Livre en ligne: “Théologie Séraphique: Extraite et Traduite des Oeuvres de Saint Bonaventure”

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• Théologie Séraphique: Extraite et Traduite des Oeuvres de Saint Bonaventure; Contenant “L’Itineraire de l’Ame vers Dieu”, “Le Traité du Mepris du Monde”, “L’Ecuelle d’Or des Vertus”, “Le Bouquet Spirituel”, “Le Traité des Vertus”, et “L’Incendie de l’Amour”, par l’Abbé Celeste Alix, et par Acc. Alix (Paris: Jacques LeCoffre et Cie., 1853). Disponible dans Internet Archive.

Pour la Fête de Saint Bonaventure.

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Online ebook: “The Catholic Home”, by Father Alexander, O.F.M.

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  The Catholic Home, by Father Alexander, O.F.M., with a Foreword by the Bishop of Salford (London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow: R. & T. Washbourne, 1914). With Imprimatur. May be read online, and available in epub, mobi, pdf, and other formats at Internet Archive.

Posted on the Feast of Saints Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin.

“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered himself up for it, that he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, nor any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.

“So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. For no man ever hated his own flesh: but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church: for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother: and shall adhere to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.

“This is a great sacrament: but I speak in Christ, and in the church.”  (Ephesians v, 25-32)

Online text: “Professional Ethics and Sanctification of Work”, by Carlos Llano Cifuentes

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• “Professional Ethics and Sanctification of Work”, by Carlos Llano Cifuentes, Romana (January-June 2004): pp. 112-126. May be read online on this page of Romana and on this page of Gloria.tv, and available in pdf format (on this page) at the University of Navarra.

Posted on the Feast of Saint Josemaria Escriva. See also the following works by the holy founder:

• Christ is Passing By, by St. Josemaria Escriva. Contains various homilies given from 1951 to 1971. May be read online, with a table of contents on this page, at Escriva Works.org (copyright Studium Foundation, rights reserved).
• Friends of God, homilies by Saint Josemaria Escriva. May be read online on this page of Josemaria Escriva Works (© Studium Foundation).
• In Love with the Church, by St. Josemaria Escriva (Scepter Publishers). May be read online through through this page of Escriva Works.org. (The book may be purchased on this page of Scepter Publishers; on this page of the St. Josemaria Institute; on this page of the Midwest Theological Forum; and at Amazon.com. A brief synopsis is available on this page of Opus Dei.)
• The Way, by St. Josemaria Escriva (1934, 1939). May be read online (on this page) at Josemaria Escriva Works. (N.B., The website states: “All intellectual property rights pertaining to the contents of these pages are reserved. Text and images may not be reproduced without authorization from the copyright holders…”)

• The Way of the Cross, by St. Josemaria Escriva. May be read online at Escrivaworks.org through its Table of Contents on this page (copyright Studium Foundation, rights reserved).

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“The Lord grants to every baptized person the necessary grace to reach the summits of divine charity. The small events of the day have within them an unsuspected greatness, and by living them with love towards God and towards one’s brethren, it is possible to overcome from the very start any split between faith and daily life” (Pope John Paul II, Address on “The Grandeur of Ordinary Life”)

“[T]he Church… insists first of all that the virtue of penitence be exercised in persevering faithfulness to the duties of one’s state in life, in the acceptance of the difficulties arising from one’s work and from human coexistence, in a patient bearing of the trials of earthly life and of the utter insecurity which pervades it…” (Pope Paul VI, Apostolic Constitution “Paenitemini”)

 

 

 

 

Online ebook: “The Glories of Divine Grace”, by Matthias Joseph Scheeben

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• The Glories of Divine Grace: a free rendering of the original treatise of P. Eusebius Nieremberg, S. J, by Matthias Joseph Scheeben, translated from the fourth revised German edition by a Benedictine Monk of St. Meinrad’s Abbey, Ind., with the consent of the author and the permission of the superior (New York, Cincinnati, St. Louis: Benziger Brothers; London: R. Washbourne; Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1886). With Imprimatur for the original and approbation for the translation. Available at Open Library and Internet Archive.

See also:

• The Catholic Doctrine of Grace, by George Hayward Joyce (London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1920). With Imprimatur. Available at Open Library and Internet Archive.
• The Catholic Doctrine on Justification: Explained and Vindicated, by the Right Rev. Francis Patrick Kenrick (Philadelphia, Eugene Cummiskey, 1841). Available in various formats (pdf, epub, mobi/kindle, etc.) at Internet Archive and Open Library.
• The Catholic Understanding of Justification, Sanctification, and Grace Compared with the Protestant, by Msgr. Lawrence Moran and Ronald J. Eldred. 98 pages. Available in PDF format through this page of Reasons to Believe: Catholic Apologetics.
• The Coming Home Journal, Volume 2, Issue 1: Salvation and Justification. 43 pages. Available in PDF format through this page at The Coming Home Network. Includes the following articles:
  • “We Do Not Stand Alone” by Todd von Kampen,
  • “One Saving Action” by Dwight Longenecker,
  •  “But How ARE Catholics Saved?” from the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
  • “Salvation from the Perspective of the Early Church Fathers” by Chris Erickson,
  • “Justification By Faith” by Dr. William Marshner,
  • “NOT By Faith Alone” by James Akin, and
  • “Faith Alone, Faith and Works, or Is It Something Else?” by Marcus C. Grodi
• Dogmatic Theology VII. Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise, by Joseph Pohle, translated by Arthur Preuss (St. Louis, Mo.: Herder, 1919). With Imprimatur. Available in PDF, Full Text and DjVu at Internet Archive. Another copy of the 1919 edition with Imprimatur is available in PDF, Full text, and EPUB formats at Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg. [NB, These are the best PDF copies online.] Still another copy of the 1919 edition is available in mutiple formats at Open Library and Internet Archive. The 1915 edition with Imprimatur is available in various formats at Open Library and Internet Archive.
• Living Tradition: Organ of the Roman Theological Forum, no. 25 (September 1989). Contains “Faith, Works and Justification”, by Brian W. Harrison, and “Wolfgang Smith: Teilhardism and the New Religion”, a review by John F. McCarthy. Available at the Roman Theological Forum.
• Outlines of Dogmatic Theology, 2nd edition, in 3 volumes, by Sylvester Joseph Hunter, S.J. (London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909). With Imprimatur. Volume III (Actual Grace, Justification, the Sacraments, the Last Things) is available at Internet Archive and Open Library.
• The Sacraments Explained According to the Teaching and Doctrine of the Catholic Church; with an Introductory Treatise on Grace, by Arthur Devine (London: R. & T. Washbourn, 1918). With Imprimatur. Available at Open Library and Internet Archive.

On the Feast of Saint Prosper of Aquitaine; and on the anniversary of publication of the Augsburg Confession expounding the Lutheran heresy.

“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…

“I am the vine: you the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. If any one remaineth not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they shall gather him up, and cast him into the fire, and he burneth…

“As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.” (St. John xiv, 21, 23, xv, 5-6, xvi, 9)

 

Online ebook: “On the Mysteries of Faith & the Interior Life”, by Rev. Henry Collins

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• Spiritual Conferences on the Mysteries of Faith and the Interior Life, by Rev. Henry Collins (London: R. Washbourne, 1875). With Imprimatur. May be read online, and available in pdf, mobi, epub, and other formats, at Internet Archive; and also available at Google Books and Google Play Store.
• Spiritual Conferences, by Rev. Henry Collins, edited by Rev. Joseph Degen, with an Introduction by Bishop John Keily (London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow: Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1920). With Imprimatur. May be read online, and available in pdf, mobi, epub, and other formats, at Internet Archive.

On the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist in the Roman Rite.

“He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as the prophet, Isaias, said… I baptize with water: but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not. The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose.” (St. John i, 23, 26-27)

Online ebook: “Growth in Holiness”, by Frederick William Faber

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• Growth in Holiness; or, The Progress of the Spiritual Life, by Frederick William Faber, 1814-1863 (Baltimore: John Murphy and Co.; Pittsburgh: George Quigley, 1855). With approbation. Available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats at Internet Archive; and available at Hathitrust Digital Library and Google Books.

On the Feast of Saint Ephrem the Syrian, Doctor of the Church, in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.

“Would that other ecclesiastical teachers learn from him how skilfully, how diligently they must work in preaching the doctrine of Christ! And indeed the piety of the faithful has nothing stable and advantageous except to adhere entirely to the mysteries and precepts of the faith. Those who legitimately teach the Sacred Scriptures are warned by the example of the Edessine not to distort the Sacred Scriptures to the good pleasure of their own inclinations, nor, in investigating them, to depart a finger’s breadth from the constant interpretation of the Church.” (Pope Benedict XV, Encyclical on St. Ephrem the Syrian “Principi Apostolorum Petro“, 16)

Online ebook: “Pastoral Theology”, by Rev. William Stang

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• Pastoral Theology, by Rev. William Stang (New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1897). With Imprimatur. Available in pdf, epub, kindle/mobi, and other formats at Internet Archive, in pdf format at University of Toronto Libraries, at Google Books, and (with some pages accessible to members) at Forgotten Books.

Feast of St. John of Sahagun in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.

Online audiobook & ebook: “Penance”, by Peter Kreeft

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• Penance, by Peter Kreeft (New Haven CT: Knights of Columbus Supreme Council, 2001). With Imprimatur. The ebook may be read online and is available in pdf format, and the audiobook may be listened to online and is available in mp3 format through this page of the Knights of Columbus.

On the Feast of St. Mateo Correa Magallanes of the Knights of Columbus, and of the Saints of the Cristero War, in earnest prayer that all nations may reject the counterfeit compassion whispered by the world, and surrender to the sanctifying and saving mercy proclaimed by our divine Lord Jesus Christ.

“Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.” (St. John xxi, 21-23 KJV)

Update (22 May 2018): We just learned that this is our 1000th post. Therefore, unto the Lord our God, in Whom we live, move, and have our being, we join in the thanksgiving of the one true Church:

 

Online ebook: “Special Devotion to the Holy Ghost”, by Bishop Otto Zardetti

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• Special Devotion to the Holy Ghost: A Manual for the use of Seminarians, Priests, Religious and the Christian People, by the Very Rev. [Bishop]  Dr. Otto Zardetti, with a letter of introduction by the Very Rev. John Keane, D.D., Bishop of Richmond (Milwaukee: Hoffman Brothers, 1888). With Imprimatur. Available at Google Books and Hathitrust Digital Library. May be read online, and available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats at Internet Archive and Open Library, with a 2^nd copy at Internet Archive and Open Library.
  • N.B., The discussion under Part III. The Office of the Holy Ghost, on pages 187 to 357, provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of Catholic Christian teaching on the Person of the God the Holy Spirit and His mission from creation to the eschaton.

On the Solemnity of Pentecost (Whitsunday), 2018.

 

“I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now. But when 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: and the things that are to come, he will shew you. He shall glorify me: because he shall receive of mine, and will declare it to you. All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine. Therefore, I said, that he shall receive of mine, and will shew it to you.” (St. John xvi, 12-15)

Online ebook: “Counsels, Reflections, and Prayers for Catholic Young Men”, by Rev. F.X. Lasance

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• The Young Man’s Guide: Counsels, Reflections, and Prayers for Catholic Young Men, by Rev. F. X. Lasance (New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benzinger Brothers, 1910). With Imprimatur. Available at HathiTrust Digital Library; and available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats at Open Library and Internet Archive.
  • [N.B.1, According to the author’s Preface, the work is adapted from Hinaus ins Leben by Fr. Colestin Muff, O.S.B.]
  • [N.B.2, We learned from Internet Archive that Fr. Lasance lived until 1946, but no online source appears to indicate the year of the decease of Fr. Muff. Therefore, while we have assessed as uncertain but probable that this work is in the public domain, we would appreciate further information on Fr. Muff and the text. Thank you.]

On the Feast of St. Dominic Savio in the Maronite church and in the Latin church (Salesian calendar). 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). Blessed be God in His angels and in His saints!