KAY MURDY'S WRITINGS

Kay has a Masters of Arts degree in Religious Studies from Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA. Kay and her husband Bob are founders and coordinators of the Catholic Bible Institute for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Kay is a regular columnist for Ministry and Liturgy magazine. Her newest book is What Every Catholic Needs to Know About the Bible. You can purchase Kay's books from Resource Publications, Inc., 160 E. Virginia Street #290, San Jose, CA 95112-5876. Visit Resource Publications: http://www.rpinet.com  Email Contact: murdyk@netscape.net

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Prayer to St. Francis de Sales Patron of Authors, the Catholic Press and Journalists
Saint Francis de Sales, you preached to thousands with the pen, introducing them to "the devout life." You wrote about God's love and made countless converts by your Christ-like kindness. Help writers to realize the power of the Press and inspire them with your zeal for spreading truth. Help them to write honestly and prayerfully, so that they will contribute to bringing about God's Kingdom. Amen.

READ KAY'S ARTICLE ON St. Thèrése of Lisieux
"GOD'S BIG WAY AND THERESE'S LITTLE WAY"

READ  KAY'S ARTICLE ON OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
"RADIATING GOD'S LOVE"

GROW DAILY WITH GOD'S WORD
by Kay Murdy
Study, Pray and Act

Daily Word of Life offers Daily Meditations based on the Mass readings
 

Season of Emmanuel 
A simple and practical lectionary-based guide
for enriching the Advent and Christmas seasons

Make sure your Christmas does not end on December 26. Read this daily devotional to keep yourself grounded in liturgical spirituality. Kay Murdy, author of the best-selling 90 Days, uses the Sunday and weekday readings from the Roman Lectionary as the basis for daily reflections that take you from the first day of Advent through the Twelve days of Christmas to the Epiphany. Try it. You will have the best Christmas ever!

Paper, $8.95  You can order my book from Resource Publication http://www.rpinet.com/products/fpf.html 

From Pharaoh to the Father: 
A Journey Toward Freedom Through The Lord's Prayer
Unpack the Lord's Prayer and experience the Exodus. It's true. If you meditate on the Lord's Prayer - beginning with the last phrase and going backwards to the first phrase - you recreate, in effect, the journey of the Israelites out of Egypt. Kay Murdy builds her provocative book on this insight, moving in eight steps from an all-too real world of evil and bondage to intimacy with the Holy One. Along the way, she builds powerful connections between Scripture and Tradition and the Old and New Testaments. Discussion questions make this a useful tool for introducing catechumens to the Lord's Prayer.

"From Pharaoh to the Father is written in a clear and simple style. Kay Murdy teaches spiritual things spiritually, and her work deserves to be warmly welcomed as a good guide along the path of prayer and Scripture. She has the rare gift of being able to integrate Scripture, prayer, and contemporary daily living." - Joseph Glynn, ODC

Paper, $17.95  You can order my book from Resource Publication http://www.rpinet.com/products/fpf.html 

Hello Mrs. Murdy,
I am a Ministry Consultant for RPI, and I wanted to let you know that I have thoroughly enjoyed your book "From Pharaoh to the Father." I especially liked the discussion questions at the end of each chapter, which I felt were on-target. I also enjoyed the juxtaposition of the Exodus story with the Lord's prayer. I wanted to let you know that in the new catalog I'm working on, I'll be highlighting this book as one of my favorites. I've asked our new Editor, Helen St. Paul, to write a "new" description for this book for the catalog because I feel it has not been adequately represented in other catalogs. Thank you so much for your writings. I have LOVED recommending this book to my friends, Bless you and have a joyous Thanksgiving, Evangelina Preciado, Ministry Consultant, Resource Publications, Inc.

Dear Kay,
I have just finished reading your wonderful book which you kindly presented to me, "From Pharaoh to the Father". Congrats, it is brilliant! What a wealth of useful and necessary details you have shared about the Old Testament customs and meanings of words, but also about the New Testament. In taking us backwards through the Lord's Prayer and forwards through the book of Exodus, you have helped integrate and develop in an anointed way the essence of spirituality of both Judaism and Christianity. Your practical comments and questions are also a help to personalize this spirituality and authenticate it, through prayer and reflection, for each one of us living in this modern world. Thanks again for your gentle scholarship and deep wisdom. May many read and profit from this book! Love and prayers,
Fr. Fio Mascarhenas, S.J. Bombay, India

Dear Kay,
"From Pharaoh to the Father" Indeed! It is a great title, and looks like a great book. I will look for it in our Paulist bookstore in Washington. My best to you and Bob and keep up all the good work as the great educators of Los Angeles! Sincerely, Fr. Lawrence Boadt, CSP. editor, Paulist Press http://paulistpress.com

Kay, Congratulations! I'll be watching for it in the Christian Book Store, and other places. You can rightly be proud of it (with the appropriate amount of humility, of course!!!!). That is good news, and will encourage me to continue with my resolve not to teach full time next year, in spite of two excellent offers. I do want to get back to the research and writing. You give me encouragement. Keep up your writing and publishing talents, Kay. What a way to be a guide to others. Again, congratulations! Sr. Rosemary Rader, OSB, a great admirer. (Carlton College)

Thanks, Kay. Looks "provocative".
Fr. Ray Roh, OSB, Take a Moment & Visit Fr. Roh's Web page: 
Monastery of the Risen Christ

Ministry and Liturgy Magazine
Kay Murdy on the Spirituality of the Lectionary

Kay offers spiritual insights into the Sunday readings for Mass and practical application for our daily lives. You can subscribe to Ministry and Liturgy magazine (formerly Modern Liturgy). Visit Resource Publications Web Site: http://www.rpinet.com