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Into the Heart of Saint Joseph immerses the reader through prayerful reflection, Scripture, and art, into Saint Joseph’s interior life as the Husband of Mary and Zealous Defender of Christ. Saint Joseph is known to be a “righteous man” (Matthew 1:19), who reveals himself as a man after the Lord’s heart in his answering the call to be the Guardian of the Holy Family and a spiritual father to all. What, though, was on Saint Joseph’s heart and mind when he held Jesus for the first time? What would it have been like to be the head of the Holy Family?
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Jason Schreder is a husband and father of five children. He currently serves as the 5th-8th Grade Religion Teacher at St. Matthew School in Champaign, IL. He has been in Catholic Education for over fifteen years striving to inspire others to follow Christ.
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The Eucharist Revival Project is Missio Dei’s response to Pope Francis’ call to rediscover “the real and loving presence of the Lord” in the Eucharist. The Missio Dei Team’s belief in the power of Holy Communion is manifested in this book, inviting everyone who reads it to understand the historical, prophetic, and present-day miracle of Christ in the Eucharist and to seek this Sacrament of Love with a renewed fervor.
Contributing authors include Phillip Hadden, Kaleb Hammond, Chantal LaFortune, Fr. Chris Pietraszko, Dr. Joseph J. Plaud, Fr. Dominic Rankin, Christina M. Sorrentino, Kelly Ann Tallent, John Tuttle, and Joseph Tuttle.
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“The Eucharistic Revival Project is a robust collection featuring very timely perspectives and teachings on the Eucharist’s centrality in the Catholic Church. The Project, in collaboration with ten authors, has wonderfully assembled a well-researched “field manual” for the reader seeking the truth of Jesus’ Real Presence in the Eucharist.” – Patrick O’Hearn, author of Parents of the Saints: The Hidden Heroes Behind Our Favorite Saints and contributor to Fr. Calloway’s Book: 30 Day Eucharistic Revival: A Retreat with St. Peter Julian Eymard
“The Eucharistic Revival Project, developed by Missio Dei, a networked publication of Catholic authors, offers an important contribution to the National Eucharistic Revival, which began on the Feast of Corpus Christi, 2022. This book provides an enjoyable, reflective encounter with the Real Presence of Christ in our everyday Eucharistic celebrations.” – Dan Burke, founder and President of the Avila Institute for Spiritual Formation
“Missio Dei’s The Eucharistic Revival Project is a feast for the mind, heart, and soul, replete with thought-provoking and devotion-deepening insights and stories from, great saints, popes, literary figures, and modern-day clerical and lay Catholics. Listen carefully as they lay out their reasons to be grateful for Christ’s mysterious gift through which His very Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity should enter under the roofs of our mouths and cleave to our inmost parts. Your hunger, thirst, and love for the Eucharist will surely revive and thrive.” – Kevin Vost, Psy.D., author of two dozen Catholic books from Memorize the Faith! to What is God?
“The Eucharist Revival is a journey into the love for the Eucharist understanding deeply the Real Presence of Jesus Christ. More than ever, this is needed not only for non-Catholics to understand, but for many Catholics to revive their experience of Christ in the Eucharist. This is a book with many experiences of the Eucharist that will put a fire on anyone who has even a simple doubt. Each chapter with a new writer will inspire you to love Christ and to run to the nearest church to spend time with Him.” – Father Goyo Hidalgo, Priest of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Associate pastor of St. Philomena Parish, Carson, California, and author of From Prodigal to Priest: A Journey Home to Family, Faith, and the Father’s Embrace
“I enthusiastically recommend reading and reflection upon the essays contained within this gem of a book, The Eucharistic Revival Project. May the one who ponders these essays grow in devotion to the eucharistic true body, blood, soul, and divinity of our risen Lord Jesus.” – Very Rev. Peter S. Kucer, MSA, STD, President-Rector, Holy Apostles College and Seminary, and author of Catholic Apologetics: Witnessing to and Defending the Faith
“Every resource that draws us closer to our Eucharistic Lord, in accordance with sound theology and Catholic tradition, is something to be grateful for, as we work and pray for a renewal of the Church’s first love. I congratulate the contributors to this volume on their efforts to focus (or refocus) minds and hearts on God’s greatest gift to us in this valley of tears, our manna in the desert as we go on pilgrimage to the heavenly Jerusalem.” – Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, author of The Holy Bread of Eternal Life: Restoring Eucharistic Reverence in an Age of Impiety
Phillip Hadden lives in the Springfield Diocese in Illinois with his family. He holds a bachelor of arts in history with cum laude honors from the University of Illinois at Springfield and a Master of Arts in Theology – Sacred Scripture with summa cum laude honors from Holy Apostles College and Seminary. Phillip is the editor-in-chief of Missio Dei LLC. He lectors and teaches catechesis at his local parish. Phillip’s interests include the Letters of St. Paul, St. Augustine, and covenant theology.
Jonathon Fessenden, editor of Missio Dei, is a Catholic Theology teacher living in Utah with an MA in Theology/Apologetics from Holy Apostles College and Seminary. He is a lover of Sci-fi books, Catholicism, and Classical/Film music.
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This collection of meditations is a rich anthology of writings very much in the spirit and vein of the documents of the Second Vatican Council, and of the ideas represented by the discourses of Popes St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI. The variety of essays crystallizes the thoughts of a Cistercian priest and monk through sixty years of his pastoral service. The assortment of articles combines reflections on a variety of liturgical feasts and different aspects of spiritual life like faith, humility, prayer, judging others, and death. Running throughout is the mystery of sharing in the divine life by Christians, best expressed by the Johannine term, life or eternal life. The overarching tone of this slender volume is optimistic, its pages brimming with a spirit of hope and serenity.
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Born and raised in Hungary, in 1953 Fr. Julius clandestinely entered the Cistercian abbey of Zirc, which had been suppressed by the communist government. After three years of formation conducted underground and in hiding, he left Hungary in 1956 to study theology in Rome. After earning his doctorate in theology in 1964, he joined fellow Hungarian refugees at Our Lady of Dallas Cistercian Abbey, which had been founded just a few years earlier. In 2011 Fr. Julius retired from the Abbey’s prep school, where he taught for 46 years, including serving as librarian for 20 years. He translated and published The Auschwitz Journal, the chronicle of Klára Kardos, a Hungarian Catholic of Jewish background, who survived the Nazi concentration camps.
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“Here I am, Lord, I have come to do your will.” (Hebrews 10:7,9)
This should be the heartbeat of every missionary. One is never a missionary for himself or because of himself. A true missionary is one called by God, formed by God, sent by God to do a work of God for God – a missionary only needs to be surrendered and docile before the Word of God. Consumed by Love provides just such a handbook for the one who is called and is wondering what next.
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“A beautifully written, inspiring and theologically sound and deep book. We are all of us missionaries in one way or the other, as Mary Kloska explains, so this book will be a treasure for all Catholics.” – Dr. Ronda Chervin, retired philosophy professor, author and speaker
“A powerful response to the 6th edition of the Program for Priestly Formation (2022), which expresses the fundamental idea from the 2016 Ratio Fundamentalis that “Seminaries should form missionary disciples who are ‘in love’ with the Master, shepherds ‘with the smell of the sheep,’ who live in their midst to bring the mercy of God to them.” This book shares with its reader the power of the missionary life with excerpts included by permission of the Libreria Editrice Vaticana from Pope Pius XI’s 1926 encyclical Rerum ecclesiae, Pope St. John XXIII’s 1959 encyclical Princeps pastorum, Pope St. Paul VI’s 1975 apostolic exhortation Evangelii nuntiandi, and Pope St. John Paul II’s 1990 encyclical Redemptoris missio.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, co-author with Bishop Richard Henning of Missionary Priests in the Homeland: Our Call to Receive
In Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, there is one line that is particularly beautiful and inspiring: “I dream of a ‘missionary option’, that is, a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything…” If we think of Evangelii Gaudium as the Church’s main ‘book’ on mission and the New Evangelization, we now have a handbook to go with it; Consumed By Love: A Missionary Handbook by Mary Kloska. It would be difficult to read this new book without being inspired to joyfully embrace the new “missionary impulse” Pope Francis is calling for. In addition to being exceptional spiritual reading, this handbook, as the author notes, would be of great assistance to those directing missionary formation programs.” – Fr. Lawrence Edward Tucker, SOLT, author of Masters of Interior Space; The Redemption of San Isidro; To Whom The Heart Decided To Love; Adventures in the Father’s Joy; The Prayer of Jesus Crucified
Mary Kloska is from Elkhart, Indiana. She was raised in a huge Polish family (12 brothers and sisters) along with a lot of foster babies and other needy people in and out of the house. She presently has 70+ nieces and nephews. She has lived a very unique life. Upon graduating from Notre Dame in 1999 she spent almost 20 years in the missions serving the poor (including orphanages) as well as praying as a consecrated hermit all over the world –Siberia, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Philippines, Mexico, the Holy Land and all over Europe as well. Although she spent a lot of time away in silence praying, ironically she loves children and is very fun and outgoing when it comes to serving young adults, as well as the little ones. She also spent her time in the missions giving retreats, doing simple catechesis, leading prayer groups, giving spiritual direction, helping in deliverance, changing diapers, feeding babies and cleaning floors. After spending intense time serving in a mission she would withdraw for periods of ‘retreat’ as a hermit (including three years as an official diocesan hermit with vows under a Bishop.) The last few years she has spent as a fulltime nanny to infant triplets, twins and several large families. She speaks many languages (poorly) and enjoys playing guitar, painting icons, baking, gardening, reading, writing and simply filling in where there is the greatest need in the Church. Her WCAT Radio program, “The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love,” may be found here.
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Prayer to St. Joseph
Hail Sweet and Darling Joe!
Your love for your Son, Jesus and your spouse, Mary is so efficacious!
Teach me to love them!
Help me to serve Jesus as you did.
In times of pain and doubt, may I feel your protection and closeness,
And guide me in the right path.
Intercede for me to your Son, the Incarnate Word!
At the hour of my death, take me to your Son, my Beloved,
So that I may die with your holy arms around me,
And rejoice in heaven with you, your Son, Mother Mary and all the saints forever.
Amen. ―Sr. Helena
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“What a beautiful insight on St. Joseph. Absolutely lovely, inspiring, and hopeful. When I think of St. Joseph, I will have a new appreciation for his experiences and sensitivities to immigrants, homeless, poor, fearful, dreamers, laborers, parents, orphans, and on how to love Jesus unconditionally and more. Sr. Helen has opened my eyes, heart and soul.” – Chris Karam, SVP, CHRISTUS Health Louisiana and Southeast Texas
Sister Adaku Helen (Helena) Ogbuji, CCVI, PhD, belongs to the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, Houston, Texas. She is an author of several books: Dealing Effectively with Domestic Abuse: The Ministry of Reconciliation and Healing; Influence of Childhood Experiences on Faith Development: A Journey Towards Wholeness; Out of the Lips of Infants, Wisdom Comes: Retelling the Bible Stories. Recently, she edited and co-authored Incarnational Spirituality: Embodying the Love of the Incarnate Word. She holds a master’s in Theology, Divinity and Psychology and a PhD in Counseling Psychology. Presently, she is the Formation Director and the Novice Director in their formation house in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
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This book is an anthology of soundbytes — 77 to be exact — drawn from almost one hundred philosophical works of Ronda Chervin written over the past half century. Why 77? It’s a number signifying the triumph of the spirit over matter and the personal freedom to pursue things of interest. That’s the goal for our readers – to set their souls free to partake in a spiritual journey to a more authentic self. Readers will engage a soundbyte a day, journaling as they go, trying to live by the spiritual truth expressed over the course of their time with it before advancing to the next soundbyte.
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“Dr. Ronda Chervin, the ‘Expert of the Experts,’ has done it again with an outstanding book that evolves around her expertise of bringing all her past writings into the current society of group discussions or personal reflection. The book was used as a personal reflection with journaling, and it transpired into a weekly group discussion with its members. A great book to discuss in groups or for personal use. It is very educational and helps the reader grow spiritually, feeding the mind with ‘Truth, Logic and Wisdom’ for today’s society.” – Alicia Harley is a wife, mother, and spiritual leader. She is the author of Spiritual Dreams for Our Journey to Eternity.
“A synthesis of over half a century’s publications on practical wisdom from a philosopher intent on helping others improve their lives.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, co-author with Ronda Chervin of Catholic Realism
Ronda Chervin, PhD, is a professor of philosophy, widow, grandmother, and great grandmother. She has taught at Loyola Marymount University, St. John’s Seminary of Los Angeles, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Our Lady of Corpus Christi, and Holy Apostles Seminary and College. She is the author of numerous books about Catholic living and presents on EWTN and Catholic Radio. Most well-known of her books are The Way of Love, Treasury of Women Saints, Avoiding Bitterness in Suffering: How our Heroes in Faith Found Peace amid Sorrow, and, most recently, with co-author Albert Hughes: Escaping Anxiety on the Road to Spiritual Joy.
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