Did you know Verbum offers a free book each month? You still have time to get April’s free offering, An Exposition of the Gospel of St. John by John MacEvilly, a solid scriptural study by an Irish archbishop. Read it for study or to deepen...
Verbum’s $5 million dollar grant to Catholic high schools is well under way and we’ve had amazing success in connecting to great Catholic schools. Today, we want to turn the spotlight onto two of our grant recipients: Benet Academy and Hackett...
The Bible is the inspired word of God, and this month, Verbum features one of the most up-to-date and scholarly study Bibles available: The Catholic Study Bible, 2nd edition. Along with essays and notes by world-renowned scholars on the writing...
Last week, Fr. Devin presented a wonderful video demonstration on “The Last Seven Words of Jesus” using Verbum 6, and throughout the month of April, Fr. Devin’s book Fulfilled in Christ will be featured on Verbum’s Easter...
Easter is the most important holiday of the year, and we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to offer a similarly significant sale to mark the occasion. Our Easter sale is going on from now until May 1. Check out all the deals at Verbum.com/Easter...
This guest post was written by Verbum Director Kevin Bagley, DMin. I pray that your Lent was productive. The forty days of Lent are our opportunity to examine closely our relationships with each other and our relationship with God. Our interpersonal...
This guest post was written by Brody Stewart, Verbum Marketing and Promotions and Coordinator. There’s nothing to do on Holy Saturday. For most of the liturgical year, there’s always something to do at church. Whether it’s daily Mass, stations of...
Today’s Gospel reading from Matthew is one many of us have heard before. The story of Judas handing over Jesus to the authorities for thrity pieces of silver is a familiar one, and yet there are always different aspects that can strike us as...
This guest post was written by Deacon Kevin Bagley, DMin, Director of Verbum. This weekend we experience Christ’s entry in Jerusalem. The many who had heard Him speak, witnessed a miracle, or had their lives touched by His message greeted Jesus as a...
Deepen your understanding of the Scriptures with Come and See: Catholic Bible Study Collection! Let’s take an excerpt today’s Gospel reading for the Feast of the Annunciation: In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a...
This guest post is by Verbum Director Kevin Bagley, D Min. Be sure to see our Verbum Monthly Sale for special savings on resources about St. Joseph! Of the members of the Holy Family, we know the least about Joseph. His appearance in Scripture is...
For the feast of St. Patrick, enjoy this excerpt from The Confession of St. Patrick: …I was taken captive when a youth, nay, rather, when almost a beardless boy, before I knew what I ought to seek or to avoid. Wherefore, at this day I am...
After years of ignoring the commandments, Israel is invaded and conquered. Her people are taken as slaves and foreigners inhabit her land. God had sent prophets to remind them of their covenant with God…but the people had ignored the prophets. They...
To help us reflect on the theme of forgiveness from this week’s Mass readings, we feature Tuesday’s Gospel reading from Matthew followed by a short meditation. Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin...
March 13-15, Anaheim Convention Center The Religious Education Congress is the largest annual gathering of its kind in the world. The four-day event is held at the Anaheim Convention Center and is sponsored by the Los Angeles Office of Religious...
From Exodus, we hear the Ten Commandments being shared with the Israelites for the first time. It was the first set of formal rules given the Chosen People by their God. Those “rules” for acceptable behavior between God and His people are as true...
This guest post was written by Robert Klesko, Catholic Educational Resources Product Manager. Our mission at Verbum is to provide the best tools for the study of the Catholic faith, and we want to do something tangible to really reach out and help...
Verbum’s Spanish libraries are now available! We’ve created dozens of Spanish-language resources and bundled them into two brand-new libraries. With steep bundling discounts, these libraries are the most affordable way to get the best Catholic...
In the First Reading this Sunday, Abraham is asked by God to sacrifice his son. Obedient and faithful, Abraham accepted God’s test. Isaac followed his father’s instructions, carrying the wood of his death to the hilltop, and willingly lying upon the...
This post comes from the CSSI study, Lent: The Road to Redemption. Get weekly “Lenten Moments” delivered to your inbox! Sign up at www.verbum.com/lent. Fasting involves refraining for a time from the satisfaction of human needs...
Temptation. How many times have we been tempted in our lives? How many times has evil triumphed? Mark’s gospel states that Jesus was tempted only once by Satan, and that Jesus had the angels to take care of Him. I know those acting on the Devil’s...
Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, and thus the start of our Lenten Journey! As you begin fasting, observing penances, or taking on new spiritual disciplines, consider joining the Verbum Lenten Journey. Hundreds of faithful Catholics are...
This guest post is by Brandon Rappuhn, Faithlife Live Product Strategist. A number of years back, Catholic television station EWTN ran a series called Catholic Authors, hosted by Fr. John C. McCloskey III. Interestingly, alongside such Catholic...
Tired of seeing hearts and flowers everywhere? If the holiday clichés of buying candy and flowers don’t hold much meaning for you, celebrate the real St. Valentine, who was a third-century Christian, martyred in Rome on February 14 and buried near...
This guest post is by Alex Renn, Verbum Marketing and Operations Team Lead. Today we’re going to look at Faithlife, Verbum’s social component. This post will give you a basic understanding of how to use Faithlife. In a future video, we’ll take a...
Our guest speaker is Deacon Kevin Bagley, Verbum Director. Deacons likewise must be serious, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for gain; they must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience” (1 Tim 3: 8,9)...
Join the 2015 Lenten Journey! Pope Francis, in one of his general audiences last year, prayed that “each individual member of the faithful and every Church community will undertake a fruitful Lenten journey.” In response, we created the 2014 Verbum...
We hope you have enjoyed our introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas throughout January’s Verbum Monthly Sale! Let’s close with a few of Aquinas’ thoughts on knowing God, from the beginning of his masterpiece, Summa contra Gentiles:...
On the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas, we will feature him in his own words! Here is this Sunday’s gospel reading from Mark: And they went into Caperna-um; and immediately on the sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught. And they were...
Bloomsbury Studies on Thomas Aquinas is on pre-pub for 18% off! In his book, On Aquinas, Herbert McCabe tells the story of a propitious meeting between St. Thomas Aquinas and an Irishman named Peter (Petrus Hibernicus), who introduced St. Thomas to...