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What do the candles in an Advent wreath represent?

Why is the church covered in purple during Lent?

Did you know that Easter is more than just one day?

Introduce your kids to the seasons of the Church Year with this delightful new video presentation. Host Jenna Donovan takes children on an exc...

Ideal for ages 5-12

Hey kids, what does it mean to be a saint?

History is filled with stories of famous people who loved God with all their hearts through some amazing and challenging times. We have so much to learn from them, and from their unforgettable examples of service to God and the peop...

“With so many challenges to family life today, Feeding Your Family's Soul gets to the heart of what is most important in the life of a family: keeping Christ as the centerpiece.” —Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, International speaker, author, and EWTN series host

Feeling overwhelmed or unqualified t...

Introduce your kids, your classroom, to prayer with this lively new video presentation in four sessions, each asking a basic question. These four segments include explanations from Br. Mickey, interviews with kids, onscreen storyboard Bible teaching featuring Br. Mickey’s illustrations, and “on t...

Introduce your kids, your classroom, to prayer with this lively new video presentation in four sessions, each asking a basic question. These four segments include explanations from Rachel G. Hackenberg, interviews with kids, onscreen storyboard Bible teaching, and “on the road” field trips to loo...

Introduce your kids, your classroom to the sacrament of Confirmation with this lively new video presentation. Each segment includes explanations from Father Ken, interviews with kids, on-screen storyboard Bible teaching, images from around the world, and 'on the road' field trips to explore the i...

Introduce your kids, your classroom to the sacrament of Communion with this lively new video presentation. Each segment includes explanations from Father Ken, interviews with kids, on-screen storyboard Bible teaching, images from around the world, and 'on the road' field trips to explore how the ...

Introduce your kids, your classroom to the sacrament of Reconciliation with this lively new video presentation. Each segment includes explanations from Father Ken, interviews with kids, on-screen storyboard Bible teaching, images from around the world, and ‘on the road’ field trips to explore in ...

Introduce your kids, your classroom to the sacrament of Baptism with this lively new video presentation. Each segment includes explanations from Father Ken, interviews with kids, on-screen storyboard Bible teaching, images from around the world, and ‘on the road’ field trips to explore in depth t...

Imagine a group of kids on the floor of a gym, or filling a classroom, or on a weekend retreat, praying in a whole new way--so silently that you can hear a pin drop! It happens everyday with Praying in Color. And now, there's Praying in Color Kids' Edition and Praying in Color: Kids' Edition DVD ...

“There is no private hell, no depression, no sickness, no fear, and even no bitterness so deep or so enclosed that God’s love cannot descend into it. There are no locked doors through which Christ cannot go.” —Ronald Rolheiser
Each year, over one million people end their lives by suicide. All dea...

This dynamic video offers insight, hope, and understanding for anyone who cares for a loved one with Alzheimer's. This disease without cure currently afflicts more than 30 million people and there are no treatments to halt its progression, making caregiving both essential—and difficult. Caring fo...

"The world is a completely different place when we have a loved one this close to us die. Grief is about relearning the world." —Franklin Cook, Unified Community Solutions

Thousands of families are affected by the drug epidemic in our country. Those who suffer the loss of a loved one to overdose...

In this powerful, therapeutic, new video presentation you will see and hear others discuss what you are going through right now. You will learn how to let yourself walk through your grief without letting it overwhelm you. Testimonies of people who have recently experienced the death of a loved on...

A spiritually-based program to support adults who are grieving the death of a loved one

Grief experts Khris Ford and Janie Cook lead participants through an 8-week program, training individuals on how to lead a small group who gather once a week to explore the physical, emotional, mental and s...

The agony we feel after the loss of a baby is complex and intense as it mixes with misplaced guilt, hurt, helplessness, and deep sorrow. A baby is not supposed to die. Footprints on Our Hearts offers ways to cope with these feelings in the days and weeks of grieving that follow, as it speaks word...

Few events in a child’s life can affect them as greatly as the death of a loved one.

This profound video resource offers helpful information to adults (parents, caregivers, professionals) on how to help children of all ages grieve with hope and heart. You will meet two experts: Khris Ford and Pa...

“Healing is possible.... We can sustain wounds in ways that are unspeakable and yet we still find that there is a depth of love even greater than the loss.” —Paula D'Arcy

Helping Parents Grieve is for any parent who has experienced the death of a child—and for those who aim to help someone who i...

“Animals are guileless. That sort of honesty touches the human heart in a unique way. It allows us to see a better side of ourselves than sometimes is visible in our relationships with our fellow human beings.” —Brother Christopher Savage, New Skete Monastery

We learn love, faithfulness, and tru...

Postpartum depression affects 10 to 15 percent of all postpartum women.

Postpartum depression is difficult to identify, because at some point most new mothers feel overwhelmed and unsure of their role, and it can be difficult to determine what is normal and what isn't. In More than Baby Blues yo...

There is no adequate preparation for dealing with the sudden death of a loved one. This video will take you through seventeen segments from The impact of a sudden death to The pain of reality to Yielding to the season of grief. You will hear expert advice about how Everyone grieves in their own w...

Death by suicide deeply affects the lives of those who are left behind by the one who has died. With so much pain and sorrow it is difficult to know how to navigate these changes. This DVD offers encouragement and support to survivors who are both grieving a loved one's death by suicide, and wond...

Most suicidal young people don't really want to die; they just want their pain to end. Teen suicide is often preventable if people know the signs to look for and the steps to take when they suspect a friend is suicidal. A Cry for Help teaches young people to recognize the warning signs and to tak...

“There is no room for forgiveness until the grief is emptied out.” —Theresa M. Burke, Ph.D., Rachel's Vineyard

Few women and men can walk away from an experience of abortion without some emotional impact. Unresolved feelings of guilt, shame and grief may not surface until months, often years, a...

Ever wonder how some people become enthusiastic and on fire about their relationship with God? In this six-session video presentation, Father Albert Haase gives you the tools and kindling to prepare for the spark of God in your life—and then shows you how to fan it into flame until you are set ab...

The spiritual journey often takes twists and turns through territory that is uncharted and unexplored. It's so easy to become disoriented, lost, and even discouraged. Where do we go for direction? How do we find our way? In this follow-up to his best selling Catching Fire, Becoming Flame (book an...

What is God asking of me? How do I know if this is really of God and not simply my imagination?

Discerning God's will is an ongoing process—not a static one-time decision! Albert Haase, OFM, scholar of Christian spirituality and spiritual mentor to hundreds, is known for offering clear, practic...

Join Mike hall, a former victim of bullying himself and now a nationally sought-after expert in the field, as he explains The Bully, The Target, and How We React. Most importantly, Mike walks you through the “4 Cs of How to Handle a Bully”: Remain Calm, Get Connected, Be Confident, Learn to Compl...

For those who have cared for a loved one, when caregiving ends, it feels abrupt. The life and routine that have become yours, suddenly comes to an end with a finality that is painful on many levels. You have become a different person during your caregiving experience, yet haven’t had time to real...

There are many paths to heaven. Each one of us is called to discover our own unique way to grow in holiness whether it be as a parent, spouse, babysitter, beautician, bartender, or businessperson. No matter the occupation or role we play in life, there are ten characteristics that should shine in...

Down through the ages, people have responded in various ways to the call of Jesus to follow him. Some of those responses have attracted followers and sparked new and rich spiritual traditions. On this DVD, Albert Haase, OFM, scholar of Christian spirituality, highlights six of the most vital spir...

Living with an addiction is both heartbreaking and exhausting. Family members are torn between how to help the addict and how to avoid supporting the addiction. Through interviews with experts and with families who have experienced the addiction of a loved one, this video will offer hope-filled s...

How do we pray when we are simply too distracted, tired, dissipated, and too disinterested to pray? What are the major formal types of prayer? How is liturgical prayer different from private prayer? What are solitude and contemplation? What is “Sabbath Time” and how is this prayer? This retreat ...

Unlike Lent, Advent is not a penitential season. The color of Advent is not purple or black. It’s crimson, the color of desire, of longing, of a particular kind of fire. Advent is a time to get in touch with the longing and desire within us. As T.S. Eliot so poetically puts it: We only live, we ...

Revealing Secrets Hidden from Beginning of Time—A Lenten retreat on the Paschal mystery with Fr. Ron Rolheiser

About the Retreat
At the heart of our faith lies the mystery of Jesus’ Passion and death on a cross. It is not so much that we misunderstand this mystery but rather that we do not probe...

Mysticism is the best kept secret within our spiritual and ecclesial circles. But, alongside Scripture, it is a very rich source of insight and revelation from which to draw guidance for our journey. This retreat will draw on the lives and insights of a number of classical and contemporary mystic...

About this Event :
The most powerful books ever written are not written on paper but in the lives, faces, and witness of real people who inspire us and whose lives we want to emulate. For many centuries this was an important way Christian spirituality was taught. We were given the lives of the s...

About this Event :
Though our images of Mary often come from the last thousand years, the view of her in the first few centuries was simpler--but always very warm and affectionate. The early Christians were curious about her "backstory," and we will begin with a first-century story that filled i...

This day-retreat invites participants into the poetic vision of Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most cherished spiritual writers of our time. During our day together, we will explore poems included in one of his last works, The Sonnets to Orpheus (1922). Rilke coined the word “heart-work” during t...

Titles of Sessions
Session 1: Looking Inward
Session 2: Looking Outward

Many of us are feeling overwhelmed by the level of anger in our society these days. Whether we are trying our best to love relatives who make no sense anymore, bravely donning our masks and heading to the store for grocerie...

Every Human being gets hurt in ways both big and small, and in turn, we sometimes inflict hurt on others. There comes a time when we face the difficult choice to forgive others and to forgive ourselves. But forgiveness can seem impossible, even undesirable. The Power of Forgiveness presents four ...

During this retreat devoted to the work of Flannery O’Connor, we will consider the challenges she faced in making her pilgrimage as a Christian and as a writer; we will examine passages from her stories, essays, journals, and letters that bear the mark of her extraordinary imagination, her crackl...

About the Retreat
Take a quiet day apart, and learn from Timothy Verdon how medieval and Renaissance artists expressed the faith of the Church in the conception and birth of Christ, interpreting the meaning of these events in the theological perspective of the Savior’s life.
Session 1 — Expecting...

Much Christian art describes prayer, from the churches large and small called “houses of prayer” to mosaics, statues and paintings showing holy women and men in the act of prayer. Art in fact has been a “school of prayer”, and this retreat reflects on the ways in which artists supported this esse...

Many of us yearn to write a memoir—to record the most significant events and relationships that shaped us. And while the best memoirs make it seem easy, memoir is actually one of the most challenging genres to master because a writer is required to understand some elements of fiction (plot struct...

The human heart is restless. Whether we realize it or not we are constantly looking for something or someone to fulfill the ache that is within each one of us. Despite what the world might tell us, the answer to our restlessness is not a new job, a bigger house, or more money. The things of this ...

The gravity point of a life before God is that his followers are to love God and love others with everything they have. Scot McKnight calls this "The Jesus Creed." Now, he's worked it out with high school and college students, seeking to show how this double commandment to love makes sense and gi...

What was spiritual formation like during the time of Jesus? As Scot McKnight points out, the early Christians didn’t sing in the choir or go to weekly Bible studies, and yet they matured inwardly in relationship with God as well as outwardly in their relationships with each other. How did this ha...

"Our culture is boiling with anger, and we need some relief. In his typically clear and pithy way, Bert Ghezzi sums up his strategy for defusing anger in any particular situation…"
—Brandon Vogt, from the foreword of The Angry Christian

At a time when anger runs at a high pitch in our society, ...

Dynamic and authoritative, this video has the power to change how you think—and what you do—about your faith. (Five video presentations published in partnership by Paraclete Video and The Church in the 21st Century Center, Boston College.)

There is a story of a young violinist who had an auditio...

Join John Hiigel in discovering the Gospel of Matthew as a complete guidebook for being a disciple of Christ. (7 discussions in 6 weeks about being Jesus' disciples!)

John L. Hiigel earned his PhD from Fuller Seminary and is Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sioux Falls in Sout...

What does it mean to be a priest? How does a man discern such a calling?

The priestly vocation is a counter-cultural one. Through the stories of priests of varying backgrounds in this powerful new DVD, see firsthand how their lives of love and self-sacrifice are more fulfilled that you could ima...

In this informative, inspiring video presentation, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove explores in detail:
How St. Benedict composed his Rule.
The worldwide impact of the Rule after Benedict's death.
Benedictine charisms of hospitality, listening, and lectio divina.
Three promises of the Christian life acc...

“It's not just that Jesus was a Jew, Jesus still is a Jew. Engaging Jewish practice and tradition is one important way of overcoming the gaps that we sometimes feel exsist between Jesus and ourselves.” So begins Lauren Winner on the powerful new Mudhouse Sabbath DVD: Seven Ways of Christian Forma...

In his book Fresh Air, popular teacher and biblical scholar Jack Levison aims to do nothing less than clarify 2,000 years of confusion on the topic of who the Holy Spirit is, what holy spirit does, and why it all matters. In this accompanying DVD presentation, Jack takes viewers through Fresh Air...

Praying in Color DVD
The Workshop
By (author) Paraclete Video Productions

$19.95
ISBN: 9781557255495
Weight: 1.6 ounces.
Publication Date: 01 Apr 2007
Format: DVD video
Everything you need to know to lead your own Praying in Color workshop, featuring author Sybil MacBeth.

Segments include:
Arri...

Don't just pray with your mind and voice...learn to pray like a psalmist!
Popular retreat and workshop leader Roy DeLeon guides you step-by-step as you discover how to use motion, together with the vibrant words of the Psalms, to reinvigorate your daily prayer life.

This DVD is best used with th...

En esta presentación nueva y poderosa, el padre Thomas Scirghi introduce a los padres, padrinos y a las personas del Ritual de Iniciación Cristiana de Adulto, al Sacramento del Bautismo y al papel de éste en la Iglesia actual. Además, responde a las preguntas comunes:
* ¿Por qué nos bautizamos?
*...

In this powerful DVD presentation, Father Thomas Scirghi introduces parents, godparents, and those involved in RCIA to the Sacrament of Baptism and its role in the Church today. He answers common questions:
Why do we baptize?
Why did John the Baptist baptize Jesus?
When did the Church begin bapti...