Two of our most inspiring titles will be featured throughout Hallow's Pray40 this Lent.

This Lent, be inspired by the story of Servant of God Takashi Nagai, a Japanese physician who survived the atomic bombing.

A Song for Nagasaki tells the moving story of Takashi Nagai's remarkable spiritual journey from Shintoism to atheism to Catholicism. On August 9, 1945, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, killing tens of thousands of people in the blink of an eye, while fatally injuring and poisoning thousands more. As a survivor of the bombing, Takashi Nagai threw himself into service to the countless victims of the bomb explosion, even though it meant deadly exposure to the radiation which eventually would cause his own death. Living in the rubble of the ruined city and suffering from leukemia, Nagai lived out the remainder of his remarkable life by bringing physical and spiritual healing to his war-weary people.

Takashi Nagai lived the Christian message of love and forgiveness. He became a highly revered man and is considered a saint by many Japanese people.

In a time when technology and materialism exert such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence.

Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love? Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart?

After the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah emphasizes that "the true revolution comes from silence; It leads us toward God and others so as to place ourselves humbly and generously at their service.”