Engagement is a joyful time in the life of a couple 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". As they begin this exciting journey together and prepare to get married in the Catholic Church, they will have many questions. This booklet will help couples get started. A Guide to Catholic Weddings: Q&A for Couples provides the answers to common questions engaged couples have about the Catholic Church and the wedding ceremony. It is the perfect resource to use together and will help answer questions related to:

Where and when a wedding can be scheduled

• Responsibilities for wedding preparations

• Church rules and requirements

• How to prepare the ceremony

• Scripture and Holy Communion

• Involvement of family, friends, and the wedding party

• Cultural customs and traditions

• Music, flowers, photography, and dress

Parish staffs will also find this resource helpful to becoming more familiar with the legislation of the Church concerning Catholic weddings. It provides the pastoral language necessary to respond to couples when they approach staff members with specific questions and needs. This resource is essential for creating a welcoming environment where couples and pastoral staff members can dialogue freely and compassionately.

A great resource for sponsors and initiation ministers, this volume describes both the process and experience of discerning entrance into the Church.                                          

This helpful set of books provides celebrant's introductions, prayers of the faithful, and celebrant's closing prayers for each of the Sundays and solemnities of the liturgical year, as well as intercessions to be prayed on civil holidays, world and national religious observances, and days of honor. All are inspired by the liturgical season and Scripture. A CD-ROM containing all texts in each book is included for easy parish download, customization, and printing. Each set of intercessions contains a prayer for the sick, as well as an intercession for those who have died, with a place to insert the relevant names. Three 8.5 x 11 Paperbacks with CD-ROM.

This helpful book provides celebrant's introductions, prayers of the faithful, and celebrant's closing prayers for each of the Sundays and solemnities of the liturgical year, as well as intercessions to be prayed on civil holidays, world and national religious observances, and days of honor. All are inspired by the liturgical season and Scripture. A CD-ROM containing all texts in the book is included for easy parish download, customization, and printing. Each set of intercessions contains a prayer for the sick, as well as an intercession for those who have died, with a place to insert the relevant names. 8.5 x 11 Paperback with CD-ROM.

This helpful book provides celebrant's introductions, prayers of the faithful, and celebrant's closing prayers for each of the Sundays and solemnities of the liturgical year, as well as intercessions to be prayed on civil holidays, world and national religious observances, and days of honor. All are inspired by the liturgical season and Scripture. A CD-ROM containing all texts in the book is included for easy parish download, customization, and printing. Each set of intercessions contains a prayer for the sick, as well as an intercession for those who have died, with a place to insert the relevant names. 8.5 x 11 Paperback with CD-ROM.

This helpful book provides celebrant's introductions, prayers of the faithful, and celebrant's closing prayers for each of the Sundays and solemnities of the liturgical year, as well as intercessions to be prayed on civil holidays, world and national religious observances, and days of honor. All are inspired by the liturgical season and Scripture. A CD-ROM containing all texts in the book is included for easy parish download, customization, and printing. Each set of intercessions contains a prayer for the sick, as well as an intercession for those who have died, with a place to insert the relevant names. 8.5 x 11 Paperback with CD-ROM.

A complete ceremonial manual for the celebration of the Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours. Faithful to the renewal of worship authorized by the Second Vatican Council, Ceremonies combines precise guidance to these rites with a pastoral and spiritual approach. A high ideal of noble Catholic worship is consistently maintained, respecting the "continuity of our tradition." Ceremonies sets out the liturgical duties of bishops, priests and deacons, acolytes and servers, lectors and eucharistic ministers, making it invaluable for clergy, seminarians, and all who teach or study the liturgy. The book also includes a wide range of guidance on such useful themes as: vessels and vestments, how to carry out ceremonial actions, the deacon, ministering the Eucharist to the sick, children's liturgy, Eucharistic adoration, Eucharistic processions, celebrating vespers in a parish, eucharistic ministries and the laity, and the location of the tabernacle.

Author and pastor Andy Stanley draws from Scripture and over 25 years of pastoral experience to communicate to church leaders how they can create a church where believers can have a growing faith in Jesus and at the same time unbelievers can make a vital and lasting connection---a ministry that is both deep and wide. Softcover, 400 pages, 5.5" x 8.5". ISBN: 9780310526537.

Vive Cristo (Christus Vivit) is the Spanish version of Christ Is Alive! Christus Vivit written by His Holiness Pope Francis.  This book is a Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation which calls to all Christian young people especially and to all people of God, including pastors, parents, educators, families, youth and young adult ministries, and all the faithful, urging them to seek the youthful newness of life in Christ.  Pope Francis proposes that youth engage the joy of a living God, the richness of their Catholic faith, and the strength of living in Christian community.  He illuminates the Scriptures to give youth tangible hope and draw them more fully into the Church, and he challenges youth to take the grounded path of generous sacrifice and faithful companionship with peers, family, neighbors and elders.  He considers a plan for action that will take young people forward quickly, amid fears and hopes, into the work of a life with mission and purpose.  This exhortation will stir all who read it to seek a newness of life in the promise of Christ's Resurrection.  Published by the United States Catholic Conference of Catholic Bishops.  Paperback, 116 Pages, 6" x 9".  ISBN: 9781601376282.

Christ Is Alive! Christus Vivit, written by His Holiness Pope Francis, is a Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation which calls to all Christian young people especially and to all people of God, including pastors, parents, educators, families, youth and young adult ministries, and all the faithful, urging them to seek the youthful newness of life in Christ.  Pope Francis proposes that youth engage the joy of a living God, the richness of their Catholic faith, and the strength of living in Christian community.  He illuminates the Scriptures to give youth tangible hope and draw them more fully into the Church, and he challenges youth to take the grounded path of generous sacrifice and faithful companionship with peers, family, neighbors and elders.  He considers a plan for action that will take young people forward quickly, amid fears and hopes, into the work of a life with mission and purpose.  This exhortation will stir all who read it to seek a newness of life in the promise of Christ's Resurrection.  Published by the United States Catholic Conference of Catholic Bishops.  Paperback, 116 Pages, 6" x 9".  ISBN: 9781601376282.