DIOCESAN NEWS
08/07/09
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Books suggest comfort foods, prayers, stories
“Cooking Dinner — Simple Italian Family Recipes Everyone Can Make” by Claudia Pruett and Rima Barkett, 256 pages, $34.95, published by MEG Productions, 808-564-8800; printed in China by Island Heritage Publishing.
       Cooking Dinner feature delicious, family-approved recipes, menu planning strategies, shopping lists and kitchen secrets. It presents “Helping Hands” suggestions to include children in the cooking process. This interactive cooking workbook makes it easy for parents to cook and eat with their families. Simple recipes and photos will build confidence in hesitant cooks.
       As a supplement to this cookbook, visit the website www.ATavolaTogether.com for more recipes, weekly menus, shopping lists, kitchen secrets and a special “Kids Can Cook 2” section.

 

“150 Bible Verses Every Catholic Should Know” by Patrick Madrid, 168 pages, $14.99, Servants Books, an imprint of St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1-513-241-5615.
       Scripture is your guide to what matters most in your life. If you’re not familiar with it, Patrick Madrid’s choice of 150 key verses can ease you in. If you regularly read and pray with Scripture, these verses will provide you rich food for thought.
Madrid is a popular presenter of parish seminars on Catholic themes, he is the publisher of Envoy Magazine and hosts the Thursday edition of EWTN’s “Open Line” radio broadcast.

 

 

“From PinkSlip 2 GreenPower” by Hugh A. Turner, 95 pages, $15.99, Xlibros Corporation, 1-888-795-4274.
       This career-resurrection guide is written for individuals who are experiencing the uncertainty of having to plot a new course in their lives, particularly individuals who have lost their jobs. This is a spiritually-based alternative to the traditional career replacement and enhancement materials commonly available to those whose jobs and careers have ended unexpectedly or prematurely.

 

“God Wears Running Shoes – Spiritual Reflections for Working with Today’s Youth” by Roy Petitfils, 128 pages, $18.20 includes shipping.
Working with today’s young people can be tough. More than ever parents, ministers and educators need to know that they are not alone — that God is with them, running after those same kids. In these concise 21 chapters you will find inspiration, encouragement and insight for ministering, teaching and raising today’s youth.
       Petitfils is a professional school counselor and administrator at St. Cecilia Catholic School in Broussard, La. He is a graduate intern counselor at the Pax Renewal Center for Individual, Marriage and Family Therapy. He writes a syndicated column, “Our Young Church.”

 

 

“Jesus is My All in All” (Praying with the “Saint of Calcutta” Mother Teresa), edited and introduced by Father Frian Kolodiejchuk, MC, 50 pages, $9.95, Doubleday.
       Following the novena format, “Jesus Is My All in All” provides a nine-day rhythm of prayer and reflection composed from the words of Mother Teresa. Meditating on her simple yet profound teaching can help us to grow in our own love and thirst for Jesus and teach us to love and to serve as she did: “All for Jesus through Mary” by doing “small things with great love.”
       Father Kolodiejchuk was associated with Mother Teresa for 20 years and is now director of the Mother Teresa Center which has offices in California, Mexico, India and Italy.

 

 

“In the Sanctuary of Outcasts” by Neil White, 320 pages, $25.99, William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

       For more than a century, Carville, La., served as the United States’ national leprosarium. Individuals who contracted the disease were forcibly quarantined at it remote location on a bend in the Mississippi River. By the 1990s the number of patients at Carville had dwindled to 130, the very last people in the continental United States confined because of the disease.
       The facility had hundreds of empty beds so the Bureau of Prisons transferred federal convicts there. This book is the story of the year Neil White was incarcerated there. White is the former publisher of New Orleans Magazine, Coast magazine, and Coast Business Journal. He lives in Oxford.
       St. Andrew’s Bookstore in Jackson will host a book signing for White’s “In the Sanctuary of Outcasts,” Thursday, Aug.13, beginning at 5:15 p.m. with reading and questions at 5:45 p.m. Wine and h’ordeuvres will be served. For information call 601-353-2021.

 

 

“Live Letters – Reflections on the Second Readings of the Sunday Lectionary” by Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, 485 pages, $24.95, St. Anthony Messenger Press, 513-241-5615, www.AmericanCatholic.org
       The second readings from the lectionary we hear at Mass on Sundays and holy days are often overlooked by preachers. These readings are almost all from the writings of the apostles in the New Testament and are almost all in letter form.
       Archbishop Pilarczyk focuses on the second readings of all three liturgical years (A, B, and C) in order to clarify their relationship with other Mass readings and communicate their significance. Each reflection puts the reading in context, talks about its content and the consequences of its application to us, and ends with questions for discussion or reflection.

 

 

“The Longest Year – Our family’s journey of life, death and love…” by Mike Isenberg, 250 pages, $15.95, Eloquent Books, An Imprint of AEG Publishing.
       This book is a moving portrait of a family coming to grips with the impending loss of its patriarch. The Isenbergs’ emotional journey of humor and heartache, laugher and love is sure to touch readers and remind them about what’s important in their lives.
       Mike Isenberg is an Emmy-award winning coordinating producer at Fox Sports Detroit. Prior to that he spent 10 years at ESPN in production. To learn more visit The Longest Year online.

 

 

“Mailbox Ministry – Greeting Cards that Share the Faith” by Sue Banker, 115 pages, $28, Morehouse Publishing, An Imprint of Church Publishing Inc.,1-800-242-1918.
       This book is your complete how-to guide to creating inspirational greeting cards for all occasions. Illustrated and appropriate for all skill levels – children as well as adults, the book includes stories and tips or starting up and maintaining a church or crafts-group card ministry.

 

 

“Praying Our Goodbyes” by Joyce Rupp, 172 pages, $15.95, Ave Maria Press, 1-800-282-1865.
       Everyone has unique goodbyes – times of losing someone or something that has given life meaning and value. With the touch of a poet, Rupp offers her wisdom on “these experiences of leaving behind and moving on, the stories of union and separation that are written in all our hearts. The book is about the spirituality of change.
       This is the second edition of the book originally published in1988. Rupp said the content and focus of the book sustained her during the last 20 years and her encounters with suffering taught her how necessary compassion is. The second edition allowed her to extend this essential gift to everyone who hurts.

 

 

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