Click to Download: Spiritual Combat Supplement
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Our Lord Jesus Christ said “Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect. ” Matt 5:48. This small work was written to help you dear Christian obtain perfection. It explains what is the nature of perfection and how to obtain it.
Click to Download: The Twelve Degrees of Pride and Humility by St Bernard of Clairvaux
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Humility makes a man great, while pride makes even angels hateful and odious. If the devil can trick us into pride under the guise of humility we are in great danger of losing our souls, do not trust what the world says about true humility but rather the the wise and often time witty instructions of the great St Bernard.
Click to Download: The Catechism in Examples The 4 Cardinal Virtues and Three Eminent Good Works!
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Learn or brush up on your Catholic Catechism with examples of the virtues and eminent good works taken from the lives of the Saints, holy writings and parables.
Click to Download Homilies of the Church Fathers for Lent Vol 1
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The Church Fathers where truly holy, wise and perfect men, who fighting bravely trampled the world underfoot, fed their flocks in a world of hunger, and defended the Church against the attacks of heretical wolves through their faithfulness to apostolic tradition.
Short Catholic Homilies: Perseverance in Prayer
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In this short Catholic Homily we learn why God does not always grant all of our prayers quickly.
” (Prayer) is like the fall of a tree in the woods under the blows of the axe: the tree will come down, but not at the first, the second, the tenth, or perhaps even the hundredth stroke.”
…The Full Text of Short Catholic Homily: Perseverance in Prayer
Yet if he shall continue, knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend; yet because of his importunity he will rise; and give him as many as he needeth.
Short Catholic Homilies: Temptation
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In this short Catholic Homily we learn why God allows us to be tempted, and the value of steadfastly resisting it. To overcome temptations does only increases our virtue, but wins for us jewels in our crowns for the kingdom of heaven.
Catholic Lent Homily Series: The Merit of Fasting and Abstinence
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In our first homily in our series for lent we are reminded of that we are great debtors to God because of the multitude of our sins and are exhorted to fasting and abstinence.
The Purification in the Temple: The Hiddenness and Poverty of Jesus and Mary
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This Homily was written by his grace Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (September 27, 1627 – April 12, 1704) who is considered to be one of the greatest homilists of all time.
Catholic Homily: Reverence for the Holy Name of God
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In this homily we first consider that even wretched sinners keep up appearances with God by practicing one of two good things (like abstaining from meat on Friday) or avoiding some particular sin.
Catholic Homily: The Catholic Home
…Summary of a Catholic Homily for the Feast of the Holy Family.
A good homily for the Feast of the Holy Family. In this homily we are given the comparison of a Priests duty to the altar with that of the husband and wife to the home.
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St John the Baptist was praised by Jesus Christ our Lord for not yielding to human respect and preaching the truth. The homilist points out that if our Lord came back today he would not find this same virtue even among those who are considered “good Christians.” Our salvation depends on bearing witness to Christ.
It is our duty as Christians to strive after perfection and to convert ourselves and others unto Jesus Christ! The surest road to Heaven is the one that God has laid out for us in His plan of salvation. All are called to keep the commandments, most are called to marriage, some to the priesthood and some to martyrdom.…