Free ebook: “The Spirit and Genius of St. Philip Neri”, by Frederick William Faber

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• The Spirit and Genius of St. Philip Neri, Founder of the Oratory: Lectures delivered in the Oratory, King William Street, Strand, by Frederick William Faber (London: Burns and Lambert, 1850). Available at the HathiTrust Digital Library. May be read online, and available in pdf, mobi, and epub formats, at Internet Archive.

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• The Excellences of the Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, translated and abridged by Frederick Ignatius Antrobus, from the Italian original by Francesco Antonio Agnelli (London: Burns & Oates, 1881). May be read online, and available in pdf, mobi, and epub formats, at Internet Archive and Open Library.
• Life of Saint Philip Neri, Apostle of Rome, and Founder of the Congregation of the Oratory, by Mrs. [Anne] Hope (London: Burns and Lambert, 1859). May be read online, and available in pdf, mobi, epub, and other formats, at Internet Archive.

On the Feast of St. Philip Neri 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.

Online text: “Almsgiving as a Formative Practice of Repentance for Christian Discipleship”, by Dr. James W. Stroud

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• “Almsgiving as a Formative Practice of Repentance for Christian Discipleship: The Gospel of Luke and Daniel 4:24”, by Prof. James W. Stroud, S.T.D., Journal of Moral Theology, Vol. 10, Special Issue 1 (2021): 84–103. Available in pdf format on this page of Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology.

On the Feast of Saint Toby the Merciful in the Maronite Church within 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.

Free ebook: Devotions to St. Rita of Cascia: Life, Novena, etc. (English, German, French, Italian, Polish)

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• Devotions to St. Rita: A Compendium Life of St Rita, Devotional Exercises, Novena and Triduum, Instructions on Novenas etc. (English, German, French, Italian, and Polish edition), compiled by Augustinian Fathers (Chicago: D.B. Hansen & Co., 1914). With Imprimatur. Available in pdf format on this page of Catholic Kingdom (whose editors appear to have added the note that the text is for “Private Use Only”)..

On the Feast of St. Rita of Cascia in the Roman Rite of the Latin 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.

“If we ask St Rita for the secret to this extraordinary work of social and spiritual renewal, she replies: fidelity to the Love that was crucified. Rita, with Christ and like Christ, goes to the Cross always and only through love. Like her, then, let us turn our eyes and hearts to Jesus, who died on the Cross and rose for our salvation. It is he, our Redeemer, who makes the family’s mission of unity and fidelity possible, as he did for this beloved saint, even in moments of crisis and difficulty. And it is he who gives concrete form to the Christian commitment to building peace…” (Saint John Paul the Great)

Free ebook: “Jesus is Waiting: Appeals and Reproaches from the Prisoner of Love”, by Matthew Russell, S.J.

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• Jesus is Waiting: Appeals and Reproaches from the Prisoner of Love, by Matthew Russell, S.J. [1834-1912] (London: Burns & Oates; New York: Benziger Brothers, 1911). With Imprimatur. May be read online, and available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats, at Internet Archive.

See also the related texts and ebooks listed on the posts “Free ebook: “Helps in Visiting the Blessed Sacrament”, by Matthew Russell, S.J.” and “Online ebook: “Manual of the Forty Hours’ Adoration for the Catholic Laity”“.

On the Vigil of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Commemoration of St. Paschal Baylon in the Roman Rite of the Latin 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 text: “The Theological Virtue of Faith as the Foundation of the Christian Moral Life”, by Sr. Mary Jacinta Li, O.P.

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• “The Theological Virtue of Faith as the Foundation of the Christian Moral Life”, by Sr. Mary Jacinta Li, O.P. (2016). Theology Graduate Theses. 9. Available in pdf format on this page of Providence College’s Digital Commons.

On the Sunday of the Blind Man in the Eastern Catholic Churches of the Byzantine Rite; and the Fifth Sunday after Easter 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.

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves… But he that shall look into the perfect law of liberty, and continue in it, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work; this man shall be blessed in his deed. But if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. 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, 22, 25-27)

“He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them: he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father: and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him… If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and will make our abode with him… the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.” (St. John xiv, 21, 23, xvi, 27)

Online ebook: “The True Story of Fatima”, by John de Marchi, I.M.C.

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• The True Story of Fatima: A Complete Account of The Fatima Apparitions, by John de Marchi, I.M.C. With 1947 and 2009 Imprimatur. Available in pdf format on this page of the Fatima Center, and at the University of Arizona.

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• The Apparitions and Shrines of Heaven’s Bright Queen in Legend, Poetry and History; From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, compiled from approved Catholic publications, by William J. Walsh, with Introduction by Monsignor Bernard O’Reilly (New York: T.J. Carey; London: Burns and Oates, 1904). With Imprimatur.
  • Volume I may be read online and is available in pdf, mobi, epub, and other formats at Internet Archive, and is also available at Forgotten Books.
    • Another edition of Volume I (New York, New Orleans: Carey-Stafford Company, 1906) may be read online and is available at Internet Archive.
  • Volume II may be read online and is available at Internet Archive.
  • Volume III may be read online and is available at Internet Archive.
  • Volume IV may be read online and is available at Internet Archive.
• Fatima: A Message More Urgent Than Ever, by Luiz Sérgio Solimeo (Spring Grove, Penn.: American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property – TFP, 2008). The ebook is available in pdf format (on this page) and may be read online (on this page) at the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property. It may also be purchased on this page.
• The Message of Our Lady of Fatima, by Father Frederick L. Miller, S.T.D.  (New Haven, CT: Catholic Information Service, Knights of Columbus Supreme Council, 2001). With Imprimatur. Available in PDF format at the Catholic Information Service.
• “The Significance of Fatima: A Seventy-Five-Year Perspective”, by Frederick L. Miller, S.T.D., Marian Studies, Vol. 44 (1993): pp. 56-87. Available in pdf format at Marian Studies and at CORE.

On the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima in the Revised 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.

Online text: “Freedom and Truth in ‘Veritatis Splendor’”, by Prof. Fr. Jerzy Bajda

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• “Freedom and Truth in ‘Veritatis Splendor’ (VS)”, by Professor Fr. Jerzy Bajda, Studia Theologica Varsaviensia, pp. 619-631 (2019).The article is available in pdf format at Biblioteka Nauki (Library of Science).
  • It may be read with the entire volume: Studia Theologica Varsaviensia (2019): “50 Years of Theological Thought in Faculty of Theology in ACT/CSWU in Warsaw”. The ebook of 701 pages is available in pdf format at the Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie.

On the Feast of Saint Anthony (Antoninus) of Florence in the Maronite Church; and on the 4th Sunday after Easter in the Roman Rite of the Latin 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.

“[I]t is expedient for you that I go: for if I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you: but if I go, I will send him to you. And when he is come, he will convince the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment… [W]hen he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but what things soever he shall hear, he shall speak” (St. John xvi, 7-8, 13)

Online text: “The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus Christ”, by Rev. Richard F. Clarke

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• “The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus Christ: Short Meditations from Easter to the Ascension”, by Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J. May be read online from this page to this page, at Internet Archive. This is part of the larger work:
  • The Devout Year, by Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J. (New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1893). May be read online, and available in pdf, mobi, epub, and other formats, at Internet Archive.

On the Glorious Feast and the Sunday of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Easter Sunday) in His 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. The Lord is risen! Alleluia! He is truly risen! Alleluia!

Online texts: Easter Vigil Homilies of Saint John Paul the Great (with request for translations)

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• Easter Vigil Homilies and Message of Saint John Paul the Great / Pope John Paul II (1979-2005)

• • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 14 April 1979
    • In English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 5 April 1980
    • In German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 18 April 1981
    • In Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 10 April 1982
    • In Italian and Portuguese at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 2 April 1983
    • In Italian and Portuguese at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 21 April 1984
    • In Italian and Portuguese at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 6 April 1985
    • In Italian at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 29 March 1986
    • In Italian at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 18 April 1987
    • In Italian at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 3 April 1988
    • In Italian at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 25 March 1989
    • In Italian at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 14 April 1990
    • In Italian at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 30 March 1991
    • In Italian at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 18 April 1992
    • In Italian at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 10 April 1993
    • In Italian at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 2 April 1994
    • In Italian at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 15 April 1995
    • In Italian at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 6 April 1996
    • In Italian at the Holy See
    • In English under the title “Light Shines in the Risen Christ” at the EWTN Library.
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 29 March 1997
    • In English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish at the Holy See
    • In English at the Dicastery for the Clergy.
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 11 April 1998, Easter Vigil
    • In English (also in pdf format), French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 3 April 1999
    • In English (also in pdf format), French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish at the Holy See
    • In English under the title “The Passover of Christ Brings Hope” from L’Osservatore Romano, April 7, 1999 at Catholic Culture.
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 22 April 2000
    • In English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish at the Holy See
    • In English with the subtitle “Eternal plan of God reaches its fulfilment” at the EWTN Library.
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 14 April 2001
    • In English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish at the Holy See
    • In English on this page of Catholic Culture.
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 30 March 2002
    • In English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 19 April 2003
    • In English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish at the Holy See
  • Homily at the Easter Vigil Mass, 10 April 2004
    • In English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish at the Holy See.
  • Message for the Easter Vigil Mass, 26 March 2005
    • In German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese at the Holy See.

*Note and request: We were unable to find English-language translations of the Easter Vigil homilies of Pope John Paul II in the years 1980-1995. Therefore, we ask our readers to provide links to such English translations that may be legally available online, or to provide links their own new translations, through the comments.

See also the texts listed on these posts: ‘Online text: “Three Meditations on Holy Saturday”, by Cardinal Ratzinger‘ and ‘Online text: “Holy Saturday and the Harrowing of Hell”, by Dr. Lawrence Feingold‘, as well as the following related text(s):

Free ebook: “Meditations on the Sufferings of Jesus Christ”, by Rev. Francis Da Perinaldo

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• Meditations on the Sufferings of Jesus Christ, by Rev. F. Francis Da Perinaldo, O.S.F., translated from the Italian by a Father of the same Order (New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1886). With Imprimatur. May be read online, and available in pdf, mobi, epub, and other formats, at Internet Archive.

See also the various ebooks and indexes listed on the post “Free eBooks & Resources for Lenten Observance“, as well as these ebooks: