Exploring our common grounds and lonely places, our epiphanies and dark nights -through poetry, prose, and biography.

Convivium Journal

Convivium is a semi-annual literary journal offering the best in contemporary fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, memoir, and art. Past issues have featured contributions by writers such as Arthur Powers, winner of the 2012 Tuscany Novella Prize; and JohnFarrell, a 2010 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow. Convivium’s new editor in chief is acclaimed poet Elisabeth Kramp, whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including First Things.

Convivium 4 Cover Attempt 1.jpg

Living in Joyful Hope:
Advent and Christmas
Meditations

A collection of meditations and prayers that guide our journey from Advent into Christmas by using familiar biblical narratives, rites of the Church, and original compositions. The book may be used daily by adults involved with Catechesis of the Good Shepherd or by those who simply wish to enhance their prayer life during these liturgical seasons.

The Victory That Conquers The World:
A Lenten Meditation

A beautiful, thought-provoking meditation on the plan of God, the parousia, and Pinky and the Brain.

When the Flower Opens: The Extraordinary Friendship Between Abbot Shodo Habukawa and Monsignor Luigi Giussani

This book offers a brief look at the improbable but very real friendship between Monsignor Luigi Giussani and Professor Shodo Habukawa, and presents it as the model of true ecumenism between believers in Jesus Christ and people of other cultures and faiths, people whose hearts beat with the same original needs as ours: for truth, beauty, and love. .

71oPQHBMlkL.jpg