Kathryn HoganVerbum’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...
Alex RennThis Lent, we will be growing in community by studying CSSI’s Lent: the Road to Redemption in the Verbum Faithlife group. If you don’t have Verbum installed on all your devices, you can download it for free on your iPhone, iPad, Android Device, Mac...
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...
Verbum 6 introductory pricing ends in less than a week. We’ve spent a lot of time explaining the new features and telling you how excited we are. Now, with prices going up on February 2, we thought we’d let other people tell you about Verbum 6. Feel...
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...
February 2 is your last day to take advantage of special introductory pricing on a Verbum 6 library! Whether you’re upgrading from Verbum 5 or purchasing your first library, you’ll save 15% or more on any Verbum 6 library. Our 15% off introductory...
The Verbum monthly sale features several valuable resources from St. Thomas Aquinas, leading up to his feast day, January 28th. Contemporary moral issues are considered by academics and experts in several fields from the Georgetown University...
The Verbum monthly sale is featuring several works of St Thomas Aquinas. Here’s an excerpt from Commentary on the Gospel of John: Chapters 1-5, part of the 8-volume set, Thomas Aquinas in Translation. Get a hint of the capacious and lucid...
After receiving over 3,000 entries in the Verbum Christmas Giveaway, we’ve randomly selected our winner. Howard Diehl is the happy recipient of an iPad mini and a Verbum 6 Scholar library! Howard is doing missionary work with the “Communautés et...
The Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas is January 28th, and Verbum is celebrating with sales on Aquinas texts and scholarship in the Verbum Monthly Sale. Here’s an excerpt from British Dominican scholar Aidan Nichols’ Discovering Aquinas: An...
Verbum was blessed to finish 2014 and begin 2015 with a week-long visit from Fr. Devin Roza and Fr. Andrew Dalton. These priests are power users of the software, and are currently studying Biblical Theology at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in...
The Church celebrated the feast of St. John the Evangelist on December 27th. Since St. John’s feast day is so close to Christmas, we decided to wait a little while to feature him in our blog. To give St. John his due, here is an excerpt from...
The Verbum Christmas Sale ends tomorrow! Don’t miss out—check out Verbum.com/Christmas Every year, on the twelveth day after Christmas—this year, January 6th—the church celebrates the feast of the Epiphany. From Scott...
Acquaint yourself with the fascinating life and writings of St Basil (born 330), one of the the early champions of Christianity! Although they were written over 1600 years ago, Basil’s sermons are fresh and vivid, and have much to say to us...
We read your Christmas wishlists and discounted 12 of Verbum’s most-requested resources. But we’ve also got another Christmas surprise: we’re giving away an iPad Mini and Verbum 6 Scholar! Check out the sales and enter to win at Verbum...
We at Verbum wish all of our software users a very Merry Christmas! This is a picture of our team at our department retreat in November at the Archbisop Brunett Retreat Center in Federal Way, Washington. May all the blessings of the season be yours...
Don’t Miss Your Advent Deals! Wednesday, December 24, is the final day of the Advent season. It’s also the final day to take advantage of Verbum’s Advent deals! Make sure you check out the Advent calendar for daily surprises, or see what’s on sale...
Verbum 6 makes Wikipedia work for you. If you still find yourself starting from Wikipedia—handy for quick overviews of foreign concepts—start from Wikipedia in Verbum. Verbum helps you go from Wikipedia to in-depth answers and allows you...
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich’s mysterious visions have been a subject of ongoing discussion in the Catholic Church. When she was beatified in 2004 by Pope John Paul II, the authenticity of the transcriptions of her visions was thoroughly...
From J.N. Tylenda’s Saints and Feasts of the Liturgical Year: The shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, on the outskirts of Mexico City, is the most famous shrine of our Lady in the Western Hemisphere, and today we commemorate her appearances to a...