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Just out in store!  Mother’s Day cards and graduation cards. If you need cards for the special moms in your life, we have cards for that!  Don’t forget to pick up a few cards for those honorable graduates in your world, while you’re at it!  We have cards that rae sincerely touching and a few [...]

With May just around the bend, Mary has become a big focus for us in the store.  Because Mary is a major figure of Catholicism, we also have taken a particular view of her as a model woman and mother, all under the light of “follower of Christ”.  Three recent releases may be enjoyable for [...]

We’ve been really hard at work for the last week, attempting to get all of the newest products on our web site. We have added gifts for grads, updated our First Communion gifts ideas, and added pictures to some of our existing items. Want to know what’s new online? You can click our “Newest Products” [...]

For many years, semi-local musician John Michael Talbot has provided his soothing voice and tones to the sounds of some of the most favorite Catholic songs, as well as his original work.  In this latest collection, listeners will enjoy Talbot’s work in retrospect. This two CD, 34 track  compilation includes materials from Talbot, incluidng Catholic [...]

I’m not the best at keeping up my spiritual reading.  I do okay during Advent and Lent, but by mid-Easter season, I’m exhausted.  But I’ve found a couple of books here that might be a gerat tool for anyone who is looking for something that could spark a little fire in your spiritual life. Two [...]

If you are in a mad rush to get your present wrapped before that First Communion hits, please come in and take a look at our selection, while there’s still a lot here!

Two new books are gracing our shelves on St. Francis of Assisi.  If you enjoy Franciscan spirituality, you might want to take a few minutes to browse these items! The Simple Way by Murray Bodo, OFM, provides reflections and thoughts on the words of St. Francis.  He explains that simply taking time to reflect and [...]

Famed Catholic spiritual author Joyce Rupp has just released a brand new edition of her best selling classic, Praying Our Goodbyes.  Published by Ave Maria Press, this book is an ideal gift for anyone who is grieving, or who is experiencing a great deal of change.  Rupp offers readers a beautiful understanding of what it [...]

After talking with our technology person around here, we have a great new idea for our customers to learn about the latest and greatest gifts and ideas.  We will be sending out email that has direct link from the email to the products on our site.  When you see something you like, you will be [...]

I wasn’t introduced to Dorothy Day’s writing until I was about 26, but once I began reading her classic autobiography, The Long Loneliness, I was hooked.  I immediately discovered that our little store had access to a great deal of her writing, as well as many biographies about her. When browsing through one of our [...]