The Church's Year

The perfect book for family reading. Part I: texts and commentaries for the Epistles, Gospels, and most other Mass prayers (e.g., Introit, Collect, Gradual, etc.) for every Sunday and Holy Day of the liturgical year. Part II: The Saints—Epistles and Gospels. Focuses on teaching doctrine and morals through the liturgy. Question & Answer format.

• Almsgiving
• Manner of Following Mass at Home
• Bible and Tradition
• Blessings
• Process of Canonization
• Excommunication
• Detraction
• Education of Children
• Consolation in Sickness
• Love of Enemies
• Indulgences
• Holy Orders
• Why Christ Spoke in Parables
• The Rosary
• Processions
• Relics
• Holy Water
• Temptation
• The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
• Ceremonies
• Regarding the Spirit of the Liturgical Seasons
• Miracles
• Sacraments
• Origins of Church Feasts
• Drunkenness
• Good Intention
• more Hows? Whys? and What-fors?

The Church’s Year follows the calendar in effect at the time it was first published (1880), yet all of it is applicable with the use of the 1962 Missal. Totally re-typeset. Keepsake edition. “It will bring blessings on any house in which it is kept and used” (Wm. Henry Elder, Archbishop of Cincinnati, 1884). Gold-embossed leatherette cover.