Caryll Houselander

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  Guilt

  $19.95

  Literary genius Caryll Houselander wrote this book out of an abiding compassion for those who are suffering and in search of healing and happiness. She presents in these pages gripping examples of famous men and women who battled some form of neurosis that led to either their sanctification or their destruction.

  The greatest suffering of our age is psychological pain, Houselander argues. A sufferer of neurosis herself, she unpacks the phenomenon that creates ego-neurosis — a type of disordered self-love that, at its core, attempts to satisfy our hunger for Christ. She reveals how failure to cultivate this essential relationship results in anxiety, disordered behavior, and psychological ailments such as scrupulosity, aberrant sexual behavior, hypochondria, and assorted manias.

  God waits to embrace you with healing love and lavish you with redeeming graces, she explains. But you must first respond to His invitation. Houselander shows how sacramental Confession — the miracle of atonement with God — uniquely serves to alleviate your guilt and restore harmony to your soul. With her stirring meditations on hope, she shows you that Christ “fell in love” with us and took “all the suffering of guilt on Himself, wedding Himself to our sorrow, and offering the sacrifice of His own death on the Cross.” Incredibly, He re-creates us and gives us the fullness of joy through the gift of “spiritual childhood.”

  In this thoroughly penetrating and rewarding book, Houselander will also help you:

  *Accept your nature, avoid escapism, and open your heart to God’s mercy through the sacraments

  *Surrender your self-pity, adore God’s boundless love, and strive to alleviate the suffering of others

  *Enter the immensity of God’s life and enjoy the freedom and love you were created to receive

  “Put on Christ” and employ the supernatural weapons of prayer and sacrifice

  *Be a co-redeemer with Jesus by performing ordinary tasks with love to transform the world

  *Let Christ be formed in you like Mary and echo her Fiat, which releases the Holy Spirit’s power

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  More Catholic Tales For Boys And Girls

  $10.95

  Here are stories of princes and gypsies, bishops and bears tales of Catholic boys and girls who remind us that especially in young souls the Faith is quite strong, and evil is never a match for goodness.

  Among other children, you’ll come to know:
  * Bernard, the boy who walks three miles to Mass and meets Jesus on the way;
  * Nickie, the young prince who learns from a dancing bear a strong lesson in love;
  * Osbert and Rupert, gypsy twins who make a donkey of themselves to bring peace to the world;
  * Tommy, who uses kindness and two minnows to heal a bishop and save a school;
  * Joey, the stable boy whose coat is transformed when his donkey bears Jesus to Jerusalem; and
  * Kathleen, who goes without candy and brings a shopkeeper back to the Faith.

  Soviet cows, Marian icons, pet mice, Easter roosters, Noah and the ark, fish, donkeys, and even a dinosaur: they’re all here in a dozen charming tales of children living their Faith while having great Catholic fun.

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  Catholic Tales For Boys And Girls

  $10.95

  Tales about Catholic children to form your own little ones in holy wisdom and piety.
  Caryll Houselander is best known for the intensity of her vision of the suffering Christ and His immeasurable love for us, a theme that she frequently spoke of with breathtaking luminosity in her many books about him.

  Few know, however, of the many remarkable stories she wrote for Catholic children _ delightful tales that are simple but not shallow. Indeed, like her books for adults, they maifest a tender love of Christ and His little ones not commonly found among us these days.

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