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Preserving Christian Publications, Inc. TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC BOOKS ____________________________________________ Offering More than 5,500 Used and Out-of-Print Catholic Titles Availiable in our Printed Catalogs and on Our Web Site www.pcpbooks.net And 35 Books in Print Selected from Catholic Classics & Important Books for Our Time Catalog 189 September 2020 Preserving Christian Publications, Inc. is a tax-exempt not-for-profit corporation devoted to the preservation of our Catholic heritage. All charitable contributions toward its used-book and publishing activities (not including payments for book purchases) are tax-deductible. The Admirable Heart of Mary The Mass: A Study of the Roman Liturgy by St. John Eudes by Father Adrian Fortescue “Essentially the Missal of Pius V is the Gregorian Sacramentary; that again is formed from the Gelasian book, St. John Eudes reveals to his disciples how which depends on the Leonine collection. We Our Lady’s heart was the first-fruit of Her find the prayers of our Canon in the treatise de Divine Son’s Passion, given to all of Mary’s Sacramentis and allusions to it in the IVth children, that it might be honored, cherished, century. So our Mass goes back, without essential invoked and, ultimately, with that of her Son, change, to the age when it was first developed out reproduced in them. This is the essence of St. of the oldest liturgy of all. It is still redolent of John Eudes’ spirituality which spilled over that liturgy, of the days when Caesar ruled the into the foundation of many religious world and thought he could stamp out the faith of congregations, literary works and, of course, Christ, when our fathers met together before dawn and sang a the practice of heroic virtue. This doctrine is foundation for the hymn to Christ as to a God. The final result of our inquiry is that, triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and of Her Divine in spite of unsolved problems, in spite of later changes, there is Son and is very pertinent for our time. not in Christendom another rite so venerable as ours.” 2006 381 pages, reprint of 1948 1st English ed. 2007 (first published 1912) reprint of 1930 ed. 429 pages $18.00 #55625 hardback with dust jacket $28.00 #55662 Used and Out-of-Print Titles Lord in an easy-flowing narrative; recreates the Our Lady of Fatima [novena sermons for various OUR LORD / OUR LADY prevailing atmosphere of the time, the spirit of feasts connected with Our Lady: Lourdes, St. the people; based on theology, history, Joseph, 3rd of the 7 sorrows: Loss of the Child, archaeology, etc] - Fernandez, Andrés, SJ / Paul May devotions, Visitation, Imm. Heart of Mary, Jesus Christ [follows original 1937-'39 Barrett, OFM Cap, tr. 1958 [trans of 1954 2nd Nativity of BVM, Our Lady of Ransom, etc] - English 3-vol ed., centers on personality of Spanish ed] 817p IL + maps dj (G/G/F) $16 Dempsey, Fr Martin 1950 225p Bi(F)Pg(G) $9 Christ & general effect of His life] - de #89493, Bi(F)Pg(G) $14 #63402, 1959 [2nd #15002 Grandmaison, Leonce, SJ [1868-1927] / Dom English printing] 817p IL + maps dj (G/G/F) $16 Feasts of Our Lady: Thirty-one Meditations Basil Whelan, OSB, Ada Lane, & Douglas #90678 Carter, trs. / preface by Jean Danielou, SJ 1961 for May or October or the Days on Which Feasts 266p (G/F) $14 #69543, Bi(F)Pg(G) $13 #78548 Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of Occur - McElhone, Fr James F., CSC 1935 98p [draws from the Bi(F)Pg(G) $21 #90328 Way of the Blessed Christ, The [33 God in Meditations, The meditations based on the Life of Christ, one for Gospel the solid nutriment of our Lord's Mother of Jesus, The Thirty-One Readings each year of His life, written with gentle & teaching, both moral & doctrinal, by means of for the Month of Mary & the Month of the Holy loving understanding of Christ & His human mental application to the subject matter] [in 2 Rosary [the striking likeness between Jesus & companions] - Kienberger, Fr Vincent F., OP / vols] - Meschler, Fr Maurice, SJ [1830-1912] / Mary, between the son & the mother: similar Archbp Samuel Stritch, foreword by 1942 260p Sr. Mary Margaret, OSB, tr. 1950-'51 [reprint thoughts, feelings & character – through a series Bi(F)Pg(G) $14 #94371, (F) $12 #89638 1909 1st English printing] Bi(F)Pg(G) $22 of family life scenes] - Morice, Chanoine Henri / #94748, 1928 [reprint 1909 1st English printing] Sr. Clara Meigs Sands, RSCJ, tr. 1940 250p We Would See Jesus: Contemplations on taped spine (F) $18 #56984 (G/F) $20 #85702, Bi(F)Pg(G) $18 #85743 Our Lord's Life / The Things That Sacred Heart and Modern Life, The Our Lady in the Gospels [using the 4 Matter [1. Fr Egan considers 14 aspects of [integrates the Sacred Heart devotion with the Gospels, the author fills in & rounds out his Christ's life from birth to the Apostles at Mystical Body. Pt 1: The Heart of Christ in portrait of Mary from his scholarly knowledge of Pentecost; 2. Fr Roche's 22 essays deal with the Christian Theology; Pt 2: The Heart of Christ in biblical criticism, ancient history, & the latest application of religion to various points of daily Christian Practice] - Charmot, Francois, SJ / archaeological discoveries – a very informative life] - Egan, Fr M. F., SJ / Fr. Aloysius Roche / Kathryn Sullivan, RSCJ, tr. 1952 (from 1st & reverent study of the Mother of God] - Patsch, Spiritual Book Associates, publ [2 books bound French ed 1949) 261p (F) $15 #89423, some [Fr] Joseph [CSSR] / Rev Basil Wrighton, tr as one] 1940-'41 113p + 207p (G) $17 #87352 water staining, discoloration & warping of 1958 [1953 1st German ed] 231p IL (G/F) $7 Life of Christ, The [vividly portrays & binding Bi(F/P)Pg(G) $14 #91991 #40497, Bi(F)Pg(G) $6 #40496 explains the principal events in the life of Our In Praise of Our Lady: with a Novena to Liturgical Law in the Midst of the Pandemic When the bishops in the State of Minnesota decided to In his book Bishop Laise took these conclusions to their open their churches without accepting the state’s restrictions ultimate consequences. Not only was his own decision in on public worship, concerned Catholics rejoiced at this conformity with the universal laws of the Church, but also the defense of the rights of the Church against government decisions of Episcopal Conferences to introduce a widespread interference. The action of the Minnesota bishops followed practice of Communion in the hand were in violation of those the example of former papal nuncio to the United States, laws. Bishop Laise’s courage in defending the Church’s Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who had called attention to legislation prompted the warm and respectful praise for him similar interference by the Italian government with the from Bishop Athanasius Schneider, in the preface he wrote Church’s authority, in violation of the Lateran Treaty. for the Italian edition, now reproduced in translation in the While these recent developments in Church-State American edition. relations remind us of the proper role of the Church in society, An ecclesiastical law can be temporarily suspended in a there has been a parallel development within the Church case of emergency. The assumption has been made that such herself, concerning the Church’s laws regarding the reception is the case with the reception of Communion during the of Holy Communion during the coronavirus pandemic. coronavirus pandemic, but at times this is done without an Among theologians and canonists, the question has examination of the medical evidence. The universal Church recently been raised whether bishops, in the emergency established the practice of Communion on the tongue as the brought about by the coronavirus, can suspend the right of the norm, and did this for a number of reasons. Since faithful to receive Communion on the tongue, on the Communion in the hand was only introduced by ignoring assumption that this traditional manner of receiving these reasons, subsequent epidemics even before the Communion is more likely to spread the disease. This coronavirus have provided occasions for trying to justify the medical assumption was challenged by Prof. Filippo Maria violation of the Church’s universal laws, in the context of a Boscia, President of the Association of Catholic Doctors in contrary custom that was not in conformity with those laws, Italy, and by a group of Austrian Catholic physicians. The but which an effort is being made to legitimize by using the manner in which the assumption is made overlooks current pandemic. fundamental principles regarding the Church’s liturgical The recent action of the Minnesota bishops provides an legislation and its application. For the question is not whether example of the proper exercise of episcopal authority in a right can be temporarily suspended for the common good, another related context. Archbishop Viganò pointed out that but whether a law can be suspended on the basis of certain the national Episcopal Conferences have no authority to medical assumptions. impose on individual bishops a policy of closing churches. The decision of the Minnesota bishops illustrates the fact that The distinction between a law and a right is interpreted it is individual bishops, either by themselves or in groups, in different ways by moral philosophers and theologians, but who interpret and apply the Church’s laws, and not national the common teaching is that a right is derived from a law, Episcopal Conferences when these go beyond the limits of whether it be divine law or human law, ecclesiastical or civil.