Download or read book Heart to Heart with Jesus Or Pious Affections of a Loving Soul Translated from the French by S C ooke written by Hubert LEBON and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heart to Heart with Jesus Or Pious Affections of a Loving Soul Placing Herself in Tender Intimacy with Her God written by Hubert Lebon and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heart to heart with Jesus tr by S C written by Hubert Lebon and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La D votion au Sacr C ur de J sus Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Translated from the Italian written by Jean CROISET and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lover of Souls written by Henry Brinkmeyer and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treatise on the Love of God written by St Francis De Sales and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meditations of St. Francis of Sales on the loving nature of God and the Holy Spirit contain abundant spiritual insight - this edition contains all twelve of his books, complete and unabridged with annotations. A superb compendium of thoughts which examine the multi-faceted nature of holiness in the Christian religion, the Treatise on the Love of God is lauded for its immense expressions of emotional and spiritual depth. The supreme will of God, acting in myriad ways, is shown to be the origination of all love on the Earth, divined to humanity by the Son of God and in the words and lessons of the Holy Bible. The author discusses topics such as God's influence over his creations, the manner in which men often shun or repulse the love of God, and how such love - when accepted - can progress a living soul's fulfillment. Following the lessons of God will result in benevolence, yet such a following requires humbleness: we must concede to God being the source of all that is good, loving and worthy in the universe. For the author, the attainment of closeness with the divine is both the highest good and the highest pleasure. The love that flows from the being of God, and how prayer is the ideal means of realizing such a beneficence, are steps on each human soul's unity with the Lord. Contemplating what constitutes the divine, and following the instruction received during the reading of God's words, are crucial parts of spiritual direction as interpreted by St. Francis. For St. Francis, spiritual growth proceeded on a series of levels. The initial stages consist of good deeds and adherence to a moral code, regular church attendance, and a basic knowledge of the holy precepts of Christianity. These are the founding basis upon which the higher tiers described in this text, whereby one attains - with time and dedication - a measure of understanding and affinity with the holy love of God and Jesus Christ. This edition contains all twelve books in their entirety, together with helpful notes of scriptural references. The translation of the books into modern English was accomplished by Henry Benedict Mackey, an English priest and scholar whose piety and knowledge of the saintly virtues allowed for accuracy and authenticity.
Download or read book Devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Translated from the French Revised by J J Dean written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ written by Alphonsus M. Liguori and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE whole sanctity and perfection of a soul consists in loving Jesus Christ, our God, our sovereign good, and our Redeemer. Whoever loves me, says Jesus Christ himself, shall be loved by my Eternal Father: My Father loves you because you have loved Me. Some, says St. Francis de Sales, make perfection consist in an austere life; others in prayer; others in frequenting the Sacraments; others in alms-deeds. But they deceive themselves: perfection consists in loving God with our whole heart. The Apostle wrote: Above all things, . . . have charity, which is the bond of perfection. It is charity which keeps united and preserves all the virtues that render a man perfect. Hence St. Augustine said: "Love God, and do whatever you please;" because a soul that loves God is taught by that same love never to do anything that will displease him, and to leave nothing undone that may please him. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 9 Chapter I 70 CHARITY IS PATIENT He that loves Jesus Christ loves sufferings. (Patience) Chapter II 89 CHARITY IS KIND He that loves Jesus Christ loves meekness. (Meekness) Chapter III 99 CHARITY ENVIETH NOT The soul that loves Jesus Christ does not envy the great ones of this world, but only those who are greater lovers of Jesus Christ. Chapter IV 110 CHARITY DEALETH NOT PERVERSELY He that loves Jesus Christ avoids lukewarmness, and seeks perfection; the means of which are: 1. Desire 2. Resolution 3. Mental Prayer 4. Communion 5. Prayer Lukewarmess Remedies against lukewarmness: 1. Desire of Perfection 2. Resolution 3. Mental Prayer Chapter V 149 CHARITY IS NOT PUFFED UP He that loves Jesus Christ is not vain of his own worth, but humbles himself, and is glad to be humbled by others. (Humility) Chapter VI 160 CHARITY IS NOT AMBITIOUS He that loves Jesus Christ desires nothing but Jesus Christ. (Vainglory) Chapter VII 167 CHARITY SEEKETH NOT HER OWN He that loves Jesus Christ seeks to detach himself from every creature. (Detachment) Detachment from relatives, above all, in regard to one's vocation. Sanctity required to enter Holy Orders. Detachment from human respect and self-will. Chapter VIII 195 CHARITY IS NOT PROVOKED TO ANGER He that loves Jesus Christ is never angry with his neighbor. (Meekness) Chapter IX 207 CHARITY THINKETH NO EVIL, REJOICETH NOT IN INIQUITY, BUT REJOICING WITH THE TRUTH (Conformity to God's Will) The necessity of conforming to God's Will Obedience Chapter X 228 CHARITY BEARETH ALL THINGS He that loves Jesus Christ bears all things for Jesus Christ, and especially illnesses, poverty, and contempt. 1. Patience in sickness 2. Patience in poverty 3. Patience under contempt Chapter XI 249 CHARITY BELIEVETH ALL THINGS He that loves Jesus Christ believes all His words. (Faith) Chapter XII 256 CHARITY HOPETH ALL THINGS He that loves Jesus Christ hopes for all things from Him. (Hope) Chapter XIII 272 CHARITY BEARETH ALL THINGS IN TEMPTATIONS AND DESOLATIONS He that loves Jesus Christ with a strong love does not cease to love Him in the midst of all sorts of temptations and desolations. 1. Temptations; why God permits them Remedies against temptations 2. Desolations Abstract of the virtues treated of in this work, to be practiced by him who loves Jesus Christ MEDITATIONS 316 Novena to the Holy Ghost 1. Love is a fire that inflames the heart 2. Love is a light that enlightens the soul 3. Love is a fountain that satisfies 4. Love is a dew that fertilizes 5. Love is a repose that refreshes 6. Love is the virtue that gives strength 7. Love causes God to dwell in our souls 8. Love is a bond that binds 9. Love is a treasure containing every good 10. The means of loving God and becoming a saint Pious Exercise to obtain the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost 337 Hymn 353
Download or read book All for Jesus Or The Easy Ways of Divine Love written by Frederick William Faber and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All for Jesus written by Frederick William Faber and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work begins: "Jesus belongs to us. He vouchsafes to put Himself at our disposal. He communicates to us everything of His which we are capable of receiving. He loves us with a love which no words can tell, nay, above all our thought and imagination; and He condescends to desire, with a. longing which is equally indescribable, that we should love Him, with a fervent and entire love. His merits may be called ours as well as His. His satisfactions are not so much His treasures as they are ours. His sacraments are but so many ways which His love has designed to communicate Him to our souls. Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle, and end of every thing to us. He is our help in penance, our consolation in grief, our support in trial." Father Faber tells us that all of the Saints had three things in common: "1. Eagerness for the glory of God; 2. Touchiness about the interests of Jesus; and 3. Anxiety for the salvation of souls." He then expands on these three points essential to sanctification and salvation. Father Faber gives some good advice to atone for the sins of others in those seasons when people sin most, which today is always: "1. To abstain at that season with more than common care from some particular fault which ordinarily besets us. 2. To increase our time of prayer by adding at least half an hour to it. 3. To read longer than usual, say for an hour, some spiritual book, not one which will feed curiosity, but one which will excite pious affections toward God, such as the Confessions of St. Augustine, the Imitation of Christ, and the Lives of the Saints. 4. To afflict our bodies with some new penance, or to prolong some customary penance beyond its usual time. 6. Every time the clock strikes, to make a brief but affectionate act; of sorrow for the sins of the season: this may be done in any way, walking, or at meals, &c. 7. At least three times in the day, with a most profound genuflexion, and with great feeling, to adore the Divine Majesty toward the four quarters of the world, all which God is at this time being so grievously offended, desiring in some sort of way to compensate by this loving adoration, for the sins which are then being committed in those regions, grieving for them, and asking for their remission and for the conversion of sinners, and for that end offering up the Precious Blood and merits of Jesus Christ, which and most dear to God and most profitable to sinners. It was thus St. Mary Magdalene of Pazzi obtained the conversion of many sinners. 8. To do our ordinary good works on these days more perfectly, diligently, and fervently, especially those which relate to the immediate worship of God. For, as at these seasons worldly men and the servants of the devil arc more diligent and fervent in offending God, it is but right that souls loving God should be at least in the same proportion more diligent and fervent in well-doing and in divine worship. 9. To make an additional communion in order to appease God, and to worship Him by our loving reparation. 10. As God is especially offended on these days by excesses in eating and drinking, to mortify our appetite somewhat more than usual either in quantity or quality. 11. As God is also especially offended at such times by immodest conversations, to agree with some pious friend to meet and spend a short time daily in spiritual conference, simply to give pleasure and consolation to our good God. 12. As men are especially guilty at such times of sinful idleness, to take more than common care about the spending of our time, so that apart from innocent and proper recreation, no part of it should pass in idleness and inutility, but rather to be more industrious than usual. 13. Those who are under any vows should on these days renew them with fresh acts of love to God, a devotion suggested to us by our Lord's fixing the Thursday before Quinquagesima for espousing St. Catherine of Siena.
Download or read book The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ written by St. Alphonsus Liguori and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE whole sanctity and perfection of a soul consists in loving Jesus Christ, our God, our sovereign good, and our Redeemer. Whoever loves me, says Jesus Christ himself, shall be loved by my Eternal Father: My Father loves you because you have loved Me. Some, says St. Francis de Sales, make perfection consist in an austere life; others in prayer; others in frequenting the Sacraments; others in alms-deeds. But they deceive themselves: perfection consists in loving God with our whole heart. The Apostle wrote: Above all things, . . . have charity, which is the bond of perfection. It is charity which keeps united and preserves all the virtues that render a man perfect. Hence St. Augustine said: "Love God, and do whatever you please;" because a soul that loves God is taught by that same love never to do anything that will displease him, and to leave nothing undone that may please him. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 9 Chapter I 70 CHARITY IS PATIENT He that loves Jesus Christ loves sufferings. (Patience) Chapter II 89 CHARITY IS KIND He that loves Jesus Christ loves meekness. (Meekness) Chapter III 99 CHARITY ENVIETH NOT The soul that loves Jesus Christ does not envy the great ones of this world, but only those who are greater lovers of Jesus Christ. Chapter IV 110 CHARITY DEALETH NOT PERVERSELY He that loves Jesus Christ avoids lukewarmness, and seeks perfection; the means of which are: 1. Desire 2. Resolution 3. Mental Prayer 4. Communion 5. Prayer Lukewarmess Remedies against lukewarmness: 1. Desire of Perfection 2. Resolution 3. Mental Prayer Chapter V 149 CHARITY IS NOT PUFFED UP He that loves Jesus Christ is not vain of his own worth, but humbles himself, and is glad to be humbled by others. (Humility) Chapter VI 160 CHARITY IS NOT AMBITIOUS He that loves Jesus Christ desires nothing but Jesus Christ. (Vainglory) Chapter VII 167 CHARITY SEEKETH NOT HER OWN He that loves Jesus Christ seeks to detach himself from every creature. (Detachment) Detachment from relatives, above all, in regard to one's vocation. Sanctity required to enter Holy Orders. Detachment from human respect and self-will. Chapter VIII 195 CHARITY IS NOT PROVOKED TO ANGER He that loves Jesus Christ is never angry with his neighbor. (Meekness) Chapter IX 207 CHARITY THINKETH NO EVIL, REJOICETH NOT IN INIQUITY, BUT REJOICING WITH THE TRUTH (Conformity to God's Will) The necessity of conforming to God's Will Obedience Chapter X 228 CHARITY BEARETH ALL THINGS He that loves Jesus Christ bears all things for Jesus Christ, and especially illnesses, poverty, and contempt. 1. Patience in sickness 2. Patience in poverty 3. Patience under contempt Chapter XI 249 CHARITY BELIEVETH ALL THINGS He that loves Jesus Christ believes all His words. (Faith) Chapter XII 256 CHARITY HOPETH ALL THINGS He that loves Jesus Christ hopes for all things from Him. (Hope) Chapter XIII 272 CHARITY BEARETH ALL THINGS IN TEMPTATIONS AND DESOLATIONS He that loves Jesus Christ with a strong love does not cease to love Him in the midst of all sorts of temptations and desolations. 1. Temptations; why God permits them Remedies against temptations 2. Desolations Abstract of the virtues treated of in this work, to be practiced by him who loves Jesus Christ MEDITATIONS 316 Novena to the Holy Ghost 1. Love is a fire that inflames the heart 2. Love is a light that enlightens the soul 3. Love is a fountain that satisfies 4. Love is a dew that fertilizes 5. Love is a repose that refreshes 6. Love is the virtue that gives strength 7. Love causes God to dwell in our souls 8. Love is a bond that binds 9. Love is a treasure containing every good 10. The means of loving God and becoming a saint Pious Exercise to obtain the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost 337 Hymn 353
Download or read book The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ written by Saint Alphonsus de Liguori and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE whole sanctity and perfection of a soul consists in loving Jesus Christ, our God, our sovereign good, and our Redeemer. Whoever loves me, says Jesus Christ himself, shall be loved by my Eternal Father: My Father loves you because you have loved Me. Some, says St. Francis de Sales, make perfection consist in an austere life; others in prayer; others in frequenting the Sacraments; others in alms-deeds. But they deceive themselves: perfection consists in loving God with our whole heart. The Apostle wrote: Above all things, . . . have love, which is the bond of perfection. It is love which keeps united and preserves all the virtues that render a man perfect. Hence St. Augustine said: “Love God, and do whatever you please;” because a soul that loves God is taught by that same love never to do anything that will displease him, and to leave nothing undone that may please him.
Download or read book The Love of Souls Or Reflections and Affections on the Passion of Jesus Christ written by Alphonsus Liguori and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clock of the Passion 4 Invocation of Jesus and Mary 6 Fruits of Meditation on the Passion of Jesus Christ 9 Chapter I 18 Chapter II 30 Chapter III 42 Chapter IV 50 Chapter V 59 Chapter VI 73 Chapter VII 83 Chapter VIII 97 Chapter IX 111 Chapter X 119 Chapter XI 127 Chapter XII 140 Chapter XIII 154 Chapter XIV 168 Chapter XV 185 Chapter XVI 195 FRUITS OF MEDITATION ON THE PASSION OF JESUS CHRIST. 1. The Lover of souls, our most loving Redeemer, declared that He had no other motive in coming down upon earth to become man, than to enkindle in the hearts of men the fire of His holy love: "I am come to cast fire on earth; and what will I but that it be kindled" (St. Luke 12:49). And oh, what beautiful flames of love has He not enkindled in so many souls, especially by the pains that He chose to suffer in His death, in order to prove to us the immeasurable love which He still bears to us! Oh, how many souls, happy in the Wounds of Jesus, as in burning furnaces of love, have been so inflamed with His love, that they have not refused to consecrate to Him their goods, their lives and their whole selves, surmounting with great courage all the difficulties which they had to encounter in the observance of the Divine law, for the love of that Lord who, being God, chose to suffer so much for the love of them! This was just the counsel that the Apostle gave us, in order that we might not fail, but make great advances in the way of salvation: "Think diligently upon Him who endureth such opposition from sinners against Himself, that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds" (Heb. 12:3). 2. Wherefore St. Augustine, all inflamed with love at the sight of Jesus nailed on the Cross, prayed thus sweetly: Imprint, O Lord, Thy Wounds in my heart, that I may read therein suffering and love: suffering, that I may endure for Thee all suffering; love, that I may despise for Thee all love. Write, he said, my most loving Saviour, write on my heart Thy Wounds, in order that I may always therein behold Thy sufferings and Thy love. Yes, because, having before my eyes the great sufferings that Thou, my God, didst endure for me, I may bear in silence all the sufferings it may fall to my lot to endure; and at the sight of the love which Thou didst exhibit for me on the Cross, I may never love or be able to love any other than Thee. 3. And from what source did the saints draw courage and strength to suffer torments, martyrdom and death, if not from the sufferings of Jesus crucified? St. Joseph of Leonessa, a Capuchin, on seeing that they were going to bind him with cords for a painful incision that the surgeon was to make in his body, took into his hands his crucifix and said, 'Why these cords? Why these cords? Behold, these are my chains - my Saviour nailed to the Cross for love of me. He through His sufferings constrains me to bear every trial for His sake.' And thus he suffered the amputation without a complaint; looking upon Jesus, who, "as a lamb before his shearers, was dumb and did not open His mouth" (Isaias 53:7). Who, then, can ever complain that he suffers wrongfully, when he considers Jesus, who was "bruised for our sins"? (Is. 53:5.) Who can refuse to obey, on account of some inconvenience, when Jesus "became obedient unto death"? (Phil. 2:8.) Who can refuse ignominies, when they behold Jesus treated as a fool, as a mock king, as a disorderly person; struck, spit upon on His face and suspended upon an infamous gibbet?
Download or read book 34 Flames of Divine Love written by St. John Eudes and published by Eudists - Cjm Us Region. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many ways can you say "I love you?" In a few dense, passionate pages, St. John Eudes gives voice to the fullest, deepest, most vibrant expression of his mysticism. These "exercises of divine love" were designed by the 17th century saint to lead his spiritual children into the warm, tender embrace of a God who IS love; living, primordial, essential love.
Download or read book On the Love of God written by Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All for Jesus Or The Easy Ways of Divine Love written by Faber and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treatise on the Love of God written by Saint Francis (de Sales) and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
