Anne Catherine Emmerich

St. Alphonsus Liguori

Complete, Unabridged, Restored - 2 for 1! From the visions of Blessed Catherine Emmerich detailing how the Holy Mother lived and was assumed into Heaven to become our Eternal Queen, and +Brand new illustrations from Sequential Artist Jacob Rice +Study questions +Biography and +A Treatise on Catholic Theology and the Bible. The Glories of Mary is a classic of Mariology, written during the 18th century by Saint Alphonsus Liguori, the great Doctor of the Church. The book was written at a time when Jansenists criticized Marian devotions, and was written in part as a defense of Marian devotion. The book combines numerous citations in favor of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary from the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church with Saint Alphonsus' own personal views on Marian veneration and includes a number of Marian prayers and practices. Part 1 focuses on the Salve Regina and explains how God gave Mary to mankind as the "Gate of Heaven". St. Alphonsus quotes Saint Bonaventure: "No one can enter Heaven unless by Mary, as though through a door." Part 2 deals with the key Marian feasts such as the Immaculate Conception, Nativity, Purification, Annunciation, Assumption, etc. Part 3 looks at the Seven Sorrows of Mary, explaining how her "prolonged martyrdom" was greater than that of all other martyrs. In part 4 fourth we discuss ten different virtues of the Blessed Virgin, while part 5 rounds out the work with a collection of prayers, meditations and devotions.

From the Visions of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

The Glories of Mary (annotated & illustrated) + The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary

According to the Method of St. Alphonsus Liguori

The Way of the Cross

• Do you like to grow on a personal level, and learn useful things every day? • Are you interested in knowing how to have a better life when you reach the virtue of trusting in God every day? • Do you want to know how the Catholic Saints, who are so famous and acclaimed all over the world, achieved such great virtues and such high glory? • Do you want to know how they dominated their bad inclinations and finally reached Heaven? • Would you like to imitate their behavior and know how they thought so that YOU CAN ALSO take the path that leads to Jesus Christ? DO NOT LOOK ANY FURTHER! With the new edition of this book that we have created especially for you . You can find among other things the following: 1. The powerful wisdom that Saints like St. John Chrysostom, St. Anselm, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Teresa of Ávila, St. Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi and St. Dorotheus applied personally and recommend to trust in God in any eventuality, even in diseases or persecutions. 2. The advice and admonitions that YOU HAVE TO READ where the Holy Spirit teaches you to trust more in his providence through TOUCHING words of encouragement that have been studied and affectionately saved and transmitted from generation to generation to MILLIONS OF PEOPLE for THOUSANDS OF YEARS. (Some of the Biblical books cited include: The Gospel according to Saint Matthew, The Gospel according to Saint John, The Gospel according to Saint Luke, The Book of Job, The First Letter of the Apostle and Martyr Saint Paul to the Thessalonians, The Letter of St. Paul the Apostle and Marty to the Galatians, The Acts of the Apostles and MANY MORE!!) 3. Amazing true stories of educational order collected by Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori and in which you will discover the errors that you should avoid on your way to heaven, as well as the best ways to advance in the practice of Christian virtues 4. The best way to get REAL and LASTING RESULTS on the way to have a trust in God capable of any cross or tribulation, since in this edition you can find prayers composed specifically by St. Alphonsus so that daily you can ask God for the grace of trusting more in his Providence. WHY YOU NEED THIS BOOK If you are interested in acquiring and maintaining a strong and constant trust in God when facing problems and stress from day to day, if you wish to obtain peace of spirit rooted in God and want more than anything in the world, to achieve eternal happiness and heaven. THIS BOOK IS DEFINITELY FOR YOU. Don’t wait! Press the "BUY NOW" button and start your path to a better life. Act NOW.

St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori on How to accept and love the will of God and his Divine Providence Includes quotations from St. John, Isaias, the Song of Songs, St. Bernard, etc.

How to Converse with God

The promise of Eternal life has been a clarion call to the Saints for centuries, rousing them to action and heroic virtue. Some have retreated into the deserts to undergo every sort of torment so that they would be more sure of reaching Heaven. The knew that, compared with Eternity, this life is but a shadow. St Alphonsus Liguori's Attaining Salvation is a timeless, priceless compass for that journey. Written when the great Doctor of the Church was 77 years old, this treasury of reflections shines with the mature learning of a brilliant mind and a life filled with the study and service of God. With 45 short chapters filled with provocative Scripture quotes, this book is at once challenging and easy to understand. It can be read a little at a time or all at once with equal benefit. The chapters cover a wide range of topics, including: The Thought of Eternity, We Are Pilgrims on Earth, I Must One Day Die, Necessity of Mental Prayer, The Mercy of God, Detachment from Creatures, Lukewarmness, and Purity of Intention. Attaining Salvation is a beautiful gem that will instruct and inspire every reader because it is written with the commanding insight of one of the Church's great saints. Its words do not just feed the intellect; they nurture the soul. It is St Alphonsus Liguori at his best.

Devout Reflections and Meditations

Attaining Salvation

Saint Alphonsus set a high value on this little treatise. He recommends it in several places of his works, and we read in one of his spiritual letters (December 18, 1767) that he himself used it nearly every day. In it is to be found the expression of those sentiments with which the saintly author mostly loved to nourish himself, and by which he sanctified his soul. In this treatise are chiefly repeated, under every form, the most fervent acts of contrition and of love. "They are irresistible darts that pierce the hardest hearts, and in flame divine love in the coldest souls." These pious reflections may be especially used when we are in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, in our Visits, before and after Holy Communion, during Holy Mass and other divine services, or when we meditate on the Passion of our Lord. This treatise, entitled Darts of Fire, was published by the holy author in 1767. - ED. Darts of Fire Or Proofs that Jesus Christ Has Given Us of His Love in the Works of Redemption To anyone who considers the immense love which Jesus Christ has shown us in his life, and especially in his death, it is impossible not to be stirred up and excited to love a God who is so enamoured of our souls. St. Bonaventure calls the wounds of our Redeemer wounds which pierce the hardest hearts, and inflame divine love in the coldest souls. Therefore, in this short examination of the love of Jesus Christ, let us consider, according to the testimony of the divine Scriptures, how much our loving Redeemer has done to make us understand the love that lie bears us, and to oblige us to love him. I. Dilexit nos, et tradidit semctipsum pro nobis. "He hath loved us, and hath delivered Himself for us." - Ephes. 5:2. God had conferred so many blessings on men, thereby to draw them to love him; but these ungrateful men not only did not love him, but they would not even acknowledge him as their Lord. Scarcely in one corner of the earth, in Judea, was he recognized as God by his chosen people; and by them he was more feared than loved. He, however, who wished to be more loved than feared by us, became man like us, chose a poor, suffering, and obscure life, and a painful and ignominious death; and why? To draw our hearts to himself. If Jesus Christ had not redeemed us, he would not have been less great or less happy than he has always been; but he determined to procure our salvation at the cost of many labors and sufferings, as if his happiness depended on ours. He might have redeemed us without suffering; but no, - he willed to free us from eternal death by his own death; and though he was able to save us in a thousand ways, he chose the most humiliating and painful way of dying on the cross of pure suffering, to purchase the love of us, ungrateful worms of the earth. And what indeed was the cause of his miserable birth and his most sorrowful death, if not the love he had for us? Ah, my Jesus, may that love which made Thee die for me on Calvary destroy in me all earthly affections, and consume me in the fire which Thou art come to kindle on the earth. I curse a thousand times those shameful passions which cost Thee so much pain. I repent, my dear Redeemer, with all my heart for all the offences I have committed against Thee. For the future I will rather die than offend Thee; and I wish to do all that I can to please Thee. Thou hast spared nothing for my love; neither will I spare anything for Thy love. Thou hast loved me without reserve; I also without reserve will love Thee. I love Thee, my only good, my love, my all.

Darts of Fire

The 12 Steps to Holiness is compiled from the writings of St. Alphonsus Liguori and is rated as one of the most beautiful and inspiring books by numerous TAN readers. St. Alphonsus develops, in the most simple language, yet with the greatest learning, the 12 key virtues necessary for salvation: faith, hope, love of God, love of neighbor, poverty, chastity, obedience, meekness or humility, mortification, recollection, prayer and self-denial or love of the cross. This book is written with such an encompassing view that its message is for all—religious or layman, the young or the old, the pious or the wayward. The reader will marvel at the balance, the simplicity, the learning, the interest, the calm and the holy unction that penetrate this work. And he will find himself repeatedly marking significant passage and returning to them again and again for instruction and edification. Here is a book, quite simply, for everyone who would save his soul.

The Twelve Steps to Holiness and Salvation

Meditation on death, though it seems depressing to many, is essential for our Salvation! Death is the one journey every man must go through alone. It is the one thing that sobers us all and can set us on a more resolute path to Holiness. But this path only begins after facing the reality of death, for to avoid it only increases our fear. In this popular abridgment of his monumental Preparation for Death, St Alphonsus teaches us the proper attitude toward death, which is one of readiness, of always having our debts cleared. Each chapter is a short consideration with three points, easily understood by laity in all states of life. Each point is followed by meditations and prayers for perseverance in our efforts to lead good lives. To aid busy priests in their sermons, St Alphonsus purposely included texts from Scripture and passages from the Holy Fathers, personally selected by the Saint himself to touch the heart of every reader and listener. St Alphonsus shows us how death is, on the natural level, a great sorrow but, on the supernatural level, a great gift. Understanding it as a gift and implementing this knowledge in our lives is the lesson of each powerful meditation. This book is a wonderful way to enhance your Lenten devotions and gain a more profound gratitude for Christ's victory over Death and Hell through His crucifixion and Resurrection!

A Popular Abridgment

Preparation for Death

After she died, St. Theresa of Avila appeared to one of her nuns and said: "There should be no difference, as far as purity and love are concerned, between the blessed in Heaven and the faithful on earth. though we are perfectly happy and you are suffering. What the Divine Essence is to us in Heaven, the Blessed Sacrament should be to you on earth." "Here, then," says St. Alphonsus, "is our heaven on earth - the Most Blessed Sacrament." This book was conceived and written to help us grow in the knowledge and love of God and in appreciation for what He has done for us by giving us the Blessed Sacrament. For each of the 31 days of the month, St. Alphonsus provides for us a "Visit to Our Lord" - which is a brief meditation on and a fervent prayer of love toward Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Each Visit to Our Lord is followed by a "Visit to Our Lady." The latter are short meditations on and prayers of great confidence in her powerful help - even for the most wretched and forsaken on sinners. At each Visit, the reader is to make an "Act of Spiritual Communion," which will help enflame his heart with greater love of God. Through this little book, St. Alphonsus leads a person to appreciate Our Lord's great love for us in the Blessed Sacrament, to love Him in return, and to consecrate his life to Him. Visits to the Blessed Sacrament by St. Alphonsus Liguori is a perennial favorite among Catholic prayerbooks, as well as one of the most famous and best-loved Catholic books ever published.

And the Blessed Virgin Mary

Visits to the Blessed Sacrament

The first part of St. Alphonsus' masterpiece, The Glories of Mary, collected from the Saints, Doctors of the Church, and other holy authors. Amazing statements on Our Lady's God-given role in securing our salvation; with remarkable stories of miracles and graces she obtained. Shows that devotion to Mary is a most certain mark of eternal salvation! Gives profound encouragement and firm hope for eternal victory through Mary, the Mother of God--who can obtain from her Divine Son anything she asks.

St. Alphonsus Liguori

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