Recent audio additions

Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (DBX1126): We all experience negative feelings and doubts from time to time. But do you know what to do when you experience them? In this fascinating book, Matthew Kelly, uses his signature combination of the profound and the practical, to help us understand why we feel these things and how to rise above them. Breaking through resistance, Kelly tells us, is essential to becoming the-best-version-of-ourselves and living with passion and purpose. What is resistance? It's that sluggish feeling of not wanting to do something that you know is good for you. It's the inclination to do something that you unabashedly know is not good for you. It's the desire and tendency to delay something you should be doing right now. It is resistance that stands between you and happiness. In these pages you will learn not only what it is, but how to recognize and conquer it in your own life.  Also available in braille and BRF.

Healing Wounded Emotions: Overcoming Life's Hurts by Martin H. Padovani (DBX9010): This book explains how our emotional and spiritual lives interact and challenges readers to live fuller, more satisfying lives. Martin Padovani leads readers to a better understanding of how their emotional and spiritual lives interact and how they can apply that knowledge to improving their lives. Excellent for all who want a deeper understanding of how emotions affect spiritual growth. You can overcome the hurts that life has dealt you. You can heal wounded emotions. Padovani leads you to the vast and untapped reservoir within you of spiritual and emotional well-being. This is a timeless, comforting and essential guide. Also available in braille and BRF.

Letters to the Corinthians: Gifts of the Holy Spirit by William A. Anderson, DMin, Ph.D. (DBX1097):Saint Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians reads like a letter from a concerned parent who wishes to share wisdom—and a warning—with his or her children. For Paul has received some disturbing news about the people he knows well and loves. Therefore, this first letter reflects Paul's own suffering as well as his desire to have the Corinthians change their ways. As Paul continues his Second Letter to the Corinthians, his words express many different emotions. One might even break the letter down into sections that give an image of Paul as a man who is angry, compassionate, forgiving, loving, and sorrowful. In this second letter we are provided a glimpse of the passion of Paul, a man with many moods and emotions. As you study these letters written by St. Paul, the church of Corinth exemplifies the fact that arguments have always existed among the people of God. Though these arguments are familiar to the Christian journey, we are reminded in these letters that the Holy Spirit is with us and will work through us—and that our deepest call is to love God and one another.

Saint Margaret Mary: Apostle of the Sacred Heart by Ruth Fox Hume (DBX0672): Recounts the life-story of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the 17th-century Visitation nun responsible for the modern devotion to the Sacred Heart. From early childhood Margaret showed intense love for the Blessed Sacrament, and preferred silence and prayer to childish amusements. After her first communion at the age of nine, she practiced in secret severe corporal mortifications, until paralysis confined her to bed for four years. At the end of this period, having made a vow to the Blessed Virgin to consecrate herself to religious life, she was instantly restored to perfect health. The death of her father and the injustice of a relative plunged the family in poverty and humiliation, after which more than ever Margaret found consolation in the Blessed Sacrament, and Christ made her sensible of His presence and protection.

The Sacred Heart Yesterday and Today by Arthur McGratty (DBX0379): Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a widely practiced Catholic devotion that focuses on the heart of Jesus as a symbol of His divine love and mercy. It involves honoring Jesus through His Heart, which represents His love for humanity. This devotion is rooted in the belief that Jesus' heart embodies His divine and human love for the Father and for us. This title explores the importance of the devotion throughout history, and even today.

The Visions of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (DBX1088): This title explores the visions of the famous 19th-century Catholic mystic, Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, a nun who was privileged to behold innumerable events of biblical times, going back all the way to the creation of the world. She witnessed the fall of the Angels, the sin of Adam, Noe and the Flood, the lives of St. John the Baptist, St. Anne, St. Joseph, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Mary Magdalen. Also includes the birth, life, public ministry, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, as well as the founding of His Church. Besides describing persons, places, events and traditions in intimate detail, Anne Catherine Emmerich also sets forth the mystical significance of these visible realities.