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The role of women throughout salvation history is important, amazing -- and often overlooked. From Deborah to Leah, Ruth to Sarah, Mary to Martha: Their stories form the foundation of Christianity.

At every significant moment in the history of salvation women are present, and these inspirational meditations highlight women's roles as God's plan for humanity unfolds.

The Catholic Women's Bibleis designed to help women deepen their spirituality and prayer lives by combining the trusted NABRE version with 84 full-page meditation inserts -- written for women by women -- cover the entire landscape of women's lives:

• Daughters, wives, mothers, grandmothers, widows
• Homemakers and workers, powerful and the powerless, rich and poor

Their situations and circumstances may be different than ours, but their longings, fears, hopes and dreams are eternal and universal. Use these uniquely inspirational inserts to explore the Bible like never before. Perfect for individual or group study.

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In this provocative essay on that least understood virtue, compassion, the authors challenge themselves and us with these questions: Where do we place compassion in our lives? Is it enough to live a life in which we hurt one another as little as possible? Is our guiding ideal a life of maximum pleasure and minimum pain? Compassion answers no.

After years of study and discussion among themselves, with other religious, and with men and women at the very center of national politics, the authors look at compassion with a vigorous new perspective. They place compassion at the heart of a Christian life in a world governed far too long by principles of power and destructive control. Compassion, no longer merely an eraser of human mistakes, is a force of prayer and action -- the expression of God's love for us and our love for God and one another.

Compassion is a book that says no to a compassion of guilt and failure and yes to a compassionate love that pervades our spirit and moves us to action. Henri Nouwen, Donald McNeill, and Douglas Morrison have written a moving document on what it means to be a Christian in a difficult time.

The first autobiography ever written, and one of the most profound testaments of faith, ever.

"This book is the masterpiece from which all other Christian memoirs flow. Augustine's astonishing story remains as fresh as it did when he wrote it in the late fourth century. The Confessions still speaks with a clear, vivid and altogether distinctive voice to believers and seekers searching for the One who will give rest to their restless hearts." --James Martin, SJ, author of My Life with the Saints

For in Christianity's 2,000-year history, cruel persecutions and sudden, uncontrollable plagues like COVID-19 have time and again struck mankind, challenging Christians to rise up spiritually against evils that cannot immediately be conquered materially.

Now our turn has come . . . along with the help we need to succeed. Here celebrated Catholic author and media host Teresa Tomeo has drawn forth from Scripture, the lives of the saints, and contemporary sources a healing balm for souls ‚"‚€‚" believers and unbelievers alike ‚"‚€‚" who have been shaken by the frightening evils thrust upon us by this coronavirus.