Our St. Charles Lending Library
is Now Open!

Over the years, St. Charles has amassed some wonderful resources for our parishioners to expand their understanding of our Catholic Faith. A team has recently organized this collection by theme and has created an online catalog of over 1,600 items.

Keeley Center rooms have bookcases of items pertaining to a particular theme. 

RM 5  MEDITATION: Children’s Spirituality, Grief, Meditation, Prayer, Saints, Spirituality

RM 6 SOCIAL JUSTICE: Saints, Social Justice

RM 7 OCIA (Order of Catholic Initiation for Adults): Insightful Reading (Philosophy, Psychology, Morality), Sacraments, Who is Jesus?

RM 8  SCRIPTURE: Biblical Dictionaries, Individual or Small Group Bible Study (Devotional), Scholarly Commentary, Scripture, Scripture Study

RM 9 CATHOLIC CHURCH: Catholic Church: Catechism, Catechism, Catholicism - Overview, Church Documents, Church History, Church Leadership, Church Organization, Lectionary, Philosophy, Religious Education - Theory, Small Groups, Stewardship, Women in the Church, Writing of St. Francis

KEELEY CENTER HALLWAY: Children’s Stories of the Bible, Children and Adult Fiction

You are welcome to browse the collection in person–just stop by the church office or browse the collection when you are at a meeting.  You can borrow items on the “honor system” – just return them to the Keeley Center in marked baskets in each room. Just like a public library, you may also browse our ONLINE CATALOG from home. The catalog indicates details about the book and tells you where you would find the book in the Keeley Center. This video explains HOW to BROWSE the CATALOG.

We hope you will enjoy using this extensive, well-selected resource of materials to guide you in your FAITH LEARNING.

PS You may also want to view our archive of videos and podcasts
in our Adult Learning (Video & Podcast) Online Library.