St. Stephen's Handbook for Altar Servers

St. Stephen's Handbook for Altar Servers
Author: Edward Matthews
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1994
Genre: Acolytes
ISBN: 9780852442777

Provides in simple terms an understanding of what the worship of the Roman Catholic Church is and how the altar server plays a part in it.

Catholics in Cambridge

Catholics in Cambridge
Author: Nicholas Rogers
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2003
Genre: Cambridge (England)
ISBN: 9780852445686

How to Serve

How to Serve
Author: Dom Matthew Britt
Publisher: TAN Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1618904256

The ever increasing interest in the Liturgical Traditions of the Church gives rise to the need for adequately trained altar servers and what better way to assist than to resurrect this classic! This famous handbook is an invaluable resource for all altar boys from beginning to advanced. Though written for Instructors, this manual can also be used for home study, schools and sacristies. Dom Matthew Britt begins by offering specific instructions on common ceremonial actions, including how to make the proper bow, how to light the candles, and how to carry the Missal. He also walks the servers step-by-step through Low Mass (with one or two servers), High Mass, Solemn High Masses, Nuptial and Requiem Masses, Vespers and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Contains more than 24 diagrams showing the various actions and positions of acolytes, Thurifer, Master of Ceremonies, Sub-Deacon, and Deacon. Includes servers responses for the 1962 Latin Mass. How to Serve is a brief and clear manual from 1934 that is simply the best book of its kind. It will once again become the standard reference for acolytes, handing on to young servers the disciplines necessary for reverent Catholic ceremonies. Every altar boy "should realize that...he is , after the priest, and in the absence of other priests or Sacred Ministers, the closest one in the whole church to our Divine Savior in the Blessed Sacrament. Occupying this very important position in his parish, an Altar Boy's conduct should be exemplary at all times and in all places." - Rev. Joseph W. Kavanagh, author of The Altar Boys Ceremonial

The Visible Church

The Visible Church
Author: John F. Sullivan
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2011-10-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781466418127

St. Alphonsus writes: “a single bad book will be sufficient to cause the destruction of a monastery.” Pope Pius XII wrote in 1947 at the beatification of Blessed Maria Goretti: “There rises to Our lips the cry of the Saviour: 'Woe to the world because of scandals!' (Matthew 18:7). Woe to those who consciously and deliberately spread corruption-in novels, newspapers, magazines, theaters, films, in a world of immodesty!” We at St. Pius X Press are calling for a crusade of good books. We want to restore 1,000 old Catholic books to the market. We ask for your assistance and prayers. This book is a photographic reprint of the original The original has been inspected and many imperfections in the existing copy have been corrected. At Saint Pius X Press our goal is to remain faithful to the original in both photographic reproductions and in textual reproductions that are reprinted. Photographic reproductions are given a page by page inspection, whereas textual reproductions are proofread to correct any errors in reproduction.

Candles in the Roman Rite

Candles in the Roman Rite
Author: Edwin Ryan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2013-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781258993825

This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.

Purgatory: Illustrated by the Lives and Legends of the Saints

Purgatory: Illustrated by the Lives and Legends of the Saints
Author: Rev. F.X. Schouppe
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2018-03-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

PURGATORY occupies an important place in our holy religion : it forms one of the principal parts of the work of Jesus Christ, and plays an essential role in the economy of the salvation of man. What then is the work which we, members of the Church, have to do for the souls in Purgatory ? We have to alleviate their sufferings. God has placed in our hands the key of this mysterious prison : it is prayer for the dead, devotion to the souls in Purgatory.