Free audiobook & ebook: “Life of St. Vincent de Paul”, by Frances Alice Forbes

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• Life of St. Vincent de Paul, by Frances Alice Forbes (London: R. & T. Washbourne, Limited, 1919). With Imprimatur. Part of the series Standard-bearers of the Faith: A Series of Lives of the Saints for Young and Old.
  • The audiobook is available at LibriVox, and through Youtube videos on this page of Classic Catholic Audiobooks, on this page of Sacred Heart Publications, through this playlist of Piusmedia, and at LibriVox Audiobooks.
  • The ebook may be read online, and available in epub, full text and kindle formats, at Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive. Available in pdf format at Saint Patrick Basilica Ottawa. May be read online at Manybooks.

On the Feast of Saint Vincent De Paul in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project.

Free audiobook & ebook: The Life and Works of Don Bosco, by M. S. Pine

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• A Sketch of the Life and Works of the Venerable Don Bosco, Apostle of Youth, Founder of the Society of St. Francis of Sales, by M. S. Pine (Philadelphia, Pa.: Salesian Press, 1916). With Imprimatur.
  • The audiobook is available through this page of Catholic Audiobooks.
  • The ebook is available in pdf, epub, mobi/kindle, and other formats at Internet Archive; and it may be read online on this page of CatholicSaints.info.

On the Feast of Saint John Bosco (Don Bosco) in the Latin, Maronite, and Syro-Malabar churches in the one true and Catholic Church. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project.

Online ebook: “On Poverty”, by Dorothy Day

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• On Poverty, by the Servant of God Dorothy Day. A collection of articles written between 1945-1966. May be read online and available in epub format and in pdf format at The Catholic Worker Movement.

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Online text: “Fighting Poverty to Build Peace”, by Pope Benedict XVI

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• “Message for World Day of Peace 2009 ‘Fighting Poverty to Build Peace’”, by Pope Benedict XVI, 08 December 2008. May be read online on this page of Catholic Culture.org, and at the Holy See. See also “Pope Benedict’s Message for the World Day of Peace, 2009”, by Justin Cardinal Rigali.

Posted on the secular observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, and in honor of Father Joseph Wresinski. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project.

Online audio, video, & text: National Prayer Breakfast Address, by Mother Teresa

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• National Prayer Breakfast Address, by Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta), delivered on 3 February 1994 at the Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.
  • The audio recording of the address is available at American Rhetoric.
  • The video recording of the address is also available on this page of the Youtube channel Geremia08, on this page of My Catholic Tube, at Patheos, and at American Rhetoric. It is also included in the complete video recording of the 03 February 1994 National Prayer Breaktast, beginning at 22m10s.
  • The transcript of the address as delivered is available at American Rhetoric. It is also included in the complete transcript of the 03 February1994 National Prayer Breakfast, in Congressional Record, Volume 140, Number 50 (Monday, May 2, 1994), which may be read online at govinfo.
  • What appears to be the prepared text of the address, entitled “Whatsoever You Do…”, may be read online on this page of EWTN Library, on this page of Crossroads Initiative, and on this page of Priests for Life, and is available in pdf format on this page of Priests for Life. Excerpts are provided at Patheos.

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• “Charity: the Soul of Missionary Activity”, by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, L’Osservatore Romano, April 8, 1991. May be read online on this page of Catholic Culture.org.

Posted for the Feast of Saint Teresa of Calcutta, and on the secular observance of the International Day of Charity. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project.

“Then the King will say to those who are on his right hand, Come, you that have received a blessing from my Father, take possession of the kingdom which has been prepared for you since the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave me food, thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you brought me home, naked, and you clothed me, sick, and you cared for me, a prisoner, and you came to me… Believe me, when you did it to one of the least of my brethren here, you did it to me.

“Then he will say to those who are on his left hand, in their turn, Go far from me, you that are accursed, into that eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry, and you never gave me food, I was thirsty, and you never gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you did not bring me home, I was naked, and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison, and you did not care for me… Believe me, when you refused it to one of the least of my brethren here, you refused it to me.

“And these shall pass on to eternal punishment, and the just to eternal life.” (St. Matthew xxv, 34-36, 40-43, 45-46)

“Religion, pure and immaculate with God and the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation, and to keep one’s self immaculate from this world.” (St. James i, 27)

Online text: “On Atheistic Communism”, by Pope Pius XI

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• Encyclical “Divini Redemptoris” on Atheistic Communism, by Pope Pius XI, March 19, 1937. May be read online on this page of Catholic Culture.org, on this page of the EWTN Library, at Papal Encyclicals Online, and at the Holy See.

On the secular observance of Black Ribbon Day, 2020. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project.

Online text: “On the Social Teaching of the Church”, by Saint John Paul the Great

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• Encyclical “Sollicitudo Rei Socialis” for the Twentieth Anniversary of “Populorum Progressio”, by Saint John Paul the Great (Pope John Paul II), December 30, 1987. Sometimes alternatively titled “On the Social Teaching of the Church”. May be read online on this page of CatholicCulture.org, on this page of the EWTN Library, and at the Holy See (© copyright – Libreria Editrice Vaticana).

On the Feast of Saint Alberto Hurtado. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project. Blessed be God in His angels and in His saints!

Livre audio et e-livre: “Vie de Saint François d’Assise”, par L’Abbé A. Verger

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• Vie de Saint François d’Assise, par L’Abbé A. Verger (Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, 1896). Avec l’approbation du Cardinal Meignan, archeveque de Tours. Le livre audio et le e-livre sont disponible dans Internet Archive, avec une deuxième copie du e-livre dans Internet Archive.

En la Fête de Saint François. 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!)

e-livre gratuit: “Histoire de S. Vincent-de-Paul”, par l’Abbé Orsini

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• Histoire de S. Vincent-de-Paul, par l’Abbé Orsini (Paris: Librairie de Debécourt, 1842). Disponible sur Internet Archive.

En la Fête de Saint Vincent de Paul dans la Forme Ordinaire de Rite Romain. 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!)

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!)