THE CATHOLIC CATALOGUE

Keep the spirit of Sunday in your everyday! In this collection of recipes, prayers, devotionals, crafts, and ideas for celebrating the feast days, the popular Catholic mother-daughter team help readers to discover, rediscover, and embrace some of the smells and tastes, sounds and sensations, and holidays and prayers of their faith.

This beautifully designed book will help readers identify and celebrate Catholicism throughout the years, across daily practice and milestones. Like the most useful field guides, it will be divided into user-friendly sections. The first section, Seasons of Life, takes the reader from birth to death, from baptism to funeral, and from how to name and bless a child to how to hold a wake. The second section, Seasons of the Church Year, begins with the Day, in which the Church gives time for work and play, talk and silence, and prayer and sleep. These days grow into weeks and seasons, extending from ordinary times to holidays and feasts. The authors also cover: blessing your first house, discovering a vocation, raising teenagers, getting a Catholic tattoo, brewing abbey ale, finding a spiritual director, and finding your own way in the tradition. With approximately 100 short chapters, the book promises to be a resource readers will turn to again and again.

Anna Keating is a freelance writer. Her essays have appeared in First Things, Salon, America, Notre Dame Magazine, Commonweal, the Denver Post, Alt Catholica, and elsewhere. Melissa Musick is a columnist for National Catholic Reporter and Celebration. She is the author of eight books on religion and spirituality.