Free ebook: “The Canon of the Old Testament”, by Bishop Tobias Mullen

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• The Canon of the Old Testament, by Tobias Mullen, Bishop of Erie (New York: FR. Pustet & Co., 1892). Available in various formats (pdf, txt, kindle/mobi, epub, etc.) at Internet Archive and Open Library, with a 2^nd copy at Internet Archive and Open Library.
  • On the same subject, see also the essay, “What’s with these “extra” books in the Bible?” on Catholic Bridge.

On the Feast of Pope St. Innocent I. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

O God, our refuge and our strength, look down with mercy upon the people who cry to Thee; and by the intercession of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Saint Joseph her spouse, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of the Holy Mother the Church. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. (From Sancta Missa)

Online text: “Novena for Forgiveness”

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• Novena for Forgiveness to St. Josemaria Escriva, by Father Francisco Faus (São Paulo, Brazil, March 19, 2012). With ecclesiastical authorization. Available in various formats (pdf, epub and kindle [.azw3]) through this page of Opus Dei.

On the Feast of Saint Pantaleon. From the text:

“Lord, you know how much I desire to have your peace within me. But I know very well that I cannot obtain it as long as I harbor bitterness and resentment in my heart, like wounds that never heal over… Without your help, Lord, by my efforts alone, I will never be able to attain that peace… And so I humbly beg you, through St Josemaria’s intercession, for the grace to be able to forgive.”

Online text: “Respecting and Honouring Our Elderly Parents”, edited by Francis X. J. W.

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• Respecting and Honouring Our Elderly Parents (A Catholic Guide to Family Happiness: The Thirteenth in a Series on Family Happiness: Chapter Fifteen, Honouring Our Elderly Parents), edited by ‘Francis X. J. W.’ Australian Catholic Truth Society No. 1807a (1986, revised 1996). May be read online, and available in PDF format, at Catholic Truth Society Pamphlets.

On the Feast of Saint Anne and Saint Joachim in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

O God, our refuge and our strength, look down with mercy upon the people who cry to Thee; and by the intercession of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Saint Joseph her spouse, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of the Holy Mother the Church. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. (From Sancta Missa)

Online text: “Natural Family Planning: The Complete Approach”, by John and Sheila Kippley

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• Natural Family Planning: The Complete Approach, First Edition, by John and Sheila Kippley (2009, last update February 2010). With Permission to Publish from the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Available in PDF format (on this page) at Natural Family Planning International.

On the anniversary of the issuance of the Encyclical “Humanae Vitae” on the Regulation of Birth, by Blessed Pope Paul VI. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

O God, our refuge and our strength, look down with mercy upon the people who cry to Thee; and by the intercession of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Saint Joseph her spouse, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of the Holy Mother the Church. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. (From Sancta Missa)

Free ebook: “Directions for the Prayer of Contemplation”, by Father Augustine Baker

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• Holy Wisdom: or, Directions for the Prayer of Contemplation, extracted out of more than forty treatises by the Ven. Father Augustine Baker, methodically collected by R.F. Serenus Cressy, and now edited from the Douay edition of 1657 by the Right Rev. Abbot Sweeney (London: Burns & Oates; New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1911). Available at Internet Archive and Open Library, with a 2^nd copy at Internet Archive and Open Library. An earlier edition (London: Burns & Oates; New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, [1876]) is available at Internet Archive and Open Library; and we think the same edition is available at Christian Classics Ethereal Library, and in PDF format at Catholic Spiritual Direction (linked through Traditional Catholic).

On the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene in the one true Church. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

O God, our refuge and our strength, look down with mercy upon the people who cry to Thee; and by the intercession of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Saint Joseph her spouse, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of the Holy Mother the Church. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. (From Sancta Missa)

Online text: “God and the Profits: Is There Religious Liberty for Money-Makers?”, by Mark Rienzi

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• “God and the Profits: Is There Religious Liberty for Money-Makers?”, by Mark Rienzi, George Mason Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Fall 2013). Catholic University of America—Columbus School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-7. Available in PDF format  (on this page) at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, on this page of the CUA Law Scholarship Repository, and through the Social Science Research Network. A brief excerpt, “God and the Profits: Religious Liberty for Money-Makers” may be read online at Public Discourse.

• [N.B.1, This is an eminently useful treatise, whose scholarship moves us to forgive its truly tacky title. Although it is focused on US American laws, certain arguments therein may be applied, mutatis mutandis, in similar situations obtaining in other countries, whether non- or post-Christian]

• [N.B.2, On the religious freedom implications of the debate over non-natural or same-sex “marriage”, see “Protecting Religious Liberty in the State Marriage Debate”, by Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D. and Leslie Ford, in Backgrounder No. 2891, April 10, 2014, which may be read online at the Heritage Foundation, and is available in PDF format at Amazon Web Services.]

Posted on the Feast of Saints Justa (or Justus) and Rufina, in honor of all Christians who, like those blessed martyrs, follow God’s law in their trade and business even at the price of persecution. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

O God, our refuge and our strength, look down with mercy upon the people who cry to Thee; and by the intercession of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Saint Joseph her spouse, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of the Holy Mother the Church. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. (From Sancta Missa)

Online text: “Comfort and Consolation: A Pastoral Letter from the Catholic Bishops of Maryland”

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• Comfort and Consolation: A Pastoral Letter from the Catholic Bishops of Maryland (Annapolis, MD: Maryland Catholic Conference, 2007). Available in PDF format (on this page) at the Archdiocese of Washington. [According to the text, it offers ethical guidance on “medical decision-making in time of serious illness” to health professionals, members of the clergy, and families.]
  • To be read together with Health Care Directives: A Catholic Perspective: A Supplement to the Pastoral Letter “Comfort and Consolation” from the Catholic Bishops of Maryland (Annapolis, MD: Maryland Catholic Conference, [2007]), which is available in PDF format at the Archdiocese of Washington.

On the Feast of St. Camillus de Lellis in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

O God, our refuge and our strength, look down with mercy upon the people who cry to Thee; and by the intercession of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Saint Joseph her spouse, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of the Holy Mother the Church. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. (From Sancta Missa)

Online text: “Justice in the Church: A Manual of Self Defense”

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• Justice in the Church: A Manual of Self Defense (2015). Available at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (being the 07 November 2016 snapshot of the relevant page of Justice for Priests and Deacons) and at FlipHtml5. [This is a compendium of materials intended to teach clergy how to defend themselves against false accusations of sexual abuse.]

On the Feast of Saint Marina of Qannoubine in the Maronite Church; and in honour of all the dedicated clergy and religious who have endured calumny and false accusations. We pray that, amid the secular and ecclesiastical reaction to the actual or perceived laxity of certain prelates towards clergy homosexual abuse, we may all respect the inalienable rights of the accused to due process and presumption of innocence, and remember the Church’s mission to call sinners to repentance and the Father’s mercy.

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O God, our refuge and our strength, look down with mercy upon the people who cry to Thee; and by the intercession of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Saint Joseph her spouse, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of the Holy Mother the Church. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. (From Sancta Missa)

e-Livre gratuit: “Le Cardinal Manning et Son Action Sociale”, par l’Abbe Jules Lemire

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• Le Cardinal Manning et Son Action Sociale, deuxieme edition, par l’Abbe Jules Lemire (Paris: Victor Lecoffre, 1894). Avec approbation. Disponible dans Internet Archive et Open Library, avec 2e copie dans Internet Archive et Open Library.

En souvenir de Henry Edward Cardinal Manning (15 juillet 1808 – 14 janvier 1892) et Hilaire Belloc (27 juillet 1870 – 16 juillet 1953). Pour plus de livres gratuits, vous pouvez accéder à la liste des eBooks gratuits (par titres) et la liste des eBooks gratuits (regroupées par sujet).

Dieu, notre refuge et notre force, regardez le peuple qui crie vers Vous ; et, par l’intercession de la Glorieuse et Immaculée Marie toujours Vierge, Mère de Dieu, avec Saint Joseph, son très chaste Epoux, Saint Michel Archange, Saint Jean Baptiste, Vos Saints Apôtres Pierre et Paul, André, et tous Vos Saints, écoutez avec bienveillance et miséricorde, les prières que nous Vous adressons pour la conversion des pécheurs, pour la liberté et le triomphe de notre Sainte Mère l’Eglise. Par le même Christ notre Seigneur. Amen.

(And if the grammar is wrong, please correct me. Merci!)

Free ebook: “The Carmelite Manual”, by Rev. John Spratt

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• The Carmelite Manual; Containing a Selection of Beautiful Prayers, and Various Practices of Piety, by the Very Rev. John Spratt (Dublin: James Duffy, 1846). May be read online (on this page) at Google Books.  Available in various formats at Internet Archive and Open Library.
  • See also the brief biography of the author, Father John Spratt: Beloved of Dublin’s Poor, by Peter O’Dwyer, O.Carm. (1971), which may be read online (on this page) at the Irish Province of the Order of Carmelites.

On the Feast of Our Ladty of Mount Carmel in the Maronite church and in the Latin church. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

O God, our refuge and our strength, look down with mercy upon the people who cry to Thee; and by the intercession of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Saint Joseph her spouse, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of the Holy Mother the Church. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. (From Sancta Missa)