Now in paperback. In this collection of recipes, devotionals, crafts, and practical ideas for celebrating the feast days, this popular Catholic mother-daughter team helps readers to discover, rediscover, and embrace some of the smells and tastes, sounds and sensations, and holidays of their faith.
ANNA KEATING is a freelance writer and former high school teacher.
Her essays have appeared inFirst Things,Salon,America,Notre Dame
Magazine,Commonweal,the Denver Post, and elsewhere. She graduated
from Notre Dame, and co-owns and lives above Keating Woodworks, a
handmade-furniture studio in Colorado.
MELISSA MUSICK is a columnist for National Catholic Reporter and
Celebration. She is the author of eight books on religion and
spirituality. Her essays have appeared inFirst
Things,Commonweal,GIA,Notre Dame Magazine,Catholics in Alliance for
the Common Good, andGive Us This Day. She studied at Grinnell
College and St. Thomas Seminary, and was a college chaplain for
nine years.
“From St. Polycarp's martyrdom to prayerful room
blessings, The Catholic Catalogue offers a smart, modern
look at the varied aspects of our faith tradition. Through personal
stories and well-researched history, Musick and Keating not only
describe the building blocks for a Catholic household, but
demonstrate why, for so many, the Catholic Church feels like
home.” —Kerry Weber, managing editor for America, and
author of Mercy in the City
"Putting the richness of Catholic liturgy and life on full display,
Melissa Musick and Anna Keating show us that Christianity is
constituted by keeping habits, performing practices, and embodying
the traditions of the church. This book will be useful to
Catholics, indeed to all Christians, looking for ways to make their
faith practical. At one point, this remarkable mother-and-daughter
team quote Thomas Aquinas who reminds us, ‘The things we love tell
us what we are.’ The Catholic Catalogue instructs us in
the virtue of love and thus helps to make us what we are called to
be: disciples." —Stanley Hauerwas, Duke Divinity
School
"Honest, graceful, wry, informative, wonderfully
unegotistically erudite, and a startling pleasure to read.
Also a long inky lovely prayer of celebration and love and
reverence and delight in Catholicism as a verb, seems to me."—Brian
Doyle, author of Grace Notes and How the Light Gets
In
"It is written that faith without works is dead; one could not ask
for a better guide to a lively life of faith. The Catholic
Catalogue offers ritual recipes for the everyday and
extraordinary moments alike; presenting often-neglected wonders
from two thousand years of tradition in precisely the form we need
them today. Every domestic church should have one." —Nathan
Schneider, author of God in Proof: The Story of a Search from
the Ancients to The Internet
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