Saint Alphonsus Liguori
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In this booklet, St. Alphonsus Ligouri teaches us how to use the small events of everyday life to raise our hearts and minds to God: in praise, contrition, hope, joy, and union with God's will. In this way, we can "pray unceasingly" and converse with God in the way most pleasing to him-personally and confidently. This booklet features 20 bite-sized chapters, either for study or for daily meditation, and an index full of short prayers and aspirations....
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Published in 1909 and long out of print, The Thousand and One Churches remains a seminal study of the postclassical monuments of Anatolia. Now a new generation of readers can learn of the extensive remains of the sprawling early Christian site known as Binbirkilise ("Thousand and One Churches," near Konya), excavated by Ramsay and Bell in 1907. The book provides extensive analysis of other early Christian and Byzantine sites across Anatolia that Bell...
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One of the great doctors of the Church, St. Alphonsus Liguori assembled the finest information on Our Lady from the many writings of the saints, holy authors, and Sacred Scripture.
The Glories of Mary is five complete books in one volume. The first book examines the words of the Salve Regina and shows how God has given Mary to mankind to be the Gate of Heaven. The second book explains Our Lady's principal feasts and reveals fresh truths about these...
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The first part of St. Alphonsus' masterpiece; The Glories of Mary; collected from the Saints; Doctors of the Church and other holy authors. Amazing statements on Our Lady's God-given role in securing our salvation; with remarkable stories of miracles and graces she obtained. Shows that devotion to Mary is a most certain mark of eternal salvation! Gives profound encouragement and firm hope for eternal victory through Mary; the Mother of God--who can...
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One of the most powerful and compelling spiritual books ever written. Expounding on the theme, What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul. St. Alphonsus dwells repeatedly on the Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. Relentlessly, he brings the reader to considering his own eternal destiny. No one can read these sermons without being profoundly moved. Impr. 437 pgs,
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The promise of Eternal life has been a clarion call to the Saints for centuries, rousing them to action and heroic virtue. They knew that, compared with Eternity, this life is but a shadow. We must seek the same destination as the Saints in the midst of a world filled with amusements and vanities that constantly threaten our journey to Heaven. St. Alphonsus Liguori's Attaining Salvation is a timeless, priceless compass for that journey. Written when...
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A popular abridgement of the much larger original that loses none of its punch. Shows that life is short and Hell is real. Discusses the certainty of death, the uncertainty of the time, the death of the sinner, of the negligent Christian and of the just and how different they are. Also the habit of sin, delusions of the Devil, Particular and General Judgments, the pains of Hell and its eternity, the remorse of the damned, etc. Powerful incentives...
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St Alphonsus Liguori, one of Our Lady's all time greatest apostles, and one of the greatest writers and Doctors of the Church, zealously and profoundly illuminates the meaning of Mary as Our Queen, Our Mother, Our Sweetness and Our Hope. Though relatively brief, this book exudes that holy erudition so poignantly to the heart of the true Catholic. Seldom in life will the reader find a book of such saintly unction as this. Or one that will leave such...
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The way to perfection is simple-to unite one's will with God's, putting into action the prayer 'Thy will be done.' In this precious booklet, St. Alphonsus Ligouri explains the importance of conforming one's will to God's and how to do so; how to gain peace of mind and serenity by trusting in God, accepting what He wills for our lives and following His commands.
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According to the great St. Alphonsus Liguori, the choice between going to Heaven and going to Hell depends on whether or not we pray-since prayer is the great means of grace! But that does not have to cause us trouble, since all we need to do is pray simply and humbly. Many try to overcomplicate their prayer lives by pining after meditation and contemplation-objectively higher levels of prayer that do not necessarily correspond to the best way for...
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St. Alphonsus (1696-1787), an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian, was a man in love with Jesus. For Alphonsus, The Way of the Cross provided the opportunity to meditate on the true meaning of the love of the Most Holy Redeemer. With its poetic translation of the original, this revised version-long a parish favorite-offers insight into the mind of a saint and the...
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This book was conceived and written by the great St. Alphonsus Liguori to help us grow in the knowledge and love of God and in appreciation for what He has done for us. Designed to be prayed in front the Blessed Sacrament each day over the course of a month, users of this powerful book cannot help but grow closer to Christ. Visits to the Blessed Sacrament provides a wealth of spiritual treasures, including: ·31 days of meditations and fervent prayers...
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With St. Alphonsus Liguori as your spiritual guide, The Road to Calvary: Daily Meditations for Lent and Easter will take you on the long difficult path Our Lord took to His death and crucifixion.
Drawing on the insights of the saints who have gone before him, Liguori adds his own insights into the events of the passion, death, and resurrection of the Lord so that you may truly enter the details of Christ's suffering and ultimate victory over death....
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THE WAY OF THE CROSS-Map Tourist presents the classic St. Alphonsus Liguori fourteen stations with Stabat Mater in Latin and English and vivid color photos of the actual stations in Jerusalem.
In addition, search terms and geocoordinates are provided to enable readers to launch their own explorations at the actual locations via online web maps, exploring the region's current life through images of restaurant food, grocery store prices, and other...
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Would you like to imitate their behavior and know how they thought so that YOU CAN ALSO take the path that leads to Jesus Christ? DO NOT LOOK ANY FURTHER!
With the new edition of this book that we have created especially for you. You can find among other things the following:
1. The powerful wisdom that Saints like St. John Chrysostom, St. Anselm, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Teresa of Ávila, St. Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi and St. Dorotheus applied personally...
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"Here, then," says St. Alphonsus, "is our heaven on earth--the Most Blessed Sacrament." This book was conceived and written to help us grow in the knowledge and love of God and in appreciation for what He has done for us. For each of the 31 days of the month, St. Alphonsus provides for us a "Visit to Our Lord"--which is a brief meditation on and a fervent prayer of love toward Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Each Visit to Our Lord is followed...
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St. Alphonsus de Liguori, the saintly founder of the Redemption Congregation, is famed for his romantic and beautiful descriptions of the lives of Our Lord and His Holy Mother. Drawing from the Fathers, the Mystics and from his own wealth of piety, St. Alphonsus famously wrote in a manner designed to cut straight to the heart, and to provoke a response of deeper conversion and contrition in the soul of the reader.
In this work, for the first time,...