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The Resurrection in the Great Story of Jesus is a parish-tested resource by a former Catholic priest. If you are a baptized disciple of Jesus, you are already an apostle in the world, a witness to the resurrection (see Acts 1:27). The great story of Jesus is part of your story, part of who you are, for the preaching of the good news began with the Easter story. This little book sets the four gospel accounts side-by-side as the story unfolds, w...

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Rev. Steve Wolf, a retired parish priest, seeks in this essay connections of the faith tradition, scripture, theology, some LGBTQI realities, and a history of some church teachings being both correct and still incomplete. He draws on Pope Francis (Who am I to judge?), that a minority of humans discover themselves to be LGBTQ, religious freedom, the right to act in conscience, and the Church's call to treat people who discover that their realit...

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God's Ones is an exploration of what Baptism is about, centered on the Baptism of Jesus where he knows he is the Beloved Son and the archetypes of the soul, leading to our identity as Lifegiver Priests, Soldier Prophets, Footwasher Royals, and Beloved Lovers. The book concludes around Charisms, God's gratuitous gifts, and our personal vocations.

How it happened (A Different Kind of Twelve Steps): 1. Got an ukulele that will stay in tune ($50+). 2. Got one of those electronic tuners (<$10). 3. Learned the chords C, Am, F, and G7. 4. Played Away In A Manger (#18) many times. 5. Kept the ukulele next to my recliner. 6. Picked other songs and learned more chords. 7. Explored 3/4 time and 4/4 time. 8. Experimented with picking patterns. 9. "Figured out" chords on these songs. 10. Watched m...

Two Weeks Ordinary is a meditation rendering of Psalms (146 of the 150), Canticles (40), Sayings of Jesus, Scripture Readings on the Christian Life (62), and traditional songs from the public domain (65), arranged for Office of Readings, Morning Prayer, Daytime Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Night Prayer. Almost all of the Psalms and Canticles and Readings are placed on the same day of the week as in the four-week traditional cycle of the Liturgy...

Pondering Our Faith is revised with the New Creed and offers a six-week review of Catholic faith basics for followers of Jesus the Christ to learn, teach and pray: The New Evangelization, The Church, Sacraments, Vocation, Moral Formation In Christ, and The Sacred. Compiled by Nashville parish priest and spiritual director Stephen Joseph Wolf, here too are a handful of traditional songs, pastoral notes, and questions for reflection and story te...

Tree of Life: Incarnation, Passion & Glory, Saint Bonaventure on the Christ Story. This is Saint Bonaventure's 13th Century collection of fifty meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Glory of Jesus Christ. Following the 1978 translation by Dr. Ewert Cousins, parish priest and spiritual director Stephen Joseph Wolf offers a paraphrase with brush-ink drawings.

A Simple Family Breviary is a modern version of the Little Office of Saint Francis of Assisi by a parish priest trying to help families pray together. Each prayer session includes a traditional song, a psalm of the season, either a psalm of Saint Francis or a psalm from the commons of Mary and the Saints, and closing praises. The order of prayer is easy to follow and offers variety day to day and month to month, and includes a calendar of majo...

A Simple Family Breviary is a modern version of the Little Office of Saint Francis of Assisi by a parish priest trying to help families pray together. Each prayer session includes a traditional song, a psalm of the season, either a psalm of Saint Francis or a psalm from the commons of Mary and the Saints, and closing praises. The order of prayer is easy to follow and offers variety day to day and month to month, and includes a calendar of majo...

99 Poems, a bunch of odd pictures, and 3 downside-up songs. These twenty years of lines tell of one vocation in progress still by the grace of our patient God. Except for random thoughts while running, really jogging, I rarely thought of poetry and put not a poem on paper since some Christmas lines in the second grade. Introduced to journaling, and asked to write a psalm, "a song to God" a habit settled in and then a second. When a writer advi...

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Forty Penances for Spiritual Exercise: Living the Great Gift of Mercy, is a collection of popular penances arranged by a parish priest for faith-sharing groups meeting over six weeks, or for an individual reader seeking more creative ways to pray. They include 10 psalms, 22 other scripture passages, a walk to search for beauty, un-telling a lie, remembering one's baptism, a freely done tithe, the immensity and absurdity of sin, 72 tools of the...

Being Spouses: from Celibate Observation is for personal pondering or couples or in groups of 5 to 15 people. Stephen Joseph Wolf, the author, is a parish priest and spiritual director in Nashville, Tennessee. The six chapters are Marriage Sacramentality, The Domestic Church, Permanence, Fidelity, Children, and Intimacy. There are 6 songs using traditional melodies and 18 scripture suggestions. Charts include Stages of a Relationship, a 44-mon...

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The Passion In The Great Story of Jesus is a six-week journey through the arrest of Jesus, the trial of the Sanhedrin, his judgment by Pilate, the Way of the Cross, the death of Jesus, and his burial. For each of these six, the gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are presented in the present tense side-by-side. Each week begins with a song and continues with time to ponder the Comparative Texts, some observations of similarities an...