Posts of 2008

• ▼ 2008 (92)
  • ▼ Dec (55)
    • Of the good Use of Time
    • Meditation for Tuesday (on the seven miseries of l...
    • IV. FOURTH OBSTACLE. — Some Unmortified Passion.
    • We feel resentment at the least disagreeable word,...
    • Of the Angelical Salutation (St. Peter Canisius)
    • Pater Noster explained by St. Peter Canisius.
    • languishing during their whole life in this state,...
    • When our soul is distracted and dissipated
    • Seeking after sauces and seasonings for the enjoym...
    • First Obstacle--Tepidity
    • Good lyric rhyme expels profane immodest songs
    • Birth of Our Savior--contemn all worldly pomp
    • Mahomet was a disciple of the devil, and that his ...
    • II. — SECOND MEANS. — Sincere Humility.
    • despising the things which are passing and which h...
    • thoughts about penance
    • I. FIRST MEANS. — True Mortification.
    • Purity of St. Joseph of Copertino.
    • Courtship often can be proximate occasion of sin
    • Prayer of St. Gertrude to the Immaculate Heart of ...
    • Sure and easy means to obtain a true Love of God
    • The Importance of Silence
    • Interior Recollection.
    • Must abstain from sin for the Love of God
    • use of humor in instruction
    • charity to cry out against the wolf (heretics and ...
    • exposing oneself to proximate occasion of sin with...
    • begin in his old age labors to which he has not ac...
    • Beware if you have no temptations--St. Vianney
    • EXPOSITION OF THE APOSTLES' CREED by St. Francis X...
    • St. Francis Xavier answering the objections of Jap...
    • THE LIFE OF ST. DOMINIC SAVIO
    • The Death and Resurrection of the Church of Englan...
    • he commits a most grievous sin, who seeks only car...
    • Fr. Loarte's book on the Rosary
    • necessary to abstain from looking at females
    • A book commanded to be written by JESUS Himself
    • there were some in hell who had put many souls int...
    • infinite difference between spiritual and temporal...
    • despising useless knowledge
    • The Life of St Anthony (251-356)
    • Must avoid sinners and heretics
    • Games, amusements, recreations she would not hear ...
    • St. Cyprian on make up
    • deep meaning of the Scriptures cannot be found wit...
    • of which the ancient philosophers, whom the world ...
    • only everlasting punishment is dreaded to an audac...
    • wasted many hours in idle talk, in sleep, in pleas...
    • Small Number of the Elect -- Bp. Challoner
    • do many many good works more and more
    • laugh and smile
    • Neccesity of preparation before prayer
    • Cast your eyes down
    • Must preach on such topics that serves much to con...
    • Bible Commentary on Few Saved
  • ▼ Nov (24)
    • The Liturgical Year by Prosper Guéranger
    • 'What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole wo...
    • on Sundays we should occupy ourselves only with wh...
    • Must leave the job with occasion of sin
    • what laziness and what indifference we display!
    • The Three Hail Marys Prayers
    • St. Gregory on the fewness of the saved
    • If we were born amidst infidels
    • Damned Catholics are lower than Jews, who are lowe...
    • with what distractions, what want of application i...
    • do the right things rightly
    • am I spending time on useful or vain things?
    • "The just man shall scarcely be saved."--St. Peter...
    • Lukewarm soul. St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney
    • The Small Number of the Elect, by Bp. Massillon (P...
    • Think on that dread eternity To which thou art ha...
    • WHY serve the world, thy enemy,
    • Dead to the world already ere he dies
    • On Spiritual Reading
    • Homer and Aristotle in Hell
    • Rules of Conduct for unmarried women - St. Liguori...
    • How to avoid bad thoughts
    • our unnecessary riches are not our own, but belong...
    • The Manna of the Soul: Meditations for Each Day of...
  • ▼ Oct (6)
    • Prayer--ardent desire and loving attention
    • tragedy of withholding from God so many hours whic...
    • Do more good works in a day than many others in ma...
    • By this practice, More in a Month than by any othe...
    • trying to avoid the slightest distraction in praye...
    • Presumption of expecting help in temptation when o...
  • ▼ Sep (6)
    • The Little Number of Those Who Are Saved -- St. Le...
    • Bishop Baraga's pastoral letter to the faithful of...
    • Of the Small Number of Those that are Saved. By Fr...
    • Of the Importance of Salvation
    • Sorrows and Joys of MARY and St. Joseph
    • On the Small Number of the Saved
  • ▼ Mar (1)
    • ON THE NUMBER OF SINS BEYOND WHICH GOD PARDONS NO ..