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Ronald Knox said that she “seemed to see everything for the first time, and…seemed to find no difficulty in getting the right word; no, not merely the right word, the telling word, that left you gasping.” In her own words, “broken across psychologically” by neuroses and temptations, “not by nature patient, kind, gentle,” Houselander’s critical faculty made charity a constant challenge—despite her persistent efforts to “see Christ in everyone.” Nevertheless, her distinguishing characteristic was a deep, genuine love of God, finding expression in a mysticism which ultimately kept her sane and centered on Christ until her untimely death at the age of fifty-four.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur dust pays homage to God, until the endless morning of resurrection wakens our body, glorified. \u003c\/i\u003e(Caryll Houselander)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eIn this absorbing, competently crafted biography, Maisie Ward pays tribute to a woman who offered her very self unreservedly to Christ and his brethren, from greatest to least. \u003ci\u003eCaryll Houselander: Divine Eccentric\u003c\/i\u003e shows clearly that, like her written works, Houselander herself is “still alive, still contemporary.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaisie Ward\u003c\/b\u003e (1889–1975) was a writer, publisher, and speaker, widely recognized as one of the most important Christian intellectuals of the twentieth century. 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Malone. A child of the parish, Willie Jewell, is terribly ill, drawing nearer day by day to death’s door. The people of Riverside storm heaven for Fr. Malone to intercede with God and obtain a cure for this child who is beloved by one and all. As Willie and his family contend with illness and impending death, the drama of salvation unfolds: the suffering of one child as the means of redemption for the sinful and sorrowful in his midst.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003e(Luke 23:31 as the epigraph to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dry Wood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoignant, poetic, and replete with fascinating characters, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Dry Wood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ebears, in the words of one critic, “a feeling for a truth which most novels never seek to reveal: a feeling for Eternal Truth wrapped in the clouts of Riverside.” In that quality lies the greatness of Houselander and her one and only novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaryll Houselander \u003c\/b\u003e(1901–1954) was an English Roman Catholic artist, author, poet, and mystic. 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Modest yet arresting in style, Knox explains the Mass from the opening psalm to the solemn words of conclusion: \u003ci\u003eIte missa est\u003c\/i\u003e. While the liturgy Knox contemplates is that of the Tridentine Rite, the abundant fruits of his contemplation can be easily translated to the Ordinary Form of the present day. Indeed, their primary impetus is the powerful portrayal of the continuous action of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in which formula yields to mystery and man participates in his own salvation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst and foremost, the Mass means reminding ourselves of our Redemption—Jesus Christ was crucified for me. 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To the bitter end, Richard must remain steadfast in his trust in God and his fealty to the king.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the king\u003c\/i\u003e. (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003ePsalm 2:10)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eCleverly fashioned (in keeping with the literary tricks of the time) as a translation of a newly discovered manuscript, \u003ci\u003eThe History of Richard Raynal, Solitary\u003c\/i\u003e, was Benson’s personal favorite of his many books. In the words of Evelyn Waugh, the story was “the expression of his earliest dream—the recluse with the single, vital message.” Even to this day, “it still has the charm of that fresh enthusiasm.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Hugh Benson\u003c\/b\u003e (1871–1914), the son of the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, was a convert to Roman Catholicism and was ordained a priest in 1904. A dynamic preacher and author, Benson wrote numerous novels, short stories, plays, and spiritual texts. 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He's the King, I tell you.” And because he is good, Christ the King tells his disciples: “I have made known to you all that my Father has told me; and so I have called you my friends.” In \u003ci\u003eThe Friendship of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert Hugh Benson meditates on the mystery of God’s gift of friendship to his creatures, discoursing on the mystical aspect of this friendship in the soul of the believer; on its external manifestations, especially in the Church and the Eucharist; and on the historical evidence of the “supreme pledge of friendship” offered by the God-Man, once and for all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHe is as good as He is great.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHis love is as ardent as it is true.…\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eI am in all things His debtor, but He bids me call Him Friend. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(\u003cspan\u003eRobert Hugh Benson)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eA series of sermons preached from 1910 to 1912, \u003ci\u003eThe Friendship of Christ \u003c\/i\u003emakes for richly rewarding spiritual reading, anchored in sacred Scripture and imbued with its author’s affectionate acceptance of Christ’s call to friendship.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Hugh Benson \u003c\/b\u003e(1871–1914), son of the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, was a convert to Roman Catholicism and was ordained a priest in 1904. 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With their loyalties divided between God and Caesar, the Torridons follow divergent paths; yet the nature of the national and ecclesial crisis is such that all paths must converge at the juncture of salvation or damnation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eSubstantively and stylistically superb, \u003ci\u003eThe King’s Achievement\u003c\/i\u003e—as Francis X. 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God has no need for mankind: He creates men and women out of pure generosity. The priesthood, remarks Monsignor Ronald Knox, is similarly the fruit of the Divine largesse: God “could have done without [priests], but he preferred to have, once more, a kind of tool through which his action should express itself. Tools in his hand, that is what we priests were to be.” Comprising sixteen retreat talks, \u003ci\u003eThe Priestly Life \u003c\/i\u003emeditates upon the character and purpose of the priestly office. The priest is an essential instrument in the economy of salvation; “he lends his hands, to be Christ’s hands, his voice, to be Christ’s voice, his thoughts, to be Christ’s thoughts; there is, there should be, nothing of himself in it from first to last, except where the Church allows him, during two brief intervals of silence, to remember his own intentions before God.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eDelivered with the rhetorical poise and spiritual substance typical of Knox’s preaching, \u003ci\u003eThe Priestly Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a spirited affirmation of the dignity and duties of the priesthood, one certain to lend support and inspiration to those men called to be \u003ci\u003ealter Christi\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Knox\u003c\/b\u003e (1888–1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, and author, and one of the most prominent twentieth-century converts from Anglicanism to Catholicism. 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K. Chesterton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“There is no better critic of Dickens,” \u003c\/b\u003ewrote T. S. Eliot in 1927, “than Mr. Chesterton.” An additional century of literary criticism notwithstanding, that judgment still resounds with the ring of truth. \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCharles Dickens: A Critical Study\u003c\/i\u003e, which first appeared in print in 1906, offers compelling evidence in support of Eliot’s claim. 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Chesterton)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFirst appearing in 1905, three years before the universally acclaimed \u003ci\u003eOrthodoxy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeretics\u003c\/i\u003e serves as both proof of the colossal reason and wit of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and an eloquent preamble to his humble faith in the ultimate paradox which is also the ultimate truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGilbert Keith Chesterton \u003c\/b\u003e(1874–1936) was an immensely prolific English writer, poet, and journalist. 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K. Chesterton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen then-Father Fulton J. Sheen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003einvited G. K. Chesterton to write the preface to his first book, \u003ci\u003eGod and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, the Prince of Paradox disarmingly demurred: “I know nothing about Philosophy.” To which, Sheen recounts, “I retorted that he had written an excellent philosophy himself, namely, \u003ci\u003eOrthodoxy\u003c\/i\u003e.” First published in 1908, \u003ci\u003eOrthodoxy \u003c\/i\u003eis the record of one man’s startling discovery, accomplished with the utmost daring, of what had already been discovered before. Hence Chesterton’s refusal to call the philosophy contained in these pages “my philosophy”—“for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003e(\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eG. K. Chesterton)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWritten thirteen years before his reception into the Catholic Church, \u003ci\u003eOrthodoxy\u003c\/i\u003e is widely acclaimed as Chesterton’s most brilliant work, an outstanding synthesis of truth and its apparent contradictions that reveals Christianity as the answer to the riddle of reality. Chapter by chapter, from strength to strength, Chesterton testifies to the astounding fact of wisdom, ever-ancient, ever-new: “I have kept my truths: but I have discovered, not that they were not truths, but simply that they were not mine.… I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGilbert Keith Chesterton\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(1874–1936) was an immensely prolific English writer, poet, and journalist. A convert to Roman Catholicism, he is best known for his influ­ential works in apologetics, such as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrthodoxy\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #cc7722;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/heretics\" style=\"color: #cc7722;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeretics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Everlasting Man\u003c\/i\u003e; his biographical studies of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #cc7722;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #cc7722;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/charles-dickens\" style=\"color: #cc7722;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #cc7722;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/charles-dickens\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Dickens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Browning\u003c\/i\u003e; and his ingenious\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFather Brown\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003edetective stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 212pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685951863\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44045777666267,"sku":"978-1685951863","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/products\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--838.jpg?v=1680658383"},{"product_id":"the-flowering-tree","title":"The Flowering Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Caryll Houselander\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“To write just for the sheer joy of poetry, words, etc.”—\u003c\/b\u003esuch did Caryll Houselander once describe her motivation to set pen to paper and write something fresh, vibrant, and true. Of all these writings, perhaps none expresses that sheer joy more emphatically than \u003ci\u003eThe Flowering Tree \u003c\/i\u003eand its twenty-eight “Rhythms.” These Rhythms, Houselander explains, “are not intended to be poems in a new form but simply thoughts, falling naturally into the beat of the Rhythm which is all round us and which becomes both audible and visible in the seasons of the year, the procession of day and night and the liturgical cycle.” From the pithiness of “Mediocracy” and “Joseph” to the expansiveness of “Afternoon in Westminster Cathedral” and “The Adoration of the Cross,” they take as their recurring theme the flowering of Jesus Christ in mankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eRhythm somehow pats to sleep all the trouble and fret of life and rocks us in the arms of God. \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCaryll Houselander\u003c\/span\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eA harmony of lyric beauty, tenderness, and common sense, \u003ci\u003eThe Flowering Tree \u003c\/i\u003eis a remedy to the noise and distractions of life and means to prayer and peace. Each Rhythm, in its own right, has a claim to what Dorothy L. Sayers said of “Philip Speaks”—the inspired meditation on Christ’s miracle of the loaves and fishes: “I shall treasure it all my life.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaryll Houselander \u003c\/b\u003e(1901–1954) was an English Roman Catholic artist and author. A convert at age six, Houselander left the Church as a teenager, returning as a young adult and becoming a fixture in twentieth-century Catholicism. In addition to her artistic and literary endeavors, she dedicated her relatively brief life to caring for the material and spiritual needs of the poor and desolate. Her works include \u003ci\u003eThe Dry Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuilt\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Reed of God\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e978-1685952006\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44100232675547,"sku":"978-1685952006","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/Product170.jpg?v=1683821128"},{"product_id":"the-letters-of-caryll-houselander","title":"The Letters of Caryll Houselander","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited by Maisie Ward\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMonsignor Ronald Knox\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e once declared that Caryll Houselander ought to open a school of spirituality. No stronger exhibit of evidence in favor of that declaration can be found than in \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Caryll Houselander: A Spiritual Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e. The first letter of the collection offers what would have certainly been the central doctrine of that school. Namely, that Christ is truly all in all; consequently, He is present, however secretly, in every man and woman. The “chief adventure” of Houselander’s life, explains Maisie Ward, was the discovery of that unknown Christ; all who came to her she sought to enlist in this selfsame adventure. The letters of this collection, from greatest to least, pay tribute to that lifelong endeavor of spiritual mentorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eDespite the Christ-giving element in our relationships, they can never be perfect here. There must be empty places left in our hearts, because the final happiness of both depends upon God Himself possessing us completely… \u003c\/i\u003e(Caryll Houselander)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eWith the especial expertise of friendship, Maisie Ward has compiled and edited from Houselander’s voluminous correspondence a wide array of letters of spiritual and practical advice. Everything that Houselander wrote, per Monsignor Knox, had “a candor as of childhood.” To this judgment, \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Caryll Houselander \u003c\/i\u003eare no exception, written in that spirit of sincerity and vulnerability that marks the exchange of “heart speaking to heart,” \u003ci\u003ecor ad cor loquitur.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaryll Houselander \u003c\/b\u003e(1901–1954) was an English Catholic artist, author, poet, and mystic. In addition to her artistic and literary endeavors, she dedicated her relatively brief life to caring for the material and spiritual needs of the poor and desolate. Her works include \u003ci\u003eThe Dry Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuilt\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThis War Is the Passion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaisie Ward\u003c\/b\u003e (1889–1975) was an English Catholic writer, publisher, and speaker. With her husband, Frank Sheed, she founded the publishing house of Sheed \u0026amp; Ward, which revived the Catholic literary movement and supported and promoted the intellectual, literary, and artistic treasures of the Catholic Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685952013\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44100245848283,"sku":"978-1685952013","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--855.jpg?v=1683821313"},{"product_id":"waiting-for-christ","title":"Waiting for Christ","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox \u0026amp; Ronald Cox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJesus Christ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eis the key to the Old Testament. As He explains on the road to Emmaus, “This is what I told you, while I still walked in your company; how all that was written of me in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, must be fulfilled.” Explicit references in the New Testament to the Old Testament abound; the Apostles and Church Fathers made frequent appeals to the prophets to prove the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah of Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eYes, Lord, she told him, I have learned to believe that thou art the Christ; thou art the Son of the living God; it is for thy coming the world has waited. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(John 11:27)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaiting for Christ \u003c\/i\u003egathers the prophecies foretelling the coming of Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Taking the text from the exceptional Ronald Knox translation of Sacred Scripture, Ronald Cox treats the literally Messianic passages, the types of Christ, and the figures of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Old Testament. Each chapter offers an historical introduction, outlining the main developments of Jewish life and thought during that period and then gives the Messianic excerpts in chronological order. With the fresh flavor of Knox’s translation and the frank insight of Cox’s commentary, \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Christ \u003c\/i\u003eartfully communicates the wisdom and power of the Word of God.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Knox \u003c\/b\u003e(1888–1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, and author, and one of the most prominent twentieth-century converts from Anglicanism to Catholicism. Best known for his contemporary English translation of the Scriptures (the “Knox Bible”), he wrote numerous works of apologetics and collections of ser­mons, retreat conferences, and lectures, as well as six detective novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Cox \u003c\/b\u003e(1911–1970) was an Australian Catholic priest of the Congregation of the Mission and a professor of theology and biblical studies. In addition to \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Christ\u003c\/i\u003e, his translation-and-commentary collaborations with Monsignor Knox also include \u003ci\u003eThe Gospel Story \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIt Is Paul Who Writes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685952242\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44179185959131,"sku":"978-1685952242","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--884.jpg?v=1689260022"},{"product_id":"three-cardinals","title":"Three Cardinals","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy E. E. Reynolds\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Henry Newman. Nicholas Patrick Wiseman. Henry Edward Manning. \u003c\/b\u003eThese three men, Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, were the leading players in the development of the Church in England during the second half of the nineteenth century. Absent their distinctive and powerful contributions, the English Catholic Church would have been sorely impoverished, its growth stunted, its character encumbered by undue Anglican attachments. Comparing the personalities, achievements, and relationships of his subjects, E. E. Reynolds examines the efforts of Wiseman, first Cardinal Archbishop of England, to establish the Church as an integral part of the national life; the selfless work of Manning to channel the social doctrine of the Church into the educational and economic spheres; and the crowning achievements of Newman to revive, inspire, and sustain the Catholic faith in the hearts of the English people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eYet there are different kinds of gifts, though it is the same Spirit who gives them, just as there are different kinds of service, though it is the same Lord we serve. \u003c\/i\u003e(1 Corinthians 12:4, 5)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003ePraised at its publication in 1958 as an “excellent and readable account” of three outstanding princes of the modern Church, \u003ci\u003eThree Cardinals: Newman, Wiseman, Manning \u003c\/i\u003eendures as a twofold success in scholarship and literary sympathy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnest Edwin Reynolds \u003c\/b\u003e(1894–1981) was an English–Welsh Catholic author and historian. Specializing in the Tudor period and the Protestant Reformation, he wrote over a dozen books, notable among which are his numerous works on Saint Thomas More, his biography of Saint John Fisher, and his \u003ci\u003eThree Cardinals\u003c\/i\u003e, a study of John Henry Newman, Nicholas Wiseman, and Henry Edward Manning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685952327\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44209566548187,"sku":"978-1685952327","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--910.jpg?v=1691524864"},{"product_id":"the-hidden-stream","title":"The Hidden Stream","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeneath the old stones of Oxford University,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003ewhere Monsignor Ronald Knox originally delivered the twenty-three conferences offered in these pages, flows the Trill Mill Stream. As that stream runs beneath the University, so the Church, with her doctrines and sacraments, is a secret, sanctifying stream for the world. In \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Stream\u003c\/i\u003e, Knox examines fundamental tenets of Church teaching alongside controversial topics of the modern age, including the nature of religion and the burden of proof; the necessity of revelation and the fittingness of miracles; the distinguishing marks of the Church and the Church as the sole means of salvation; the development of doctrine and the immutability of truth; the necessity of the sacraments, with special attention given to the priesthood and matrimony; and the assurance of the resurrection of the body. Each conference—indeed, each sentence, each illustration—carries that freshness of style and strength of substance so typical of Knox.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Lord offers to give us a new, supernatural life, complete with all its faculties,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ein the midst of this troubled and precarious world. No one else offers us that;\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eno one else dares claim of us the faith which will enable us to believe in that.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003eR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eonald Knox)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis fallen world is never short of temptations to despair and occasions for con­fusion. To such despair and confusion alike, the timeless truths of Catholicism stand as an unflinching rebuke. Presenting those truths (in the words of Evelyn Waugh) with “unfailing kindness and solace,” \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Stream \u003c\/i\u003eis apologetics at its best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Knox \u003c\/b\u003e(1888–1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, and author, and one of the most prominent twentieth-century converts from Anglicanism to Catholicism. Best known for his contemporary English translation of the Scriptures (the “Knox Bible”), he wrote numerous works of apologetics and collections of ser­mons, retreat conferences, and lectures, as well as six detective novels.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e978-1685952754\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44738214527195,"sku":"978-1685952754","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1005.jpg?v=1705328803"},{"product_id":"the-imitation-of-christ","title":"The Imitation of Christ","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Thomas à Kempis | Translated by Ronald Knox \u0026amp; Michael Oakley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe late fourteenth century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ewitnessed the beginning of a new spiritual movement. This movement, as Church historian \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/collections\/henri-daniel-rops\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHenri Daniel-Rops\u003c\/a\u003e has described, was animated by a desire “for a humble, simple life, soundly based upon discipline and temperate habits,” and its rule of life has been enshrined in this timeless masterpiece: \u003ci\u003eThe Imitation of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e. Spiritual inspiration and sustenance for such saints as Ignatius of Loyola, Thomas More, and Thérèse of Lisieux and second only to the Bible as devotional reading, \u003ci\u003eThe Imitation\u003c\/i\u003e has been translated innumerable times from the original Latin into practically every language of the world.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eImitation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e was meant to be, surely, what it is—a sustained irritant which will preserve us, if it is read faithfully, from sinking back into relaxation: from self-conceit, self-pity, self-love. It offers consolation here and there, but always at the price of fresh exertion, of keeping your head pointing up-stream.\u003c\/em\u003e (Ronald Knox)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis translation, begun by Monsignor Ronald Knox and completed (by express wish of Knox himself) by Michael Oakley following Knox’s death in 1957, captures the “frill-lessness” and crisp candor of the original. From beginning to end, the Knox–Oakley translation confirms the power of \u003ci\u003eThe Imitation of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e to inspire all Christians to take up their cross and become more like unto Christ—and thus more like unto their own true selves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas à Kempis \u003c\/b\u003e(1379–1471) was a German-Dutch Catholic priest and Augustinian canon regular. A prolific copyist and author, he transcribed the Holy Bible multiple times and wrote numerous biographies and volumes of sermons. He is remembered, however, for \u003ci\u003eThe Imitation of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Knox \u003c\/b\u003e(1888–1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, and author. Best known for his English translation of the Scriptures (the “Knox Bible”), he also wrote numerous works of apologetics and collections of sermons, retreat conferences, and lectures, as well as six detective novels.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e260pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685952761\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44738286649563,"sku":"978-1685952761","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1010.jpg?v=1705329333"},{"product_id":"occasional-sermons","title":"Occasional Sermons","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe sermons of Ronald Knox, \u003c\/b\u003ein Evelyn Waugh’s estimation, contain the very best of his literary talent and pastoral sensibility. “Prepared, revised and rehearsed with every refinement of taste and skill,” the sermons convey their instruction simply and dir­ectly: refreshingly conversational in tone, faithfully and knowledgeably reliant on Sacred Scripture, and profoundly powerful in content, allusion, and spiritual consolation. \u003ci\u003eOccasional Sermons\u003c\/i\u003e presents ninety-one examples of this excellent preaching with all the sermons from Knox’s records given for notable events. Falling under the three headings of saints, occasions, and panegyrics, the sermons take as their subjects—to name but a few—Thérèse of Lisieux and Charles Borromeo, Gregory the Great and Thomas Aquinas, Philip Neri and the English Martyrs; coronations, ordinations, and centenaries, jubilees, anniversaries of parishes, cathedrals, and conversions; and, in poignant tribute, G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and Knox’s ordination classmate, Fr. Henry Harrington.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou do not want to be a priest who simply does his job and knows his rubrics and hopes to pay off a bit of the parish debt. You want to be an ambassador from God\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eto men, ready to take every opening, to follow up every trail, where there is\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ea human conscience to be enlightened or a lost soul to be won back. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(Ronald Knox)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThis volume in particular proves the point expressed by Waugh that the good Monsignor had “created a new and entirely individual form for the traditional art” of preaching. Unique, from one to the next, in construction and content, Ronald Knox’s \u003ci\u003eOccasional Sermons \u003c\/i\u003eare wholly similar in generously offering to its readers spiritual insight and wisdom under the beacon-light of Catholic doctrine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 434pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e978-1685952921\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44856764006619,"sku":"978-1685952921","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/Product198.jpg?v=1707856023"},{"product_id":"pastoral-sermons","title":"Pastoral Sermons","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe sermons of Ronald Knox, \u003c\/b\u003ein Evelyn Waugh’s estimation, contain the very best of his literary talent and pastoral sensibility. “Prepared, revised and rehearsed with every refinement of taste and skill,” the sermons convey their instruction simply and directly: refreshingly conversational in tone, faithfully and knowledgeably reliant on Sacred Scripture, and profoundly powerful in content, allusion, and spiritual consolation. \u003ci\u003ePastoral Sermons\u003c\/i\u003e presents one hundred and eight superb examples of this excellent preaching. Covering nine discrete topics (“Our Father”; “The Temptations of Christ”; “The Sermon on the Mount”; “The Mystery of the Kingdom”; “The Harvest of the Cross”; “The Cross of Christ”; “The Eucharist”; “Feasts and Seasons of the Year”; and “St Paul’s Gospel”), Knox fulfills his duty as a Christian teacher, instructing his listeners in the truths of the faith, the saving graces of the sacraments (especially the Eucharist), and the joyful message of Christ’s own words and deeds.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou do not want to be a priest who simply does his job and knows his rubrics and hopes to pay off a bit of the parish debt. You want to be an ambassador from God\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eto men, ready to take every opening, to follow up every trail, where there is\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ea human conscience to be enlightened or a lost soul to be won back. \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eRonald Knox)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eComparable only with Newman’s Oxford sermons in their scope and brilliance—in the words of the volume’s editor, Philip Caraman, S.J.—Ronald Knox’s \u003ci\u003ePastoral Sermons \u003c\/i\u003eis a peerless manual of meditation whose balanced and graceful instructions are certain to direct its readers toward that charity and freedom which characterizes the life lived in—and for—the Lord Jesus Christ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Knox \u003c\/b\u003e(1888–1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, and author, and one of the most prominent twentieth-century converts from Anglicanism to Catholicism. Best known for his contemporary English translation of the Scriptures (the “Knox Bible”), he wrote numerous works of apologetics and collections of ser­mons, retreat conferences, and lectures, as well as six detective novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 524pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e978-1685952938\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44856767774939,"sku":"978-1685952938","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/Product199.jpg?v=1707856301"},{"product_id":"god-and-the-atom","title":"God and the Atom","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe atomic bomb \u003c\/b\u003emarked a catastrophic leap in the history of human achieve­ment. Never before had a man-made instrument dealt out, in an instant, such death and destruction. Once done, it could not be undone. The leap was made; the atomic age begun. To live in this new age, a new spirit was required—a spirit that would prevent mankind becoming the destroyer of all worlds. The father of the atomic bomb himself, J. Robert Oppenheimer, perceived this need, calling for “radical changes not only in spirit, not only in law, but also in conception and feeling” between nations and peoples. And what are those changes? The priest, not the scientist, gives the answer. In \u003ci\u003eGod and the Atom\u003c\/i\u003e, Monsignor Knox re-states the ever-ancient, ever-new principles of God’s revelation and commandments, and their application to the conditions of the atomic age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThen Cain said to his brother, Let us go out together; and while they were out in the open, Cain turned upon his brother Abel and killed him. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(Genesis 4:8) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe people of this world must unite or they will perish. The atomic bomb has spelled these words out for all men to understand. Other men have spoken them in other times, and of other wars, of other weapons. They have not prevailed. \u003c\/i\u003e(J. Robert Oppenheimer)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFirst published in 1945, amid the immediate aftermath of Hiroshima and Naga­saki, \u003ci\u003eGod and the Atom \u003c\/i\u003ewas one of the first theological considerations of the atomic age and the ramifications and risks of atomic weaponry and proliferation. To a world which refuses to let peace prevail, Knox’s work remains deeply—and tragically—relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Knox\u003c\/b\u003e (1888–1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, and author, and one of the most prominent twentieth-century converts from Anglicanism to Cath­olicism. 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Is a retreat for lay people practical, let alone possible? In these two dozen conferences, Monsignor Ronald Knox answers these questions resoundingly in the affirmative, addressing the foundations of the Christian life, the sacraments, and the virtues; the life and death of our Blessed Lord; and the practical needs and problems of the everyday, and their amelioration in the believer’s relationship with God. For the laity are not intended for some mean state of mediocrity, of “just about good enough,” in the spiritual life. On the contrary, they are meant to strive for perfection—to be perfect as their heavenly Father is perfect, gladly taking up their crosses and running down the way of love after their Lord Jesus Christ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTry to hold yourself steadily and humbly in the presence of God, telling him it’s his will you should be making this effort, and there must be something he means his Holy Spirit to do in you; you are content to lie fallow, and let the seed strike; you have no idea what it is, and very likely you never will.\u003c\/em\u003e (Ronald Knox)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eOn par with Knox’s retreats for priests and his “In Slow Motion” volumes, the Holy Spirit-enlivened preaching of \u003ci\u003eA Retreat for Lay People \u003c\/i\u003eis certain to illuminate the heart’s darkness and stir the soul’s dullness with the fiery breath of hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Knox \u003c\/b\u003e(1888–1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, and author, and one of the most prominent twentieth-century converts from Anglicanism to Catholicism. 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For the laity, charged with the work of sanctifying the world “from within as a leaven” (in the words of \u003ci\u003eLumen gentium\u003c\/i\u003e), this task is made especially difficult by the clamorous distractions which come simply from being in the world, even if not of the world. To ease the difficulty of this task, Monsignor Knox offers in \u003ci\u003eThe Layman and His Conscience \u003c\/i\u003ea retreat specifically for lay people to “remake their minds” by the power of God’s good grace. Leading his retreatants (and now readers) in a spiritual “spring-cleaning,” Knox throws open the windows of the soul and lets in the pure light and fresh air of the Holy Spirit to show our sins for what they are (and are not) and their causes in our bad habits and half-baked intentions, and sets down a programme of humble habits and holy intentions to keep our consciences clean and make our lives, here and now, “fit for heaven.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou must not fall in with the manners of this world; there must be an inward change, a remaking of your minds, so that you can satisfy yourselves what is God’s will, the good thing, the desirable thing, the perfect thing.\u003c\/em\u003e (Romans 12:2)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe last of the books prepared by Knox before his death in 1957, \u003ci\u003eThe Layman and His Conscience \u003c\/i\u003eis a faithful companion to his earlier work, \u003ci\u003eA Retreat for Lay People\u003c\/i\u003e. Complementing and continuing the fine lines of spiritual insight and encouragement contained there, Knox opens the ears of the sheep to know—and love—the voice of the Good Shepherd.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRonald Knox (1888–1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, and author, and one of the most prominent twentieth-century converts from Anglicanism to Catholicism. Best known for his contemporary English translation of the Scriptures (the “Knox Bible”), he wrote numerous works of apologetics and collections of ser­mons, retreat conferences, and lectures, as well as six detective novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 206pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e978-1685953133\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45217569341659,"sku":"978-1685953133","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1033.jpg?v=1712330054"},{"product_id":"a-rocking-horse-catholic","title":"A Rocking-Horse Catholic","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Caryll Houselander\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaryll Houselander \u003c\/b\u003ewas nothing if not \u003ci\u003eunconventional\u003c\/i\u003e. In the estimation of Maisie Ward, her biographer and friend, it was this trait in particular, “the lack of plaster in her sainthood,” which so appealed to those who knew her or read her books. Published shortly after Houselander’s death at the age of fifty-three, \u003ci\u003eA Rocking-Horse Catholic\u003c\/i\u003e is a charming, at times disarming, exercise in autobio-graphy. With humility and humor, Houselander describes her childhood, its illnesses, and its earliest influences on her imagination, intellect, and awareness of God; her adolescent absence from the Church; the spiritual and material poverty of her early adulthood; and then her reconversion moments: a miraculous vision of the Mystical Body of Christ and an encounter with the Catholic Evidence Guild. Concluding the volume is “The Birth,” a poetic summary of her very life, whose ultimate task was “to see and to love Christ in man.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eI was received into the Church when I was six years old. Strictly speaking, therefore, I am not a “cradle” Catholic but a “rocking-horse” Catholic. \u003c\/i\u003e(Caryll Houselander)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eRoundly regarded in her own time as the genuine article in literary talent, Caryll Houselander remains deserving of an audience. As support of such an observation, the testimony of one Monsignor Ronald Knox more than suffices: “In all she wrote, there was a candour as of childhood: she seemed to see everything for the first time, and the driest or doctrinal considerations shone out like a restored picture when she had finished with it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaryll Houselander \u003c\/b\u003e(1901–1954) was an English Catholic artist, author, poet, and mystic. In addition to her artistic and literary endeavors, she dedicated her relatively brief life to caring for the material and spiritual needs of the poor and desolate. Her works include \u003ci\u003eThe Dry Wood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Flowering Tree\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGuilt\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685953270\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45424870359259,"sku":"978-1685953270","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/Product210.jpg?v=1713976771"},{"product_id":"callista","title":"Callista","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Saint John Henry Newman\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCallista\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Emperor Decius is brutally persecuting the Christians of Sicca Veneria. Callista, a beautiful Greek sculptress, is not herself a follower of the Christ—yet she is drawn into their world when Agellius, a Christian, seeks her hand in marriage. After a plague incites further persecution, Callista is mistakenly arrested and imprisoned. The sudden intervention of the mysterious Caecilius offers relief for Callista from the Emperor’s immolating demands—albeit in the form of a sacrifice of her own self, unto eternal life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMost famous for his cogent scholarship, persuasive apologetics, and profound sermons, St. John Henry Newman was also a gifted novelist. Writing in 1852, at the heights of the rise of the novel as a literary form, Newman offered this assessment of literature’s purpose:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eMan is a being of genius, passion, intellect, conscience, power. He exercises these various gifts in various ways, in great deeds, in great thoughts, in heroic acts, in hateful crimes. He founds states, he fights battles, he builds cities, he ploughs the forest, he subdues the elements, he rules his kind. He creates vast ideas, and influences many generations. He takes a thousand shapes, and undergoes a thousand fortunes. Literature records them all to the life…\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Henry Newman \u003c\/b\u003e(1801–1890) had a notable career at Oxford University and was an Anglican priest before converting to Roman Catholicism in 1845 and becoming a Catholic priest in 1847. A prolific author and preacher, his written works include \u003ci\u003eApologia pro Vita Sua\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Grammar of Assent\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of a University\u003c\/i\u003e; he also founded Oratory houses and served as rector of the Catholic University of Ireland. 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In the heady intellectual climate of Oxford, Charles takes a part in its involved, at times impassioned, religious and ecclesiastical debates, wrestling with the sectarian, the evangelical, and the Catholic interpretations of what constitutes the true Church—as founded by Christ himself and “as defined in the Creeds.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMost famous for his cogent scholarship, persuasive apologetics, and profound sermons, St. John Henry Newman was also a gifted novelist. Writing in 1852, at the heights of the rise of the novel as a literary form, Newman offered this assessment of literature’s purpose:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eMan is a being of genius, passion, intellect, conscience, power. He exercises these various gifts in various ways, in great deeds, in great thoughts, in heroic acts, in hateful crimes. He founds states, he fights battles, he builds cities, he ploughs the forest, he subdues the elements, he rules his kind. He creates vast ideas, and influences many generations. He takes a thousand shapes, and undergoes a thousand fortunes. Literature records them all to the life…\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Henry Newman \u003c\/b\u003e(1801–1890) had a notable career at Oxford University and was an Anglican priest before converting to Roman Catholicism in 1845 and becoming a Catholic priest in 1847. A prolific author and preacher, his written works include \u003ci\u003eApologia pro Vita Sua\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Grammar of Assent\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of a University\u003c\/i\u003e; he also founded Oratory houses and served as rector of the Catholic University of Ireland. 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These stories, as Monsignor Maxwell says on the first evening, deserve a hearing, and responses ought to be given on the basis of rational investigation and faithful adherence to God, who is “Lord of both the dead and the living.” One after the other, in an ever-thickening atmosphere of dread and suspense, the fourteen priests recount their respective tales: mystical substitution (the bearing of temptation on behalf of another); exorcisms; ships in the night; corruption in the heart of man and his handiwork; a Viaticum delivered alongside the footsteps of a mysterious, sinister stranger; and nine more—each as chillingly otherworldly as the last.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFirst published in 1907, \u003ci\u003eA Mirror of Shalott \u003c\/i\u003eis among the earliest entries in supernatural fiction by a leading light of Anglo-Catholic literature, meriting appreciation alongside those of Edgar Allan Poe, M. R. James, and Russell Kirk, and ranking as “some of the best in literature of the uncanny.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Hugh Benson \u003c\/b\u003e(1871–1914), the son of the Anglican Archbishop of Cant­erbury, was a convert to the Roman Catholic faith and was ordained a priest in 1904. A dynamic preacher and author, Benson wrote numerous novels, short stories, plays, and spiritual texts. 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Her reign, Mary avers, will see the right order restored. Only then will peace and unity again be found in England. Peace and unity: beautiful ends so often sought by brutal means, by sword and by scheme, by force and by fire—means which are frustratingly unsuccessful even as her marriage with Philip of Spain proves barren and her kingdom remains divided against itself. Instead of triumph, the reign of Tudor Mary yields tragedy: her own devotion and desire to follow the will of God her sole comforts as death draws near Saint James’s Palace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt is easy to laugh at the miserable.\u003c\/i\u003e (P\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003elautus)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eAnticipating the historiographical reconsiderations of “Bloody Mary” by such authors as H. F. M. Prescott and Christopher Haigh, Robert Hugh Benson’s \u003ci\u003eThe Queen’s Tragedy \u003c\/i\u003e(like its companion works, \u003ci\u003eBy What Authority? \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe King’s Achievement\u003c\/i\u003e) makes for both vivid character study and compelling chronicle—essential ingredients for a proper historical novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Hugh Benson \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e(1871–1914), the son of the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, was a convert to Roman Catholicism and was ordained a priest in 1904. A dynamic preacher and author, Benson wrote numerous novels, short stories, plays, and spiritual texts. A number of his works are now available from Cluny, including \u003ci\u003eCome Rack, Come Rope\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of All\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLord of the World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e978-1685953607\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46280768323803,"sku":"978-1685953607","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_313.jpg?v=1786724203"},{"product_id":"sacrament-most-holy","title":"Sacrament Most Holy","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“O Sacrament most holy, \u003c\/b\u003eO Sacrament divine, all praise and all thanksgiving be every moment thine.” This traditional phrase of devotion perfectly expresses Monsignor Ronald Knox’s devotion to the Holy Eucharist. In the words of Philip Caraman, S.J., “the Eucharist was the central, inexhaustible and unifying mystery of his priestly life” and the holy Sacrifice of the Mass was “not merely the central act of his own life, but the unifying mystery of the people of God.” And this because, in that Sacrifice, the very body and blood of Jesus Christ are made present in their substance and Christ offers himself as our true food and true drink, unto eternal life. It is truly right and just, in response to such an awesome gift, to render in return a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving to its Giver.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the sacrament of Holy Eucharist, although it would far exceed all our deserts if he only gave himself to be our food, our Lord will redouble his condescension by remaining with us, to be adored in the monstrance or in the tabernacle; he is not content to satisfy our hunger, he spoils us with the crumbs of his grace. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(Ronald Knox)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eAnd just such a sacrifice did Monsignor Knox offer in his preaching. \u003ci\u003eSacrament Most Holy \u003c\/i\u003ecollects in a single volume those thirty-one sermons specifically on the Holy Eucharist (and only previously published separately in \u003ci\u003eHeaven and Charing Cross\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Window in the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Pastoral Sermons\u003c\/i\u003e). Each of these\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethirty-one sermons, without exception, brings home the mystery of the Blessed Sacrament with authority, thanksgiving, and unmistakable joy.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Knox \u003c\/b\u003e(1888–1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, and author, and one of the most prominent twentieth-century converts from Anglicanism to Catholicism. 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Like its pre­decessor volume, \u003ci\u003eStimuli\u003c\/i\u003e, this collection of meditations is compiled from the short sermons Knox contributed to \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times \u003c\/i\u003eover a span of twelve years; also like \u003ci\u003eStimuli\u003c\/i\u003e, its contents are to the point and pointed, ready to sting consciences out of complacency and into cooperation with the abundant graces on offer from almighty God. Drawing from the wisdom and tradition of the Church, the writings of saints and scholars, and—above all—Sacred Scriptures, Knox is able to illuminate in lightning fashion those favored recesses of mind, heart, and soul in which one attempts to hide from God and his commandments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eGod sees the grace he gave that man, perhaps not as a flame that burns his brow, but as a spark creeping among the embers of a difficult nature. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(Ronald Knox)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThese seventy-eight meditations are timely reflections for the seasons of the Church year and topical considerations on the mysteries of the Kingdom, the cultivation of virtues, and the rooting out of vice. 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Of these, \u003ci\u003eA Retreat for Beginners \u003c\/i\u003eis singular: for, in Knox’s own declaration, it is addressed not to a crowd, but to one particula\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003er soul—to \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c\/i\u003e. The point of a retreat is that God means to do something in and to the soul; God, in this time of quiet, intends to conduct a spring-cleaning of sorts in the retreatant’s spiritual life, illuminating a particular fault, loosening the fetters of some foul habit or unhealthy friendship, or introducing some fresh means of serving Him. This Divine housekeeping takes place as the mind and soul are refreshed with the waters of good Christian teaching. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eKnox distributes this water generously, with twenty-two reflections on central truths and mysteries of the Faith, including the Divine Nature and the Incarnation; original sin and personal sin; the Holy Mass and the Blessed Sacrament; prayer and the Rosary; personal vocation and vocation to the priest­hood; and the Last Things.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eLose no time in asking God to take your life and break it and remould it according to his own plan; for you will find no peace, believe me, and no satisfaction until you have learned to want to be what he wants you to be—that and nothing else.\u003c\/em\u003e” (Ronald Knox)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eFollowing the spirit of St. Paul’s remark, “You were little children in Christ’s nurs­ery,” Knox’s preaching is proper schooling for souls at every stage of life’s journey.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Knox \u003c\/b\u003e(1888–1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, and author, and one of the most prominent twentieth-century converts from Anglicanism to Catholicism. Best known for his contemporary English translation of the Scriptures (the “Knox Bible”), he wrote numerous works of apologetics and collections of ser­mons, retreat conferences, and lectures, as well as six detective novels.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685953843\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46474122199259,"sku":"978-1685953843","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1214.jpg?v=1738860617"},{"product_id":"a-retreat-for-priests","title":"A Retreat for Priests","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Shepherds of his own choice to guide you well and prudently”: \u003c\/b\u003eThis is the promise of the Lord through the Prophet Jeremiah; this is the promise of the priesthood. A priest is chosen by God himself, divinely elected a shepherd of souls, appointed an ambassador from heaven to earth, ordained another Christ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn these eighteen conferences, Monsignor Ronald Knox offers instruction, encouragement, and refreshment for the men who have accepted this vocation. Anchoring each meditation in the Old Testament, Knox uses the stories of Abraham, Jacob, Esther, and more, to throw the situations and needs of the spiritual life into sharp relief. Pairing these stories with ones from the New Testament, Knox underscores those admonitions and encouragements toward holy living, placed there by the Holy Spirit when he inspired the sacred authors to write as they did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAs God chose your soul, chose that it should exist, so he chose, before the foundation of the world, your priesthood; determined that you and not some other should stand at his altar and minister to his people.\u003c\/em\u003e” (Ronald Knox)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eA retreat, as Knox describes it, is a time of leisure for God. Yet a retreat is not a permanent state; one must return from the mountain to the world of familiar work and care. The grace of \u003ci\u003eA Retreat for Priests\u003c\/i\u003e—what makes it an immensely beneficial book both for priests and for the laity entrusted to their care—is its power to make its readers like the Apostles at the close of the Transfiguration, seeing “no man any more, but Jesus only.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Knox \u003c\/b\u003e(1888–1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, and author, and one of the most prominent twentieth-century converts from Anglicanism to Catholicism. Best known for his contemporary English translation of the Scriptures (the “Knox Bible”), he wrote numerous works of apologetics and collections of ser­mons, retreat conferences, and lectures, as well as six detective novels.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 214pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685953836\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46474147037403,"sku":"978-1685953836","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1218.jpg?v=1738860875"},{"product_id":"enthusiasm","title":"Enthusiasm","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnthusiasm, \u003c\/b\u003ein the religious sense, is more akin to fanaticism than fervor. As Monsignor Ronald Knox describes, it is that recurring situation in Church history in which men and women, seek to be less and less “of the world” and more and more attentive to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Their assumption is audacious yet simple: grace does not perfect nature; it destroys and replaces it. The inevitable result: separation, secession, schism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn twenty-three informative and entertaining chapters, Knox presents various enthusiastic movements: the first-century Corinthians, Montanists, Donatists, Albigenses, the Reformation sects, Jansenists, Quietists, Convulsionaries, Quakers, and Methodists—with special reference to those episodes from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Under Knox’s perceptive pen, religious history is interpreted as com­pelling drama, in which fascinating characters—like St. Paul and Tertullian; Martin Luther and the French Prophets; Madame Guyon and J.-B. Bossuet; Blaise Pascal and François Fénelon; George Fox and John Wesley; and many others—grapple and quarrel as much with themselves and their fellow Christians as with God himself.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe zeal of thy house hath eaten me up…\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e(Psalm 68:10)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFirst published in 1950, the fruit of thirty years of research and writing, \u003ci\u003eEnthusiasm\u003c\/i\u003e is “The Book” in Knox’s impressive bibliography—the whole of his literary life, he said. In subject and style, it makes for a fitting masterpiece: a survey of centuries of religious achievement which meets squarely the undeniable truth that “men will not live without vision”—a meeting haunted by these strange words: “the only vice is inertia and the only virtue, \u003ci\u003eenthusiasm\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonald Knox \u003c\/b\u003e(1888–1957) was an English Catholic priest, theologian, and author, and one of the most prominent twentieth-century converts from Anglicanism to Catholicism. Best known for his contemporary English translation of the Scriptures (the “Knox Bible”), he wrote numerous works of apologetics and collections of ser­mons, retreat conferences, and lectures, as well as six detective novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 648pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685953898\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher's Note: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnthusiasm\u003c\/i\u003e, in its first edition text, included copious quotations and references in French (as well as a limited number in Latin) which were customarily left untranslated. Since these quotations and references are usually critical to the sense of the relevant passage, for its edition of \u003ci\u003eEnthusiasm\u003c\/i\u003e, Cluny has provided English translations of these French phrases and passages. The translations have been placed in corresponding footnotes and are indicated by the enclosure of brackets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46600268415195,"sku":"978-1685953898","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1241.jpg?v=1741871821"},{"product_id":"the-fame-of-blessed-thomas-more","title":"The Fame of Blessed Thomas More","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSir Thomas More \u003c\/b\u003ewas raised to the altars of sainthood by Pope Pius XI in 1935, the fourth centenary of his martyrdom. Four hundred years to receive formal recognition of what evidently was well known all along: that Sir Thomas More of Chelsea, martyred under King Henry VII for his refusal to take the Oath of Supremacy, was a faithful servant of the Church and true saint of God.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn 1929, seven of the leading men of the English Catholic Church gathered to give evidence of that reputation, their words foreshadowing the message of Pope Pius XI in the years to come: that this star of sanctity, shining in a dark period of history, was a bright champion of the Christian people, undaunted by the fallacies of heretics and the threats of the powerful, willing to shed his blood in testimony of devotion to Jesus Christ and His Church.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fame of Blessed Thomas More \u003c\/i\u003eoffers that evidence in these essays by G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc; Bede Jarrett, O.P., and Ronald Knox; Henry Browne, S.J., and Reginald Blunt; R. W. Chambers and Lord Justice Russell.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eOriginally published in limited editions in 1929 and 1933, \u003ci\u003eThe Fame of Blessed Thomas More \u003c\/i\u003eis a rare piece of Catholic literature and a profound tribute to a great saint by his own countrymen, celebrating—in the words of Monsignor Knox—“one of the most successful men who ever lived,” who sought, and won, the favor of Almighty God.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd his master said to him, Well done, my good and faithful servant; \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003esince thou hast been faithful over little things, I have great things to \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ecommit to thy charge; come and share the joy of thy Lord.\u003c\/em\u003e (Matthew 25:21)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685954130\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46772757954779,"sku":"978-1685954130","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/Product239.jpg?v=1746817155"}],"url":"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/collections\/converts.oembed","provider":"Cluny Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}