You've heard me on YouTube. Here is the rest of it.
Three large-print books from an old parish priest. Everything I could never fit into a few minutes of video, written down so you can keep it by your bed, with every word drawn from Scripture and the Catechism.
From Father Thomas Hartigan,
My dear friend,
For nearly sixty years I have stood at the doors of other people's homes. Farmhouses with the porch light left on for me. Small apartments above shops. A house where a husband had died that morning, and the kitchen still smelled of the soup nobody ate.
At almost every door, sooner or later, someone asked me one of the same few questions.
“Father, is this house protected?”
“Who'll call a priest if it happens in the night?”
“Am I still praying the Rosary right?”
My own sister Kathleen, widowed now and living alone, asks me these on our Sunday telephone calls. In my videos I can only give you a few minutes of an answer. So I finally wrote the whole of it down, in three little books and in large print.
I would far rather you trust the Church than trust me. So every verse and every Catechism paragraph is printed with its number. Check them tonight.
With my blessing,
Father Thomas
The questions I'm asked most often, and the page where you'll find my full answer.
All three books are in the Complete Collection. See the price
Short chapters you can read in one sitting, in print large enough to read without hunting for your glasses. Tap any page to see it up close.
Bless your home, guard your bedside, and pray through the night.
On its own: $37. Buy Keep Watch alone
The last things, without fear, and a planner so your family never has to guess.
On its own: $27. Buy Ready When He Calls alone
The Rosary prayed properly, a gentle way back to Confession, and the Communion prayers.
On its own: $12. Buy the Companion alone
There's a lot of fear for sale about spiritual protection and the end of life. These books are the opposite: what the Church teaches, said plainly.
| My books | What you'll find online | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it comes from | Scripture and the Catechism, every reference printed | Often no source at all |
| Superstition | Warns against it, kindly and clearly | Often sells it |
| What you can do with it | Short chapters, printable cards and a planner | Videos you forget by morning |
| Easy on the eyes | Large print throughout | Small text, busy pages |
| Your priest | Sends you back to your parish | Tries to replace him |
Check it tonight. Open your Catechism to paragraphs 1670 and 2111 and read them side by side. One says what sacramentals do. The other says what they never do. That's the spirit of all three books.
For $10 more than Keep Watch alone, you get the whole collection.
117 large-print pages, with prayer cards, a funeral planner, and Father Thomas reading every book aloud.
| Keep Watch59 pages and 10 printable cards | $37 |
| Ready When He Calls38 pages and the funeral wishes planner | $27 |
| The Rosary, Confession & Communion Companion20 pages, all twenty mysteries | $12 |
| The audio editions of all threeListen with your eyes closed | Included |
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No. Each book is a digital download (a PDF file) that opens on your screen the moment you pay. Read it on a phone, tablet or computer, or print any page at home, especially the prayer cards. Nothing is mailed to you.
Yes. Every page is set in large, clear type made for tired eyes, and on a phone or tablet you can make it larger still by spreading two fingers on the screen.
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Yes. Every book comes with an audio edition, Father Thomas reading it aloud, so you can listen with your eyes closed or while you rest. It's on the same download page as the books.
Every teaching is drawn from Holy Scripture (the Douay-Rheims Bible) and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, with the reference printed so you can check it. Where something comes from private revelation or popular tradition, the book says so plainly.
Yes. Buy it with your own email, then forward the download email to your loved one, or print the pages and give them by hand. Many people buy the Complete Collection for a mother or father.
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Father Thomas is the character who hosts our YouTube channel, presented with AI. The teaching in his books comes straight from Scripture and the Catechism, with every reference printed so you can check it.
My dear friend, you don't have to do it all at once. If all you manage this week is setting your nightstand and saying five words before sleep, that's a good week. God isn't grading you. He's glad you came.
But don't leave the questions unanswered either. Somebody in your home is lying awake wondering about them. Let's give them an answer.
P.S. The Complete Collection is the one I'd choose. It covers your home now, your last hours when they come, and your prayer every day in between. And all three cost less together than two of them alone.
Father Thomas