Spiritual Life
All for Jesus
The Easy Ways of Divine Love
by Fr. Frederick William Faber
In All for Jesus, Fr. Faber provides one of his most tender and encouraging spiritual treatises, because the subject of his discourse is Divine Love. He urges us to save our souls by "serving Jesus out of love," for "everything comes easy to love." In addition to powerful motives for the love of God (something we have been preached since youth and can take for granted without stopping to contemplate), Fr. Faber shows how Christian perfection is not nearly so difficult as it seems, because true love will transform all of our actions. For the yoke of the Lord is easy, and His burden is light.
In short, Fr. Faber shows that, if we love God, it will be with us as it was with Jacob working to earn the hand of Rachel: "Years would seem but days; for the greatness of our love." This is Fr. Faber at his finest. Let his rare wisdom, characteristic of a more ancient Christian sage, guide you through the "easy ways of Divine Love."
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 328 pages
by Fr Jose Trevino
As in biological life, spiritual life has its iron laws ordained by God that must be followed for one to thrive. In this practical and edifying book, Fr. José Guadalupe Treviño presents these laws and shows how to employ them to make spiritual progress.
Fr. Treviño devotes a full chapter to each of the eighteen rules, unpacking their significance and benefits. You will profit from St. Thomas Aquinas’s advice about the chief duty of beginners in the spiritual life and his reflection on why the contemplative life is superior to the active life.
You will come to understand the common barriers to prayer and how to overcome them—including the single greatest obstacle on your road to perfection. You will learn how to grow in recollection throughout the day and cultivate the awareness of the presence of God. Additionally, you’ll discover your predominant fault, answers to common misconceptions about holiness, and the authentic signs of spiritual progress.
In this classic foundational work for spiritual growth, Fr. Treviño will teach you three steps to total surrender that will lead your soul to the heights of holiness and the one thing to which you must be ever faithful on the road to sanctity.
Masterfully, through practical points and enriching explanations, he will guide you in:
- Four steps to rooting out venial sin
- The first quality necessary for total surrender
- The surprising way we receive the highest graces
- What must become our daily food (Try to guess!)
- The six essential ways to love
- Three signs that you have become lukewarm (Fervent souls, take note!)
You will see how to live a balanced spiritual life and avoid scrupulosity and will discover the pitfall you must watch out for as you advance. And you will learn about the source of all holiness and the golden thread that binds all the stages of the spiritual life together and unites us with God.
Paperback, size 8.4" x 5.4", 256 pages
by Archbishop Alban Goodier
No matter how pure or virtuous your intentions may be, you can easily get so caught up in temporal pursuits — “the things of this world” — that you forget about God and His intimate, sustained involvement in your life. But with help from this book, you can turn that around by making an examination of your life that will orient you on the fertile path to Jesus Christ.
It's not enough simply to call yourself a Christian or attend Sunday Mass: you need to decide to live for God rather than for yourself. To help you do so, Archbishop Alban Goodier explains how giving yourself to God will ennoble you and bring you great rewards. He details the many ways in which you will gain happiness by rising above the concerns of this world, even amid the cares and duties of your daily life! He shows how the very fact of God's existence — to say nothing of achieving spiritual closeness with Him — gives meaning and dignity to your life in a way that worldly possessions or success never can.
Uncompromising, incisive, and comprehensive, Overcoming Worldly Concerns is a much-needed wake-up call for every “comfortable Christian.”
Abandon yourself fully to God and learn:
- The little-known fact that will inspire you to resist sin with all your strength
- The ways in which you've been throwing away God's grace
- The secret of the saints that makes them such a powerful help for you today — if only you ask for that help
- How you can be certain of God's love for you at any given moment
- How you can arm yourself for the spiritual warfare that is sure to beset your soul
- The many forms and levels of prayer (and why just knowing them is not enough)
- The most common hindrances to prayer — and how to overcome them
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 144 pages
by Bl Anne Catherine Emmerich
The first part of Inner Life and Worlds of Soul & Spirit casts light on the nature of visionary experience, prayer, the rosary, the amen, and ways of healing.
Part two presents both well-known parables and fascinating new teachings, including an allegory of marriage and of stars at birth.
Part three is occupied with heaven and hell, work for “poor souls” in purgatory, the habitations of the heavenly Jerusalem, John’s Book of Revelations, the “Octangular Church,” and the Churches Triumphant and Militant.
Part four focuses on such places as the spring at Matarea, the pool of Bethesda, the holy sepulcher, the praetorium, and the way of the cross in Ephesus.
Part five considers Egyptian star wisdom, the star of the Magi, Jacob’s ladder, the writing of the New Testament, the chalice of the Last Supper, the “twelve new apostles,” dragons, and Satan. The final section presents themes related to Jesus, including his two genealogial trees, baptism, voice, shoulder wound, the cloth used to lower him from the cross, Veronica’s scarf, his mantle, and apparitions upon his death.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 256 pages
Also available in hardcover on request (additional cost)
by St Thomas More
The Sadness of Christ was the last book that St. Thomas More wrote in the Tower of London before he was executed for standing firm in his Catholic faith.
In it, he explores the Gospel passages that depict the agony of Our Lord in the Garden of Gethsemane. He depicts Christ as a model of virtue in the face of suffering and persecution. And along the way, he includes valuable and eternally relevant reflections on prayer, courage, friendship, statesmanship, and more. Here is an excellent resource for Lent or anytime!
Paperback, size 9" x 6", 124 pages
by Ven. Ludovius Blosius
Translated by Fr. Bertrand Wilberforce
This book is written as a kind of spiritual mirror, in which is laid down clearly, though shortly, the chief things necessary for leading a holy life. It contains everything which is likely to give comfort to the soul, and hope and trust in God, to one who, though sinful and imperfect, is nevertheless a man of good will, in order that all Christians might be able to use the book as a spiritual mirror.
Paperback, size 8" x 5.25", 125 pages
by St. Louis de Montfort
This work manifests and proclaims a sublime experience of union with Jesus, eternal and incarnate Wisdom. St. Louis de Montfort gives us a valuable abridgement of his spirituality which can be summed up in the words of St. Paul: "Christ living in us." It holds the key to the full doctrine of St. Louis de Montfort.
Paperback, size 6.5" x 4", 152 pages
by St. Louis de Montfort
A priceless booklet. Each paragraph leads us to a greater understanding, appreciation, and love of the Cross that is our key to the gate of Heaven. Includes 14 practical rules to follow in carrying our crosses in order to accept them generously. Good for suffering souls. Used on retreats.
Paperback, size 7" x 4.88", 36 pages
One Volume Edition
by St Francis de Sales
Masterful combination of theological principles and practical application regarding divine love - the subject of Our Lord's first and greatest commandment. Based on Scripture, the Fathers, St. Thomas. An acknowledged classic which goes to the heart of our religion.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 555 pages
by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was head of the Holy Ghost Congregation. He was the first Archbishop of Dakar, The largest city in French Africa and was also the Apostolic delegate of Pope Pius XII for all of French speaking Africa. During this period, he issued a number of letters addressed to the priests and faithful under his care. The letters range from a learned discourse on the "Dangers of Religious Ignorance" to "The Church and it Social and Political Evolution", to a moving and profound written discourse about "Life and Truth".
Hardcover, size 8.75" x 5.75", 319 pages
St Therese and the Faithful
A book for those living in the world
by Benedict Williamson
St Therese and the Faithful is a practical manual which makes this great saint and doctor’s little way applicable to those living in the world.
Benedict Williamson shows, in this wonderful work, that the spirituality of St Therese is not just for religious, just as sainthood is not for religious only, but is for everyone. The home, just as truly as the convent, can be the school of sanctity, and St Therese leads the way.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 208 pages
Also available in Hardcover upon request (additional cost)
by St Margaret Mary Alacoque
A treasury of short quotes on 12 topics - one for each month, with one quote for every day of the year. Also includes a section of words of Our Lord to St. Margaret Mary.
"Our heart is too small to contain two loves; being made only for divine love, it finds no rest in any other."
Filled with such wisdom, the Thoughts and Sayings of St. Margaret Mary—short quotes extracted from the 3-volume Life and Writings of St. Margaret Mary—is a gem that will become one of the reader's all-time favorite Catholic books. Far from being a mamby-pamby, sweet and simple person, St. Margaret Mary displays in these short sayings that she was an intrepid and redoubtable soul, filled not only with total love of God, but also with absolute courage and constancy—as well as with the greatest humility and complete maturity in the spiritual realm.
When a great saint speaks, there is wisdom for everyone. No reader of these thoughts will remain unprovoked or unchallenged—there is something in here for literally everyone! She is especially penetrating on devotion to the Sacred Heart, but she also manifests a world of Catholic wisdom on a host of other topics. The reader will peruse these pages with great profit and interest and will refer to them again and again!
Paperback, size 6" x 4", 109 pages
The Needs of Our Time - A Little Treatise of Infinite Love
by Mother Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche
THE LITTLE BOOK OF THE WORK OF INFINITE LOVE is a brief summary of the life and mission of Mother Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche (1868-1915), a Visitation sister to whom Our Lord gave many intimate details concerning the love of His Sacred Heart for men.
Of special importance are her revelations about the Sacred Heart and the priesthood, showing how Our Lord desires to transform the world by love in particular, by the superabundant supernatural love He desires His priests to show mankind.
This Little Book also contains a description of the Priests Universal Union of the Friends of the Sacred Heart, which Mother Louise founded, an outline of their duties, and selections from her writings. This last will be found suffused with simplicity, directness, and holy penetration common to all the Saints.
Mother Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche lived from 1868-1915. She entered the Visitation convent in 1890 at Romans, France and is the artist of the "Picture of Jesus Merciful" painting, which she transcribed after an interior vision. She wrote her Autobiography from 1904-1905 as ordered by Father Alfred Charrier, her spiritual director. She was named superior of her convent two years later and retained the position until 1913. Mother Louise Claret is the author of The Little Book of the Work of Infinite Love, The Love and Service of God, The Book of Infinite Love, and The Sacred Heart and the Priesthood. She died in Vische on the fourteenth of May, 1915, and subsequently earned the title of Venerable.
Paperback, size 7" x 4.5", 64 pages
The Life and Writings of Rt. Rev. Alfred Allen Curtis, D.D.
Second Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware and Former Episcopalian Pastor
compiled by The Visitation Sisters of Wilmington
A convert from the Anglican ministry; he went on to become a Catholic priest and bishop and was regarded as a saint by those who knew him; especially the Visitation Sisters; who maintain he is powerful to answer prayers. Contains his brief Spiritual Counsels; alone worth the price of the book. Beautiful insights into the development of the Church in America and of a saintly soul.
Paperback, size 8.25" x 5.5", 450 pages, Impr
by Monsignor Gaume
Advocate of God and consoler of Mary, this is the story of the first thief, whose wonderful eleventh hour conversion and defense of the holy Kingship of Christ on Calvary, merited him the everlasting title, The Good Thief.
Monsignor Gaume opens his book with a graphic, even ugly, description of the true face of a highway brigand in the days of the Caesars. He presents the first meeting of our Egyptian thief and the Son of God in the idolatrous land of the Pharaohs on the occasion of the flight of the impoverished Holy Family away from the sword of Herod. The rest of this profoundly inspiring account begins on the Mount of the Skull. It is the story of the Passion as seen through this most unlikely of characters. Meet Dismas; a dying man whose only request from his Lord was but a remembrance in His Kingdom! Rejoice for a man who was the first to be with Christ in Paradise.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 208 pages
by Fr. Patrignani, SJ
After Our Lady, it is the speculative tradition of the Church that there is no saint greater than St. Joseph. After all, this supremely humble man about to whom no words are attributed in Scripture, merited to be the foster-father of God Himself in the Person of Jesus Christ. What a sublime mystery; what a noble office; what a glorious man! St. Joseph is the single greatest male to ever walk the Earth, other than Our Lord Himself. Thus, aside from Our Lord and Our Lady, there is no better recourse we can have than him on whom even they depended in the Holy Family.
A Manual of Practical Devotion to St. Joseph serves as an instruction to the faithful on how to truly devote oneself to this remarkable humble and just saint. Written in 1709 in Italian and translated in the 19th century, it contains tremendous insights on the person of St. Joseph, as well as reasons for our devotion to hymn and a well of prayers, novenas, and hymns. God chose St. Joseph to represent the ideal of fatherhood in the Holy Family; let us learn from him! The advice of Holy Mother Church is to "Go to Joseph." This book shows the way.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 350 pages
Love Is a Radiant Light
The Life and Words of St Charbel
by Hanna Skandar
“A man who prays lives out the mystery of existence, and a man who does not pray scarcely exists.” Thus writes St. Charbel Makhlouf (1828–1898), a Maronite monk and priest from Lebanon whose reputation for sanctity spread widely during his life, and whose heavenly intercession has worked countless miracles after his death. St. Charbel’s homilies and proverbs are reminiscent of the sayings of the Desert Fathers: simple, homespun, and direct, yet shining and profound.
This holy monk speaks from a reservoir of silence about the fundamentals of the Faith and targets the temptations facing all Christians today: the flight from suffering, excessive attachment to comforts, pride over accomplishments, complacency, factiousness, substituting talk for action, fear of proclaiming the truth in an age of hostile unbelief. Alert to the reality of spiritual warfare, St. Charbel calls each one of us to hold fast to the Cross, “the center of the universe and the key to heaven,” and defy the devil who seeks our ruin. This collection of some of the most beautiful words spoken by St. Charbel is augmented by a short biography that will bring him to the attention of those who have not yet made his acquaintance or profited from his wisdom.
Paperback, size 8" x 5", 103 pages
The Complete Works of Elizabeth of The Trinity, vol. 1
Major Spiritual Writings
Translated by Aletheia Kane, OCD
Elizabeth of the Trinity (Elizabeth Catez), who died in 1906 at the age of 26 in the Carmel of Dijon, is a mystic for our times, with a profound spirituality rooted not in visions and voices but in attention to the indwelling Trinity and in the call to become a "praise of glory" for God.
This first volume of her Complete Works contains her major spiritual writings, including two sets of retreat notes ("Heaven in Faith" and "Last Retreat") and her famous prayer "O My God, Trinity Whom I Adore." A comprehensive introduction to Elizabeth's life and spirituality by the editor, Conrad De Meester, is also included, along with detailed notes and 5 pages of photos.
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 204 pages
The Complete Works of Elizabeth of The Trinity, vol. 2
Letters From Carmel
Translated by Anne Englund Nash
This second of three volumes of her Complete Works contains all of Elizabeth's surviving letters from Carmel. It includes 8 photos, background information and the horarium for the Dijon Carmel, as well as the floor plan for the monastery.
In simple and tender language, writing to friends and family, Elizabeth returns again and again to the great themes of her spirituality: the indwelling Trinity, silence and solitude, living by love, becoming a "praise of glory" (laudem gloriae) by sharing in the dying and rising of Jesus Christ. Here too we find many of her best-known sayings, e.g., "I have found my heaven on earth, for heaven is God, and God is in my soul."
Paperback, size 8.5" x 5.5", 400 pages