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With \u003ci\u003eThe Belief of Catholics\u003c\/i\u003e, Ronald Knox offers a stirring \u003ci\u003ecredo\u003c\/i\u003e which puts the sarcasm of his friend and biographer Waugh’s protagonist in its proper place. Building up the vast, intricate structure of Catholic doctrine from its foundation to its summit, Knox begins with a scrutiny of modernity’s ill-founded aversion to religion and then proceeds, in measured, memorable style, to address those “essential and unavoidable” questions to which religion must provide the answers. Does God exist? Does he reveal himself to humanity? Is a loving relationship between God and human beings a myth or a reality? Is the Catholic Church what it claims to be: the means and end of salvation as promised by Jesus Christ?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe ethos of Catholics is not futuristic; they live, not on dreams, but on convictions.\u003c\/em\u003e (Ronald Knox)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eCelebrated since its first appearance in 1927 as a classic in Catholic apologetics, \u003ci\u003eThe Belief of Catholics\u003c\/i\u003e offers a clear, stimulating, and persuasive presentation of orthodoxy. As a challenge to skeptics and a restorative for believers, Knox’s work is the genuine article: the expression of the faith, freely received as it was freely given, ringing with the all the courage of one man’s unflagging conviction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* * *\u003c\/strong\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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The saints do not belong to a period.… They are fixed stars, not subject to any law of impermanence.” Illustrating this dauntless fixity of the Communion of Saints and their meritorious example to earthly wayfarers are sermons on the following “selected saints and Christian heroes”: Cecilia, George, and Gregory the Great; Edward the Confessor and Anselm; Dominic, Edmund of Abingdon, and Albert the Great; Roger Bacon and Henry VI; Joan of Arc, Thomas More, and Ignatius Loyola; Philip Neri and Charles Borromeo; the English, Oxford, and Derby Martyrs; Bernadette, Thérèse, and Francis of Assisi; and G. K. Chesterton.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf a star were confined into a tomb,\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHer captive flames must needs burn there;\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eBut when the hand that locked her up gives room, \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe’ll shine through all the sphere.\u003c\/i\u003e (H\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eenry Vaughn)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eWithout exception, each and every sermon here—like its subject—is a lesson in inspiration and encouragement in faith, hope, and love. \u003ci\u003eCaptive Flames\u003c\/i\u003e is further evidence, if it were needed, of Knox’s prodigious talent for engaging, persuasive, and prayerful preaching.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\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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S. Lewis’s trilemma of “Lunatic, Liar, or Lord,” Ronald Knox writes: “I do not believe that, human nature being what it is, the immediate impression made by the preaching of the Gospel could have been so profound, if its first missionaries had only told to the world the story of a Man, clearly not mad, clearly not an Impostor, who was nevertheless prepared to accept the worship due to a God.” The Gospel possesses a unique power to persuade its hearers to believe in Jesus Christ, to accept the friendship of the Son of Man whose Word is Truth itself. Differing from the continuous commentary-style of his other two \u003ci\u003eSlow Motion\u003c\/i\u003e books, Knox communicates the power of the Gospel in sermons brimming with his customary freshness, ingenuity, and anecdotal brilliance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt is the Gospel that has the mysticism and the Church that has \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe rationalism. As I should put it, of course, it is the Gospel \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ethat is the riddle and the Church that is the answer.\u003c\/em\u003e (G. K. Chesterton)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eCulled by Knox himself from the extensive archives of his preaching over the years, the twenty-three sermons in \u003ci\u003eThe Gospel in Slow Motion\u003c\/i\u003e offer a ready-bound retreat for religious and laity alike, for they are “Gospel” sermons in the fullest sense: their aim is the making of good Christians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRonald Knox\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\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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S. Eliot, “is one of those writers who will be and who must be studied afresh by men in every generation.” An immersion into the psychology of a great and determined man, \u003ci\u003ePascal: A Study in Christian Consciousness \u003c\/i\u003eaddresses a question of paramount importance: \u003ci\u003eHow does it happen that a man comes to believe, in the distinct and full sense of the word?\u003c\/i\u003e Beginning with the central crisis of Pascal’s life, Guardini then examines his image of man and man’s situation in the world; his place in intellectual history and his conceptions of culture and education; further development of his view of human nature in light of man’s relationship to God; and his famous Wager and its insights into the heart of its author. In conclusion, Guardini recapitulates Pascal’s life to show what constitutes its essence “on the human and Christian planes.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Pascal the question is to be addressed: What happens when a man believes? What is the structure of the Christian consciousness based on such belief? How does a life determined by such belief realize itself? \u003c\/i\u003e(R\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eomano Guardini)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eMaintaining proper posture vis-à-vis the world is a central tension of the Christian life: \u003ci\u003eBe in the world but not of the world. \u003c\/i\u003ePascal, as “a man in whom the decision for Christ and genuine worldly greatness lay in bitter struggle,” illuminates the mystery which informs that tension. For its engaging interpretation of that mystery, \u003ci\u003ePascal: A Study in Christian Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e deserves a close and conscientious reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* * *\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRomano Guardini\u003c\/b\u003e (1885–1968) was a Catholic priest, professor, and author, whose intellectual disciples include Josef Pieper, Luigi Giussani, and Joseph Ratzinger. He was professor of theology and philosophy at the University of Berlin, University of Tübingen, and University of Munich. Guardini’s many published \u003ca href=\"www.clunymedia.com\/collections\/romano-guardini\" data-mce-href=\"www.clunymedia.com\/collections\/romano-guardini\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eworks\u003c\/a\u003e include: \u003ci\u003eThe Conversion of Augustine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Humanity of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Things\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685951139\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42914935242971,"sku":"978-1685951139","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--684.jpg?v=1654007115"},{"product_id":"the-creed-in-slow-motion","title":"The Creed in Slow Motion","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Ronald Knox\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\"\u003eThe Christian life \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003edemands both action and speech. Christians must, in the words of St. James, “live by the word, not content merely to listen to it.” And St. Peter exhorts: “If anyone asks you to give an account of the hope which you cherish, be ready at all times to answer for it.” The “Slow Motion” collections of Monsignor Ronald Knox take up these admonitions and provide indispensable assistance for the proper fulfillment of these Christian duties. Whereas \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/the-mass-in-slow-motion\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Mass in Slow Motion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e endows its readers with a clear vision of the liturgy and their necessary role therein, this volume, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Creed in Slow Motion\u003c\/i\u003e, equips its readers to confidently articulate their faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd God made Man did not lose the characteristics of Godhead; he went to work very slowly, for all the world to see that he was God. \u003c\/i\u003e(R\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eonald Knox)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the opening sermon, Knox links the \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCredo\u003c\/i\u003e to the \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConfiteor\u003c\/i\u003e to emphasize the fundamentally personal nature of faith. “It is always \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConfiteor\u003c\/i\u003e we say, not \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCon­fitemur\u003c\/i\u003e, even when we are saying it together. Why? Because my sins are my sins, and your sins are your sins; each of us is individually responsible. So it is with the \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCredo\u003c\/i\u003e; each of us, in lonely isolation, makes himself or herself responsible for that tremendous statement, I believe in God.” As a consequence, the one worthy of the grace to say \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCredo\u003c\/i\u003e is also responsible for being ready to say it with proper understanding. Preached with the full homage of Knox’s wit and intelligence, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Creed in Slow Motion \u003c\/i\u003eis a certain aid for achieving that readiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* * *\u003c\/strong\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\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 238pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685951351\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43079528480987,"sku":"978-1685951351","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--720.jpg?v=1658333817"},{"product_id":"the-life-of-faith","title":"The Life of Faith","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003eBy Romano Guardini\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConcluding his Farewell Discourse,\u003c\/b\u003e Christ tells his Apostles: “The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” Thus does the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost mark the formal beginning of Christian existence; it is “the first time we have that which is properly called faith.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003eTreating the mystery of faith, not as a concept, but as a living reality, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Life of Faith\u003c\/i\u003e takes its cue from divine revelation (the “only means” by which faith is intelligible) and examines the essence of faith as the covenant between the God who speaks to man and the man who hears the Divine voice. Across ten succinct chapters, Guardini considers faith and its relationships to hope and love, to action and knowledge, and to the life of Church, in dogma and sacrament, as its ultimate fulfillment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat is the object of Christian faith? The living God who reveals Himself in Christ. Not God in general, understood in an indefinite sense or as somehow experienced, but Him \u003c\/em\u003e“\u003cem\u003ewho is God and the Father of Jesus Christ.\u003c\/em\u003e” (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRomano Guardini)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003eA powerful aid to meditation, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Life of Faith\u003c\/i\u003e also issues a stern challenge to subjective, spiritualistic conceptions of what it means to believe, staunchly affirming faith in Jesus Christ as the ever-ancient, ever-new foundation of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRomano Guardini\u003c\/b\u003e (1885–1968) was a Catholic priest, professor, and author. He taught theology and philosophy at the University of Berlin, University of Tübingen, and University of Munich. Included among his intellectual disciples are Josef Pieper, Luigi Giussani, and Joseph Ratzinger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685951412\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43334797820123,"sku":"978-1685951412","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/products\/Product144.jpg?v=1662410626"},{"product_id":"the-word-of-god","title":"The Word of God","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Romano Guardini\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“These three remain,”\u003c\/b\u003e writes St. Paul of faith, hope, and love. In this tri­partite theological meditation, Romano Guardini ponders the staying power, so to speak, of these virtues. The first, “The Word of God”—a reflection on the Prologue of St. John’s Gospel—concerns faith and the generative power of Jesus, the Word made flesh and splendor of the Father, who reveals God to man and imparts the gift of faith to all who would receive it. The second, “The Yearning of Creation”—a reflection on chapter 8 of the Letter to the Romans—concerns hope and God’s promise of eternal life as the definitive answer to man’s intrinsic yearning for ultimate fulfillment. The third, “The Canticle of Love”—a reflection on the consummate brilliance of chapter 13 of the First Letter to the Corinthians—concerns charity, the greatest of the virtues and the very foundation of reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Word shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it. \u003c\/i\u003e(I\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003esaiah 55:11)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA primer in many ways for the encyclicals of Pope Benedict XVI, \u003ci\u003eThe Word of God\u003c\/i\u003e is an instructive and inspiring examination of the essential, divinely infused powers of the Christian life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRomano Guardini\u003c\/b\u003e (1885–1968) was a Catholic priest, professor, and author. He taught theology and philosophy at the University of Berlin, University of Tübingen, and University of Munich. 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The physical journey of Aeneas toward Rome provided a well-polished mirror to the spiritual voyage of Knox to that other, perfect Rome—the Eternal City of Christendom. “Ingeniously constructed on the Virgillian frame,” as Evelyn Waugh writes in his Foreword, \u003ci\u003eA Spiritual Aeneid\u003c\/i\u003e is Knox’s account of his conversion from the Anglican Church to the one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church. And the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e is the template par excellence for a conversion account—in Knox’s own words: “An \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e involves not merely coming home, but coming home to a place you have never been in before—one that combines in itself all that you valued in the old home with added promises of a future that is new. In an \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e…you may be driven from your course; but, to crown the sense of adventure, in an \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e you do not even know where your port lies; you must make experiments, hark back to beginnings, throw yourself upon a celestial guidance.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf you can steadily face all this mountain of assertion about the greatness of God in comparison with man, you may be a Catholic yet—but can you? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(Ronald Knox)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAs moving and memorable today as when it first appeared in 1918, \u003ci\u003eA Spiritual Aeneid\u003c\/i\u003e endures as the “essential introduction” to Monsignor Ronald Knox, a devoted servant to the One who makes all things new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" 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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Taking its cues from the features and Scripture readings of the nuptial liturgy, \u003ci\u003eBridegroom and Bride \u003c\/i\u003eoffers clear instruction on the perfecting power of the Sacrament of Marriage and of the grace of the covenant to sanctify and strengthen bride and bridegroom and their family unto eternal life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarriage…is self-surrender. Bride and bridegroom minister the sacrament to one another, not so much by accepting, each in turn, the gift made, as by standing there in silence and making, each in turn, the gift that is being accepted. \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eRonald Knox)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eInspiring improvisations on “a set of commonplace truths; obvious enough, and yet, because of our human frailty, not seldom obscured,” \u003ci\u003eBride­groom and Bride \u003c\/i\u003eis a befitting book for both engaged couples and married couples as well as all seekers of genuine human affection.\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 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 144pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685951580\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43679329943771,"sku":"978-1685951580","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/products\/Product155.jpg?v=1668719660"},{"product_id":"the-priestly-life","title":"The Priestly Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGod has no need for anythin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eg, \u003c\/b\u003eproclaims St. Paul in the midst of the Areopagus. 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. 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\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 226pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685951726\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43936234995931,"sku":"978-1685951726","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/products\/Product15552.jpg?v=1675370991"},{"product_id":"meditations-on-the-psalms","title":"Meditations on the Psalms","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"s1\"\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA translator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"s2\"\u003ecomments Monsignor Ronald Knox in his \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn Englishing the Bible\u003c\/i\u003e, has two methods at his disposal: the literal and the literary. In translating Sacred Scripture “for the benefit of a person who wants to be able to read the word of God for ten minutes on end without laying it aside in sheer boredom or bewilderment,” then only a literary translation will suffice. And such is the “Knox Bible,” the fruit of nine years’ solitary labor to craft a fresh translation of the sacred texts. That labor had a strong foundation in the abiding affection for and familiarity with Scripture on display in \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMeditations on the Psalms\u003c\/i\u003e. In these fifty-two meditations, Knox leads his readers “from the less to the more ‘interior’ levels of the spiritual life,” treating on select Psalms from the Douay-Rheims Bible as they pertain to the Christian life in general and the interior life in particular; observances of the Church; and “Songs of Ascents” toward ultimate unity with God.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003ePope Benedict XVI once described the Psalms as a “school of prayer.” With \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMeditations on the Psalms\u003c\/i\u003e, Ronald Knox serves as an excellent teacher in that school, cultivating with firm faith and deep conviction the capacity to speak to God in the words that God himself has given.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\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\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685951719\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43936235684059,"sku":"978-1685951719","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/products\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--79810.jpg?v=1675371677"},{"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":"freedom-grace-and-destiny","title":"Freedom, Grace, and Destiny","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Romano Guardini\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFreedom, grace, destiny: \u003c\/b\u003ethese realities form the basic pattern of existence. Yet the modern world has witnessed a radical diminishment, if not an outright loss, of any sense for the unity of existence—even among Christians. This disunity is evident in how “the believer no longer stands with his faith amid the concrete, actual world, and he no longer rediscovers that world in his faith.” In three compelling essays, Guardini closely examines the core concepts of freedom, grace, and destiny, treating the presence of each in everyday experience and then considering them in terms of divine revelation and the illumination it sheds upon the mystery of being. The result is a reunification of what had been fragmented and the realization “that all divisions have only a methodological value and that what really exists is the world and man in the world, as called by God and judged and redeemed.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. \u003c\/i\u003e(1 Corinthians 3:17)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrace is no adventitious thing, the presence or absence of which leaves the essential character of man’s life undisturbed. On the contrary, it is only by means of grace that man becomes what according to the Divine will he ought to be. \u003c\/i\u003e(Romano Guardini)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFirst appearing in English translation in 1961, \u003ci\u003eFreedom, Grace, and Destiny \u003c\/i\u003estands as a timely recollection of what it means to be human. Moreover, in rescuing these elemental concepts from their modern “distorted, discarded, or diluted” forms—in Flannery O’Connor’s evaluation—Guardini has admirably fulfilled his goal: the presentation of the pattern of Christian existence as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRomano Guardini\u003c\/b\u003e (1885–1968) was a Catholic priest, professor, and author, whose intellectual disciples include Josef Pieper, Luigi Giussani, and Joseph Ratzinger. He was professor of theology and philosophy at the University of Berlin, University of Tübingen, and University of Munich. Guardini’s many published works include: \u003ci\u003eThe Conversion of Augustine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Humanity of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Things\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 232pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685952259\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44179186974939,"sku":"978-1685952259","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--898.jpg?v=1689260038"},{"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":19.95,"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":19.95,"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":27.95,"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":27.95,"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. 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 style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\"\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 194pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685952976\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44891015971035,"sku":"978-1685952976","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/Product202.jpg?v=1708718086"},{"product_id":"a-retreat-for-lay-people","title":"A Retreat for Lay People","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe laity—\u003c\/b\u003ein the words of \u003ci\u003eLumen gentium\u003c\/i\u003e—live in “the ordinary circumstances of family and social life, from which the very web of existence is woven.” Where in that web is there room for anything resembling a retreat? 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":19.95,"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":"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. 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 style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 234pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685953775\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46438199886043,"sku":"978-1685953775","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1200.jpg?v=1737383854"},{"product_id":"lightning-meditations","title":"Lightning Meditations","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrevity is the soul of wit. \u003c\/b\u003eOn the evidence of Monsignor Ronald Knox’s \u003ci\u003eLightning Meditations\u003c\/i\u003e, it is also the secret of effective preaching. 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. Marked by Knox’s admirable talent for extracting fresh meaning from familiar notions, \u003ci\u003eLightning Meditations\u003c\/i\u003e is a reliable source of the scoldings and the comforts needed to walk in the way of the Lord.\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. 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 style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 178pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685953782\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46438210011355,"sku":"978-1685953782","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/Product235.jpg?v=1737384539"},{"product_id":"a-retreat-for-beginners","title":"A Retreat for Beginners","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMonsignor Ronald Knox\u003c\/b\u003e preached scores, if not hundreds, of retreats. 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":19.95,"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":19.95,"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":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/Product239.jpg?v=1746817155"},{"product_id":"the-three-taps","title":"The Three Taps","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Euthanasia Policy\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the premier offering of the Indescribable Insurance Company. Its premiums are high, but so too is the payout. If the holder should die before age sixty-five, his heirs receive a fortune; if he should outlive that age, he receives that fortune as an annuity for the remainder of his days. Only one means exists of forfeiting this legacy, and that is suicide. Hence the commotion at the death of Jephthah Mottram, a holder of the Euthanasia Policy. Cause of death was a gas leak—yet his hotel bedroom was securely locked from the inside and the gas taps themselves mysteriously turned off. Was this murder, or was it suicide? To prove the latter, and thus avoid the pending half-million-pound payout, the Indescribable dispatches the expert Miles Bredon, who quickly finds the case to be as foul and befogging as the air which sent Mottram to his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eDetective stories, Knox believed, differ essentially from all other fiction. They are a game, played between writer and reader. At this game, Knox excelled. Of all his contemporaries in detective fiction’s Golden Age, as Evelyn Waugh noted, “None was more ingenious than Knox, more scrupulous in the provision of clues, more logically complete in his solutions.” Originally published in 1927 and the first of Knox’s Miles Bredon novels, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Three Taps \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003econfirms Waugh’s words: as a mystery, it is undeniably ingenious; as a game, it is delightfully intriguing.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003eThe skill of the detective author consists in being able to produce his clues and flourish them defiantly in our faces: “There!” he says. “What do you make of that?”—and we make nothing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(Ronald Knox)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRonald Knox\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\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\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685954208\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043842670811,"sku":"978-1-68595-420-8","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1343.jpg?v=1750711179"},{"product_id":"the-footsteps-at-the-lock","title":"The Footsteps at the Lock","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eDerek Burtell \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis a young man in poor health. He is also heir to the princely sum of £50,000, provided he can reach his twenty-fifth birthday. In light of his condition, he insures his life with the Indescribable Insurance Company and sets out on a canoeing voyage up the Thames River in hope of restoring his health. With Derek is his cousin Nigel, among whose interests are his position to inherit Derek’s legacy if his cousin predeceases him. At Shipcote Lock, their journey takes a turn: Nigel departs to sit for an exam at Oxford, and in his absence the canoe is found adrift and Derek disappeared. Suspicious of foul play, the Indescribable Insurance Company dispatches the expert Miles Bredon to solve a case that is as circuitous and murky as the river in and around which it runs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eDetective stories, Knox believed, differ essentially from all other fiction. They are a game, played between writer and reader. At this game, Knox excelled. Of all his contemporaries in detective fiction’s Golden Age, as Evelyn Waugh noted, “None was more ingenious than Knox, more scrupulous in the provision of clues, more logically complete in his solutions.” Originally published in 1927 and the first of Knox’s Miles Bredon novels, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Three Taps \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003econfirms Waugh’s words: as a mystery, it is undeniably ingenious; as a game, it is delightfully intriguing.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003eThe skill of the detective author consists in being able to produce his clues and flourish them defiantly in our faces: “There!” he says. “What do you make of that?”—and we make nothing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(Ronald Knox)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRonald Knox\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\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\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e978-1685954215\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043847127259,"sku":"978-1685954215","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1348.jpg?v=1750711353"},{"product_id":"difficulties","title":"Difficulties","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox \u0026amp; Arnold Lunn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Catholic faith and difficulty\u003c\/b\u003e seem to go hand in hand. “It’s very diff­icult being a Catholic,” laments Sebastian Flyte of Evelyn Waugh’s \u003ci\u003eBrideshead Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e; the Christian ideal, in Chesterton’s phrasing, “has been found difficult; and left untried.” In \u003ci\u003eDifficulties\u003c\/i\u003e, Arnold Lunn and Ronald Knox set forth to find these difficulties and try them for truth. In 1930, the agnostic Lunn suggested to Knox that they collaborate on a book that might serve as a proving-ground for the veracity of the Catholic Church’s claims: Lunn advancing the objections to those claims; Knox aiming to resolve them. Ranging from papal infallibility to the sacraments and beyond, their correspondence encapsulates a drama of faith and reason, enacted against the candid background of Knox’s undisturbed conviction that while difficulties do exist and always will, they do figure in divine providence and will not prevent anyone of good will from finding the faith.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eOnly the difficulties will have altered; it will be the same Truth.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(Ronald Knox)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eOn the evidence, \u003ci\u003eDifficulties\u003c\/i\u003e bears Knox out: three years after their correspondence began, Lunn entered the Catholic Church, a testament to the saving work that grace will accomplish in those with honesty of mind and openness of heart.\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. 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\u003cb\u003eArnold Lunn \u003c\/b\u003e(1888–1974) was an English author and sportsman. The creator of the modern Alpine slalom ski race, he received a knighthood in recognition of his skiing authority and expertise. In 1933, he was received into the Catholic Church by Monsignor Knox, after which he stood in strong stead as an apologist for the faith.\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 308pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685954345\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47573768601819,"sku":"978-1685954345","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--1394.jpg?v=1757354690"},{"product_id":"university-various-sermons","title":"University \u0026 Various 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity \u0026amp; Various Sermons \u003c\/i\u003ecomprises a host of examples of this excellent preaching: the two books of his Oxford conferences (previously published in \u003ci\u003eIn Soft Garments \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Stream\u003c\/i\u003e); twenty-eight previously uncollected sermons, delivered to various congregations, on topics ranging from Scripture and the sacraments to Divine Mercy and devotion to Blessed Virgin Mary and the saints; and fourteen of his Anglican sermons, each of which sheds light on Knox’s mind and heart as he drew near to fulfilling his lifelong desire of “membership in the body of people which Jesus Christ left to succeed Him when He was taken up from the earth”: by entering the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLike its companions in \u003ci\u003ePastoral Sermons \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOccasional Sermons\u003c\/i\u003e, Knox’s \u003ci\u003eUniversity \u0026amp; Various Sermons \u003c\/i\u003eare compositions of great care and beauty that unfailingly instruct and dispose the faithful to know and love the Lord and his commandments.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe love of Christ, St. Paul tells us, is to bring our intellects into captivity; there are not many wise, not many mighty, that take a high place in the kingdom of heaven. Yet he is careful to claim that there is something to be said for cultivating our mental powers. We are to be innocent, not ignorant; in understanding we must be men. \u003c\/em\u003e(\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRonald Knox)\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. 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\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 558pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685954338\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47573805596891,"sku":"978-1685954338","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1413.jpg?v=1757355703"},{"product_id":"the-mystery-of-the-kingdom","title":"The Mystery of the Kingdom","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen John the Baptist appears, \u003c\/b\u003eannouncing that the kingdom is at hand, he demands a particular response. When Jesus himself begins to proclaim the Gospel, he repeats that demand: “Jesus began to preach: \u003ci\u003eRepent, he said, the kingdom of heaven is at hand.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA strange command, to do penance and pursue perfection, given that its inspiration is a mystery. Knowledge of this mystery demands clues; Jesus provides these clues in the form of famous parables and enduring images. In the seventeen sermons of \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of the Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, Monsignor Ronald Knox examines these parables and images. The first series of sermons reflects on the parables as a whole, with uniform principles of interpretation and a firm foundation in Catholic doctrine of the Church and of human salvation thrown into relief against a background of Jewish Messianic speculation. The second series convenes the principal actors in Christ’s Passion, under headings suggested by the parable of the Sower.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFaithful to the spirit and the letter of Scripture, dexterous in interpretation, and decisively effective in preaching, Knox’s \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of the Kingdom \u003c\/i\u003e(originally published in 1928) proclaims the mystery of Christ and sets forth a standard for living and loving the Christian life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eJesus answered him: Believe me when I tell thee this—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ea man cannot see the kingdom of God without being born anew.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(The Gospel of John)\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 style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 198pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e978-1685954536\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47719315964123,"sku":"978-1685954536","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/Product247.jpg?v=1760385435"},{"product_id":"purgatory","title":"Purgatory","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Marie René-Bazin | Introduction by Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePurgatory is a mystery. \u003c\/b\u003eIt is for those souls who die in a state of imperfection and attachment to sin to be purified “so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.” Purgatory is discipline, expiation, purification—and as such need not be feared nor despised. In the words of the Book of Job: “Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not therefore the chastising of the Lord.” In \u003ci\u003ePurgatory: Threshold of the Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, Marie René-Bazin casts light on the state of the Holy Souls in Purgatory and their needs in the eyes of God. Those needs are best expressed by that ancient prayer: “Grant them, O Lord, eternal rest, and may perpetual light shine upon them.” To enter into rest, one’s work must be complete; to behold the light, one’s blindness must be cured. Purgatory, by fire, water, or whatever mysterious means God has ordained, accomplishes this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eFirst published in English in 1957, with an Introduction by Monsignor Ronald Knox, \u003ci\u003ePurgatory: Threshold of the Kingdom \u003c\/i\u003eweaves a wealth of instruction and insight from Scripture, the saints, and the treasury of tradition into a series of evocative poems and imaginative fables that illuminate the mystery of Purgatory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eBefore the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. \u003c\/i\u003e(Saint Gregory the Great)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lord thy God is a consuming fire. In truth, the fire which is God,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003econsumes to be sure, but it does not destroy. It burns sweetly. \u003c\/i\u003e(Saint Bernard)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarie René-Bazin\u003c\/b\u003e (1883–1970) was a French Catholic author. Finding critical and popular success with her writings, she was awarded the French Academy’s Prix Juteau-Duvigneaux, Prix Louis-Paul-Miller, and Prix Montyon—the last, awarded to works “recommended for their character of moral elevation and usefulness,” for \u003ci\u003ePurgatory\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 of numerous books, many of which are now available from Cluny.\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 140pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e978-1685954390\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47719333101787,"sku":"978-1685954390","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/Product248.jpg?v=1760385885"},{"product_id":"literary-distractions","title":"Literary Distractions","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“The written word \u003c\/b\u003ewas but the score of a musical composition; there must be no sentence which was not worthy of being read aloud.” Monsignor Ronald Knox wrote these words in homage to Robert Louis Stevenson. Well might he have written them of himself, for the principles he proposes were invariably brought to life in his own writing: his sermons, retreat conferences, detective stories, Scripture translations—and the seventeen essays in \u003ci\u003eLiterary Distractions\u003c\/i\u003e. Focused on figures and matters of literary interest, the volume includes the famous “Detective Stories,” enshrining the “Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction,” and the essential “On English Translation”; tributes to Chesterton, Pascal, and Stevenson; studies of Crashaw and Johnson\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eand as well as Trollope’s novels and Belloc’s verse; tangents on “A Neglected Poet,” “The Man Who Tried to Convert the Pope,” and “The Ingoldsby Legends”; and equally witty and insightful reflections on “Going On Pilgrimage,” “Birmingham Revisited,” and “French with Tears.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eCompiled by Evelyn Waugh and first published in 1958, just months after Knox’s death at the age of sixty-nine, the essays in \u003ci\u003eLiterary Distractions \u003c\/i\u003eare of unremitting quality, each one as marvelously amusing as it is exquisitely written.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eNobody wrote the scholarly but relaxed literary essay more gracefully, or with happier wit and humor, when his subject inspired him, than Ronald Knox. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(Vincent Starrett)\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. 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* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e978-1685954468\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47880094515419,"sku":"978-1685954468","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--1447.jpg?v=1761840942"},{"product_id":"a-commentary-on-the-new-testament-volume-i","title":"A Commentary on the New Testament (Volume I)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.” \u003c\/b\u003eThese famous words of Saint Jerome make for a stirring challenge in the Christian life. For while Sacred Scripture does indeed bear the words of eternal life, those same words also throw difficulties into the path of understanding—apparent contradictions, obscure sayings, parallel passages, variant readings, and so forth. Yet the fact remains that the God who reveals himself to man is the true Light, “full of grace and truth,” and not a God who delights in obscurantism. On these grounds stand Monsignor Ronald Knox’s three volumes of \u003ci\u003eCommentary on the New Testament\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in 1952, 1954, and 1956. Intended for a lay readership, rather than scholarly, Knox’s work aims to resolve, at least in part, those difficulties of the New Testament for those who “want to read the Bible for themselves without shirking the difficulties.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eIn this first volume, \u003ci\u003eThe Four Gospels\u003c\/i\u003e, Knox examines every sentence in the back­ground of the whole Gospel narrative, seeking to clarify the meaning of the exact words employed by the evangelists, what they would have meant to the original audience, and what they imply given the entirety of revelation. The result is a profound aid to appreciating the mysterious riches of wisdom and knowledge contained in the Gospels, with Knox like the rich man described in Saint Matthew’s account, “who knows how to bring both new and old things out of his treasure house.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe gospel is not a thing of man’s dictation. \u003c\/em\u003e(\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe Letter to the Galatians)\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. 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 328pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685954635\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48156591456475,"sku":"978-1685954635","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--1546.jpg?v=1768585137"},{"product_id":"a-commentary-on-the-new-testament-volume-ii","title":"A Commentary on the New Testament (Volume II)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.” \u003c\/b\u003eThese famous words of Saint Jerome make for a stirring challenge in the Christian life. For while Sacred Scripture does indeed bear the words of eternal life, those same words also throw difficulties into the path of understanding—apparent contradictions, obscure sayings, parallel passages, variant readings, and so forth. Yet the fact remains that the God who reveals himself to man is the true Light, “full of grace and truth,” and not a God who delights in obscurantism. On these grounds stand Monsignor Ronald Knox’s three volumes of \u003ci\u003eCommentary on the New Testament\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in 1952, 1954, and 1956. Intended for a lay readership, rather than scholarly, Knox’s work aims to resolve, at least in part, those difficulties of the New Testament for those who “want to read the Bible for themselves without shirking the difficulties.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eIn this second volume, Knox treats the Acts of the Apostles and St. Paul's Letters to the\u003cbr\u003eChurches, offering clear and concise explanations of disputed and difficult texts. From\u003cbr\u003ethe establishment of the Church and the early days of the Great Commission described\u003cbr\u003ein Acts, to the firmly etched blueprint of the Christian worldview provided in St. Paul's\u003cbr\u003eletters to Rome, Corinth, Galatia, Ephesus, Philippi, Colossae, and Thessalonica, Knox\u003cbr\u003esolves linguistic puzzles, untangles historical knots, and clarifies mysteries of the faith,\u003cbr\u003eall for the sake of making known the wisdom and workings of Christ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe gospel is not a thing of man’s dictation. \u003c\/em\u003e(\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe Letter to the Galatians)\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. 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\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 370pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685954772\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48609160757467,"sku":"978-1685954772","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--1552614_b3c630ba-6e68-4cd6-989d-7225dc1b42cb.jpg?v=1776709658"},{"product_id":"a-commentary-on-the-new-testament-volume-iii","title":"A Commentary on the New Testament (Volume III)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Ronald Knox\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.” \u003c\/b\u003eThese famous words of Saint Jerome make for a stirring challenge in the Christian life. For while Sacred Scripture does indeed bear the words of eternal life, those same words also throw difficulties into the path of understanding—apparent contradictions, obscure sayings, parallel passages, variant readings, and so forth. Yet the fact remains that the God who reveals himself to man is the true Light, “full of grace and truth,” and not a God who delights in obscurantism. On these grounds stand Monsignor Ronald Knox’s three volumes of \u003ci\u003eCommentary on the New Testament\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in 1952, 1954, and 1956. Intended for a lay readership, rather than scholarly, Knox’s work aims to resolve, at least in part, those difficulties of the New Testament for those who “want to read the Bible for themselves without shirking the difficulties.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn this third volume, Knox offers clear and refreshing commentary on St. Paul’s epistles to Timothy and Titus, Philemon and the Hebrews; the letters of St. James and St. Peter, St. John and St. Jude; and, lastly, the Apocalypse of St. John. “What things soever were written,” writes St. Paul, “were written for our learning, that, through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope.” The virtue of Knox’s \u003ci\u003eCommentaries on the New Testament \u003c\/i\u003eis that they lighten the burden and increase the joy of that learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eHe who sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.  (These words I was bidden write down, words most sure and true.)\u003c\/em\u003e” (The Apocalypse of the Blessed Apostle John)\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. 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 292pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685954802\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48784911335643,"sku":"978-1-68595-480-2","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--15572.jpg?v=1779137269"}],"url":"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/collections\/knox-and-guardini.oembed","provider":"Cluny Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}