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 ebook: “The Religious State”, by William Humphrey, S.J. and Francisco Suarez, S.J.

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• The Religious State: a Digest of the Doctrine of Suarez, Contained in His Treatise “De Statu Religionis”, by William Humphrey, S.J., based on the work by Francisco Suarez, S.J. (London, New York: Burns and Oates, 1884). Volume I available on Open Library and Internet Archive. Volume II available on Open Library and Internet Archive. Volume III available on Open Library and Internet Archive.

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• Communio: International Catholic Review, vol. 31, no. 1, Consecration and the States of Life (Fall 2004).
  • The following articles relating to the theme are available in pdf format: ”The Evangelical Counsels and the Total Gift of Self” by Jacques Servais, ”Consecration and Human Action: The Moral Life as Response” by David S. Crawford, ”Evangelical Counsels in Marriage?” by Jörg Splett, ”Theological Perspectives on Marriage” by Marc Ouellet.
  • Likewise available in pdf format are “Personal Singularity and the Communio Personarum: A Creative Development of Thomas Aquinas’ Doctrine of Esse Commune” by Adrian J. Walker, and “Introduction to Christianity: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”, by Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI.
• How to Discover Your Vocation: Marriage, Priesthood, Consecrated Life, Permanent Diaconate, Single Life, by Fr Stephen Wang (London: Catholic Truth Society, 2009).
  • The printed book may be purchased on this page of the Catholic Truth Society.
  • The ebook be read online on this subpage of the Issuu page of the Catholic Truth Society. Available in pdf format on this Wayback Machine page, which is the 22 December 2014 snapshot of the Dropbox page linked by the 25 August 2009 post of Fr. Stephen Wang on Catholic Ideas.
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• “’Mystically Espoused to Christ, the Son of God (c. 604 §1)’: The Basis for Proposing Juridic Principles to Guide the Development of Norms for the Ordo virginum”, by Judith M. Stegman, CPA, JSD. Dissertation, School of Canon Law, Catholic University of America (2019). Available in pdf format on this page of the Catholic University of America. [Note: This text is a dissertation best suited for specialists and advanced students of canon law and theology.]
• “Virginal Chastity in the Consecrated Virgin”, by Judith M. Stegman [CPA]. Thesis, Master of Arts in Theology, Catholic Distance University, 2014. Available in pdf format on this page, linked by this page of the United States Association of Consecrated Virgins (USACV).

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Online text: “The Church and the Elderly” by Saint John Paul the Great et al.

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• Dolentium Hominum: Journal of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, No. 40, Year XIV – No. 1 (1999): The Church and the Elderly: Proceedings of the XIII International Conference Organised by the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, October 29-30-31, 1998, New Synod Hall. Vatican City. With contributions by Saint John Paul the Great, Dr. Mary Healey-Sedutto, Monsignor [later Cardinal] Angelo Scola, and other authors. Available in pdf format at the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

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Online text: “’Mystically Espoused to Christ, the Son of God”, by Dr. Judith M. Stegman

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• “’Mystically Espoused to Christ, the Son of God (c. 604 §1)’: The Basis for Proposing Juridic Principles to Guide the Development of Norms for the Ordo virginum”, by Judith M. Stegman, CPA, JSD. Dissertation, School of Canon Law, Catholic University of America (2019). Available in pdf format on this page of the Catholic University of America.
  • Note: This text is a dissertation best suited for specialists and advanced students of canon law and theology. General or lay readers are invited to read, instead or in preparation, the following text by the same author:
    • “Virginal Chastity in the Consecrated Virgin”, by Judith M. Stegman [CPA]. Thesis, Master of Arts in Theology, Catholic Distance University, 2014. Available in pdf format on this page, linked by this page of the United States Association of Consecrated Virgins (USACV).

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Online text: “The Martyrological Dimension of Petrine Primacy”, by Jakub J. Woźniak

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• “The Martyrological Dimension of Petrine Primacy in the Teachings of Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI”, by Jakub J. Woźniak, Studia Gdańskie, Vol. XLVI (2020): pp. 47-66. Available in pdf format on this page of the Central European Journal of Social Sciences And Humanities (CEJSH). Available at Academia.edu.

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Worth-it book & ebook: “How to Discover Your Vocation”, by Fr. Stephen Wang

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• How to Discover Your Vocation: Marriage, Priesthood, Consecrated Life, Permanent Diaconate, Single Life, by Fr Stephen Wang (London: Catholic Truth Society, 2009).
  • The printed book may be purchased on this page of the Catholic Truth Society.
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  • The ebook be read online on this subpage of the Issuu page of the Catholic Truth Society. Available in pdf format on this Wayback Machine page, which is the 22 December 2014 snapshot of the Dropbox page linked by the 25 August 2009 post of Fr. Stephen Wang on Catholic Ideas.
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Online text: “Catholic Sisters and the Medical Marketplace, 1860-1930,” by Barbara Mann Wall

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• “Hospitals and Habits: Catholic Sisters and the Medical Marketplace, 1860-1930,” by Barbara Mann Wall, American Catholic Studies, Vol. 116, No. 1 (Spring 2005): pp. 91-94. May be read online at JSTOR (requires registration, and one may register with a Google account).  .  

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Online ebook: “Handbook of the Legion of Mary”

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• The Official Handbook of the Legion of Mary, Revised Edition, 2014 (Dublin: Concilium Legionis Mariae, 2014). With Imprimatur. Available in pdf format through this page of the Legion of Mary.
  • Another edition (Dublin: Concilium Legionis Mariae, 2005), with Imprimatur, is available in pdf format on this page at Legion of Mary – Tidewater, VA USA.

On the Feast of the Holy Martyrs Stephen Pongracz, Melchior Grodziecki, and Marko Stjepan Krizin, and on the anniversary of the founding of the Legion of Mary. 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!

From the text (p. 284):

‘It is told in the life of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus that when he was about to die, he enquired of those about him how many unbelievers there were in the city. The reply came quickly: “Seventeen only.” The dying bishop meditated awhile on the figure stated, and then remarked: “Exactly the number of believers whom I found when I became bishop here.” Starting with only seventeen believers his labours had brought faith to all but seventeen! Wonderful! Yet the grace of God has not been exhausted by the passage of the centuries. Faith and courage could draw on it as freely to do the same to-day.’

Online ebook: “Jeanne Jugan, Foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor”, by Paul Milcent

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• Jeanne Jugan, Foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor, abridged third edition, by Paul Milcent, translated by the Little Sisters of the Poor (Medinger Media Press, 2012). Available in pdf format on this page of the Little Sisters of the Poor.

On the Feast of Saint Jeanne Jugan (Sister Mary of the Cross). 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.

“May St Jeanne Jugan be for elderly people a living source of hope and for those who generously commit themselves to serving them, a powerful incentive to pursue and develop her work!” (Pope Benedict XVI, Homily at the Canonization of St. Jeanne Jugan, 11 October 2009)

Online text: Institutes Dedicated to Apostolate, by the Sacred Congregation for Religious & Secular Institutes

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• Essential Elements in the Church’s Teaching on Religious Life as Applied to Institutes Dedicated to Works of the Apostolate, by the Sacred Congregation for Religious and for Secular Institutes, 31 May 1983. May be read online at IntraText and at Holy See.

On the Feast of Saint Martha in 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.