Religious Festivals Books

This small book contains a collection of prayers and meditations suitable for use during the Christian season of Lent. Featuring selections from a variety of authors and sources, this book offers a helpful guide for those seeking guidance and inspiration...

This collection of essays, sermons, and poetry explores the history and meaning of various holidays and holy days from around the world, including Christmas, Easter, Ramadan, and Yom Kippur. Perfect for anyone interested in learning more about the...

Celebrate the magic of Christmas with this beautiful collection of art, poetry, and music. Featuring classic carols, uplifting hymns, and charming seasonal poems, it captures the spirit and wonder of the holiday season and is perfect for sharing with...

Christmas is one of the most beloved and celebrated holidays in the world, and this book offers a fascinating look at the history and traditions of this festive season. Carla Wenckebach explores the origins of the Christmas tree, the mistletoe, the yule...

Maybe you love Christmas, or maybe you want to love Christmas, but you feel like the time between the beginning of Fall and the start of the New Year flies by so fast that you can’t stop to enjoy a moment of it.Did you get a chance to sing...

Ever wondered why during the Holy Lent that we read particular Gospel readings? Or why the Coptic Orthodox church fasts more than 40 days? What should the lent fasting mean to me personally?The Great Lent and Me, by Fr Bishoy Kamel, takes you on a...

The Nativity and Me is a book characterising the transformative aspects of the journey from the Annunciation to the Epiphany.While contemplating on the events of the Nativity of Christ, Fr Bishoy Kamel helps the reader relate these events to our...

No one knows what day Jesus was born, his birthday was not celebrated in the First Century, Christmas is not mentioned in the Bible, and the holiday was banned by English and American Christians in the 1600s. Why then do we observe His birthday on...

What does the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial have to do with Lent?Richard Gribble, CSC offers the image of this loveable alien stranded on a world that does not accept him to remind us that we, too, are separated from our true home. E.T.’s urge to...

While the world tries to rush us into Christmas, decorating the day after Halloween and packing it all up once the gifts are opened on December 25, Advent is a season of preparation that-like our holiday gatherings themselves-takes time and care. Think...

Daniel W. Hardy was one of the foremost ecclesial theologians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the English-speaking world. 'Wording a radiance' is a theology of the Spirit and of the Eucharistic foundations of the Church. It is also...

Bestselling author Lee Strobel draws on principles from The Case for Christmas and other research to show how believers in Christ can know for certain that biblical accounts of Jesus' birth are accurate.

'Wounded I Sing is an Advent song for the soul which, with all the intensity of the minor key, plummets the depths of sorrow but emerges rejoicing.'Guli Francis-Dehqani, Bishop of Chelmsford, EnglandGeorge Herbert is widely regarded as the greatest...

<p><strong>'Waiting can be beautiful and, at least sometimes, it takes us to the heart of the Holy.'</strong></p><p>As much at home with Strictly Come Dancing as the mystical writings of Julian of Norwich, Rachel Mann writes...

The 'Christmas Story', as we know it, is derived from a mixture of carols and carol services, nativity plays, children's Bibles and paintings. The Bible itself offers two stories, each quite different from the other, not just in detail, but in tone...