CatholicsRead is a weekly feature in collaboration with the Association of Catholic Publishers. Every week, we highlight just a few of the latest titles in Catholic publishing, from children’s books to professional ministry resources and everything in between.
CatholicsRead is a also a free, email-based opportunity for Catholics to learn about the best and newest in Catholic publishing on a weekly basis. These include resources in many and multiple formats for children, youth, parents, and volunteer and paid Church leaders.
Each week, CatholicsRead’s Therese Brown will provide a write-up about the featured titles here at Where Peter Is. The column appears on Tuesday mornings.
I have learned the Lord’s Prayer three times in my life—in English, German, and Italian. Like many Catholic children, I learned the English version at Mass. I have a very clear memory of the first Mass in which I was...
What do our many and varied calendars reveal when we pause to examine them? They both impose and reflect rhythms, some of them natural, some invented. The calendar year seems to be one of the latter. There isn’t anything special...
Working with children, both as a catechist and as a choir director, has taught me many things, but first among them, is that sharing your faith involves all of your senses. This rings true for kids of all ages, from...
Before the advent of “gifted and talented” coursework at the high school level, my classmates and I were among the original “trailblazers.” By the time we reached senior year, we had either taken classes at neighboring colleges in math and...
Whew! Chocolate egg foils may still litter the kitchen, but the children survived the long Holy Week church services (maybe even got their feet washed?) and Lent is behind us for another year. It may unfortunately be unrealistic to think...
One of the most beautiful things about being Catholic is the universality. Catholicism wraps its loving arms around so many rituals, practices, and traditions through inculturation. It embraces each and every person and presents to us an incredible array of...
“It isn’t fair!” “I never said life was fair.” This exchange took place between my father and me many times as I grew up. It always struck me as odd that my dad—a lawyer who worked incredible hours in the...
About a dozen years ago, I got into a bit of a dust-up about the Eucharist in the middle of a Lenten prayer group meeting. The readings and reflections for the evening focused on Eucharist and what we believe as...
When I was a young child, there was a convent across the street from our elementary school for the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) who taught there and worked in the parish. Across the street in...
Like most children, one of my favorite pastimes was asking questions. “What is that?” “Where are we going?” “Why is the sky blue?” “When will we get there?” It is no surprise that Catholics adopted this age-old, anthropological constant of...
My children’s choir’s two favorite words every year? “Christmas concert.” Though we practiced every week in preparation for one Sunday Mass a month, working on Christmas songs for the concert was what fueled their participation during the slowly darkening evenings...
I live in a news-infused household. This means that a cable news station is on the TV most of the day–my husband is more of a news junkie than I am!—and that I am a loyal and eager e-subscriber to...
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