{"title":"Arouca Press","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"xray-of-the-priest-in-a-field","title":"X-ray of the Priest in a Field","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback, 178 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"To our lay brothers and sisters we also dedicate this book, to help them better understand, value and support their dear priests, the wounded and the beaming ones alike. In particular, we hope that seminarians and young men still discerning their calling might draw inspiration from this short presentation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe beg for the leniency of the informed reader towards what is not a systematic treatise. Concision led us to reserve for a separate publication the essential topic of The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Priest - although Our Immaculate Lady is referred to in various chapters. Similarly, a thorough assessment of the importance of the Sacred Liturgy in the life and ministry of priests will have to be addressed separately, God willing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapter One is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Fourteen Stations of Priestly Apostasy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The slow demise of a fictional priest, after a recent film, is the occasion of detailing various precautions and securities which we priests would do well to apply. In Chapter Two, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOrdained a Priest in Dachau\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the beautiful figure of Blessed Karl Leisner proves that Christ can make priests strive in the worst possible surrounding. In a way, this is the dynamic antidote to the fateful failure assessed in Chapter One. Chapter Three is about \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHandling the Right Body\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. It explores the deep sacramental motive for priestly celibacy and for the manly fulfilment of the priest in his identification to Christ and his service to the Church. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIn Persona Christi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is our longest chapter (Chapter Four). It provides various angles to 'unpack' the well-known expression according to which priests act 'in the Person of Christ'. Chapter Five, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eUnfolding the Holy Shroud\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, refers to the relic of Our Lord's Shroud to illustrate the priestly mission to teach revealed truth in fidelity and persuasiveness. In Chapter Six, we examine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePriestly Unity and Concelebration\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Our non-polemical approach exhorts us priests to identify always more precisely what we really mean to do and achieve at Holy Mass. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBuilding the Bride\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is our Chapter Seven. With recourse to exegesis, it shows the correspondence between the shaping of Eve and of the Church. Christ the Bridegroom empowers his priests to fulfil this spousal design. Our eighth and last chapter: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eConsecrated to God, Body and Soul\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, sets the priesthood within the broader calling to consecrated life, including the religious one. It opens up the reflection and invites young readers in particular to enter the lists with confidence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe thank you for your interest, reader friend, and we commit this slender opus to our glorious models St John Vianney, St Padre Pio, St John Fisher, St John Henry Newman and all our heavenly intercessors, that it might please Our Lord and Our Lady, and might foster, however modestly, priestly sanctification.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51665109844249,"sku":"XRP","price":31.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/priestxray.jpg?v=1763768866"},{"product_id":"near-missed-masses","title":"Near Missed Masses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback, 224 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Can priests miss Mass? This little book light-heartedly depicts ten Holy Masses nearly missed by priests due to some opposition from within Holy Church, not from without. From Kilimanjaro to Loch Ness, from Burma to Paris and more, the ten humorous short stories describe hindrances to the celebration of Holy Mass inflicted on innocent priests by sacristans, shrine rectors or even bishops. Those failed to recognise that, given a suitable time frame and with permission requested in Christian courtesy, Holy Mass offered in conformity with the rubrics takes precedence over any other activity and any other consideration. Hindering the celebration of Holy Mass affects: 1) God, whose extrinsic glory increases each time the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered; 2) souls, deprived of the temporal application of Christ's saving merits that Holy Mass effectuates; 3) priests, whose ontological \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eraison d'être\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is to offer the divine Victim. This short book pleasantly illustrates these truths through fiction, not through theological arguments. The depictions are based on actual events.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705507971353,"sku":"NMM","price":33.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/near_missed_masses.jpg?v=1764563183"},{"product_id":"church-speaks-to-the-modern-wo","title":"The Church Speaks to the Modern World: The Social Teachings of Leo XIII (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 390 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a new edition of Etienne Gilson's compendium of Pope Leo XIII's social encyclicals as arranged by the Pope himself. Originally published in 1954 this new edition features a foreword by Thomas Storck. It is newly typeset and is a larger trim size (6 x 9) for easier readability. All the endnotes have been made into footnotes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Church Speaks to the Modern World\u003c\/em\u003e, Etienne Gilson presented for the first time the basic encyclicals of Leo XIII arranged in the order expressly indicated by the Pope himself. Gilson’s sparkling introduction provides the proper perspective for the encyclicals; his notes brilliantly clarify obscure points; his summaries provide an immediate grasp of each encyclical; and his study of the variant translations is invaluable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn short, here is the definitive collection of the most important and far-reaching papal pronouncements of the modern age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52470912090393,"sku":"CSTMW","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/cover_-_gilson_website_-600x900.png?v=1781490665"},{"product_id":"semper-virgo-mary","title":"Semper Virgo: Mary's Virginity as the \"Form\" of Christian Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback, 176 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe are victims of a contagious amorphism which dilutes the mysteries of faith into a current of humdrum uniformity. We have lost the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eform\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the principle that determines the essence of a thing, distinguishing it from all others. The invitation to become perfect is open to everyone, but we have forgotten that there is a hierarchy of levels in the states of Christian life. Consequently, both marriage and the consecrated life are going through a profound crisis, having been flattened into the same level to ease the universal call to holiness. It is a crisis that also afflicts the celibate life, which has for a long while been subjected to the epicurean transformation of our times.\u003cbr\u003eA solution is found in looking to the Virgin Mary. Her perpetual virginity is the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eoriginal form\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethat molded Christ and, in Him, every Christian and every Christian vocation. 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