Advent & Christmas

Margaret — The Pope's Cat — is back! Illustrated in full color. Bang! Slam! Boom! Loud sounds in St. Peter's Square had been going on for nearly a...

Open a window each day of Advent onto the natural world. Here are twenty-five fresh images of the foundational truth that lies beneath and within t...

Celebrated author and Benedictine monk Anselm Grün offers a daily reader of very simple and often quite direct Advent reflections. Anselm Grün show...

For Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, this new devotional combines the words of the Psalms, meditations from the Church Fathers, and a prayer as a gu...

Today a little baby is born in a manger. It's Jesus! A book with very simple words to tell the story of Christmas for the very first time.

Create new family traditions for Advent!

Look! A Child’s Guide to Advent and Christmas presents Advent as special time for waiting and watching—paying attention—to the ways God comes to u...

Advent and Epiphany are the often-neglected parentheses around Christmas. Sybil MacBeth wants to change that. The Season of the Nativity – Advent, ...

Foreword by Philip Yancey “This book summons an almost visceral response in its brilliant counterpoint to the customary understanding and celebrat...

  As Lauren Winner says "Maybe it’s not right to think of feasting during the somewhat penitential season of Advent, but that is what this book is:...

This beautiful collection of inspiring holiday prayers will bring back heartwarming memories and open new understanding of the sacred season. Many ...

Make Christmas special this year by exploring the legends, message, and theology behind some of your favorite carols and hymns. This book of daily...

Christmas is the season most difficult to grasp and understand in all its spiritual richness. The sentimentality and commercialism that dominate th...

Advent is about learning to love the waiting…    Waiting is the primary lesson of Advent, says Paula Gooder. In the company of the biblical charac...

Heartwarming stories that recall Christmases past: ·         O.Henry’s all-American tale, “The Gift of the Magi,” originally published in 1906.·   ...

Explores the themes of the world's most popular Christmas song.

That Baby in the Manger is a children’s Christmas picture book with a needed message about inclusion and acceptance of cultural differences. As th...

One Christmas Eve in a far kingdom, the royal family gathered to open presents—which mainly meant watching the prince open his...  So begins a chi...

Let the Little Angels bring you all the way to Bethlehem where you will meet Mary and Joseph, and baby Jesus in the manger. See the shepherds and w...

"What would it mean to conceive of Christmas as the beginning, rather than end, of a celebratory season—a season meant to open you to a new awaren...

Fr. Martin Shannon pulls back the veil between heaven and earth with Biblical stories, meditations and sacred art on the role of heavenly messenger...

Would you like to meet the real Mary of Nazareth? The real Mary was an unmarried, pregnant teenage girl in first-century Palestine. She was a woman...

Now in paperback for the first time, Christmas with the Holy Fathers guides readers through Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with the words of Popes ...