St. Leo Catholic Church

Advent Parish Resource Library

Look for these Parish Resource Library selections on the New Materials Shelf (facing the Commons) or on shelves specified.

Seasonal Shelf:

Christmas Parables: Storytelling from Advent through Epiphany by Robert Bela Wilhelm (Video) Advent: Ways to Celebrate the Holy in the Holiday Rush by Terrance L. Schneider

Day by Day Through Advent: Reflections, Prayers, Practice by Daniel L. Lowery, C.SS.R. The Jesse Tree: Stories and Symbols of Advent by Raymond and Georgene Anderson

Ancient and Modern Saints by Barbara Calamari and Sandra DiPasqua My Angel Will Go Before You by Georges Huber Advent Books for Children and Young at Heart: Before and After Christmas: Activities and Ideas for Advent and Epiphany by Debbie Trafton O’Neal

A Christmas Treasure of Yuletide Stores and Poems Edited by James Charlton and Barbara Gilson Everything I Need to Know about Christmas I Learned from Jesus The Family Christmas Tree Book by Tomie De Paola St. Nicholas The Wonder Worker by Anne E. Neuberger Santa’s Favorite Story by Hisako Aoki and Ivan Gantschev

Video Shelf:

The Announcement to MaryKing Herod and The Wise Men

Prayer Shelf:

Scriptural Rosary

Spiritual Life Shelf:

The Place Within: The Poetry of Pope John Paul II Translated by Jerry Peterkiewicz Let Go, Let God by John E. Keller Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World by Henri. J.M. Nouwen

A New Song to the Lord: Hope and Trust Renewed by Charles J. Healey, SJ The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-Third Psalm by Harold S. Kushner

Chicken Soup For the Soul: 101 Stories To Open The Heart and Rekindle the Spirit by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen Mother Teresa: A Simple Path Compiled by Lucinda Vardey I Have Seen Him by Sr. Mary Evangeline Randolph, RSM

Biography Shelf:

Santa maria De Guadalupe by Pbro. Jose Rebollar Chavez (Spanish version) His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of our Time by Carl Bernstein and Marco Boliti

Meet Saint Faustina by George W. Kosicki, C.S.B. Lives of the Saints: Daily Readings by Augustine Kalberer, O.S.B. Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II by George Weigel Saint Katharine Drexel: Friend of the Oppressed by Ellen Tarry