your Own. A Coffin for a Bed? It's a tale about two people who each want something very badly - specifically, an automobile and a son-in-law. Shiftlet, the young drifter who has cast a covetous eye on the car own by Mrs. Lucynell, eagerly takes up her offer to Continue Reading
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