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The Basilica Book Club: Devotionals to Start the New Year

There’s no better time to refocus your spiritual life than at the start of the new year! Whether you’re looking for a daily devotional with fresh Biblical insights from the saints or a practical guide to renewing your spiritual life, there’s a devotion book for every Catholic in our latest post.

Today, we invite you to discover five devotional books that will help you grow spiritually in the year ahead.

A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living

Join world-renowned writer and scholar Patrick Madrid as you discover the majesty and power of scripture in this daily devotional. Beautifully bound and embossed, it features rich passages from the Bible accompanied by thoughtful meditations from the author. As versatile as it is beautiful, A Year with the Bible is a worthy introduction to Scripture and an excellent tool for deeper prayer. Made with premium ultrasoft material, it includes a ribbon marker and gilt edges.

The Little Manual for Spiritual Growth

Saints don’t grow holy by chance – by striving to imitate Christ in all they do, they transform their everyday frustrations, anxieties, and temptations into opportunities for humility, contemplation, and growth in sanctity. And you can too.

In The Little Manual for Spiritual Growth, Fr. John Portavella explains how you can effectively structure your life to balance your duties to God, your family, your work, and even make time for leisure. You’ll discover easy, practical ways to fit prayer, devotions, and spiritual reading into all areas of your life, enabling you to grow stronger in your faith as you experience a renewal of your soul.

Mother Angelica’s Private and Pithy Lessons

Discover the Word in a new light as Mother Angelica escorts you through the Scriptures, unearthing valuable lessons for daily living. Here, the founder of the world’s largest religious media empire shares her beloved wit and down-to-earth spirituality with Private and Pithy Lessons from the Scriptures. Within its pages, you will find guided meditations and probing personal questions that will help even those who’ve never opened the Bible experience its power and life-altering lessons.

Everyday Meditations

To help you discern God’s voice daily, rest in it, and respond to it according to each day’s opportunities and needs, Sophia Institute Press has compiled 50 of Bl. John Henry Newman’s most moving Christian meditations, designed to foster a deeper love for God.

Discerning the voice of God was Newman’s greatest desire. It awakened in him ceaseless prayer, countless good works, a profound love of the sacraments, and the habit of daily meditation which strengthened his will, deepened his understanding of Scripture, and grew his love for the Savior – ultimately leading him to be worthy of the title “Blessed.” Just as they helped build up Newman’s faith, these Everyday Meditations will enrich your soul and help you grow in your relationship with the Lord.

A Year with John Paul II

Fondly known as the Pilgrim Pope, John Paul II was truly a man of the people, one who connected with all the members of his flock. This daily devotional showcases his most important teachings and inspirational writings in a format that will inspire readers and deepen their reflections and meditations.

With a foreword by the late Cardinal William W. Baum, former head of the Holy See’s Major Penitentiary and former archbishop of Washington D.C., an introduction by Bishop William Murphy, and a moving eulogy composed for the pope’s funeral by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now the late Pope Benedict XVI), A Year with John Paul II will take readers on a year-long spiritual journey with this deeply religious and inspiring man.

*Book descriptions adapted in part from their respective publishers.


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