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Please Participate in Pro-Life Events

2010-01-20T17:34:00.000-06:00

Texas Rally For Life
Saturday, January 23, 2010 - State Capitol - Austin, Texas

A bus will be coordinated by Life Advocates and you can contact us by e-mail or call (713) 682-5433 for more information. Life Advocates will have a bus leaving from Annunciation Catholic Church (Downtown Houston). Cost is $20.00 per adult and $5.00 per kid for the Life Advocate bus.

Life Advocate Bus Schedule leaving from Annunciation Catholic Church, 1618 Texas Avenue, Houston, Texas:

•8:30 a.m. - Bus leaves Houston from Annunciation Catholic Church for Austin.

•12:00 p.m. - Bus arrives in Austin. Bus will go to a designated lunch area. You may bring a sack lunch or bring money to buy a lunch.

•1:00 p.m. - Bus will take passengers to the Republic Square for the march to the Capitol.

•1:30 p.m. - March to the State Capitol for the Rally for Life.

•2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Rally for Life.

•4:00 p.m. - Bus leaves Austin for Houston.

•7:00 p.m. - Bus arrives in Houston at Annunciation Catholic Church.

** Snacks and drinks will be provided on the Life Advocate bus. **
St. Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church Respect Life Group will have a bus leaving from Spring, Texas. For more information about this bus contact Pat Finley by e-mail.

Houston Lutherans for Life will have a bus that will leave from Our Savior Lutheran Church, Houston, Texas. For more information about this bus contact Gary Schmidt by e-mail.

Father Matthias MSP Coming to Veritas!!!

2009-11-20T14:59:00.002-06:00

Our Beloved Father Matthias Selemobri witht he Missionary Society of St. Paul, who has been such a good customer and pro-life advocate, is returning to Houston and will be at Veritas this Tuesday, November 24th. Father Matthias has just written is first book, Stations of the Resurrection, and will be signing copies at Veritas.

Come and meet this wonderful Priest who has written a beautifully meditative book!

Upcoming Bible Study

2009-08-20T18:24:00.003-05:00

BIBLE STUDY ON PAUL'S LETTER'S FROM PRISON: Philipians, Colossians, Ephesians, First & Second Timothy

You can attend! Thursday Mornings or Thursday Evenings at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Sugarland. Call 281.240.6721 for more information.

Visit our New Audio Center!

2009-07-29T15:05:00.003-05:00

Our expanded audio center has a greater variety of audiobooks, cd talks, and Catholic music than ever before. Now Veritas has a comfortable reading and listening section where anyone can sample our products.

New Veritas Rewards Card Program

2009-06-15T12:59:00.004-05:00

Thank you for supporting Veritas Catholic Bookstore!

In appreciation we offer you a free VERITAS LOYALTY CARD which will provide discounts to you for purchases made.

1. Activation is free.
2. Your discounts are based on a point system
3. When you reach 250 points you are eligible for a 10% discount off your next purchase.

Please ask about our new gift cards as well. Again, thank you for your support. We hope to provide you with the best materials on the Catholic Faith available. Your Catholic Faith is the most precious gift you have. As fellow Catholics we are grateful to God for your prayers, witness and encouragement!

Another day another Lie

2009-05-06T14:03:00.000-05:00

Dan Brown is back. Rather I should say Ron Howard and Hollywood is back with another installment of revisionist history coupled with radical feminist, anti-Christ amorality rolled into the movie rendition of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. The new film makes ludicrous claims like Holy Communion was borrowed from the Aztecs! Never-mind the fact that the Mass was celebrated before the Aztec civilization began. But then again the Da Vinci Code purported that Our Blessed Lord was an impostor who had an affair with Mary Magdalene and their descendants were kept secret by the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, many people are as ignorant of historical facts as they are of their faith that they stupidly buy into the blasphemous calumnies of this pernicious Mr. Brown.
So, we will be selling all our left over Da Vinci Code rebuttal books at a 30% discount for everyone who unfortunately is going to have to take the time to inform those who take this stuff seriously with facts: hard core, reliable, archaeological, scientifically verifiable facts. The kind that get in the way of Ron Howard, Hollywood, and Dan Brown.

Now offering Bible Imprinting!

2009-04-13T12:10:00.002-05:00

Finally, Veritas Catholic Bookstore is offering Bible imprinting services. The cost will be $10.00 per Bible imprint. At this time we only have one font type which is Goudy. However, this is the most popular font chosen for imprinting a name and/or date on Bibles.

Previously we were constantly asked for recommendations as to where to have Bibles imprinted. Believe it or not, the service is hard to find, and some places require that you only buy a Bible from their store. Well now you can buy that First Communion Bible, that Confirmation Bible, or just that gift Bible for someone else and for others and have it imprinted right here at Veritas Catholic Bookstore.

Come to Calvary this Good Friday

2007-03-29T17:44:00.000-05:00

Finding God Amidst the Chaos

2007-03-26T13:11:00.000-05:00

There is so much confusion in our world today. Sin brings disruption, disunity, discord, and disaster. In Redemptor Hominis John Paul II wrote that the very talents and achievements of the modern age for which mankind boasts before its Creator are the same accomplishments that cause mankind so much anguish and concern. Over the last few Lenten Lecture talks at the University of St. Thomas with Father Tad Pacholczyk, Dr. Jean Kitchel, and Dr. Marcella Colbert, an attempt has been made to bring an order of ethics into the chaos of end of life decisions. With the Baby Boomer generation aging, the financial pressure of insurance companies is increasing. And with the complex decisions conerning maintaining, withholding, or changing medical treatment for the dying that require a level-headed prudent person to make, it seems that it is almost impossible to do the right thing in certain circumstances. How does one know the Church's teaching as to whether to administer antibiotics to a father dying with cancer who has contracted pnemonia? When should the respirator machine be considered extraordinary means of life support? With treatment ever evolving, with new options constantly developing, how are we to know we did everything we could to protect the life of Grandma?

These questions are recognizably specific to the individual situations. How is a Catholic suppose to discriminate between all the information and find the Church's latest statement of teaching concerning the event at hand? Perhaps the problem lies not so much in the communication of information by the Church, or the speed with which the Church pronounces definitively upon the morality of the latest action of the scientific community. Perhaps the problem is older and deeper than we think. Maybe the real predicament at hand is the crisis mankind faces in "the modern age". That is maybe the difficulties of professing the faith in its entirety and in the spirit of obedience to Divine authority in an age that scowls at such "traditional" understandings of moral formation is what is really at the crux of these ever developing bioethical dilemmas. We are not too far away from the day when humanity must face some type of biological hybrid (physiologically speaking) between animal and human DNA. We are already presented with situations in which the Church is asked to choose between permitting adoption of frozen human embryos conceived in vitro or allowing them to die naturally removed from machine support. When Pope Paul VI issued Humanae Vitae in 1969 a wave of dissent ensued throughout the Church's ranks causing a bitter and still felt discord among professed Catholics. The issue at concern in Humanae Vitae was simply the Church's perennial teaching that artificial contraception is intrinsically immoral according to the natural moral law. Now envision a time in the not too distant future when the Church will have to, in order to fulfill her Christ given mission to teach, to sanctify, and to rule the People of God, pronounce binding judgments on these more complex end of life and bioethical decisions.

Yet the problem is not the complexity of the situations. History has presented the Church with seemingly discouraging situations before--the rise of the evolution movement, rationalism, communism, and modernism to name just a few. Rather the problem lies within our hearts. "For out of the heart comes forth murder, adultery, unchastity, perversion." Jesus said. The real battleground is not the forum of communications, but the integrity of the will. Now is the time to decide with a world of uncertainty whether or not we as Catholics are going to submit in advance with the "obedience of faith" to the Church's magisterial teaching on innumerable issues no matter what the outcome may be. Indeed, if Catholics had this sort of attitude in anticipation of Humanae Vitae's release, there would have been nothing but the God-intended docility among the People of God to every "lawful authority" that St. Paul writes about in Romans chapter 13. In the end we must face the predicament of choosing to obey lawful authority in the "modern age"-an age that while, "claiming to be wise, became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles." -Romans Chapter 1