Conciliar Octet: A Concise Commentary on the Eight Key Texts of the Second Vatican Council
By: Fr. Aidan Nichols O.P.
3.60
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
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1. Introduction to the Devout Life
By: Francis de Sales
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Written for Christians in every walk of life and for every age, St. Francis De Sales' classic work … read more
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"Be who you are and be that well."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
"We are crucified to the world, and the world must be as crucified to us. It esteems us as fools, let us esteem it as mad."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
"The desire and pursuit of virtue tends to make us virtuous, but the desire and pursuit of honors tends to make us odious and despicable."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
"If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
2. True Devotion to Mary
By: Louis de Montfort , Louis-Marie Grignion de Monfort
4.56
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Considered the greatest single book on Mary ever written, this classic shows the way to Jesus throu… read more
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"When Mary has struck her roots in a soul, she produces there marvels of grace, which she alone can produce, because she alone is the fruitful Virgin who never has had, and never will have, her equal …"-Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary
"it has always been remarked that those who wear the outward look of reprobation, like impious heretics and proud worldlings, hate or despise the Hail Mary or the Rosary. Heretics still learn and say …"-Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary
"Mary has produced, together with the Holy Ghost the greatest thing which has been or ever will be - a God-Man; and she will consequently produce the greatest saints that there will be in the end of t…"-Louis de Montfort, True Devotion to Mary
3. The Imitation of Christ
By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more
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4. The Song of Roland
By: Unknown , Dorothy L. Sayers
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spa… read more
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5. The Didache
By: Anonymous
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
The Teaching of the Twelve- an early Christian compilation. Traditionally ascribed to the Twelve Ap… read more
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6. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
7. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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8. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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9. Introduction to Christianity
By: Pope Benedict XVI
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of Cardinal Ratzinger's most important and widely read books, this volume is a revised second e… read more
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10. The Apostles: The Origin of the Church and Their Co-Workers
By: Pope Benedict XVI
4.08
Format: None pages,
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11. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
12. The Life of St. Anthony
By: E.A. Wallis Budge , Athanasius of Alexandria
3.98
Format: 212 pages,
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13. Chance or Purpose? Creation, Evolution, and a Rational Faith
By: Christoph Schönborn
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Cardinal Christoph Schonborn's article on evolution and creation in The New York Timeslaunched an i… read more
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14. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
15. Liberalism Is A Sin
By: None
3.11
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Refutes every aspect of the deadly error that one religion is as good as another and that a person … read more
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16. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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17. The Meaning of Tradition
By: Avery Dulles , None
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Some Christians claim to reject Tradition in preference to a supposedly "Bible only" Christianity. … read more
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18. Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection
By: Pope Benedict XVI
3.00
Format: 108 pages,
For Christians, Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God, who died for the sins of the world, and who ro… read more
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19. Letters from a Stoic
By: Seneca , Robin Campbell
4.75
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were… read more
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20. Saved in Hope: Spe Salvi
By: Pope Benedict XVI
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
Pope Benedict XVI's second encyclical, Saved In Hope, ("Spe Salvi" in Latin) takes its title from S… read more
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21. Catholic Bible Dictionary
By: Scott Hahn
4.11
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
More than a generation has passed since the appearance of the last major Catholic Bible dictionary.… read more
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22. Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
By: Pope Benedict XVI , Adrian Walker
3.22
Format: 111 pages,
"Ho voluto fare il tentativo di presentare il Gesu dei Vangeli come il Gesu reale, come il "Gesu st… read more
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23. What Are People For?
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry, whom "The Christian Science Monitor "called… read more
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24. In the Eye of the Storm: A Biography of Gregory the Great
By: Sigrid Grabner
4.20
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Rome in the year A.D. 590. A plague is tearing through the city. Pope Pelagius II is dead. Outside … read more
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25. Dominus Iesus: On the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church
By: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
4.51
Format: 47 pages, Paperback
Dominus Iesus (English: Lord Jesus) is a declaration by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Fa… read more
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26. Reclaiming Vatican II: What It (Really) Said, What It Means, and How It Calls Us to Renew the Church
By: Blake Britton
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
During the past five decades, the Second Vatican Council has been alternately celebrated or maligne… read more
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27. They Have Uncrowned Him
By: Marcel Lefebvre
4.58
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The Summa of Archbishop Lefebvre. Covers the origins of liberalism, the subversion of orthodoxy by… read more
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"I will limit my enumeration of the errors to these: I do not say that everything is bad in this Council, that there are not some fine texts to meditate on. Contrarily, I assert, with the evidence in …"-Marcel Lefebvre, They Have Uncrowned Him
28. Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians
By: Fergus Kerr
4.13
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
This book reports on the lives and works of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twenti… read more
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29. The Word on Fire Vatican II Collection: Constitutions
By: Pope Paul VI
4.53
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), a gathering of Catholic bishops from around the world, was … read more
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30. Conciliar Octet: A Concise Commentary on the Eight Key Texts of the Second Vatican Council
By: Fr. Aidan Nichols O.P.
3.60
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A lively debate continues in the Roman Catholic Church about the character of the teaching provided… read more
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31. Vatican II: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Shaun Blanchard
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), or Va… read more
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