Veritas Books
Veritas is a leading religious publisher and retailer in Ireland, dedicated to promoting the Catholic faith through their publications and stores. They publish more than twenty books annually, covering a range of topics including theology, scripture, prayer, spirituality, parenting, counselling, children's issues, social commentary, and liturgical resources. The Beehive Books imprint features a selection of non-fiction and children's titles. Veritas is also a trusted publisher of religious education texts for primary and post-primary schools, which are widely used throughout Ireland. Veritas’ origins lie with the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, which was founded in 1899 to publish and distribute a range of religious material to the Irish people. Veritas Publications came into existence in 1969, its first title being Patrick in His Own Words by Bishop Joseph Duffy.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9781847302564
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2013
Description:
Marking the start of the new liturgical year, Veritas presents The Gospel According to Matthew. Full colour and beautifully illustrated, this special edition makes a wonderful addition to any church, school or parish centre. Also featured is the Lectio Divina, an ancient way of praying with scripture and promoting communion with God.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9781847304001
Pub Date: 25 Jan 2013
Description:
This book is the first in a two-part series designed to help parents and families prepare for the Sacraments of First Reconciliation and First Eucharist with their children. It takes a step-by-step approach to the Sacrament of Reconciliation using accessible, child-friendly language and illustrations, and emphasises the sacrament as a joyful moment of healing with God and with each other. The book is divided into eight parts, each ending with a ‘PJ Prayer’ to be said before bed.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9781847304100
Pub Date: 25 Jan 2013
Description:
This record in pictures and words of the 50th International Eucharistic Congress is proffered as a souvenir of the great event held in Dublin in June 2012. Giving a flavour of the proceedings in images, it also seeks to record the popular esteem in which the event was received and held by all those who attended it. To this end there appears throughout reminiscences from some of those present at different events and in different capacities throughout the week.
Likewise, the photographs included endeavour to portray the national and international flavour of the Congress, as well as documenting in some small detail the great opening and closing Masses in the RDS and Croke Park.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 310
ISBN: 9781847304162
Pub Date: 25 Jan 2013
Description:
Full colour and beautifully illustrated, this special edition boxset of The Gospels According to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John will make a wonderful addition to any church, school or parish centre. The books feature Lectio Divina, an ancient way of praying with scripture and promoting communion with God.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 134
ISBN: 9781847303608
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2012
Description:
This book is full of useful and creative ideas for spiritual practice with children. It seeks to encourage youngsters to reflect on growing up and on making a positive contribution to the world. It takes deep themes and presents them in accessible, interesting and sometimes quirky ways, making a number of relevant, thought-provoking and challenging points for both children and adults to consider in relation to their place in the world and their dealings with one another.
The practices in this book have been tried and tested over the past five years through the author’s contact with primary school children in a number of schools.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 286
ISBN: 9781847303646
Pub Date: 11 Dec 2012
Description:
This volume takes its cue from the theme of the International Eucharistic Congress to be held in Dublin in June 2012, ‘Communion with Christ and with one another’. In almost eighty short articles, a host of leading scholars from the worlds of history, liturgy, theology, philosophy, art history and Celtic Studies reflect upon aspects of the history of the Christian tradition in Ireland from the fifth to the twenty-first century, with a special emphasis on the relationship between the Irish people and the Eucharist. This is a wide-ranging illustrated collection which draws from the major Christian denominations in Ireland and includes entries on significant people, texts, images and events that have shaped the Irish Christian experience.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 124
ISBN: 9781847303691
Pub Date: 07 Nov 2012
Description:
As the year 2000 approached, Blessed John Paul II, who had himself participated in the Second Vatican Council, referred to it as ‘this great gift of the Spirit to the Church at the end of the second millennium’. Looking towards the coming millennium he asked to what extent the fruits of the Council could be seen in the Church. This year, 2012, fifty years after the Council opened, is a good opportunity to reflect again on that question.
A complete examination of all the rich teaching of the Council and how it has been implemented is beyond the scope of this book – or perhaps of any book. What is written here is one person’s reflection on five themes of the Council and their implications for today’s world.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781847303585
Pub Date: 05 Nov 2012
Description:
In this book, Fr Gabriel Harty tells his story in relation to the Rosary, the cultivation of his lifelong devotion to it, and the healing and grace it holds for all who partake in it. After serving as a chaplain and parish curate for some years, Gabriel M. Harty OP made the decision to devote his life to the service of the Mother of God in whatever way she wished.
His search led him to the Dominican Order, and he was professed a friar of the Order of Preachers in 1950. Since then, Fr Gabriel has directed all his energies to the apostolate of the Rosary. This work is a wonderful testament to that apostolate
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9781847303592
Pub Date: 15 Oct 2012
Description:
Sharing the heartbreaking experience of losing both her parents within only days of each other, Theresa Moloney provides a candid insight into the emotional and practical issues surrounding bereavement. While acknowledging that grief is ultimately a personal journey, the author’s own story acts as a backdrop against which those in a similar situation can identify its myriad feelings and physical manifestations as normal and necessary aspects of the difficult journey they must travel. For anyone faced with the loss of a loved one, this courageous and unsparingly honest account of grief and its many guises is an important guide to understanding, coping and, at last, healing.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 110
ISBN: 9781847303561
Pub Date: 25 Sep 2012
Description:
‘The image of a people gathered at table is the story of friendship. Tables are the places where stories are heard, where love is remembered and where food is shared. Tables are about presence and the quality of presence, our presence to one another and God’s presence with us.
’ In Sacramentum Caritatis, Pope Benedict XVI calls us to find relief for our hunger in ‘the food of truth’, inviting us into the sacrificial meal, from where we draw our very life. Pope Benedict asks all people to draw near to God’s love, because it holds the deepest desire of the human heart. In this book, Anna Burke ponders some of the images and metaphors from Sacramentum Caritatis and offers resources for personal and communal prayer and for group reflection. Part One: Prayers At Table leads us on a journey through the Mass. The prayers focus on the various liturgical moments of the sacred rite and help to heighten our awareness of the communion of all creation in the Sacred Mystery. Part Two: Stories At Table explores some key texts from Scripture which direct us to the table of Communion.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781847303660
Pub Date: 01 Aug 2012
Description:
Joining the Dots is a programme in spiritual renewal for all involved in the school system. Originally designed for teachers in the Catholic setting, through piloting it has since evolved beyond teaching staff to include special needs assistants, administrative staff, parents, members of boards of management, parish educators, pastoral ministers, and indeed combinations of all these groups. Comprising a five-week programme of one evening per week, Joining the Dots is designed to address the challenge of linking one’s experience of life, personal spiritual quest and work in a Catholic school, attempting to give participants time and space to reflect on the personal reality of their own spirituality and how this integrates with their lives.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 72
ISBN: 9781847303233
Pub Date: 20 Jul 2012
Description:
This book celebrates the gift of the senses and the way in which they allow us to appreciate the beauty of our landscape. In his evocative and moving passages, Patrick O’Sullivan draws our attention to the beauty and peace inherent in nature, renewing our sense of wonder, deepening our insight into our own place in the world, and helping us respect the generosity of the natural world around us.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9781847303301
Pub Date: 19 Jul 2012
Description:
These reflections on the Eucharist range from deep theological consideration to practical advice on the imperative of living the Mass through consistency between worship and daily living. Some given as homilies, others published in such journals as Irish Theological Quarterly, the reflections were prepared and refined over many years of Cardinal Daly’s life as a priest, bishop and cardinal. Cardinal Daly, who died in 2009, was a theological and spiritual giant whose published work included learned philosophical books, his thoughts on peace and violence in Ireland and his insights into moral issues.
During the months before his death, an abiding desire of the Cardinal was that the theological reflections contained in this new book be published in advance of the Eucharistic Congress in Ireland in 2012.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9781847302656
Pub Date: 18 Jun 2012
Description:
This book is an interesting and important contribution to the dialogue between the Churches in Ireland. It brings together theologians and pastors from two Christian traditions in Ireland – Catholicism and Presbyterianism – to explore the legacy of two significant figures, John Calvin and Ignatius Loyola. Calvin and Loyola, contemporaries in their student days at the University of Paris, in the turmoil of the Reformation subsequently chose different paths.
The papers in this collection from a conference held in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, put into relief the important values they held in common – a profound faith in Christ, a dedication to? his people in the community of the Church and to mission as they understood it.?
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9781847303219
Pub Date: 12 Jun 2012
Description:
Drawing its title from the end of the Gospel according to John – ‘that we might have life in his name’ (Jn 20:31) – this book explores many and varied aspects of the new life that opened up in the event of Jesus Christ. The editors, both professors at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, have gathered contributions for renowned scholars who believe the Christian life is one of faith and reason. What comes across in this work is how much a ‘thinking’ faith is essential for Christians and never more so than in a secularised age.
But not only is it a ‘thinking faith’, it is also a life that seeks spontaneously to ‘communicate’ what it has seen and touched, heard and lived. The chapters of this book are clearly divided under headings that suggest a vivid interplay of life in the name of Christ, thought shaped by Christian faith and the missionary communication of the Gospel in today’s world. This book has been inspired by a number of factors. In recent times, with church scandals and the complex dynamics of secularisation, a serious crisis of the meaning of the Christian faith and of belonging to the Church has emerged. All of this calls for greater reflection on what Christian faith has to offer.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9781847303226
Pub Date: 07 Jun 2012
Description:
This book brings together a selection of well-known and popular poems, prayers and reflections that will provide the perfect starting point for group lessons or for private meditation. In reading these pieces, we are encouraged to deepen our spiritual and moral awareness and to develop positive Christian values and attitudes towards God, others and the natural world in which we live. Daily Joy is a wonderful celebration of God and faith.
