LTP offers yet another addition of its Clip Notes series with this third helpful volume. This new collection includes articles by Professor Diana Hayes of Georgetown University, who has written biographies for a section titled "Black Catholic American Ancestors and Heroes, " highlighting such Black Catholic pioneers as the Healy Brothers (the first Black priests in the U.S.), Mother Lange, Mother Delille, Coincoin, Daniel Rudd, Lena Edwards and the founders of The Cardinal Gibbons Institute. New articles for the Sundays of the Easter season all reflect on lines from the Exsultet, to help break open this lovely prayer in the weeks following the Easter Vigil. Articles can either be photocopied straight from the book or imported into desktop publishing software from the included CD-ROM. Like the first two volumes of Clip Notes, Volume 3 will help you enliven your parish publications and inform the members of the parish assembly.

Worksheets to help you create needed structure.

Sophie writes about Gods love in our everyday situations. Each short story is a lesson of light and hope that God can lift you into a higher understanding of his love!

Radical. Crazy. Transformative and restless. Every word we read these days seems to suggest there’s a “next-best-thing,” if only we would change our comfortable, compromising lives. In fact, the greatest fear most Christians have is boredom—the sense that they are missing out on the radical life Jesus promised. One thing is certain. No one wants to be “ordinary.” Yet pastor and author Michael Horton believes that our attempts to measure our spiritual growth by our experiences, constantly seeking after the next big breakthrough, have left many Christians disillusioned and disappointed. There’s nothing wrong with an energetic faith; the danger is that we can burn ourselves out on restless anxieties and unrealistic expectations. What’s needed is not another program or a fresh approach to spiritual growth; it’s a renewed appreciation for the commonplace. Far from a call to low expectations and passivity, Horton invites readers to recover their sense of joy in the ordinary. He provides a guide to a sustainable discipleship that happens over the long haul—not a quick fix that leaves readers empty with unfulfilled promises. Convicting and ultimately empowering, Ordinary is not a call to do less; it’s an invitation to experience the elusive joy of the ordinary Christian life.