(Pre-Order) The Cassock: Sign of Christ, Sign of Contradiction, by Fr. Lawrence Carney

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Foreword by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke! 

For decades now, the average Catholic has spoken about a longing for the days when one would see religious priests, brothers, sisters, and nuns wearing the full habit. They speak of the comfort they once saw when priests walked in public in their cassocks. The rest of the world has largely not even seen a priest in a cassock except in the movies. The Church Militant, those seminarians, priests, and religious, have even been discouraged in modern times from wearing the cassock, the flag of Christ, a part of the Church Visible.

The Cassock presents a challenge for the clergy to consider the witness given by donning the cassock, that Holy Mother Church might once again visibly manifest a thriving priesthood.

Between the covers of this volume, lay people, seminarians, religious, and priests will learn:

• The heartening stories of the Claretian Martyrs of Barbastro and Blessed Rolando Rivi
• How these men chose to wear the cassock even to martyrdom
• Whether the cassock is forbidden to be worn outside of the parish grounds. The author puts forth research to answer this question
• How the American Indians were drawn to the cassock in dreams and sought baptism into the Catholic Faith through the “Black Robes,” the missionary and cassock-clad priests in the United States
• How the cassock is a sacred garment with its own official blessing and how it can help deter a priest from temptations
• The practical side of how a priest wears a cassock in the chapter called “Cassock Trimmings”

The book concludes with the spirituality that comes with the cassock and how it relates to the minor orders: porter, exorcist, lector, and acolyte.

The time has come for a visceral renewal of the Holy Priesthood in the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ. This will only come about by the prayers of faithful Catholics who pray for a fully alive, thriving, and holy priesthood. Does the cassock play a part in this renewal? St. Augustine heard the command: Tolle lege! Tolle lege! Take up and read!

Fr. Lawrence Daniel Carney III, is the author of five books including Walking the Road to God, Remedy, The Secret of the Holy Face, and Total Consecration to the Holy Face of Jesus. Father Carney walks the streets in cassock, with Rosary and cross, praying for the conversion of sinners. He works to spread devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus and the Most Holy Rosary as an author, in interviews, at conferences, retreats, and parish missions.

79 pages

Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-961721-37-1; Price: $15.95

Hardcover: ISBN: 978-1-961721-38-8; Price: $19.95

eBook: ISBN: 978-1-961721-39-5; Price: $7.99

Audiobook: ISBN: 978-1-961721-40-1; Price: $15.95