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These "Classics of Catholic Tradition" are
uniformly bound in dark blue buckram cloth, gold stamped on the spines
and front boards, handsewn and published without dust jackets.
Orders for "Classics of Catholic Tradition" are handled,
NOT by Ignatius Press, but by Loome Theological Booksellers. ONLY order
these through Loorne. See bottom of this page.
Explanation of the Rule of St. Augustine
Hugh of St. Victor
Translated by Dom Aloysius Smith, C.R.L.
Known in the Middle Ages as a "Second Augustine," Hugh of St.
Victor remains one of the truly great interpreters of the Augustinian
spiritual tradition. Here The Rule of St. Augustine is printed with Hugh's
commentary.
135 page, Sewn Hardcover, $25. 00
The Scale of Perfection
Walter Hilton
Introduction by Evelyn Underhill
The Scale of Perfection is regarded as the most complete and balanced
treatise on the interior life that the late Middle Ages produced. The
heart of Hilton's teaching is that the answer to spiritual difficulties
is to adapt the Church's spiritual teaching to the life of the Christian
in the world.
533 pages, Sewn Hardcover, $40. 00
Ten Reasons
St. Edmund Campion, S.J.
This is the text in which Campion openly challenged Protestant divines
to dispute with him the grounds of Catholicism. Seized by the English
authorities almost immediately after the book's publication, Campion was
martyred on December 1, 15 8 1. This edition of Ten Reasons reprints the
original Latin together with Fr. Rickaby's English translation.
152 pages, Sewn Hardcover, $30. 00
The Life of Sir Thomas More
William Roper
This is the earliest biography of St. Thomas More, written by the son-in-law
of Thomas More, here supplemented by the "Letters of Sir Thomas More
to and from Margaret Roper."
207pages, Sewn Hardcover, $30.00
The Art of Contemplation
Ramón Lull
Translated by E. Allison Peers
This book, one of the great classics of Christian mysticism, aims not
so much to move the heart to contrition and the eyes to tears as to teach
men to love, to teach men to pray.
124 pages, Sewn Hardcover, $25.00
Revelations and Prayers of St. Bridget of Sweden
Translated by Dom Ernest Graf, O.S.B.
"The Angelic Discourse" is divided into three "lessons"
for each day of the week and is fbllowed here by four extraordinary prayers
composed by St. Bridget.
98 pages, Sewn Hardcover, $25.00
The Devotions of St. Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury
Edited by Clement CJ. Webb
This volume contains Anselm's Proslogion, as well as his meditations,
prayers, and a selection of his letters of spiritual direction translated
by Clement CJ. Webb, of Oxford University.
187pages, Sewn Hardcover, $25.00
The Passion of SS. Perpetua and Felicity
Translated by W.H. Shewring
This is a bilingual Latin-English edition of one of the earliest Christian
martyrologies, printed here with with four sermons of St. Augustine on
Sts. Perpetua and Felicity.
91 pages, Sewn Hardcover, $25.00
Sermons of St. Bernard on Advent & Cluistmas
Introduction by Y.C. Hedley, O.S.B.
Nineteen of St. Bernard's sermons, all of them related to the mysteries
of Advent and Christinas: two on Advent, four on the Virgin Mary, three
for Christmas Vigil, five for Christmas day, two on the Circumcision and
three on the Epiphany.
189 pages, Sewn Hardcover, $30.00
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Postage and handling $4 for the first volume, $2 for each additional volume.
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Through Shakespeare's Eyes: Seeing the Catholic Presence in the Plays
by Joseph Pearce
Fulfilling the promise he made in his previous book, The Quest for Shakespeare,
bestselling literary writer Joseph Pearce analyzes in this volume three of Shakespeare's immortal
plays--The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet and King Lear--in order to uncover the Bard's Catholic beliefs. In The Quest for Shakespeare, which has been made
into an EWTN television series, Pearce delved into the known biographical evidence for Shakespeare's Catholicism. Here the popular and provocative author digs into
the plays, which were written and first performed during the English crown's persecution of Catholics. English history and literature were taught for generations through
the prism of English Protestantism. Of late both of these fields have been dominated in universities and academic presses by modern scholars with filters and
interpretations of their own. Though the evidence for Shakespeare's Catholicism has been studied before now, thanks, in part, to the unique contribution of
Joseph Pearce, the Bard's genius is being analyzed in the open air of the public arena, the very place where Shakespeare intended his dramas to entertain and edify.
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