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Although Advent is over liturgically, it doesn’t have to end musically!  One of my favorite CDs of the last few years has been Janet Sullivan-Whitaker’s Tryin’ to Get Ready, a compilation of music that is designed to really enliven the season of Advent.  What I have noticed, however, in listening to this collection is that [...]

I have been a fan of Thomas Merton’s writing for a long time, and one of the books that first drew me to him was Thoughts in Solitude.  I like that it is the meat of his work, the passages and ideas that are perhaps the deepest wells of spirituality, drawn up and into the [...]

Have a wonderful and joyous holiday!  We are closed today, but will reopen on Monday, December 28, 2009 during our normal business hours. Please shop our online store at http://www.desalescatholicbookstore.com.  

Although I’ve been in music ministry for nearly two-thirds of my life, Gregorian Chant sort of eluded me.  Even with my patron saint being Pope St. Gregory the Great, the namesake of Gregorian Chant, something about the paradoxical simple complexity escaped me. But upon the recommendation of one of our customer representatives at a music publisher, [...]

If you are still feeling a little bah-humbug about Christmas–and this close to the season, I highly recommend a little spirit booster, which I found in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Cheer.  This wonderful collection takes on the same trademark characteristics of the rest of the Chicken Soup series, but places focus on the [...]

Greetings to you all on this wonderful Friday before Christmas! We are really excited about our last week before Christmas, because we are starting to see more and more familiar faces around the store.  We’ve been glad to catch up with our best customers, to help them find those just-right gifts for family and friends.  [...]

If you are looking to prepare yourself musically for the season of Advent, I have a CD that would be such a wonderful gift to anyone who likes contemporary Catholic music!  I’ve been a fan of Ed Bolduc’s work for a couple of years, especially as I began to learn more about who he is [...]

One of our most popular DVD series actually got its start on VHS cassette.  The Catholic Communications Campaign developed a series some two decades ago of children’s short cartoons that help young Catholics learn about the Saints.  What I have always enjoyed about this series is that the main characters of the cartoons are the [...]

Friends who know me well outside of my work life sometimes think of me in terms of being perpetually childish in my interests.  I love hand-held foods (chicken strips are a favorite, as are french fries), and more than occasionally, I’m intrigued by children’s books as much as by those written for adults.  Generally speaking, if [...]

When I was a younger one, I had a penchant for learning through TV and movies.  Probably, it was due in part to being at the end of Generation X and the beginning of the Millenial Generation, when edutainment became more common.  But one of the things I remember most from my childhood years was [...]