Flow Gently Days

by Rachel Heise

The author endeavors in this book of poetry to demonstrate an alertness to the divine glorious moments in time that often pass by underappreciated. She encourages all readers to be on the lookout for a trail of lights that leads back to our Heavenly Father and reminds them there is still so much good to be found on that path.

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TESTIMONIALS

“Poetry requires a certain genius that not many have. When poetry is truly good, it has the uncanny knack of reaching into one’s depths and drawing out the unexpected. Heise is one of those who is a true poet. Her words, like arrows, go to the heart, the soul, the memory, revealing longings for beauty, home, goodness, love, childhood, friendship, awe. She gives sorrow a voice, too, and she brings forth wonders and mysteries in a myriad of marvelous ways. Unexpected insights surprise in every poem, and a desire to linger in the worlds she brings forth arises unbidden. Her poetry is…spellbinding.” – Keith Berube, PhD cand, author of Mary, the Beloved, Mary: the Rosary, the Relationship, and Dragons, and A Love Letter to Mary.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rachel Heise is a senior graduating with a B.A. in philosophy from Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts. She hopes to pursue graduate studies at some later moment in time, alongside her love of tea, cattle dogs, and hiking moonlit paths.

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Light of Faith: Poems and Plays

by Grace Bourget

TESTIMONIALS

“Light of Faith is a short but sweet collection of poems and plays on the love and light of Christ, found within His life, His Mother, and His Saints, and in our own suffering.” – Thérèse Judeana, author of Ransom: Shadow of an Empire

“From gentle lullabies to plaintive songs of suffering, Grace Bourget’s Light of Faith contains poems that speak to the personal experiences and emotions of each reader. The plays contained in this anthology met with great success on the local stage, and I am very excited to see them finally released in print for readers everywhere to enjoy. Fans of poetry, plays, or any kind of religious literature will enjoy this latest release by Grace Bourget.”  – Chantal LaFortune, Co-producer of The Song of Elbereth: A Middle-Earth Tale

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Grace is an aspiring fashion designer with a loving family and a crazy cat named Kitten Kaboodle.  She loves the Latin Mass, spending time with family and friends, and bringing fantasy to life through her hobbies, including authoring Vale of Hope and co-producing with Chantal LaFortune of The Song of Elbereth.  If she could tell you one thing, she’d ask you to make God smile.

Mark on the Line: ​On the sinking of the Marques, June 3, 1984

by Lawrence Hopperton

TESTIMONIALS

“Hopperton evokes emotions and empathy and sympathy, and an awareness of the reality we live in but don’t know.” – Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson, author of Survivor: A Memoir of Forgiveness

“This is not only a sea story. It is one even for landlubbers. It is for all, in a maritime setting.” – Vincent A. Salamoni, LCDR, Chaplain Corps, U. S. Navy (Retired), author of The Mercy Ocean

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lawrence Hopperton lives in the town of Stouffville, Ontario. He is a former editor of the University of Toronto Review and one of the founding editors of Nimbus Press. His poetry has been published internationally, most recently in Tamracks: Canadian Poetry for the 21’st Century, and the Lummox Press anthology, Sirsee, Sheila-na-gi. Smeuse and Pocket Change. He has published two chapbooks, Song of Orkney and Other Poems in 1983, and Ptolley Bay in 2013. In his non-poetry life, he has authored three college textbooks, and he was the founding director of the Center for Distributed Learning at Tyndale University and Seminary.

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His Divine Presence

by Dennis Billy, C.Ss.R.

TESTIMONIALS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fr. Dennis J. Billy, C.Ss.R., is Professor Emeritus of the history of moral theology and Christian spirituality at the Alphonsian Academy of the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome and currently serves as The Robert F. Leavitt Distinguished Service Chair in Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore. An American Redemptorist of the Baltimore Province, Fr. Billy has advanced degrees from Harvard University, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum), and the Graduate Theological Foundation. The author of numerous books and articles on a variety of religious topics, he is also active in his order’s retreat apostolate and in the ministry of spiritual direction.

Such Common Stories

by Lawrence Hopperton

POETRY FEATURED IN…

Agape Review, March 2022

Open Door Poetry Magazine, April 2021

TESTIMONIALS

“Larry Hopperton’s poetry turns upon the correspondences and tensions between the spiritual and natural realms and how human joy, grief and hope partake of both worlds. In Such Common Stories he further dissects that dialectic, drawing the reader forward with such a persuasive forward momentum that if you don’t take time to consider his images and metaphors in detail you may miss how apt and illuminating they are. Take the time to let these poems work their magic.” – Andrew Brooks, author of One Country After

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lawrence Hopperton lives in the town of Stouffville, Ontario. He is a former editor of the University of Toronto Review and one of the founding editors of Nimbus Press. His poetry has been published internationally, most recently in Tamracks: Canadian Poetry for the 21’st Century, and the Lummox Press anthology, Sirsee, Sheila-na-gi. Smeuse and Pocket Change. He has published two chapbooks, Song of Orkney and Other Poems in 1983, and Ptolley Bay in 2013. In his non-poetry life, he has authored three college textbooks, and he was the founding director of the Center for Distributed Learning at Tyndale University and Seminary.

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Pavement Prayers

Kalia confessed to murder last night amid a hushed silence that lasted only a short while before he went into detailed account of the events that led to it . . .

Thus begins one of the prayers in this book.

This is a book of prayers that tell a story. But, of course, all prayers – all personal prayers – tell stories. Prayer is, in many ways, the spiritualization of incident, and in every fervent prayer one can find a short story of an epic sticking to it. The Mumbai pavement is wonderfully rich in story. For every twenty-or-so-steps that you take over it, your feet could be shuffling through chapters, or, perhaps, volumes of intricate plot, moving human drama and the most thrilling narrative. This book is those twenty-or-so-steps of narrative and plot, the story of a pavement dweller and his patch of pavement told in the most intimate form of narration: his personal prayer.

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TESTIMONIALS

“Ivan Arthur has produced a beautifully written book of intimate prayers which touch the inner spirit at every ‘reading.'” – Sr. Marianne Postiglione, RSM, retired Associate Director, Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology

“While Pope Francis was exhorting us to tell stories as a way to evangelize, Ivan Arthur was showing us how to tell stories as a way to pray.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of The Narrative Spirituality of Dante’s Divine Comedy

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ivan Arthur is the author of seven previous books:

1. The Fourteen Stations (Official book on Pope John Paul’s visit to India)
2. Saynt Lachmi. A sequel to Pavement Prayers.
3. A Village Dies. A novel about social change
4. Once More Upon a Time. Biography
5. Jossie. A biography
6. Brands Under Fire
7. The Chef Executive Officer

Arthur was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Communication Arts Guild, Mumbai, and is a three-times recipient of the WPP Atticus Award for original writing. He lives in Goa, India, with Ingrid, his wife.

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