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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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Daily Readings

The maxims and sayings of St. Philip Neri

A Year With the Saints

The Manna for the Soul: Meditations for Each Day of the Year

Fr. Richard Challoner Meditations

Think Well On't

The Liturgical Year (by Gueranger)

INTERNAL LINKS

Rosary

  • Rosary Book recommended by St. Charles Borromeo
  • Mysteries of the Rosary explained by John Bucke

Sermons and Meditations
  • On the Small Number of the Saved by Bp. Massillon
  • The Small Number of the Elect, by Bp. Massillon (Paraphrase-translation)
  • Of the Importance of Salvation
  • Of the Small Number of Those that are Saved. By Fr. Jean Croiset
  • The Little Number of Those Who are Saved, by St. Leonard
  • Small Number of the Elect - Bp. Challoner
  • Of the great scarcity of the predestinate.- Fr. Drexel


On the Number of Sins Beyond which GOD Pardons No More
Sorrows and Joys of MARY and St. Joseph

Books
  • A book commanded to be written by JESUS Himself
  • The Life of St. Dominic Savio

Morality

  • Gluttony: Seeking after sauces and seasonings for the enjoyment of the palate.
  • Greed:Our unnecessary riches are not our own
  • Impurity:he commits a most grievous sin, who seeks only carnal pleasure in it
  • Levity: http://cathom.blogspot.com/search/label/Humor


Miraculous Medal

Miraculous Medal
Medal of the Immaculate Conception

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe

contact

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Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Quotes

"Consider that our eternal salvation is not only the greatest, but the only business we have, to which we ought to apply ourselves entirely lest we should do it ill."

"Salvation is our great and chief business; now a man's chief business takes up all his thoughts, and hardly gives him time to think of any other; and if this succeeds he comforts himself for the miscarriage of the rest." - Fr. Jean Croiset


"In this important matter [salvation], a sensible man is struck more strongly by the slightest doubt of the risk he runs than by the evidence of total ruin in other affairs in which the soul is not involved." - St. Leonard de Port-Maurice

"If anyone affirms that one can reach perfection without practicing exterior mortification, do not believe him; and even though he confirm this assertion by working miracles, know that his contentions are nothing but illusions." - St. John of the Cross

Quotes from On the Small Number of the Saved:

"A penitent is a man...who refuses himself the most innocent pleasures, because he had formerly indulged in the most criminal." - Tertullian

"...a religious and pious soul in the midst of the world, is always a singularity approaching to a miracle."

"... It is the multitude nevertheless, who tremble not. There is only a small number of just, which operates apart its salvation, with fear and trembling; all the rest are tranquil."

"...in order to merit salvation, you must distinguish yourself from the rest; in the midst of the world, lead a life to the glory of God, and resemble not the multitude."

"Behold the fruit which you ought to reap from this discourse; live apart; think, without ceasing, that the great number work their own destruction; regard as nothing all customs of the earth, unless authorized by the law of God; and remember, that holy men have, in all ages, been looked upon as singular."




Sacred Heart of JESUS

Sacred Heart of JESUS

Immaculate Heart of MARY

Immaculate Heart of MARY

Sacred and Immaculate Hearts

Sacred and Immaculate Hearts

Shroud of Turin

Shroud of Turin

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      • think you can associate with the female sex withou...
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      • read spiritual books only
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      • Texts on Small Number of the Saved
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      • rise early to pray
      • religious life: escape from filthy slavery of glut...
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      • goods of this life are irksome to all spiritual me...
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      • avoid the company and conversations of worldlings
      • Not looking at the mirror
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      • A Treatise on the True Devotion to the Blessed Vir...
      • why perpetually fall back into the same sins?
      • cover the head at all times
      • think of nothing else but salvation
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      • Why we say the Angelus
      • double reason of being silent than to speak
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External Links

  • Catholic classic books
  • Catechism of St. Bellarmine
  • There is no Salvation Outside the Church
  • My delicious.com Bookmarks
  • Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • Art of Dying Well (PDF)
  • Treatise on the True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin
  • Spirit of the Cure d'Ars (good book)
  • Sermons for Sundays of the Year
  • Autobiography of St. Antonio Maria Claret (PDF)

Biblical Commentary

Haydock Commentary

A Lapide, The Great Commentary (English Trans.)

  • Most of the New Testament (HTML)
  • V. 1: Matt I-X (Download)
  • V. 2: Matt XI-XXI (Download)
  • V. 3: Matt XXII-XXVIII; Mk (Download)
  • V. 4: Luke (Download)
  • V. 5: John I-XI (Download)
  • V. 6: John XI-XXI; I-III Jn (Download)
  • V. 7: I Cor (Download)
  • V. 8: II Cor; Gal (Download)

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