Lent and Easter Books for Adults & Children

There is no better season to renew one’s relationship with God than Easter, the most joyful days of the church’s year. Rejoice with these inspiring...

Prayerfully journey through Lent with inspiring and meaningful reflections on the daily Mass readings. In just a few minutes each day, the insightf...

Many Catholics do not believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. This indicates a spiritual disaster in the Church, for the Eucharist...

Lenten readings and reflections consider how to love in truth, love the vulnerable and the suffering, embrace difference, care for our world, love ...

Easter Stories. Following the tried and tested formula of his earlier Lion Storyteller titles, Bob Hartman retells a selection of Easter stories in...

The Beautiful Story Of Jesus. The life of Christ illustrated and told for little children. Much-loved illustrator Maïte Roche uses all her skill an...

Every child knows what is celebrated at Christmas. But what about Pentecost and All Saints’ Day? Who were Saint Martin and Saint Nicholas? Why do w...

A Blessed Lent, Meditations on the Readings and Prayers of the Mass. Lent is a time of spiritual combat for the Christian, to whom the Church reach...

A hope-filled illustrated gift book to lift the spirits.Amy Boucher Pye and Leo Boucher return with a 40-day journey exploring the themes of hope a...

In fifty pithy and engaging daily reflections from Ash Wednesday to Easter and beyond, Rob Marshall leads us on a pilgrim journey to the Mountain o...

"Where Jeremiah was born the sun glittered silver on a lake full of life. Crashing waves on the rocks in winter storms were always loud, and in spr...

A beautifully designed devotional guide for Lent based on Thomas Merton's major writings that will help you find and develop your true self as you ...

The Tears of Christ. Meditations for Lent. Drawn chiefly from Newman’s sermons and gently modernized, these meditations offer a share in the fruit ...

God's Little Book of Easter. A new edition especially for Easter in this best-selling series of impulse-purchase gift books "Jesus came to let you ...

Following the bestselling Advent Book of Days, Gregory Cameron turns his artistic, literary and pastoral skills to the Easter story, introducing us...

Walk alongside Jesus in his passion and Cross and be prepared to walk with compassion alongside our suffering brothers and sisters, with these medi...

First Fridays and First Saturdays. The Devotions Explained. How to understand and practice two well known Catholic devotions. These well known devo...

Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. offers three powerful devotions from the Lenten practices of the faithful at St Dominic’s Priory church, the Rosary Shrine in...

Following Christ is a collection of sermons and spiritual addresses given by The Revd Dr Robert Beaken in urban and rural parishes, following the C...

Following Jesus in the Holy Land is a study book for individual and group use during the Church’s seasons of Advent and Lent. It provides ten chapt...

In this Church Times 'Top 100 Best Christian Book', a chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt’s painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son,...

When the disciples asked Jesus how to pray, he taught them the Our Father. These meditations illuminate the words of the Lord’s Prayer as an essent...

Scriptural Way of the Cross. The Stations of the Cross devotion, meditating on Jesus’s journey to Calvary, is loved by Catholics around the world. ...

Preparing for Easter. Together in one special volume, selections from the best of beloved, bestselling author C. S. Lewis’s classic works for reade...

Five Events that Made Christianity. Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost, by John Pritchard. ‘Jesus was a pest to the Romans and...

Festa Paschalia. A History of the Holy Week Liturgy in the Roman Rite. This book provides the first comprehensive history in English for eighty yea...

Meditations on Stations of the Cross. Saint John Henry Newman's celebrated meditations on the passion of Our Lord have been edited and enhanced wit...

Journey to the Empty Tomb focuses on the events leading up to the first Easter - the Gospel accounts of the death and resurrection of Jesus that ar...

Apprentices and Eyewitnesses. Author: Chris Thorpe. Creative Liturgies for Incarnational Worship: Lent, Holy Week and Easter. This worship collecti...

Large Print Stations of the Cross, by St Alphonsus. The best known meditations on the Stations of the Cross in a handy format with large type and p...

This book of daily readings offers a wonderfully fresh way of deepening the way that we talk to God. Alongside author Henry Martin, we ‘eavesdrop’,...

The Daily Prayer Rosary, with Daily and Seasonal Readings from Common Worship, By Clay Roundtree. This book brings together two ancient Christian t...

Common Worship: Times and Seasons helps clergy and Readers plan and prepare worship that embraces the richness of the Christian year. This collecti...

When faced with times of crisis or challenge, many people turn to self-help for support. But what about Christians - how can we find strength not m...

Guli Francis-Dehqani was born in Isfahan, Iran, to a family who were part of the tiny Anglican Church established by 19th century missionaries. Her...

The gospel accounts change when we come to the final days of Jesus' life and for the first time we are given precise timings when things happen, 'I...

Each year, the Holy Week and Easter double issue of the Church Times offers a wealth of seasonal reading and resources for worship and preaching. T...

Reminiscent of Malcolm Guite's bestselling Sounding the Seasons, this beautiful collection offers scripture-inspired poems for each of the major se...

Spiritual combat may seem off-putting, but no one is exempt from it. Discover the essential facts about spiritual combat in this book, and learn wh...

Inspired by the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, these meditations are a wonderful aid for anyone wishing to follow the fourteen steps of the Redeemer. C...

Join our Blessed Mother at the foot of the Cross of her Son and walk with her on the road from Lent to Passiontide to Easter, by meditating upon th...

The annual celebrations of Plough Sunday, Rogation and Harvest are hugely important for churches serving rural communities and are a key way for th...

As well as the name of a virus, a corona is a crown, the pearly glow around the sun in certain astronomical conditions and a poetic form where inte...

Monastic Tradition invites newcomers to grow in their search for God through prayerful reading of three books: the book of nature, the book of the ...

This beautifully crafted daily prayer companion is for everyone who wants to integrate spirituality with daily life. Rooted in one of the most pres...

Richard Carter swapped a life of simplicity with an Anglican religious order in the Solomon Islands for parish ministry in one of London's busiest ...

The Way of Benedict. Eight Blessings for Lent, By Laurentia Johns OSB. Our world badly needs Christ's light and peace. One way to bring these bless...

The Glory of the Cross. A Journey through Holy Week and Easter, By Vincent Nichols. Cardinal Vincent Nichols invites you to join him on a journey t...