Recent audio additions

Rediscover Advent by Matthew Kelly (DBX0923): These timely and inspirational words will help renew your enthusiasm for being Catholic, while encouraging you to delve more deeply into the spirituality of the Advent season. Designed for individual reading or for group study, Rediscover Advent is the perfect companion as you prepare for the coming of Christ, both this year and for years to come.

Welcoming the Christ Child: Advent Reflections by Pope Francis and Henri J.M. Nouwen (DBX1125): Spending this Advent with Pope Francis and Henri J.M. Nouwen is a good way to focus our attention on Jesus’ incarnate presence with us in history and his resurrected presence with us today. As Pope Francis reminds us, “Welcome Jesus, listen to him, speak with him, grow with him and in this way improve the world.” Each day during Advent, this booklet concentrates on the welcoming actions of listening, praying, growing in holiness and working to make our world a better place. Through our faithful daily attention to Jesus’ presence, we will prepare ourselves for the celebration of Christmas.

The Shroud of Turin: The Most Up-To-Date Analysis of All the Facts Regarding the Church's Controversial Relic by C. Bernard Ruffin (DBX1105): Have scientists proven that the Shroud of Turin is a medieval forgery? Although many people would say yes, historian C. Bernard Ruffin reveals recent scientific discoveries that indicate the controversial carbon 14 dating completed in 1988 may be inaccurate by as much as a thousand years! Utilizing fascinating new analyses of the time-honored relic, the author carefully and reverently looks at the facts surrounding the ancient cloth thought by many to be the burial shroud of Christ. Examine the evidence and then decide for yourself - is the Shroud of Turin the burial cloth of Christ, or unprecedented forgery?

Behold Your Mother: A Biblical and Historical Defense of the Marian Doctrines by Tim Staples (DBX1100, also available in braille and BRF): From the cross Jesus gave us his mother to be our mother, too: a singularly holy model, consoler, and intercessor for our spiritual journey. Yet most Protestants and too many Catholics don't understand the role that God wants her to play in our lives. In Behold Your Mother, Tim Staples takes you through the Church's teachings about the Blessed Virgin Mary, showing their firm Scriptural and historical roots and dismantling the objections of those who mistakenly believe that Mary competes for the attention due Christ alone. Combining the best recent scholarship with a convert's in-depth knowledge of the arguments, Staples has assembled the most thorough and useful Marian apologetic you'll find anywhere. He also shows how all the Marian doctrines are relevant even essential to a salvific faith in Jesus. From her divine maternity to her perpetual virginity, from her Immaculate Conception to her Assumption, the Church's core teachings about Mary are intertwined with the mysteries of Christ. In a word, Mary matters. 

A Treatise to the True Devotion of Mary by Louis-Marie Grignon de Montfort (DBX1001, also available in braille & BRF): Considered by many to be the greatest single book of Marian spirituality ever written, True Devotion to Mary is St Louis de Montfort's classic statement on the spiritual way to Jesus Christ though the Blessed Virgin Mary. Beloved by countless souls, this book sums up the entire Christian life, showing a way of holiness that is short, easy, secure, and perfect—a way of life chosen by Our Lord Himself. In this beautiful and sublimely inspiring book, de Montfort explains the wonderful spiritual effects which true devotion to Mary brings about in a person's life. There is no better way to advance quickly in holiness, no better way to please God, and no better way to guarantee one's present sanctity and eternal salvation than the true devotion to Mary.

Story of a Soul by of St. Thérèse of Lisieux (DBX9039): As we become acquainted with the histories of those in whom, in long succession, God has been pleased to show forth examples of holiness of life, it seems as if every phase of human existence had in the history of the Church received its consecration as a power to bring men nearer to their Maker. But there is no limit to the types of sanctity which the Creator is pleased to unfold before His Creatures. To many, on reading for the first time the story of Sister Teresa of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face, it came almost as a shock to find a very youthful member of an austere Order, strictly retired from the world, engaged in hidden prayer and mortification, appearing before us to reveal to the whole world the wonders of the close intimacy of friendship to which her Divine Spouse had been pleased to call her. Certainly the way by which Soeur Thérèse was led is not the normal life of Carmel, nor hers the manner whereby most Carmelites are called to accomplish the wondrous apostolate of intercession to which their lives are given. But no less certain is it that, in her particular case, her work for God and her apostolate were not to be confined between the walls of her religious home, or to be limited by her few years on earth.