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This ACP Psalter provides complete settings of the Responsorial Psalms sung after the First Reading at Sunday Mass. Music for the verses is taken from just five Gregorian Chant tones; the Peregrinus tone is used for Passion Sunday. In this Psalter, you have one book for the whole three-year cycle of the Lectionary: years A, ...More

This 32-page book is a collection of the Irish songs in the American Catholic Hymnbook. The commentary for each song is extensive, as is the introduction, "Why Is There a Lack of Irish Hymns?" A Hundred Thousand Welcomes is not itself a hymnal; it is an introduction to the ...More

This keyboard accompaniment edition of the American Catholic Hymnbook is truly valuable. To save the organist time and trouble, verses of songs are printed within the staves, so there is no looking up and down to find the place. Page-turning is kept to a minimum by reprinting refrains on successive pages. Alternate settings ...More

This guitar edition of the American Catholic Hymnbook is identical in content to the perfect bound edition. This edition even has the same durable Kivar cover as that perfect bound edition. The spiral binding, however, enables ...More

In perfect binding, with a durable Kivar cover, this edition of the American Catholic Hymnbook is intended for the congregation. The binding should last perhaps two or three years, even more. This ...More

With exactly the same content as the perfect bound edition, this hardcover edition of the American Catholic Hymnbook uses the very best, Smyth-sewn binding; the book should last ...More

These two audiocassettes provide the text of Archbishop Weakland's foreword to the American Catholic Hymnbook, as well as the introduction, read aloud. Then follow 65 of the songs in the hymnbook, sung by a choir assembled and trained by David Haney of Portland, Oregon. Most are sung in unison, so that cantors and song ...More

This "River of Glory" audiocassette provides eleven choral settings of songs from the American Catholic Hymnbook. Most of these settings are available in octavo format from American Catholic Press, at its ACP Publications website. Noteworthy are River of ...More

This 20-page booklet highlights the main benefits of the American Catholic Hymnbook. Ten songs are included, with text, melody, chord symnbols, and commentary. Various citations are also provided from Church documents, as well as testimonials from pastors and church musicians.

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This a beautiful booklet, with eight pro-life songs, each with melody, text, chord symbols, and commentary. Hymns for Human Life is not itself a hymnal; this booklet is intended to draw attention to the pro-life character of the American Catholic Hymnbook, wherein these eight songs are published for the first time.
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This 28-page booklet is intended as an introduction to the American Catholic Hymnbook, a much larger collection. This book, Polonia Sings, provides the text, music, and chords for 13 songs extracted from the hymnbook, all reflecting the musical tradition of Poland. Although the words are in English, the melodies are ...More

This is a small volume, handy to hold, for quiet reading and reflection. Like the other publications of the Catholic Press, the Life of Christ is beautifully presented, in every respect. The gilded page edges complement the high quality paper and the excellent illustrations. In this biography, the words of Christ are highlighted in red, taken from the New Testament. In this book, the ...More

This is a videotape of the 1998 Annual Benefit for the American Catholic Press. The highlight of the evening was the conferral of the Gratiam Dei Award on the Honorable Henry J. Hyde, at the time, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. For many years, Chairman Hyde has been an ardent defender of the pro-life cause; and for this he was honored by ACP. The video includes his stirring ...More

This is a videotape of Christmas Midnight Mass, celebrated in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, with the Sistine Choir and Pope John Paul II. The entire Mass is narrated in English by Archbishop John Foley; students participate from the North American College in Rome. Father Michael Manning, S.V.D., provides both an introduction and an epilogue to the Mass. With each videotape, you also get ...More

This is a videotape of the developing child, a human being in the womb, written and narrated by Pat Boone. This tape is a powerful witness to the pro-life cause, the value of human life, and the dignity of the human person. The accompanying song, Let Me Live, is directly relevant to the theme of the video. ...More

Christian Liturgy is about the "what" and the "why" of Christian communal worship. This book is intended to fill the many gaps that remain outstanding in standard treatments of the nature, purpose, dynamism, and peculiar efficacy of the liturgy.

Christian Liturgy, then, presents a comprehensive theology of Christian liturgy, founded on the ancient traditions of East and ...More

Here is a brief history of American Catholic Press: its origins and its present state, from Mundelein Seminary to Oak Park, Illinois, to South Holland, Illinois. ...More