Liturgical Press is honored to be the publisher of nineteen award winners in the Catholic Press Association 2016 Book Awards.

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Liturgical Press Earns Top Spot for 2nd Year in a Row Among Book Publishers at the 2017 Catholic Press Awards

COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA (June 2017)—Liturgical Press is honored to be the publisher of eighteen award winners in the Catholic Press Association 2017 Book Awards. Taking home twenty-three awards in all, including five for Give Us This Day, the daily prayer periodical for today’s Catholic, Liturgical Press received the most awards, and the most first-place awards (six in total), of any book publisher in the annual award competition. Liturgical Press books swept the liturgy books category and took first and second in the biography category. Among its awards, Give Us This Day swept the “Best Essay” category.

“We have the great privilege of working with so many extraordinary authors,” said Peter Dwyer, director at Liturgical Press. “It is gratifying to see their work and ours in service of the Gospel recognized with these awards.”

The full list of book awards:

Spirituality, Hard Cover:

Third Place: Blessed Among Us by Robert Ellsberg

Scripture, Popular Studies:

Honorable Mention: Panorama of the Bible: New Testament by Stephen J. Binz

Scripture, Academic Studies:

First Place: From the Wisdom Commentary series, Psalms, Books 2–3 by Denise Dombkowski Hopkins

Liturgy:

First Place: Three Great Days by Jeremy Helmes
Second Place: One Love by Paul Turner
Third Place: Sacramentality Renewed by Lizette Larson-Miller

Professional Books:

First Place: A Handbook for Catholic Preaching by Edward Foley, General Editor
Honorable Mention: The Gift of Administration by Donald Senior

Design and Production:

Honorable Mention: The Order of Celebrating Matrimony/Ritual del Matrimonio

Biography:

First Place: Joseph Bernardin by Steven P. Millies
Second Place: Elizabeth Johnson by Heidi Schlumpf
Honorable Mention: Blessed Among Us by Robert Ellsberg

Gender Issues:

First Place: Women Deacons? edited by Phyllis Zagano
Third Place: Claiming Her Dignity by L. Juliana M. Claassens

Catalog:

Honorable Mention: Liturgical Press Academic Fall 2016 by Monica Bokinskie

Faith and Science:

Second Place: Turning to the Heavens and the Earth edited by Julia Brumbaugh and Natalia Imperatori-Lee

Poetry:

Second Place: The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be by Brian Doyle
Honorable Mention: The Festal Works of St. Gregory of Narek by Abraham Terian

The full list of awards for Give Us This Day:

Best Essay in a Spirituality Magazine:

First Place: “A Prayer for You and Yours” by Brian Doyle
Second Place: “The Wisdom of Our Elders” by Mary Stommes
Third Place: “We Are Never Alone” by Michelle Francl Donnay

Best Spirituality Magazine:

Second Place: Give Us This Day

Best Cover: 4-color, small format:

Third Place: Give Us This Day, “The Angels Visit the Shepherds” by Marcia Carole

All the winning books are available directly from Liturgical Press. Visit litpress.org or call 1-800-858-5450. To subscribe to Give Us This Day, visit GUTD.net

For more information please contact:

Michelle Verkuilen, associate publisher of parish market
mverkuilen@litpress.org
(320) 363-2227

Tara Durheim, associate publisher of academic and trade markets
tdurheim026@litpress.org
(320) 363-2139

Cathy Donovan, associate publisher of Give Us This Day
cdonovan@litpress.org
(320) 363-3655

About Liturgical Press:

Located at Saint John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, Liturgical Press began publishing for the Church in 1926. Our staff is committed to providing religious and spiritual resources of the highest relevance and quality to Catholic parishes and individuals and to the academic community. Our imprints and publications include Liturgical Press Books, Liturgical Press Academic, Cistercian Publications, The Saint John’s Bible, Little Rock Scripture Study, and Give Us This Day.

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