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The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life - Father Charles Arminjon
"Reading this book was one of the greatest graces of my life!" St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
In the late nineteenth century, Father Charles Arminjon, a priest from the mountains of southeastern France, assembled his flock in the town cathedral to preach a series of conferences to help them turn their thoughts away from this life’s mean material affairs—and toward the next life’s glorious spiritual reward. His wise and uncompromising words deepened in them the spirit of recollection that all Christians must have: the abiding conviction that heavenly aims, not temporal enthusiasms, must guide everything we think, say, and do.
When Father Arminjon’s conferences were later published in a book, many others were able to reap the same benefit—including fourteen-year-old Thérèse Martin, then on the cusp of entering the Carmelite convent in Lisieux. Reading it, she says, “plunged my soul into a happiness not of this earth.” Young Thérèse, filled with a sense of “what God reserves for those who love him, and seeing that the eternal rewards had no proportion to the light sacrifices of life,” copied out numerous passages and memorized them, “repeating unceasingly the words of love burning in my heart.”
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Diary of St. Faustina Kowalska
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Books previewed on this page are all highly recommendedThe End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life - Father Charles Arminjon
"Reading this book was one of the greatest graces of my life!" St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
In the late nineteenth century, Father Charles Arminjon, a priest from the mountains of southeastern France, assembled his flock in the town cathedral to preach a series of conferences to help them turn their thoughts away from this life’s mean material affairs—and toward the next life’s glorious spiritual reward. His wise and uncompromising words deepened in them the spirit of recollection that all Christians must have: the abiding conviction that heavenly aims, not temporal enthusiasms, must guide everything we think, say, and do.
When Father Arminjon’s conferences were later published in a book, many others were able to reap the same benefit—including fourteen-year-old Thérèse Martin, then on the cusp of entering the Carmelite convent in Lisieux. Reading it, she says, “plunged my soul into a happiness not of this earth.” Young Thérèse, filled with a sense of “what God reserves for those who love him, and seeing that the eternal rewards had no proportion to the light sacrifices of life,” copied out numerous passages and memorized them, “repeating unceasingly the words of love burning in my heart.”
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Diary of St. Faustina Kowalska
"In the evening, when I was in my cell, I saw the Lord Jesus clothed in a white garment. One hand [was] raised in the gesture of blessing, the other was touching the garment at the breast. From beneath the garment, slightly drawn aside at the breast, there were emanating two large rays, one red, the other pale. In silence I kept my gaze fixed on the Lord; my soul was struck with awe, but also with great joy. After a while, Jesus said to me, Paint an image according to the pattern you see, with the signature: Jesus, I trust in You. I desire that this image be venerated, first in your chapel, and [then] throughout the world.
I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I also promise victory over [its] enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death. I Myself will defend it as My own glory"
St. Anthony Mary Claret - Autobiography
"This idea of a lost eternity that began to move me so vividly at the tender age of five and that has stayed with me ever since and that, God willing, I will never forget is the mainspring and goad of my zeal for the salvation of souls. In time I felt a further stimulus for zeal of which I shall speak later, namely, the thought that sin not only condemns my neighbor but is an offense against God, my Father
This idea breaks my heart with pain and makes me want to run like… And I tell myself, "If a sin is infinitely malicious, then
preventing a sin is preventing an infinite offense against my God, against my good Father."
St Don Bosco - Life of St Dominic Savio
"Resolutions made by me, Dominic Savio, in the year 1849, on the day of my First Communion, at the age of seven.
1. I will go to Confession often, and as frequently to Holy Communion as my confessor allows.
2. I wish to sanctify the Sundays and festivals in a special manner.
3. My friends shall be Jesus and Mary.
4. Death rather than sin."
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Fatima - In Lucia's Own Words
"We had enjoyed the game for a few moments only, when a strong wind began to shake the trees. We looked up, startled, to see what was happening, for the day was unusually calm. Then we saw coming towards us, above the olive trees, the figure I have already spoken about. Jacinta and Francisco had never seen it before, nor had I ever mentioned it to them. As it drew closer, we were able to distinguish its features. It was a young man, about fourteen or fifteen years old, whiter than snow, transparent as crystal when the sun shines through it, and of great beauty. On reaching us, he said:
“Do not be afraid! I am the Angel of Peace. Pray with me.”
Kneeling on the ground, he bowed down until his forehead
touched the ground, and made us repeat these words three times: “My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You! I ask pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You.”
Then, rising, he said: “Pray thus. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive to the voice of your supplications.”
His words engraved themselves so deeply on our minds that we could never forget them. From then on, we used to spend long periods of time, prostrate like the Angel, repeating his words, until sometimes we fell, exhausted. I warned my companions, right away, that this must bekept secret and, thank God, they did what I wanted."
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Calls - by Sister Lucia
"Having replied to the first question, I shall now endeavor to reply to the second, which is the one that is put to me most frequently: ‘Tell us Sister, what exactly happened during the first Apparition in which little or nothing has been said?’
It must have been in 1914 or 1915, shortly after I began to care for my parents flock of sheep, because I had already begun the life of a humble shepherd together with other children of the area, when we were surprised by an Apparition that completely puzzled us. One day when we were on the slopes of the hill known as the Cabeco’ we saw something like a white cloud in the shape of a human being, which had come down from the sky and was passing slowly in front of us, above the trees, that stretched down to the valley at our feet, as if wishing to attract our attention and keep our eyes fixed on it."
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Blessed Raymond of Capua - Life of St. Catherine of Sienna
"Her youth realized the promises of her early infancy :
her words possessed a mysterious powerwhich inclined
the soul to God. As soon as one conversed with her,
sadness was dispelled from the heart, vexations and
troubles were forgotten, and a ravishing peace took
possession of the soul, so extraordinary indeed that one
could only imagine it to resemble that enjoyed by the
Apostles on Mount Thabor, when one exclaimed "It
is good for us to be here !"
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St Bonaventure - Holiness of Life
"Poverty is another of the virtues necessary
if we would be holy unto perfection. Our
Lord bears witness to this in the Gospel of
St. Matthew: :If thou wilt be perfect, go
sell what thou hast and give to the poor."
Since the fulness of evangelical perfection is
found in poverty, no one should imagine that
he has scaled the summits of perfection if he
has not become an adept in the practice of
evangelical poverty."
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St Birgitta of Sweden - Revelations and Prophecies
But you, my daughter, whom I have chosen for myself, and with whom I now speak in spirit: love me with all your heart ‐ not as you love your son or daughter or parents, but more than anything in the world ‐ since I, who created you, did not spare any of my limbs in suffering for your sake! Yet, I love your soul so dearly that, rather than losing you, I would let myself be crucified again, if it were possible. Imitate my humility; for I, the King of glory and of angels, was clothed in ugly, wretched rags and stood naked at the pillar and heard all kinds of insults and ridicule with my own ears. Always prefer my will before your own, because my Mother, your Lady, has, from the beginning to the end, never wanted anything but
what I wanted.
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St Bonaventure - Life of St. Francis of Assisi
"Therefore, when he once passed the holy day of Easter in a distant hermitage, so far from the dwellings of men that it was not possible to go forth to beg, in memory of Him who appeared on that day in the form of a pilgrim to the disciples going to Emmaus, he asked alms of his own brethren as a poor pilgrim, which when he had humbly received, he admonished them in many holy words, that passing through the desert of this world as pilgrims, and strangers, and true Hebrews, they should celebrate, in continual poverty of spirit, the true Pasch fo the Lord, that is this passage from this world to the Father."
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St Don Bosco - Memoirs of the Oratory
"It was at that age that I had a dream. All my life this remained deeply impressed on my mind. In this dream I
seemed to be near my home in a fairly large yard. A crowd of children were playing there. Some were laughing, some were playing games, and quite a few were swearing. When I heard these evil words, I jumped immediately amongst them and tried to stop them by using my words and my fists.
At that moment a dignified man appeared, a nobly dressed adult. He wore a white cloak, and his face shone so that I could not look directly at him. He called me by name, told me to take charge of these children, and added these words: "You will have to win these friends of yours not by blows but by gentleness and love. Start right away to teach them the ugliness of sin and the value of virtue."
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St. Francis de Sales - Consoling thoughts of
"O holy, fortunate, and happy crowd of sinners and publicans, who approach to our Lord! They are not like those invited to the great feast, who excused themselves: they come, and are welcome. O my Savior, how have these sinners drawn nigh to Thee since Thou art just? For David says absolutely of the just man that evil must not approach to him: "Depart from me, ye wicked." Since it is thus, O Savior, O Redeemer, O good God, I can say to the multitude on Thy Part: "Approach to God, and you will be enlightened, and your faces will not be confounded; for he receives sinners"
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Blessed Anna Katharina Emmerich - The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
The Jews, having quite exhausted their barbarity, shut Jesus up in a little vaulted prison, the remains of which subsist to this day. Two of the archers alone remained with him, and they were soon replaced by two others. He was still clothed in the old dirty mantle, and covered with the spittle and other filth which they had thrown over him; for they had not allowed him to put on his own clothes again, but kept his hands tightly bound together.
When our Lord entered this prison, he prayed most fervently that his Heavenly Father would accept all that he had already suffered, and all that he was about to suffer, as an expiatory sacrifice, not only for his executioners, but likewise for all who in future ages might have to suffer torments such as he was about to endure, and be tempted to impatience or anger.
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St Francis de Sales - Introduction to Devout Life
"Almost all those who have written concerning the devout life have had chiefly in view persons who have altogether quitted the world; or at any rate they have taught a manner of devotion which would lead to such total retirement. But my object is to teach those who are living in towns, at court, in their own households, and whose calling obliges them to a social life, so far as externals are concerned. Such persons are apt to reject all attempt to lead a devout life under the plea of impossibility; imagining that like as no animal presumes to eat of the plant commonly called Palma Christi, so no one who is immersed in the tide of temporal affairs ought to presume to seek the palm of Christian piety.
And so I have shown them that, like as the mother-of-pearl lives in the sea without ever absorbing one drop of salt water; and as near the Chelidonian Isles springs of sweet water start forth in the midst of the ocean and as the firemoth hovers in the flames without burning her
wings; even so a true stedfast soul may live in the world untainted by worldly breath, finding a well-spring of holy piety amid the bitter waves of society, and hovering amid the flames of earthly lusts without singeing the wings of its devout life. Of a truth this is not easy,"
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St. Robert Bellarmine - The Eternal Happiness of the Saints
"WE may learn how important is knowledge of the kingdom of heaven from this circumstance, that Christ our heavenly Master began His preaching with these words: “Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” He also delivered nearly all His parables concerning the kingdom of heaven, saying, " The kingdom of heaven is likened & c. And after His resurrection, during the forty days before His ascension, appearing to His disciples, He spoke to them of the kingdom of God, as St. Luke mentions in the Acts of the Apostles. This kingdom therefore formed the beginning, continuation, and end of the discourses of Christ. But I do not intend to enter upon all the points connected with heaven, but only to explain those that relate to the “place and state" of the Blessed. In the first place, I will endeavour to show why the “habitation” of the blessed is called the "kingdom of heaven" in the Holy Scriptures."
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St Peter Julian Eymard - the Divine Eucharist
"PRAYER, incessant prayer, otherwise called the habit of prayer, is necessary for every Christian. All have received the grace of prayer in Baptism. It is the Holy Spirit who inspires us to cry to God: "Abba Fater—Father, Father 1" It is the gift, the grace, the privilege of all. We 'can do no
good, practise no virtue without prayer, which obtains for us the grace of goodness and virtue. Prayer is the foundation of all the virtues, and faith itself, the beginning of justice, it but the exercise of prayer."
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St. Peter Julian Eymard - Month of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament
"Because we make profession of especially honoring the Holy Eucharist, it does not follow that we should have less devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Far from it! He would be guilty of blasphemy who would say: "As for me, the Blessed Sacrament suffices. I have no need of Mary." Where shall we find Jesus on earth if not in Mary s arms. Did she not give us the Eucharist? Was it not her consent to the Incarnation of the Word in her pure womb that inaugurated the great mystery of reparation to God and union with us, which Jesus accomplished by His mortal life, and that He continues in the Eucharist?"
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Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich - Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary
"I saw Anna’s ancestors helping to carry the Ark of the Covenant with great devotion and piety, and I saw also that they received from the holy thing therein rays of light which extended to their descendants, to Anna and the Blessed Virgin. Anna’s parents were rich. This was clear to me because of their possessions; they had many oxen; but they kept nothing for themselves alone, they gave everything to the poor. I saw Anna as a child; she was not particularly beautiful, but yet more so than others. She was far less beautiful than Mary, but remarkably simple and childlike in her piety; I have always seen her like that, whether as girl, mother, or old, old woman. Indeed, whenever I saw a real childlike old peasant woman, it always made me think ‘she is like Anna’. She had several other brothers and sisters, all married, but she did not wish to marry. She was particularly fond of her parents, and though she had at least six suitors, she rejected them all."
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The Imitation of Christ - Thomas a Kempis
"Having a Humble Opinion of Self. EVERY man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God?
Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars. He who knows himself well becomes mean in his own eyes and is not happy when praised by men. If I knew all things in the world and had not charity, what would it profit me before God Who will judge me by my deeds? Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and to be called wise. Yet there are many things the knowledge of which does little or no good to the soul, and he who concerns himself about other things than those which lead to salvation is very unwise."
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Secret of Sanctity - According to Francis de Sales
"OUR great happiness as Christians is to possess, in this world, through grace and love, Him Who deigns to be our beatitude for all eternity; and our greatest misfortune, after sin, is not to know or to recognize this secret of eternal charity. God would have us holy even as He is holy; He would have us live His very life. It is for this end that He has given us His divine Son, and with Him the infinite riches of His heart; that is, His merits, His sacraments, His Church."
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Fathers of the Desert - Volume 1
"The desert had now a well-known road through it, made by the numbers of people who flocked to Antony and sought for consolation or instruction from him. Notwithstanding his humility, which made him in his own eyes the least and the most unworthy of all, he believed at length that he ought not to refuse them this spiritual alms. Therenown of his discernment, his power, and his virtue, spread far and wide, and grew so great, that people began to bring the sick, the crippled, and the possessed to him, that he might heal them."
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Fathers of the Desert - Volume 2
"The village of Sis, or Sisan, in which Simeon came into the world in the year 388, was situated on the borders of Cilicia, in the mountains of Northern Syria. His parents were wealthy peasants, and good Christians. He received baptism as soon as he was born. He was early distinguished for his natural talents, his beauty, his strength, and his ability, and he was, moreover, of a cheerful and kind disposition, and had such a loving heart that he often deprived himself of his own food to feed the hungry. Like the patriarchs of old, Jacob and David, Simeon was a shepherd boy. His parents intrusted to him their flock of sheep, and he fulfilled all the duties of his state with great care. He loved the solitude of the hills and valleys where he led his sheep to pasture, for it suited and nourished the thoughtful tendency of his mind, whilst the images of nature made pure and peaceful impressions upon his soul. He was completely untouched by worldliness or sin, and was entirely destitute of instruction and education."
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St. Catherine of Genoa - Life and Doctrine
"Although of very noble parentage, and very delicate and beautiful in person, yet from her earliest years, she despised the pride of birth, and abhorred luxury; so that when only about eight years of age, she was inspired with the desire to do penance, and beginning to dislike the soft indulgence of her bed, she laid herself down humbly to sleep on straw, with a block of hardwood under her head, in the place of pillows of down."
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St Bernard of Clairvaux - On Loving God
"You want me to tell you why God is to be loved and how much. I answer, the reason for loving God is God Himself; and the measure of love due to Him is immeasurable love. Is this plain?
Doubtless, to a thoughtful man; but I am debtor to the unwise also. A word to the wise is sufficient; but I must consider simple folk too. Therefore I set myself joyfully to explain more in detail what is meant above.
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. When one asks, Why should I love God? he may mean, What is lovely in God? or What shall I gain by loving God? In either case, the same sufficient cause of love exists, namely, God Himself."
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St. Albert the Great - On Cleaving to God
"I have had the idea of writing something for myself on and about the state of complete and full abstraction from everything and of cleaving freely, confidently, nakedly and firmly to God alone, so as to describe it fully (in so far as it is possible in this abode of exile and pilgrimage), especially since the goal of Christian perfection is the love by which we cleave to God. In fact everyone is obligated, to this loving cleaving to God as necessary for salvation, in the form of observing the commandments and conforming to the divine will, and the observation of the commandments excludes everything that is contrary to the nature and habit of love, including mortal sin. Members of religious orders have committed themselves in addition to evangelical perfection, and to the things that constitute a voluntary and counselled perfection by means of which one may arrive more quickly to the supreme goal which is God."
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St. Therese of Lisieux - Autobiography, Story of a Soul
"I often asked myself why God had preferences, why all souls did not receive an equal measure of grace. I was filled with wonder when I saw extraordinary favors showered on great sinners like St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Mary Magdalen, and many others, whom He forced, so to speak, to receive His grace. In reading the lives of the Saints I was surprised to see that there were certain privileged souls, whom Our Lord favoured from the cradle to the grave, allowing no obstacle in their path which might keep them from mounting towards Him, permitting no sin to soil the spotless brightness of their baptismal robe. And again it puzzled me why so many poor savages should die without having even heard the name of God."
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St Therese of Lisieux - Letters
"DEAREST CÉLINE, - There are moments when I wonder whether I am really and truly in the Carmel; sometimes I can scarcely believe it. What have I done for God that He should shower so many graces upon me?
A whole month has passed since we parted; but why do I say parted? Even were the wide ocean between us, our souls would remain as one. And yet I know that not to have me is real suffering, and if I listened to myself I should ask Jesus to let me bear the sadness in your stead! I do not listen, as you see; I should be afraid of being selfish in wishing for myself the better part – I mean the suffering. You are right – life is often burdensome and bitter. It is painful to begin a day of toil, especially when Jesus hides Himself from our love. What is this sweet Friend about? Does He not see our anguish and the burden that weighs us down? Why does He not come and
comfort us?"
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St Therese of Lisieux - Counsels and Reminiscences
One of the novices, greatly discouraged at the thought of her imperfections, tells us that her mistress spoke to her as follows:
“ You make me think of a little child that is learning to stand but does not yet know how to walk. In his desire to reach the top of the stairs to find his mother, he lifts
his little foot to climb the first stair. It is all in vain, and at each renewed effort he falls.
Well, be like that little child. Always keep lifting your foot to climb the ladder of holiness, and do not imagine that you can mount even the first step. All God asks of you is good will. From the top of the ladder He looks lovingly upon you, and soon, touched by your fruitless efforts, He will Himself come down, and, taking you in His arms, will carry you to His Kingdom never again to leave Him. But should you cease to raise your foot, you will be left for long on the earth."
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Catechisms of the Catholic Church (CCC)
"God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Saviour. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life."
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St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori - Prayer, the Means of Salvation and Perfection
"Hence it is that the generality of theologians, following St. Basil, St. Chrysostom, Clement of Alexandria, St. Augustine, and other Fathers, teach that prayer is necessary to adults, not only because of the obligation of the precept (as they say), but because it is necessary as a means of salvation. That is to say, in the ordinary course of Providence, it is impossible that a Christian should be saved without recommending himself to God, and asking for the graces necessary to salvation. St. Thomas teaches the same: 'After baptism, continual prayer is necessary to man, in order that he may enter heaven; for though by baptism our sins are remitted, there still remain concupiscence to assail us from within, and the world and the devil to assail us from without.'"
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Brother Lawrence Mary - Practice of the Presence of God
"That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.
That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him. That we ought to quicken, i.e., to enliven, our faith. That it was lamentable we had so little; and that instead of taking faith for the rule of their conduct, men amused themselves with trivial devotions, which changed daily. That the way of Faith was the spirit of the Church, and that it was sufficient to bring us to a high degree of perfection."
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St Louis de Montfort - Letters to Friends of the Cross
"Friends of the Cross, you are like crusaders united to fight against the world; not like Religious who
retreat from the world lest they be overcome, but like brave and valiant warriors on the battle-field, who refuse to retreat or even yield an inch. Be brave and fight courageously.
You must be joined together in a close union of mind and heart, which is stronger and far more formidable
to the world and to hell than are the armed forces of a great nation to its enemies. Evil spirits are united to
destroy you; you must be united to crush them. The avaricious are united to make money and amass gold
and silver; you must combine your efforts to acquire the eternal treasures hidden in the Cross. Pleasureseekers
unite to enjoy themselves; you must be united to suffer."
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St. Louis de Montfort - True Devotion to Mary
"God the Father willed that she should perform no miracle during her life, at least no public one, although he had given her the power to do so. God the Son willed that she should speak very little although he had imparted his wisdom to her. Even though Mary was his faithful spouse, God the Holy Spirit willed that his apostles and evangelists should say very little about her and then only as much as was necessary to make Jesus known. Mary is the supreme masterpiece of Almighty God and he has reserved the
knowledge and possession of her for himself."
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St Louis de Montfort - The Secret of the Rosary
"So by all means we should eagerly crown ourselves with these roses from heaven, and recite the entire
Rosary every day, that is to say, three rosaries each of five decades, which are like three little wreaths or
crowns of flowers. There are two reasons for doing this: first of all, to honour the three crowns of Jesus and
Mary - Jesus' crown of grace at the time of his Incarnation, his crown of thorns during his passion, and his crown of glory in heaven, and of course the three-fold crown which the Blessed Trinity gave Mary in heaven.
Secondly, we should do this so that we ourselves may receive three crowns from Jesus and Mary, the first a
crown of merit during our lifetime; the second, a crown of peace at our death; and the third, a crown of glory in
heaven."
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St Louis de Montfort - Secret of Mary
"Chosen soul, living image of God and redeemed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, God wants you to become holy like him in this life, and glorious like him in the next .
It is certain that growth in the holiness of God is your vocation. All your thoughts, words, actions, everything you suffer or undertake must lead you towards that end. Otherwise you are resisting God in not doing the work for which he created you and for which he is even now keeping you in being. What a marvellous transformation is possible! Dust into light, uncleanness into purity, sinfulness into holiness, creature into Creator, man into God! A marvellous work, I repeat, so difficult in itself, and even impossible for a mere creature to bring about, for only God can accomplish it by giving his grace abundantly and in an extraordinary manner. The very creation of the universe is not as great an achievement as this."
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St John of the Cross - A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul
"Where have You hidden Yourself,
And abandoned me to my sorrow, O my Beloved!
You have fled like the hart,
Having wounded me.
I ran after You, crying; but You were gone.
IN this first stanza the soul, enamored of the Word, the Son of God, the Bridegroom, desiring to be united to Him in the clear and substantial vision, sets before Him the anxieties of its love, complaining of His absence. And this the more so because, now pierced and wounded with love, for which it had abandoned all things, even itself, it has still to endure the absence of the Beloved, Who has not released it from its mortal flesh, that it might have the fruition of Him in the glory of eternity."
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St John of the Cross - Dark Night
"Begins the exposition of the stanzas which treat of the way and manner which the soul follows upon the road of the union of love with God.
Before we enter upon the exposition of these stanzas, it is well to understand here that the soul that utters them is now in the state of perfection, which is the union of love with God, having already passed through severe trials and straits, by means of spiritual exercise in the narrow way of eternal life whereof Our Saviour speaks in the Gospel, along which way the soul ordinarily passes in order to reach this high and happy union with God. Since this road (as the Lord Himself says likewise) is so strait, and since there are so few that enter by it,19 the soul considers it a great happiness and good chance to have passed along it to the said perfection of love, as it sings in this first stanza, calling this strait road with full propriety 'dark night,' as will be explained hereafter in the lines of the said stanza."
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St John of the Cross - Ascent of Mount Carmel
"IN order to expound and describe this dark night, through which the soul passes in order to attain to the Divine light of the perfect union of the love of God, as far as is possible in this life, it would be necessary to have illumination of knowledge and experience other and far greater than mine; for this darkness and these trials, both spiritual and temporal, through which happy souls are wont to pass in order to be able to attain to this high estate of perfection, are so numerous and so profound that neither does human knowledge suffice for the understanding of them, nor experience for the description of them; for only he that passes this way can understand it, and even he cannot describe it."
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St John of the Cross - The Living Flame of Love
"The soul now feels that it is all inflamed in the divine union, its palate is all bathed in glory and love, that in the intimate part of its substance it is flooded with no less than rivers of glory, abounding in delights, and from its depths flow rivers of living water [Jn. 7:38], which the Son of God declared will rise up in such souls. It seems, because it is so forcefully transformed in God, so sublimely possessed by him, and arrayed with such rich gifts and virtues, that it is singularly close to beatitude - so close that only a thin veil separates it.
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St Teresa of Avila - Interior Castle
"In a state of grace the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree. Otherwise it would produce neither leaves nor fruit, for the waters of grace nourish it, keep it from withering from drought, and cause it to bring forth good fruit. But the soul by sinning withdraws from this stream of life, and growing beside a black and fetid pool, can produce nothing but disgusting and unwholesome fruit."
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St Teresa of Avila - the Life of
"My mother also was a woman of great goodness, and her life was spent in great infirmities. She was singularly pure in all her ways. Though possessing great beauty, yet was it never known that she gave reason to suspect that she made any account whatever of it; for, though she was only three-and-thirty years of age when she died, her apparel was already that of a woman advanced in years. She was very calm, and had great sense. The sufferings she went through during her life were grievous, her death most Christian. We were three sisters and nine brothers. All, by the mercy of God, resembled their parents in goodness except myself, though I was the most cherished of my father. And, before I began to offend God, I think he had some reason,—for I am filled with sorrow whenever I think of the good desires with which our Lord inspired me, and what a wretched use I made of them. Besides, my brothers never in any way hindered me in the service of God."
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St Teresa of Avila - Way of Perfection
"It is certain, my Lord, that in these days withdrawal from the world means no sacrifice at all. Since worldly people have so little respect for Thee, what can we expect them to have for us? Can it be that we deserve that they should treat us any better than they have treated Thee? Have we done more for them than Thou hast done that they should be friendly to us? What then? What can we expect -- we who, through the goodness of the Lord, are free from that pestilential infection, and do not, like those others, belong to the devil? They have won severe punishment at his hands and their pleasures have richly earned them eternal fire. So to eternal fire they will have to go, though nonetheless it breaks my heart to see so many souls travelling to perdition. I would the evil were not so great and I did not see more being lost everyday."
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Autobiography of St. Gemma Galgani
"The first thing I remember is that when I was a little girl not seven years old, my mother used to take me into
her arms and often when she did this she cried and said to me: "I have prayed so much that Jesus would give me a little girl. He has given me this consolation; it is true, but too late. I am ill," she would say to me, "and I must die. I must leave you. Oh, if I could only take you with me! Would you come?" I understood very little of this but I wept because I saw my mother weeping. "And where are you going?" I asked her. "To heaven with Jesus and the angels," she replied. It was my mother, dear Father, who first made me want to go to heaven when I was just a little child. And when I still show this desire, I am reprimanded and receive an emphatic "No" for an answer."
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St. Leonard of Port Maurice - The Hidden Treasure of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
"In what does the chief excellence of the Mass consist? In this, namely, that it is essentially the same, nay the very same sacrifice that was offered on the cross of Calvary, with this sole difference, however, that the sacrifice of the cross was bloody, and was offered once, and did, on that one tremendous moment, satisfy fully for all the sins of the world; while the sacrifice of the altar is an unbloody sacrifice, which can be repeated throughout all times, and was insituted in order to apply to each of us that universal atonement which Christ made for us on Calvary."
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St Francis of Assisi - Works of the Seraphic Father
"I strictly command all the brethren that they do not hold any suspicious intercourse or counsel with women, nor enter the convents of nuns, except those to whom special licence is granted by the Apostolic See. Nor shall they be godfathers to men or women, lest on this account any scandal should arise among the Brethren or concerning them."
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Venerable Mary Agreda - Mystical City of God Volume 1
"I confess to Thee (Matth. 11, 25) and magnify Thee, King Most High, that in thy exalted Majesty Thou hast hidden these high mysteries from the wise and from the teachers, and in thy condescension hast revealed them to me, the most insignificant and useless slave of thy Church, in order that Thou mayest be the more admired as the omnipotent Author of this history in proportion as its instrument is despicable and weak."
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Venerable Mary Agreda - Mystical City of God Volume 2
"Her garments were humble and poor, yet clean,
of a dark silvery hue, somewhat like the color of ashes,
and they were arranged and worn without pretense, but
with the greatest modesty and propriety. At the time
when, without her noticing it, the embassy of heaven
drew nigh unto her, she was engaged in the highest
contemplation concerning the mysteries which the Lord
had renewed in her by so many favors during the nine
preceding days. And since, as we have said above, the
Lord himself had assured her that his Only begotten
would soon descend to assume human form, this great
Queen was full of fervent and joyful affection in the expectation of its execution and inflamed with humble love, she spoke in her heart :" Is it possible that the blessed time has arrived, in which the Word of the eternal
Father is to be born and to converse with men?"
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Venerable Mary Agreda - Mystical City of God Volume 3
"The five disciples of the Lord begged Him to grant them the consolation of seeing and reverencing his Mother. In accordance with their petition, He journeyed directly to Nazareth through Galilee, continuing to preach and teach publicly on the way and proclaiming Himself as the Master of truth and eternal life. Many, carried away by the force of his doctrines and by the light and grace overflowing into their hearts, began to listen to Him and to follow Him; though He did not, for the present, call any more to be his disciples. "
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Venerable Mary Agreda - Mystical City of God Volume 4
Through this sermon all the converts were inspired with additional fervor ; for their dispositions were altogether sincere, the words of the Apostles full of life and penetration, and the interior grace very abundant.
Then the Apostles themselves began to baptize amid the
most devout and orderly attention of the others. The catechumens entered one door of the Cenacle and after being baptized, they passed out through another, while the disciples and others of the faithful acted as ushers. The most holy Mary was present at the entire ceremony, although keeping to one side of the hall. She prayed for all of them and broke forth in canticles of praise.
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Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman - Apologia Pro Vita Sua
"IT may easily be conceived how great a trial it is to me to write the following history of myself; but I must not shrink from the task. The words, "Secretum meum mihi," keep ringing in my ears; but as men draw towards their end, they care less for disclosures. Nor is it the least part of my trial, to anticipate that, upon first reading what I have written, my friends may consider much in it irrelevant to my purpose; yet I cannot help thinking that, viewed as a whole, it will effect what I propose to myself in giving it to the public."
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Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman - Loss and Gain
"CHARLES REDING was the only son of a clergyman, who was in possession of a valuable benefice in a midland county. His father intended him for orders and sent him at a proper age to a public school. He had long revolved in his mind the respective advantages and disadvantages of public and private education, and had decided in favour of the former. "Seclusion," he said, "is no security for virtue. There is no telling what is in a boy's heart; he may look as open and happy as usual, and be as kind and attentive, when there is a great deal wrong going on within. The heart is a secret with its Maker; no one on earth can hope to get at it or to touch it. I have a cure of souls; what do I really know of my parishioners? Nothing; their hearts are sealed books to me. And this dear boy, he comes close to me; he throws his arms round me, but his soul is as much out of my sight as if he were at the antipodes. I am not accusing him of reserve, dear fellow; his very love and reverence for me keep him in a sort of charmed solitude. I cannot expect to get at the bottom of him."
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Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman - Holy Eucharist, A comfort to the penitent
"And Holy Scriptures hints, that the blessed Angels who never fell, shall in some way to us unknown, gain by the mystery of the Incarnation, being with us gathered together under One Head, our Incarnate Lord, into His One Body, the fulness of Him who filleth all in all. Certainly, Scripture seems to imply that, although He "took not the nature of angels" but "of man," yet all created beings, "thrones and dominions and principalities and powers," shall, if one may reverently say it, be more filled with God, when, this His body being perfected, there shall be no check or hindrance to the full effluence of His Divine Nature, circulating through the whole Body into which He shall have, "knit things in heaven and things in earth," "the innumerable company of the Angels," and "the just made perfect;" and the whole glorified Church shall be clothed and radiant with Him, the Sun of Righteousness"
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Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman - The Dream of Gerontius
Fatima - In Lucia's Own Words
"We had enjoyed the game for a few moments only, when a strong wind began to shake the trees. We looked up, startled, to see what was happening, for the day was unusually calm. Then we saw coming towards us, above the olive trees, the figure I have already spoken about. Jacinta and Francisco had never seen it before, nor had I ever mentioned it to them. As it drew closer, we were able to distinguish its features. It was a young man, about fourteen or fifteen years old, whiter than snow, transparent as crystal when the sun shines through it, and of great beauty. On reaching us, he said:
“Do not be afraid! I am the Angel of Peace. Pray with me.”
Kneeling on the ground, he bowed down until his forehead
touched the ground, and made us repeat these words three times: “My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You! I ask pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You.”
Then, rising, he said: “Pray thus. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive to the voice of your supplications.”
His words engraved themselves so deeply on our minds that we could never forget them. From then on, we used to spend long periods of time, prostrate like the Angel, repeating his words, until sometimes we fell, exhausted. I warned my companions, right away, that this must bekept secret and, thank God, they did what I wanted."
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Calls - by Sister Lucia
"Having replied to the first question, I shall now endeavor to reply to the second, which is the one that is put to me most frequently: ‘Tell us Sister, what exactly happened during the first Apparition in which little or nothing has been said?’
It must have been in 1914 or 1915, shortly after I began to care for my parents flock of sheep, because I had already begun the life of a humble shepherd together with other children of the area, when we were surprised by an Apparition that completely puzzled us. One day when we were on the slopes of the hill known as the Cabeco’ we saw something like a white cloud in the shape of a human being, which had come down from the sky and was passing slowly in front of us, above the trees, that stretched down to the valley at our feet, as if wishing to attract our attention and keep our eyes fixed on it."
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Blessed Raymond of Capua - Life of St. Catherine of Sienna
"Her youth realized the promises of her early infancy :
her words possessed a mysterious powerwhich inclined
the soul to God. As soon as one conversed with her,
sadness was dispelled from the heart, vexations and
troubles were forgotten, and a ravishing peace took
possession of the soul, so extraordinary indeed that one
could only imagine it to resemble that enjoyed by the
Apostles on Mount Thabor, when one exclaimed "It
is good for us to be here !"
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St Bonaventure - Holiness of Life
"Poverty is another of the virtues necessary
if we would be holy unto perfection. Our
Lord bears witness to this in the Gospel of
St. Matthew: :If thou wilt be perfect, go
sell what thou hast and give to the poor."
Since the fulness of evangelical perfection is
found in poverty, no one should imagine that
he has scaled the summits of perfection if he
has not become an adept in the practice of
evangelical poverty."
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St Birgitta of Sweden - Revelations and Prophecies
But you, my daughter, whom I have chosen for myself, and with whom I now speak in spirit: love me with all your heart ‐ not as you love your son or daughter or parents, but more than anything in the world ‐ since I, who created you, did not spare any of my limbs in suffering for your sake! Yet, I love your soul so dearly that, rather than losing you, I would let myself be crucified again, if it were possible. Imitate my humility; for I, the King of glory and of angels, was clothed in ugly, wretched rags and stood naked at the pillar and heard all kinds of insults and ridicule with my own ears. Always prefer my will before your own, because my Mother, your Lady, has, from the beginning to the end, never wanted anything but
what I wanted.
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St Bonaventure - Life of St. Francis of Assisi
"Therefore, when he once passed the holy day of Easter in a distant hermitage, so far from the dwellings of men that it was not possible to go forth to beg, in memory of Him who appeared on that day in the form of a pilgrim to the disciples going to Emmaus, he asked alms of his own brethren as a poor pilgrim, which when he had humbly received, he admonished them in many holy words, that passing through the desert of this world as pilgrims, and strangers, and true Hebrews, they should celebrate, in continual poverty of spirit, the true Pasch fo the Lord, that is this passage from this world to the Father."
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St Don Bosco - Memoirs of the Oratory
"It was at that age that I had a dream. All my life this remained deeply impressed on my mind. In this dream I
seemed to be near my home in a fairly large yard. A crowd of children were playing there. Some were laughing, some were playing games, and quite a few were swearing. When I heard these evil words, I jumped immediately amongst them and tried to stop them by using my words and my fists.
At that moment a dignified man appeared, a nobly dressed adult. He wore a white cloak, and his face shone so that I could not look directly at him. He called me by name, told me to take charge of these children, and added these words: "You will have to win these friends of yours not by blows but by gentleness and love. Start right away to teach them the ugliness of sin and the value of virtue."
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St. Francis de Sales - Consoling thoughts of
"O holy, fortunate, and happy crowd of sinners and publicans, who approach to our Lord! They are not like those invited to the great feast, who excused themselves: they come, and are welcome. O my Savior, how have these sinners drawn nigh to Thee since Thou art just? For David says absolutely of the just man that evil must not approach to him: "Depart from me, ye wicked." Since it is thus, O Savior, O Redeemer, O good God, I can say to the multitude on Thy Part: "Approach to God, and you will be enlightened, and your faces will not be confounded; for he receives sinners"
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Blessed Anna Katharina Emmerich - The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
The Jews, having quite exhausted their barbarity, shut Jesus up in a little vaulted prison, the remains of which subsist to this day. Two of the archers alone remained with him, and they were soon replaced by two others. He was still clothed in the old dirty mantle, and covered with the spittle and other filth which they had thrown over him; for they had not allowed him to put on his own clothes again, but kept his hands tightly bound together.
When our Lord entered this prison, he prayed most fervently that his Heavenly Father would accept all that he had already suffered, and all that he was about to suffer, as an expiatory sacrifice, not only for his executioners, but likewise for all who in future ages might have to suffer torments such as he was about to endure, and be tempted to impatience or anger.
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St Francis de Sales - Introduction to Devout Life
"Almost all those who have written concerning the devout life have had chiefly in view persons who have altogether quitted the world; or at any rate they have taught a manner of devotion which would lead to such total retirement. But my object is to teach those who are living in towns, at court, in their own households, and whose calling obliges them to a social life, so far as externals are concerned. Such persons are apt to reject all attempt to lead a devout life under the plea of impossibility; imagining that like as no animal presumes to eat of the plant commonly called Palma Christi, so no one who is immersed in the tide of temporal affairs ought to presume to seek the palm of Christian piety.
And so I have shown them that, like as the mother-of-pearl lives in the sea without ever absorbing one drop of salt water; and as near the Chelidonian Isles springs of sweet water start forth in the midst of the ocean and as the firemoth hovers in the flames without burning her
wings; even so a true stedfast soul may live in the world untainted by worldly breath, finding a well-spring of holy piety amid the bitter waves of society, and hovering amid the flames of earthly lusts without singeing the wings of its devout life. Of a truth this is not easy,"
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St. Robert Bellarmine - The Eternal Happiness of the Saints
"WE may learn how important is knowledge of the kingdom of heaven from this circumstance, that Christ our heavenly Master began His preaching with these words: “Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” He also delivered nearly all His parables concerning the kingdom of heaven, saying, " The kingdom of heaven is likened & c. And after His resurrection, during the forty days before His ascension, appearing to His disciples, He spoke to them of the kingdom of God, as St. Luke mentions in the Acts of the Apostles. This kingdom therefore formed the beginning, continuation, and end of the discourses of Christ. But I do not intend to enter upon all the points connected with heaven, but only to explain those that relate to the “place and state" of the Blessed. In the first place, I will endeavour to show why the “habitation” of the blessed is called the "kingdom of heaven" in the Holy Scriptures."
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St Peter Julian Eymard - the Divine Eucharist
"PRAYER, incessant prayer, otherwise called the habit of prayer, is necessary for every Christian. All have received the grace of prayer in Baptism. It is the Holy Spirit who inspires us to cry to God: "Abba Fater—Father, Father 1" It is the gift, the grace, the privilege of all. We 'can do no
good, practise no virtue without prayer, which obtains for us the grace of goodness and virtue. Prayer is the foundation of all the virtues, and faith itself, the beginning of justice, it but the exercise of prayer."
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St. Peter Julian Eymard - Month of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament
"Because we make profession of especially honoring the Holy Eucharist, it does not follow that we should have less devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Far from it! He would be guilty of blasphemy who would say: "As for me, the Blessed Sacrament suffices. I have no need of Mary." Where shall we find Jesus on earth if not in Mary s arms. Did she not give us the Eucharist? Was it not her consent to the Incarnation of the Word in her pure womb that inaugurated the great mystery of reparation to God and union with us, which Jesus accomplished by His mortal life, and that He continues in the Eucharist?"
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Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich - Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary
"I saw Anna’s ancestors helping to carry the Ark of the Covenant with great devotion and piety, and I saw also that they received from the holy thing therein rays of light which extended to their descendants, to Anna and the Blessed Virgin. Anna’s parents were rich. This was clear to me because of their possessions; they had many oxen; but they kept nothing for themselves alone, they gave everything to the poor. I saw Anna as a child; she was not particularly beautiful, but yet more so than others. She was far less beautiful than Mary, but remarkably simple and childlike in her piety; I have always seen her like that, whether as girl, mother, or old, old woman. Indeed, whenever I saw a real childlike old peasant woman, it always made me think ‘she is like Anna’. She had several other brothers and sisters, all married, but she did not wish to marry. She was particularly fond of her parents, and though she had at least six suitors, she rejected them all."
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The Imitation of Christ - Thomas a Kempis
"Having a Humble Opinion of Self. EVERY man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God?
Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars. He who knows himself well becomes mean in his own eyes and is not happy when praised by men. If I knew all things in the world and had not charity, what would it profit me before God Who will judge me by my deeds? Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and to be called wise. Yet there are many things the knowledge of which does little or no good to the soul, and he who concerns himself about other things than those which lead to salvation is very unwise."
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Secret of Sanctity - According to Francis de Sales
"OUR great happiness as Christians is to possess, in this world, through grace and love, Him Who deigns to be our beatitude for all eternity; and our greatest misfortune, after sin, is not to know or to recognize this secret of eternal charity. God would have us holy even as He is holy; He would have us live His very life. It is for this end that He has given us His divine Son, and with Him the infinite riches of His heart; that is, His merits, His sacraments, His Church."
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Fathers of the Desert - Volume 1
"The desert had now a well-known road through it, made by the numbers of people who flocked to Antony and sought for consolation or instruction from him. Notwithstanding his humility, which made him in his own eyes the least and the most unworthy of all, he believed at length that he ought not to refuse them this spiritual alms. Therenown of his discernment, his power, and his virtue, spread far and wide, and grew so great, that people began to bring the sick, the crippled, and the possessed to him, that he might heal them."
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Fathers of the Desert - Volume 2
"The village of Sis, or Sisan, in which Simeon came into the world in the year 388, was situated on the borders of Cilicia, in the mountains of Northern Syria. His parents were wealthy peasants, and good Christians. He received baptism as soon as he was born. He was early distinguished for his natural talents, his beauty, his strength, and his ability, and he was, moreover, of a cheerful and kind disposition, and had such a loving heart that he often deprived himself of his own food to feed the hungry. Like the patriarchs of old, Jacob and David, Simeon was a shepherd boy. His parents intrusted to him their flock of sheep, and he fulfilled all the duties of his state with great care. He loved the solitude of the hills and valleys where he led his sheep to pasture, for it suited and nourished the thoughtful tendency of his mind, whilst the images of nature made pure and peaceful impressions upon his soul. He was completely untouched by worldliness or sin, and was entirely destitute of instruction and education."
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St. Catherine of Genoa - Life and Doctrine
"Although of very noble parentage, and very delicate and beautiful in person, yet from her earliest years, she despised the pride of birth, and abhorred luxury; so that when only about eight years of age, she was inspired with the desire to do penance, and beginning to dislike the soft indulgence of her bed, she laid herself down humbly to sleep on straw, with a block of hardwood under her head, in the place of pillows of down."
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St Bernard of Clairvaux - On Loving God
"You want me to tell you why God is to be loved and how much. I answer, the reason for loving God is God Himself; and the measure of love due to Him is immeasurable love. Is this plain?
Doubtless, to a thoughtful man; but I am debtor to the unwise also. A word to the wise is sufficient; but I must consider simple folk too. Therefore I set myself joyfully to explain more in detail what is meant above.
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. When one asks, Why should I love God? he may mean, What is lovely in God? or What shall I gain by loving God? In either case, the same sufficient cause of love exists, namely, God Himself."
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St. Albert the Great - On Cleaving to God
"I have had the idea of writing something for myself on and about the state of complete and full abstraction from everything and of cleaving freely, confidently, nakedly and firmly to God alone, so as to describe it fully (in so far as it is possible in this abode of exile and pilgrimage), especially since the goal of Christian perfection is the love by which we cleave to God. In fact everyone is obligated, to this loving cleaving to God as necessary for salvation, in the form of observing the commandments and conforming to the divine will, and the observation of the commandments excludes everything that is contrary to the nature and habit of love, including mortal sin. Members of religious orders have committed themselves in addition to evangelical perfection, and to the things that constitute a voluntary and counselled perfection by means of which one may arrive more quickly to the supreme goal which is God."
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St. Therese of Lisieux - Autobiography, Story of a Soul
"I often asked myself why God had preferences, why all souls did not receive an equal measure of grace. I was filled with wonder when I saw extraordinary favors showered on great sinners like St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Mary Magdalen, and many others, whom He forced, so to speak, to receive His grace. In reading the lives of the Saints I was surprised to see that there were certain privileged souls, whom Our Lord favoured from the cradle to the grave, allowing no obstacle in their path which might keep them from mounting towards Him, permitting no sin to soil the spotless brightness of their baptismal robe. And again it puzzled me why so many poor savages should die without having even heard the name of God."
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St Therese of Lisieux - Letters
"DEAREST CÉLINE, - There are moments when I wonder whether I am really and truly in the Carmel; sometimes I can scarcely believe it. What have I done for God that He should shower so many graces upon me?
A whole month has passed since we parted; but why do I say parted? Even were the wide ocean between us, our souls would remain as one. And yet I know that not to have me is real suffering, and if I listened to myself I should ask Jesus to let me bear the sadness in your stead! I do not listen, as you see; I should be afraid of being selfish in wishing for myself the better part – I mean the suffering. You are right – life is often burdensome and bitter. It is painful to begin a day of toil, especially when Jesus hides Himself from our love. What is this sweet Friend about? Does He not see our anguish and the burden that weighs us down? Why does He not come and
comfort us?"
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St Therese of Lisieux - Counsels and Reminiscences
One of the novices, greatly discouraged at the thought of her imperfections, tells us that her mistress spoke to her as follows:
“ You make me think of a little child that is learning to stand but does not yet know how to walk. In his desire to reach the top of the stairs to find his mother, he lifts
his little foot to climb the first stair. It is all in vain, and at each renewed effort he falls.
Well, be like that little child. Always keep lifting your foot to climb the ladder of holiness, and do not imagine that you can mount even the first step. All God asks of you is good will. From the top of the ladder He looks lovingly upon you, and soon, touched by your fruitless efforts, He will Himself come down, and, taking you in His arms, will carry you to His Kingdom never again to leave Him. But should you cease to raise your foot, you will be left for long on the earth."
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Catechisms of the Catholic Church (CCC)
"God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Saviour. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life."
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St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori - Prayer, the Means of Salvation and Perfection
"Hence it is that the generality of theologians, following St. Basil, St. Chrysostom, Clement of Alexandria, St. Augustine, and other Fathers, teach that prayer is necessary to adults, not only because of the obligation of the precept (as they say), but because it is necessary as a means of salvation. That is to say, in the ordinary course of Providence, it is impossible that a Christian should be saved without recommending himself to God, and asking for the graces necessary to salvation. St. Thomas teaches the same: 'After baptism, continual prayer is necessary to man, in order that he may enter heaven; for though by baptism our sins are remitted, there still remain concupiscence to assail us from within, and the world and the devil to assail us from without.'"
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Brother Lawrence Mary - Practice of the Presence of God
"That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.
That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him. That we ought to quicken, i.e., to enliven, our faith. That it was lamentable we had so little; and that instead of taking faith for the rule of their conduct, men amused themselves with trivial devotions, which changed daily. That the way of Faith was the spirit of the Church, and that it was sufficient to bring us to a high degree of perfection."
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St Louis de Montfort - Letters to Friends of the Cross
"Friends of the Cross, you are like crusaders united to fight against the world; not like Religious who
retreat from the world lest they be overcome, but like brave and valiant warriors on the battle-field, who refuse to retreat or even yield an inch. Be brave and fight courageously.
You must be joined together in a close union of mind and heart, which is stronger and far more formidable
to the world and to hell than are the armed forces of a great nation to its enemies. Evil spirits are united to
destroy you; you must be united to crush them. The avaricious are united to make money and amass gold
and silver; you must combine your efforts to acquire the eternal treasures hidden in the Cross. Pleasureseekers
unite to enjoy themselves; you must be united to suffer."
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St. Louis de Montfort - True Devotion to Mary
"God the Father willed that she should perform no miracle during her life, at least no public one, although he had given her the power to do so. God the Son willed that she should speak very little although he had imparted his wisdom to her. Even though Mary was his faithful spouse, God the Holy Spirit willed that his apostles and evangelists should say very little about her and then only as much as was necessary to make Jesus known. Mary is the supreme masterpiece of Almighty God and he has reserved the
knowledge and possession of her for himself."
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St Louis de Montfort - The Secret of the Rosary
"So by all means we should eagerly crown ourselves with these roses from heaven, and recite the entire
Rosary every day, that is to say, three rosaries each of five decades, which are like three little wreaths or
crowns of flowers. There are two reasons for doing this: first of all, to honour the three crowns of Jesus and
Mary - Jesus' crown of grace at the time of his Incarnation, his crown of thorns during his passion, and his crown of glory in heaven, and of course the three-fold crown which the Blessed Trinity gave Mary in heaven.
Secondly, we should do this so that we ourselves may receive three crowns from Jesus and Mary, the first a
crown of merit during our lifetime; the second, a crown of peace at our death; and the third, a crown of glory in
heaven."
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St Louis de Montfort - Secret of Mary
"Chosen soul, living image of God and redeemed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, God wants you to become holy like him in this life, and glorious like him in the next .
It is certain that growth in the holiness of God is your vocation. All your thoughts, words, actions, everything you suffer or undertake must lead you towards that end. Otherwise you are resisting God in not doing the work for which he created you and for which he is even now keeping you in being. What a marvellous transformation is possible! Dust into light, uncleanness into purity, sinfulness into holiness, creature into Creator, man into God! A marvellous work, I repeat, so difficult in itself, and even impossible for a mere creature to bring about, for only God can accomplish it by giving his grace abundantly and in an extraordinary manner. The very creation of the universe is not as great an achievement as this."
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St John of the Cross - A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul
"Where have You hidden Yourself,
And abandoned me to my sorrow, O my Beloved!
You have fled like the hart,
Having wounded me.
I ran after You, crying; but You were gone.
IN this first stanza the soul, enamored of the Word, the Son of God, the Bridegroom, desiring to be united to Him in the clear and substantial vision, sets before Him the anxieties of its love, complaining of His absence. And this the more so because, now pierced and wounded with love, for which it had abandoned all things, even itself, it has still to endure the absence of the Beloved, Who has not released it from its mortal flesh, that it might have the fruition of Him in the glory of eternity."
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St John of the Cross - Dark Night
"Begins the exposition of the stanzas which treat of the way and manner which the soul follows upon the road of the union of love with God.
Before we enter upon the exposition of these stanzas, it is well to understand here that the soul that utters them is now in the state of perfection, which is the union of love with God, having already passed through severe trials and straits, by means of spiritual exercise in the narrow way of eternal life whereof Our Saviour speaks in the Gospel, along which way the soul ordinarily passes in order to reach this high and happy union with God. Since this road (as the Lord Himself says likewise) is so strait, and since there are so few that enter by it,19 the soul considers it a great happiness and good chance to have passed along it to the said perfection of love, as it sings in this first stanza, calling this strait road with full propriety 'dark night,' as will be explained hereafter in the lines of the said stanza."
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St John of the Cross - Ascent of Mount Carmel
"IN order to expound and describe this dark night, through which the soul passes in order to attain to the Divine light of the perfect union of the love of God, as far as is possible in this life, it would be necessary to have illumination of knowledge and experience other and far greater than mine; for this darkness and these trials, both spiritual and temporal, through which happy souls are wont to pass in order to be able to attain to this high estate of perfection, are so numerous and so profound that neither does human knowledge suffice for the understanding of them, nor experience for the description of them; for only he that passes this way can understand it, and even he cannot describe it."
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St John of the Cross - The Living Flame of Love
"The soul now feels that it is all inflamed in the divine union, its palate is all bathed in glory and love, that in the intimate part of its substance it is flooded with no less than rivers of glory, abounding in delights, and from its depths flow rivers of living water [Jn. 7:38], which the Son of God declared will rise up in such souls. It seems, because it is so forcefully transformed in God, so sublimely possessed by him, and arrayed with such rich gifts and virtues, that it is singularly close to beatitude - so close that only a thin veil separates it.
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St Teresa of Avila - Interior Castle
"In a state of grace the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree. Otherwise it would produce neither leaves nor fruit, for the waters of grace nourish it, keep it from withering from drought, and cause it to bring forth good fruit. But the soul by sinning withdraws from this stream of life, and growing beside a black and fetid pool, can produce nothing but disgusting and unwholesome fruit."
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St Teresa of Avila - the Life of
"My mother also was a woman of great goodness, and her life was spent in great infirmities. She was singularly pure in all her ways. Though possessing great beauty, yet was it never known that she gave reason to suspect that she made any account whatever of it; for, though she was only three-and-thirty years of age when she died, her apparel was already that of a woman advanced in years. She was very calm, and had great sense. The sufferings she went through during her life were grievous, her death most Christian. We were three sisters and nine brothers. All, by the mercy of God, resembled their parents in goodness except myself, though I was the most cherished of my father. And, before I began to offend God, I think he had some reason,—for I am filled with sorrow whenever I think of the good desires with which our Lord inspired me, and what a wretched use I made of them. Besides, my brothers never in any way hindered me in the service of God."
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St Teresa of Avila - Way of Perfection
"It is certain, my Lord, that in these days withdrawal from the world means no sacrifice at all. Since worldly people have so little respect for Thee, what can we expect them to have for us? Can it be that we deserve that they should treat us any better than they have treated Thee? Have we done more for them than Thou hast done that they should be friendly to us? What then? What can we expect -- we who, through the goodness of the Lord, are free from that pestilential infection, and do not, like those others, belong to the devil? They have won severe punishment at his hands and their pleasures have richly earned them eternal fire. So to eternal fire they will have to go, though nonetheless it breaks my heart to see so many souls travelling to perdition. I would the evil were not so great and I did not see more being lost everyday."
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Autobiography of St. Gemma Galgani
"The first thing I remember is that when I was a little girl not seven years old, my mother used to take me into
her arms and often when she did this she cried and said to me: "I have prayed so much that Jesus would give me a little girl. He has given me this consolation; it is true, but too late. I am ill," she would say to me, "and I must die. I must leave you. Oh, if I could only take you with me! Would you come?" I understood very little of this but I wept because I saw my mother weeping. "And where are you going?" I asked her. "To heaven with Jesus and the angels," she replied. It was my mother, dear Father, who first made me want to go to heaven when I was just a little child. And when I still show this desire, I am reprimanded and receive an emphatic "No" for an answer."
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St. Leonard of Port Maurice - The Hidden Treasure of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
"In what does the chief excellence of the Mass consist? In this, namely, that it is essentially the same, nay the very same sacrifice that was offered on the cross of Calvary, with this sole difference, however, that the sacrifice of the cross was bloody, and was offered once, and did, on that one tremendous moment, satisfy fully for all the sins of the world; while the sacrifice of the altar is an unbloody sacrifice, which can be repeated throughout all times, and was insituted in order to apply to each of us that universal atonement which Christ made for us on Calvary."
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St Francis of Assisi - Works of the Seraphic Father
"I strictly command all the brethren that they do not hold any suspicious intercourse or counsel with women, nor enter the convents of nuns, except those to whom special licence is granted by the Apostolic See. Nor shall they be godfathers to men or women, lest on this account any scandal should arise among the Brethren or concerning them."
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Venerable Mary Agreda - Mystical City of God Volume 1
"I confess to Thee (Matth. 11, 25) and magnify Thee, King Most High, that in thy exalted Majesty Thou hast hidden these high mysteries from the wise and from the teachers, and in thy condescension hast revealed them to me, the most insignificant and useless slave of thy Church, in order that Thou mayest be the more admired as the omnipotent Author of this history in proportion as its instrument is despicable and weak."
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Venerable Mary Agreda - Mystical City of God Volume 2
"Her garments were humble and poor, yet clean,
of a dark silvery hue, somewhat like the color of ashes,
and they were arranged and worn without pretense, but
with the greatest modesty and propriety. At the time
when, without her noticing it, the embassy of heaven
drew nigh unto her, she was engaged in the highest
contemplation concerning the mysteries which the Lord
had renewed in her by so many favors during the nine
preceding days. And since, as we have said above, the
Lord himself had assured her that his Only begotten
would soon descend to assume human form, this great
Queen was full of fervent and joyful affection in the expectation of its execution and inflamed with humble love, she spoke in her heart :" Is it possible that the blessed time has arrived, in which the Word of the eternal
Father is to be born and to converse with men?"
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Venerable Mary Agreda - Mystical City of God Volume 3
"The five disciples of the Lord begged Him to grant them the consolation of seeing and reverencing his Mother. In accordance with their petition, He journeyed directly to Nazareth through Galilee, continuing to preach and teach publicly on the way and proclaiming Himself as the Master of truth and eternal life. Many, carried away by the force of his doctrines and by the light and grace overflowing into their hearts, began to listen to Him and to follow Him; though He did not, for the present, call any more to be his disciples. "
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Venerable Mary Agreda - Mystical City of God Volume 4
Through this sermon all the converts were inspired with additional fervor ; for their dispositions were altogether sincere, the words of the Apostles full of life and penetration, and the interior grace very abundant.
Then the Apostles themselves began to baptize amid the
most devout and orderly attention of the others. The catechumens entered one door of the Cenacle and after being baptized, they passed out through another, while the disciples and others of the faithful acted as ushers. The most holy Mary was present at the entire ceremony, although keeping to one side of the hall. She prayed for all of them and broke forth in canticles of praise.
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Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman - Apologia Pro Vita Sua
"IT may easily be conceived how great a trial it is to me to write the following history of myself; but I must not shrink from the task. The words, "Secretum meum mihi," keep ringing in my ears; but as men draw towards their end, they care less for disclosures. Nor is it the least part of my trial, to anticipate that, upon first reading what I have written, my friends may consider much in it irrelevant to my purpose; yet I cannot help thinking that, viewed as a whole, it will effect what I propose to myself in giving it to the public."
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Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman - Loss and Gain
"CHARLES REDING was the only son of a clergyman, who was in possession of a valuable benefice in a midland county. His father intended him for orders and sent him at a proper age to a public school. He had long revolved in his mind the respective advantages and disadvantages of public and private education, and had decided in favour of the former. "Seclusion," he said, "is no security for virtue. There is no telling what is in a boy's heart; he may look as open and happy as usual, and be as kind and attentive, when there is a great deal wrong going on within. The heart is a secret with its Maker; no one on earth can hope to get at it or to touch it. I have a cure of souls; what do I really know of my parishioners? Nothing; their hearts are sealed books to me. And this dear boy, he comes close to me; he throws his arms round me, but his soul is as much out of my sight as if he were at the antipodes. I am not accusing him of reserve, dear fellow; his very love and reverence for me keep him in a sort of charmed solitude. I cannot expect to get at the bottom of him."
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Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman - Holy Eucharist, A comfort to the penitent
"And Holy Scriptures hints, that the blessed Angels who never fell, shall in some way to us unknown, gain by the mystery of the Incarnation, being with us gathered together under One Head, our Incarnate Lord, into His One Body, the fulness of Him who filleth all in all. Certainly, Scripture seems to imply that, although He "took not the nature of angels" but "of man," yet all created beings, "thrones and dominions and principalities and powers," shall, if one may reverently say it, be more filled with God, when, this His body being perfected, there shall be no check or hindrance to the full effluence of His Divine Nature, circulating through the whole Body into which He shall have, "knit things in heaven and things in earth," "the innumerable company of the Angels," and "the just made perfect;" and the whole glorified Church shall be clothed and radiant with Him, the Sun of Righteousness"
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Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman - The Dream of Gerontius
"JESU, MARIA - I am near to death,
And Thou art calling me; I know it now.
Not by the token of this faltering breath,
This chill at heart,, this dampness on my
brow,— (Jesu, have mercy! Mary, pray for me!)
'tis this new feeling, never felt before,
(Be with me, Lord, in my extremity!)
That I am going, that I am no more.
‘Tis this strange innermost abandonment,
(Lover of souls! great God! I look to Thee,)"
St Gertrude - Life and Revelations of
"For what purpose has it been committed to writing that I visited St. Catherine in her prison, and encouraged her by these words : Be firm and immovable, My daughter, for I am with you 1 What purpose does it serve that it should be known how I visited John, My favourite, and said to him, Come to Me, my beloved ? What purpose does it serve that these and many other things concerning them and others of My Saints are known, unless it be to enkindle the zeal of those who read and hear them, and to manifest to all men the greatness of My love ? In this manner," added the Saviour, "the desire of obtaining the same favours those which they shall see you have obtained from Me will produce devotion in the hearts of those who, considering the effusion of My grace and the excess of My mercy, shall endeavour to change their present life for one more perfect."
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich - The Lowly life and Bitter Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Blessed Mother
"From Gabara Jesus went to the estate of the officer Zorobabel near Capharnaum. The two lepers whom at His last visit to Capharnaum He had healed, here presented themselves to return Him thanks. The steward, the domestics, and the cured son of Zorobabel also were here. They had already been baptized. Jesus taught and cured many sick. In the dusk of the evening, after His disciples had separated and gone to their respective families, Jesus proceeded along the valley of Capharnaum to the house of His Mother. All the holy Women were here assembled, and there was great joy."
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| St Alphonsus Maria De Liguori Works | |
| Preparation for Death 1 | Download PDF |
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| Dignity and Duties of a Priest | Download PDF |
| Way of Salvation and of Perfection | Download PDF |
| True Spouse of Jesus Christ | Download PDF |
| Sermons for All Sundays | Download PDF |
| Natural Calamities - Divine Threats - Four Gates of Hell | Download PDF |
| The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ | Download PDF |
| Uniformity with God's Will | Download PDF |
| History of Heresies | Download PDF |
| Glories of Mary | Download PDF |
| Short Treatise on Prayer | Download PDF |
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| Sacred Heart Devotion | |
| Autobiography of St Margaret Mary Alacoque | Download PDF |
| Sacred Heart Devotion - By Father John Croiset, confessor of St Margaret Mary Alacoque | Download PDF |
| Glories of the Sacred Heart - Cardinal Henry Edward | Download PDF |
| Love of the Sacred Heart - St Metchilde | Download PDF |
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| Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich Works | |
| Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich - Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ Vol 1 | Download PDF |
| Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich - Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ Vol 2 | Download PDF |
| Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich - Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ Vol 3 | Download PDF |
| Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich - Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ Vol 4 | Download PDF |
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| St John Eudes Works | |
| St John Eudes - Letter and Shorter Works | Download PDF |
| St John Eudes - Meditations on Various Subjects | Download PDF |
| St John Eudes - The Admirable Heart of Mary | Download PDF |
| St John Eudes - Life and Kingdom of Jesus | Download PDF |
| St John Eudes - Priest, His dignity and obligations | Download PDF |
| St John Eudes - The Sacred Heart of Jesus | Download PDF |
| St John Eudes - Man's Contract with God on Baptism | Download PDF |
| St Gemma Galgani - Letters | Download PDF |
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| Ven. Louis de Ponte - Meditations on the Mysteries of our Holy Faith Vol I | Download PDF |
| Ven. Louis de Ponte - Meditations on the Mysteries of our Holy Faith Vol II | Download PDF |
| Ven. Louis de Ponte - Meditations on the Mysteries of our Holy Faith Vol III | Download PDF |
| Ven. Louis de Ponte - Meditations on the Mysteries of our Holy Faith Vol IV | Download PDF |
| Ven. Louis de Ponte - Meditations on the Mysteries of our Holy Faith Vol V | Download PDF |
| Ven. Louis de Ponte - Meditations on the Mysteries of our Holy Faith Vol VI | Download PDF |
| St Angela of Foligno - Divine Consolations | Download PDF |
| Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity - The Praise of Glory, Letters of | Download PDF |
| St Mary Euphrasia Pelletier - Conferences and Instructions | Download PDF |
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| The Autobiography of Blessed Anne of Bartholomew | Download PDF |
| St Robert Bellarmine - The Art of Dying Well | Download PDF |
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| Theology of the Body - Pope John Paul II | Download PDF |
| Catechism on Four Last Things | Download PDF |
| Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa - Diary | www (click on the months) |
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| The Golden Arrow - Autobiography of Sr Mary St Peter (Holy Face Devotion) | Download PDF |
| Letters of St Anthony Mary Claret | Download PDF |
New Books
Note: the author of this site has not yet reviewed all these works listed below, but they are generally categorized as Writings of the Saints and Lives of the Saints and some Sermons.
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| Spiritual Letters of Venerable Libermann | Download PDF |
| St Adamnan - Life of St Columba | Download PDF |
| St Adamnan - Vita of St Columba | Download PDF |
| St Alcimus - Poems | Download PDF |
| St Ambrose - Letters of | Download PDF |
| St Ambrose of Milan - Letters of | Download PDF |
| St Athanasius - Select Treatises 2 | Download PDF |
| St Athanasius - Select Treatises | Download PDF |
| St Augustine - Homilies on the Gospel According to St John | Download PDF |
| St Augustine - Seventeen Short Treatises | Download PDF |
| St Bernard - Life and Works | Download PDF |
| St Bernard - Sermons on the Canticle of Canticles Vol I | Download PDF |
| St Bernard - Treatise on Consideration | Download PDF |
| St Bernard of Clairvaux - Letters | Download PDF |
| St Bernard of Clairvaux - Life of St Malachy of Armagh | Download PDF |
| St Bernard of Clairvaux - Sermon on the Canticle of Canticles | Download PDF |
| St Bernard of Clairvaux - Sermons on the Canticle of Canticles | Download PDF |
| St Bonaventure - The Soliloquies | Download PDF |
| St Cyprian - Cathetical Lectures Vol II | Download PDF |
| St Cyprian of Carthage - The Unity of the Church | Download PDF |
| St Dionysius of Alexandria - Letters and Treatises | Download PDF |
| St Ephraem - Select Works | Download PDF |
| St Ephraem of Syrian - Select Works | Download PDF |
| St Francis de Sales - Letters to Persons in the World2 | Download PDF |
| St Francis de Sales - True Spiritual Conferences | Download PDF |
| St Francis de Sales -The Mystical Explanations of the Canticle of Canticles | Download PDF |
| St Gertrude - Love Peace Joy - Sacred Heart Devotion | Download PDF |
| St Gregory the Great - Little Flowers of St Benedict | Download PDF |
| St Gregory the Great - Morals on the book of Job Vol I | Download PDF |
| St Gregory the Great - Morals on the Book of Job Vol II | Download PDF |
| St Gregory the Great Morals on the Book of Job Vol II -1 | Download PDF |
| St Ignatius - The Epistles Vol II | Download PDF |
| St Ignatius and Polycarp - The Epistles of | Download PDF |
| St Ignatius of Antioch - Epistles | Download PDF |
| St Iraneaus - Five Books against Heresies | Download PDF |
| St Iraneus - Life and Writings of | Download PDF |
| St Jerome - Select Letters | Download PDF |
| St Leo the Great - Select Sermons - On the Incarnation | Download PDF |
| St Leo the Great - Select Sermons | Download PDF |
| St Peter of Alcantara - On Mental Prayer | Download PDF |
| St Polycarp - Early Church Classics | Download PDF |
| St Pope Gregory the Great - Morals on the Book of Job Vol I | Download PDF |
| St Pope Gregory the Great - Morals on the Book of Job Vol II | Download PDF |
| St Pope Gregory the Great - Morals on the Book of Job Vol III | Download PDF |
| St Robert Southwell - Complete Poems2 | Download PDF |
| St Robert Southwell - Complete Poems | Download PDF |
| St Robert Southwell - Fourfold meditations | Download PDF |
| St Robert Southwell - Funeral Tears of St Mary Magdalene | Download PDF |
| St Robert Southwell - Poetical Works | Download PDF |
| St Scholastica - Prayers of | Download PDF |
| St Vincent de Paul - Virtues and Spiritual Doctrine | Download PDF |
| St. Augustine - Seventeen Short Treatises | Download PDF |
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| St Angela Merici's Writings - Rule, Counsels, Testament | Download PDF |
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| Homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Acts of the Apostles Part I | Download PDF | ||||
| Homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Epistles of St Paul to the Phillipians | Download PDF | ||||
| Homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Epistles of St Paul to the Hebrews | Download PDF | ||||
| Homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Epistles to the Ephesians | Download PDF | ||||
| Homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Gospels of St Matthew Part I | Download PDF | ||||
| Homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Gospels of St Matthew Part II | Download PDF | ||||
| Homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Gospels of St Matthew Part III | Download PDF | ||||
| Homilies of St John Chrysostom 1 | Download PDF | ||||
| Homilies of St John Chrysostom 2 | Download PDF | ||||
| Writings of St Fransis of Assisi | |||||
| Fransiscan Days - Being Selection in the Year from Ancient Fransiscan Writings | Download PDF | ||||
| St Bonaventure - A Franciscan View of the Religious and Spiritual Life | Download PDF | ||||
| St Francis of Assisi - Canticle of the Sun | Download PDF | ||||
| St Francis of Assisi - The Seraphic Keepsake | Download PDF | ||||
| St Francis of Assisi - Together with his known writings | Download PDF | ||||
| St Francis of Assisi and His Friends | Download PDF | ||||
| The Writings of St Francis of Assisi | Download PDF | ||||
| Writings of St Francis of Assisi - Father Pascal Robinson | Download PDF | ||||
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| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman - Sermons on the Subjects of the Day | Download PDF | ||||
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| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 1 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 2 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 3 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 4 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 5 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 6 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 7 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 8 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 9 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 10 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 11 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 12 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 13 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 14 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 15 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 16 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 17 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 18 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 19 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 20 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 21 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 22 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 23 | Download ZIP | ||||
| Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman Writings & Sermons 24 | Download ZIP | ||||
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| Bible Commentary | |||||
| Cornelius a Lapide - The Great Commentary - 1 - St. Matthew's Gospel - Chapters 1-9 | Download PDF | ||||
Cornelius a Lapide - The Great Commentary - 2 - St. Matthew's Gospel - Chapters 10-21 | Download PDF | ||||
| Cornelius a Lapide - The Great Commentary - 3 - St. Matthew's Gospel - Chapters 22-28 and St. Mark's Gospel | Download PDF | ||||
Cornelius a Lapide - The Great Commentary - 4 - St. Luke's Gospel | Download PDF | ||||
| Cornelius a Lapide - The Great Commentary - 5 - St. John's Gospel - Chapters 1 to 11 | Download PDF | ||||
| Cornelius a Lapide - The Great Commentary - 6 - St. John's Gospel - Chapters 12-21 and Epistles 1-3 | Download PDF | ||||
Cornelius a Lapide - The Great Commentary - 7 - 1 Corinthians | Download PDF | ||||
| Cornelius a Lapide - The Great Commentary - 8 - 2 Corinthians and Galatians | Download PDF | ||||
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| Fr. Francis Hunolt - Sermons - Adapted to All Sundays - Our Lord, the Blessed Mother and the Saints | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Francis Hunolt - Sermons - Adapted to All Sundays - Penance | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Francis Hunolt - Sermons - Adapted to All Sundays - The Christian Virtues - II | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Francis Hunolt - Sermons - Adapted to All Sundays - The Christian Virtues | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Francis Hunolt - Sermons - Adapted to All Sundays - The Different States in Life | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Francis Hunolt - Sermons - Adapted to All Sundays - The Four Last Things - II | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Francis Hunolt - Sermons - Adapted to All Sundays - The Four Last Things | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Francis Hunolt - Sermons - Adapted to All Sundays - The Seven Deadly Sins II | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Francis Hunolt - The Bad Christian - Vol. 3 | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Francis Hunolt - The Bad Christian - Vol. 4 | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Francis Hunolt - The Christian State of Life - Vol. 1 | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Francis Hunolt - The Christian State of Life - Vol. 2 | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Francis Hunolt - The Good Christian - Vol. 7 | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Francis Hunolt - The Good Christian - Vol. 8 | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Francis Hunolt - The Penitent Christian - Vol. 5 | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Francis Hunolt - Sermons - Adapted to All Sundays - Our Lord, the Blessed Mother and the Saints - II | Download PDF | ||||
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| Bishop George Hay - 1 - The Sincere Christian | Download PDF | ||||
| Bishop George Hay - 2 - The Sincere Christian | Download PDF | ||||
| Bishop George Hay - 3 - The Devout Christian | Download PDF | ||||
| Bishop George Hay - 4 - The Devout Christian | Download PDF | ||||
| Bishop George Hay - 5 - The Pious Christian | Download PDF | ||||
| Bishop George Hay - 6 - On Miracles | Download PDF | ||||
| Bishop George Hay - 7 - On Miracles | Download PDF | ||||
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| Fr. Jean-Baptiste Saint-Jure - The Religious - A Treatise on the Vows and Virtues | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Jean-Baptiste Saint-Jure - The Religious - A Treatise on the Vows and Virtues - II | Download PDF | ||||
| Fr. Jean-Baptiste Saint-Jure - The Spiritual Man | Download PDF |
Writings of St Clement of Alexandria, St Robert Bellarmine, St Cyril of Jerusalem, St Ambrose of Milan, and many more
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| Writings of St Athanasius | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 1 | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 2 | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 3 | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 4 | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 5 | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 6 | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 7 | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 8 | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 9 | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 10 | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 11 | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 12 | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 13 | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 14 | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 15 | Download ZIP |
| Writings of the Saints 16 | Download ZIP |
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| Christ and AntiChrist - A Sermon - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| Christian Heroism - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| England and Christendom - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| Eternal Priesthood - Cardinal Manning | Download PDF |
| Four Great Evils - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| Help Nearest When Need Greatest - A Sermon - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| Miscellanies - Vol I - by Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| Miscellanies - Vol II - by Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| Miscellanies - Vol III - by Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| Penitents and Saints - A Sermon - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| Sermons - Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| Sermons - Volume III - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| Sermons - Volume IV - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| Sermons on Ecclesiastical Subjects - Vol I - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| Sermons on Ecclesiastical Subjects - Vol II - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| Sermons on Ecclesiastical Subjects - Vol III - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| Sermons preached before the University of Oxford - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| Sin and its Consequences - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| The Certainty of Divine Faith - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| The English Church - A Sermon - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| The Fourfold Sovereignity of God - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| The Good Shepherd - A Sermon - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| The Grounds of Faith - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| The Internal Mission of the Holy Ghost - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| The Love of Jesus - A Sermon - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| The Love of Jesus to Penitents - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| The Rule of Faith - A Sermon - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| The Sanctity of Consecrated Places -A Sermon - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
| The Temporal Mission of the Holy Ghost - Cardinal Henry Edward Manning | Download PDF |
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| Lives of the Saints | |
| Life and Works of St Bernard | Download PDF |
| Life and Works of St Francis of Assisi - The Mirror of Perfection | Download PDF |
| Life of St Aloysius of Gonzaga 1 | Download PDF |
| Life of St Aloysius of Gonzaga 2 | Download PDF |
| Life of St Aloysius of Gonzaga 3 | Download PDF |
| Life of St Francis by St Bonaventure 2 | Download PDF |
| Life of St Francis by St Bonaventure | Download PDF |
| Life of St John Capistran | Download PDF |
| Life of St Joseph Copertino | Download PDF |
| Life of St Lydwine of Schiedam - J.K. Huysmans | Download PDF |
| Life of St Margaret Cortona | Download PDF |
| Life of St Philip Neri Vol I - Giocomo Bacci | Download PDF |
| Life of St Philip Neri Vol II - Giocomo Bacci | Download PDF |
| Life of St Thomas of Canterbury 01 | Download PDF |
| Life of St Thomas of Canterbury 02 | Download PDF |
| St Bernard of Clairvaux - On the Song of Songs | Download PDF |
| St. Vincent Ferrer, His Life, Spiritual Teaching, and Practical Devotion | Download PDF |
| The Fairest Flower of Paradise - Rev. Alexis M. Lepicier, O.S.M. | Download PDF |
| The Life and Glories of St. Joseph - Edward Healy Thompson | Download PDF |
| The Life of St Benedict | Download PDF |
| The Life of St. Stanislas Kostka - Edward Healy Thompson | Download PDF |
| The Medal or Cross of St. Benedict - Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B. | Download PDF |
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| St Don Bosco - 3 Lives | Download ZIP |
| Homilies of St John Chrisostom on the Acts of the Apostles Part II | Download PDF |
| Homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Epistles of St Paul to the Corinthians Part I | Download PDF |
| Homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Epistles of St Paul to the Corinthians Part II | Download PDF |
| Homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Epistles of St Paul to the Romans | Download PDF |
| Homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Epistles of St Paul to Timothy | Download PDF |
| Homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St John Part I | Download PDF |
| Homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St John Part II | Download PDF |
| Homilies of St John Chrysostom to the People of Antioch | Download PDF |
| Homiles of St John Chrysostom Vol 3 | Download PDF |
| Homiles of St John Chrysostom Vol 4 | Download PDF |
| Homiles of St John Chrysostom Vol 5 | Download PDF |
| Homiles of St John Chrysostom Vol 6 | Download PDF |
| Homiles of St John Chrysostom Vol 7 | Download PDF |
| Homiles of St John Chrysostom Vol 8 | Download PDF |
| Homiles of St John Chrysostom Vol 9 | Download PDF |
| Homiles of St John Chrysostom Vol 10 | Download PDF |
| Homiles of St John Chrysostom Vol 11 | Download PDF |
| Homiles of St John Chrysostom Vol 12 | Download PDF |
| Homiles of St John Chrysostom Vol 13 | Download PDF |
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| Homilies of St John Chrysostom Vol 14 | Dowload PDF |
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| Cardinal Edward Manning Sermons 1 | Download PDF |
| Cardinal Edward Manning Sermons 2 | Download PDF |
| Cardinal Edward Manning Sermons 3 | Download PDF |
| Cardinal Edward Manning Sermons 4 | Download PDF |
| Cardinal Edward Manning Sermons 5 | Download PDF |
| Cardinal Edward Manning Sermons 6 | Download PDF |
| Cardinal Edward Manning Sermons 7 | Download PDF |
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| Cardinal Edward Manning Sermons 9 | Download PDF |
| Cardinal Edward Manning Sermons 10 | Download PDF |
| Cardinal Edward Manning Sermons 11 | Download PDF |
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| Meditations for Advent and Easter | Download PDF |
| Meditations for Lent | Download PDF |
| Rev. John Wyse - Devout Exercises - Meditations and Visits to the Sanctuaries | Download PDF |
| Sermons of St. Bernard on advent | Download PDF |
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| St John Climacus - Ladder of Divine Ascent | Download PDF |
| Sayings of the Desert Fathers | Download PDF |
| St John Cassian - Conferences, Institutions | Download ZIP |
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| Vitae Patrum - Lives of the Desert Fathers | Download PDF |
| Books of the First Monks - Excerpts | Download PDF |
| Roman Catholic Dogma | Download PDF |
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| St Bernardine of Siena - Sermons | Download PDF |
| Dom Prosper Gueranger - The Liturgical Year (15 volumes) | Download ZIP |
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| Ven. Servant of God Lorenzo Scupoli - Spiritual Combat | Download PDF |
| Roman Breviary 1 | Download PDF |
| Roman Breviary 2 | Download PDF |
| Roman Breviary 3 | Download PDF |
| Roman Breviary 4 | Download PDF |
| Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary | Download PDF |
| Roman Martyrology (1914) | Download PDF |
