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	"title": "The Man of God",
	"subtitle": "Catholic Prayers and Devotions for Men",
	"fullTitle": "The Man of God: Catholic Prayers and Devotions for Men",
	"status": "published",
	"contributors": [
		{
			"name": "Fr. Charles J. Callan, O.P.",
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		},
		{
			"name": "Fr. John A. McHugh, O.P.",
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		}
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	"summary": "A small, complete prayer book for Catholic men: the Mass in Latin and English, confession, and plain advice on marriage, fatherhood, and growing old.",
	"description": "The Man of God is a prayer book that assumes you have duties: a wife or the hope of one, children or parents, work, a parish, and a death to get ready for. Two Dominican priests, Fr. Charles Jerome Callan and Fr. John Ambrose McHugh, put it together for Catholic men in 1928, and before it reaches a single prayer it gives several pages of plain counsel. A young man is told never to keep company with a girl he has no intention of marrying, and not to marry until he can support a wife. A husband reads that if he and his wife are properly mated, cooperation takes the place of bossing. A father who neglects Mass is warned never to wonder when his sons do likewise. An old man is told that old people often turn selfish and disagreeable. Then comes a rule of life in ten numbered points.\n\nAfter that it is a working prayer book. The whole Mass is here in Latin and English side by side, with a plainer set of prayers for following it, and the server's responses at the back. Confession gets a complete examination of conscience and the words to say once you are in the confessional. There are Communion prayers, Benediction, the litanies, the rosary, the Stations, a prayer for success in work, and prayers for the dying that tell you what to set out in the sick-room. A husband's prayer, a father's prayer, and a son's prayer, each a few lines long, sit near the end.\n\nIt is a short book that speaks to a grown man, and the right one to hand a son at his confirmation or a husband who has never had a prayer book of his own.",
	"categories": [
		"Prayer and Devotion"
	],
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		"alt": "Cover of The Man of God, showing Saint James the Greater by Jusepe de Ribera"
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	"sourceEdition": {
		"title": "The Man of God: Catholic Prayers and Devotions for Men",
		"year": 1928,
		"publisher": "P. J. Kenedy & Sons",
		"place": "New York",
		"language": "English",
		"note": "Set from the 1928 edition published by P. J. Kenedy & Sons, with the imprimatur of Patrick Cardinal Hayes."
	},
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	"published": "2026-09-17",
	"updated": "2026-10-22",
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