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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 any pictures. Readers, as they progress through
this story, will form a mental image of their King, one as unique
and personal as their own relationship with Him. The study sections
assist with the allegory, connect to Scripture as well as to the
Catechism, and for parents and older children explore the art of
prayer in the spirit of the three Carmelite Doctors of the Church.
Let us all young and old alike enter into Dilecta s world to ponder
the ways of our King. May the message of this beautiful story
enkindle our love for Jesus, deepen our prayer lives, lead to the
conversion and transformation of hearts, and build up the Kingdom
of God.
James Cardinal Gibbons was Archbishop of Baltimore when he asked
Mother Loyola to write this story of the Life of our Lord. As a
revered author himself, and considering the number of such stories
available even then, we can only imagine the admiration he must
have held for Mother Loyola's rare talent for narrative. She does
not disappoint in this story, for as always, she brings to life the
most vivid images of our Lord, such that the children who read it
will feel almost as if they were following the dusty paths our
Saviour trod.
Now enhanced with an abundance of contemporary engravings and
lithographs, this newly typeset edition is an invaluable means of
impressing upon the minds of young children the reality of our God
become Man.
Forty Hours.
One Guide.
In these meditations before the Blessed Sacrament, Mother Mary
Loyola's distinctive style skillfully guides the reader toward
prayerfulness without supplying any preformulated prayers.
From "Catholic World," May 1901: "There is nothing exaggerated,
artificial, or impossible in the pages before us; they contain
merely a collection of musings and devotional monologues written
with a directness and spontaneity that will appeal strongly to many
who can get little profit out of less natural and more fervent
writing."
From "The Irish Ecclesiastical Record," January 1902: ..".Mother M.
Loyola is as much at home when depicting the trials, the
aspirations, and the consolations of adults as in leading little
children along the road of true penance. Each visit seizes,
generally with thrilling vivacity, one idea; the subject is weighed
in the presence of our Lord, the conclusions are always practical."
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Home for Good (Paperback)
Mother Mary Loyola; Edited by Herbert Thurston; Contributions by Lisa Bergman
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R435
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The unassuming title "Home for Good" and the original motivation
Mother Loyola had in writing this book-that is, to help young
ladies who were finishing boarding school to make the right choices
in life-both utterly belie the groundbreaking significance of its
content. While Mother Loyola's King of the Golden City is charming
and entertaining; while her catechesis books are both informative
and inspiring; and while her devotional works are unparalleled in
their ability to reach the hearts of their readers, Home for Good
is a rock on which an unshakable faith can be built amidst the
storms and calms of everyday life.
Having spent most of her adult life in educating young ladies,
Mother Loyola was intimately familiar with the character of youth
as well as the challenges young people face when confronted with
the temptations of worldliness. Though this book was written with
her young charges in mind, it is no less relevant to young men, who
endure the same enticements-and in our own culture, perhaps even
greater ones. It is a clarion call to young Catholics to hold fast
to their faith and morals in a world that seeks to destroy that
faith at every opportunity. Readers of all ages, both male and
female, have equally to gain by reading from this book regularly.
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First Communion (Paperback)
Mother Mary Loyola; Edited by Herbert Thurston; Contributions by Lisa Bergman
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R614
Discovery Miles 6 140
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In Hail Full of Grace, Mother Loyola brings her full talent for
storytelling to bear on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary. Like a
tourguide to the Holy Land, she brings the reader along on a
journey through the lives of our Lord and of his Blessed Mother. We
experience, through her vivid illustration, the breathless
anticipation, the drudgery and hardship, the depths of sorrow and
despair, and the heights of joy unimaginable. No detail escapes her
notice as she travels on, until her readers feel less that they
have meditated upon the mysteries of the Rosary, and rather more
that they have experienced them firsthand.
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