The World Of Marian Apparitions: Mary's Appearances And Messages From Fátima To Today by Wincenty Łaszewski

Hardback: The world-changing appearance of Our Lady at Fatima ushered in a continuing series of remarkable apparitions worldwide that the Church has either officially approved or marked as likely-authentic. 

Author and Mariologist Wincenty Laszewski summarizes the powerful and urgent messages of these apparitions in this unparalleled, encyclopedic work - instantly the new standard on the subject. Most of these riveting chapters include portentous warnings - some are ominous, others more hopeful. 

The World of Marian Apparitions (2021) serves as a wake-up call to the faithful and is a worldwide clarion call to deeper prayer and conversion. It includes:

Over 400 pages describing the fully documented miracles and visions

Fascinating accounts by eyewitnesses, including non-believers

50+ maps of locations and pilgrimage sites

Photos and illustrations: documents, events, and faces of the visionaries

The finest works of art and reproductions of Our Lady

Each message and appearance is analyzed and quoted precisely. Their sheer abundance is enough to absorb believing Catholics-and many a skeptic-from all walks of life and reading habits. 

A partial listing of those described includes:

Fátima, Portugal, 1917: The Message of Fatima

Basel, Switzerland, 1917: Mystical Wounds

Fátima, Portugal, 1921: Mother of Obedience

Pontevedra, Spain, 1925: Contemplative Mother of God

Banneux, Belgium, 1933: Virgin of the Poor

Heede, Germany, 1937: Queen of the Poor Souls in Purgatory

Siekierki, Poland, 1943: Holy Mother Teacher of Youth

Tre Fontane, Italy, 1947: Virgin of Revelation

Warsaw, Poland, 1948: Dispenser of Divine Omnipotence

Ngome, Africa, 1955: Mary, Tabernacle of the Most High

Rome City, USA, 1956-9: Most Holy Mary, Lady of America

Zeitoun, Egypt, 1968: Silent Lady

Akita, Japan, 1973: Apocalyptic Madonna

Deir el-Ahmar, Lebanon, 1976: Virgin Mary of the Maronites

Asdee, Ireland, 1985: Madonnas in Motion

Hruszew, Ukraine, 1987: Madonna of Kiev

About the author: Wincenty Łaszewski (b1956) is a Polish theologian, writer, translator and author of many books devoted to the Mother of God, especially Marian apparitions. He is a member of the World Apostolate of Fátima. 

Never Be Afraid

World Without End (Kingsbridge Series) by Ken Follett

Paperback: On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed.

As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. And always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day.

World Without End (2007) - the second instalment in the excellent Kingsbridge series - takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change. 

About the author: Ken Follett is a Welsh thriller and historical fiction writer, whose works are phenomenal bestsellers around the world. Over 181 million copies of the 36 books he has written have been sold in over 80 countries and in 40 languages. Follett’s first literary success came in 1978 with the spy thriller Eye of the Needle, which he wrote whilst Deputy Managing Director of independent publishing house Everest Books. After a run of espionage novels, including The Key to Rebecca and The Man from St Petersburg, Follett changed tack with the historical epic The Pillars of the Earth in 1989. A multi-generational story set in 11th century England, the book became an incredible bestseller, spawning two sequels and the 2020 prequel The Evening and the Morning known collectively as The Kingsbridge Series. 

Follett returned to historical saga during 2010-14, with the Century Trilogy, which followed the fortunes of several dynasties through the 20th century.

Rating: 5/5

Happy 96th Birthday, Your Majesty The Queen!

Laptop From Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, And The Dirty Secrets The President Tried To Hide by Miranda Devine

Paperback: "Corruption is a cancer, a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy... It saps the collective strength and resolve of a nation. Corruption is just another form of tyranny." - Joe Biden, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2014

Laptop from Hell (2021) is the inside story of the laptop that exposed the president’s dirtiest secret.

When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden’s campaign.

The dirty secrets contained in Hunter’s laptop almost derailed his father’s presidential campaign and ignited one of the greatest media coverups in American history.

This is the unvarnished story of what’s really inside the laptop and what China knows about the Bidens, by the New York Post journalist who brought it into the open.

It exposes the coordinated censorship operation by Big Tech, the media establishment, and former intelligence operatives to stifle the New York Post’s coverage, in a chilling exercise of raw political power three weeks before the 2020 election.

A treasure trove of corporate documents, emails, text messages, photographs, and voice recordings, spanning a decade, the laptop provided the first evidence that President Joe Biden was involved in his son’s ventures in China, Ukraine, and beyond, despite his repeated denials.

This intimate insight into Hunter’s dissolute lifestyle shows he was incapable of holding down a job, let alone being paid tens of millions of dollars in high-powered international business deals by foreign interests, unless he had something else of value to sell - which of course he did. 

He was the son of the vice president who would go on to become the leader of the free world.

About the author: Miranda Devine is a New York Post columnist and Fox News contributor. She also works for the Australian media as a Daily Telegraph columnist and a Sky News contributor. Born in Queens, New York, she grew up in Tokyo and Sydney, and attended Northwestern University in Chicago. A reformed mathematician and mother of two, she currently lives in New York with her husband.

Any Chance To Read Is Ideal For Me

Definition: Beek

 

The Linear Dependability Of The Sentence

Repentance And Confession by Saint Nektarios

Paperback: Confession is the life-saving medicine for society because it is capable of saving many souls from destruction. Confession from a moral standpoint is the greatest benefaction of the Church to society. The spiritual father is the moral physician of society. He alone is capable of intercepting all the bad things that afflict society today. This is what confession is from a moral standpoint, which we unfortunately have not realized and have abandoned. This is why many bad things exist, which afflict society. - Saint Nektarios.

Repentance and Confession (2019, third printing) is the first of Saint Nektarios' works to be translated into English. It behooves every Orthodox Christian who is concerned about the salvation of his soul to read this theologically rich, yet concise and understandable study on a much-neglected commandment of God.

Repentance and Confession is translated from the Greek original and published by the Fathers of the Holy Monastery of Saint Nektarios in New York. 

About the author: Saint Nektarios (1846-1920), Wonderworker of Aegina and Bishop of Pentapolis, is one of the most renowned Greek saints, venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church and officially recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1961.

Definition: Sequacity

Murder In The 33rd Degree: The Gagnon Investigation Into Vatican Freemasonry by Fr Charles Theodore Murr

Paperback: Was Pope John Paul I murdered? If so, by whom, and to what end? 

Was the Catholic liturgy sabotaged to strip it of truth, power and beauty? If so, by whom, and to what end? 

Was an international plot underfoot to destroy the Vatican’s financial stability? If so, by whom, and to what end?

There was one man who knew the answers to these and many other questions plaguing the post-Conciliar Church. In 1975, then Archbishop Edouard Gagnon was personally commissioned by Pope Paul VI to investigate the Vatican’s Roman Curia. This thorough investigation concluded in 1978, the “year of the three Popes.”

In Murder in the 33rd Degree (2022), author Charles Theodore Murr, a close and lifelong friend of Cardinal Gagnon, gives his firsthand account of what transpired during that papal investigation. 

Murder in the 33rd Degree answers many questions that many people have been asking for half a century.

Please support Fr Charles Murr and buy his book or buy two, and give one to a priest!

About the author: Charles Theodore Murr (1950) was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He holds two Licentiates from the Gregorian University (philosophical anthropology and sacred theology), and a Master's Degree in psychology from NYU. Other books by Father Murr: The Godmother: Madre Pascalina, A Feminine Tour de Force (2017); Memories of an Unwed Father, The Syrian: Hilarion Capucci and the Priceless Ransom (1995); Perhaps Love: Dyadic Interpersonalism (2000); and The Society of Judas (2006). Some of his works have been translated into Spanish, Italian and Arabic. 

The Confession (Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez Legal Series) by Sheldon Siegel

Hardback: The Confession (2004) is the fifth instalment in the outstanding legal thriller series featuring Mike Daley & Rosie Fernandez.

Confessions abound - some of them quite unexpected - in Sheldon Siegel's new legal thriller.

Mike Daley does not go to confession much since he left the priesthood twenty years ago and became a lawyer, but that does not stop his old friend, Father Ramon Aguirre, from trying to get him there. "It wouldn't kill you to go to church once in a while," he tells Mike. 

But it does kill someone.

For several months, a ruinous sexual harassment suit has been building against the San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese, and when the plaintiff's lawyer is found dead, an apparent suicide, an almost audible sigh of relief is heard in certain quarters. But that is before the police find evidence of murder. Even worse - the evidence points to Father Aguirre.

Mike and his ex-wife law partner, Rosie, jump in to take the priest's case, but what started out as difficult soon appears impossible as forensics, witnesses, and secrets from Father Aguirre's past all incriminate their client. Soon, their wits are the only things keeping the priest from a life sentence or worse, and wits simply may not be enough-unless they can conjure up a miracle of their own.

About the author: Sheldon Siegel is a New York Times Bestselling novelist and author best known for his works of modern legal courtroom drama.

Siegel was born on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. He attended New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, and later went on to attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an Accounting major. He graduated with a Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983. He has been in private practice in San Francisco, California for over twenty years and specializes in corporate and securities law with the law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP. 

His books have been translated into a dozen languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. He currently resides in Larkspur, California, with his wife, Linda, and twin sons, Alan and Stephen.

Rating: 5/5 

Prophesies: Schisms And Tribulations In The Church by St Francis of Assisi

Jesus, You take Over: Prayers For Surrender To God's Will For Private Devotion by Fr Dolindo Ruotolo

Booklet: Don Dolindo Ruotolo was called a saint by his contemporary, St Padre Pio.

Father Ruotolo was a priest from Naples, Italy (1882-1970), who had extraordinary communications with Jesus throughout his life. He referred to himself as “the Madonna's little old man” and the Rosary was his constant companion. Padre Pio once said of this priest, “The whole of paradise is in your soul.”  

He suffered much pain and humiliation throughout his life and was once told by a bishop, “You will be a martyr, but in your heart, not with your blood.”  

His whole life is a testament to total abandonment to God.

Jesus, You Take Over (2021) is a peace-invoking, beautiful little prayer book which includes the Surrender Novena, Rosary of Abandonment and words of comfort. It is a perfect little prayer book to add to one's prayer life when one is struggling with stress and anxiety, especially during our weary, present-day times. Placing one's trust in God alone is the only remedy for truly calming the soul. Padre Pio also often recommended souls to Don Ruotolo while he was alive.  

About the author: Father Dolindo Ruotolo was born, in Naples, Italy on 6 October 1882. Ordained at the young age of 23 on 24 June 1905, he dedicated every moment of his long life to prayer and penance at the service of the thousands of faithful who asked for his spiritual direction and turned to him for help and comfort.

Don Dolindo Ruotolo is the author of a profound and huge Commentary on the Holy Scripture in 33 volumes. Beside that, he left a very large number of theological, ascetical and mystical writings. He also answered thousands of letters. He wrote also thousands of notes on holy images to offer spiritual direction to people, and a few of these are now collected in a little book, “Meditations on the Holy Rosary”. 

Don Dolindo had a keen understanding of the human soul and thus he was always able to help people to see the light of God. Forever at work, tireless in helping souls, in the midst of unspeakable suffering of every kind, as victim soul for mankind, he was sustained by a wonderful freshness of spirit that transformed his life into a hymn to life.

Paralyzed for the last ten years of his life, Don Dolindo Ruotolo died in Naples on 19 November 1970, in the extreme voluntary poverty he had lived all his life. His body lies in the Church where he served as Pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes and St Joseph of the Aged, via Salvatore Tommasi, in Napoli, Italy.