Gifts for those converting

[missionseeker]

You guys, I need help! 

My aunt and my fiance are coming into the Church on Saturday (unfortunately not in the same place. ) and I want to get them both a "welcome home" kind of gift.

The obvious are Bible, Rosary, Crucifix. But I was wondering if there are any that others would suggest. I'm going to hold off on the Rosary for him, at least, because I found a lady and her daughter who can preserve wedding flowers. One of the things she can do is encase them in glass Rosary beads, so I was going to have that done after we're married. 

Apparently I am a bad Catholic/Fiancee and have NEVER shown him a Catholic Bible?? (Though, I usually use an app now...) But he was excited because "It's labeled in sections" and I had no idea what he was talking about. I guess protestant bibles don't have the headings and he thought was pretty cool. 

 

I'd also like to get his father a book about what Catholics actually believe. They are Southern Baptist and when FH told him he was considering, he was afraid or the Marian and Papal stuff. He's very intelligent and has a half brother who is Catholic, so it is not completely foreign to him. But at the same time, I think it is. So any suggestions for that would be welcome as well! 

[CatherineM]

I've heard several Protestant ministers who converted talk about the writings of the early church fathers being key to their conversions. 

[DominicanHeart]

I would give them books about Saints or something about the Saint they are taking the name of

[tinytherese]

For your future father in law, I recommend the books

Unabridged Christianity by Fr. Mario P. Romero

By What Authority? by Mark Shea.

[truthfinder]

Why not a devotional manual/prayer book of some sort? I've got an old Key of Heaven book which had the whole Mass in translation, the Sunday readings, the rosary, various popular day and night prayers, stations of the cross (and oddly the entire nuptial Mass). Super handy! There's a more recent version that's been update for the OF and slimmed down but it's pretty good.  There's lot out there in other forms and even as a cradle-catholic I like having my prayers printed.