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Michael Augustine Corrigan

First published in 1899, The Catholic's Pocket Prayer-Book is a devotional manual compiled from approved sources. This volume offers a selection of prayers, meditations, and liturgical texts designed for personal use, particularly by those unable to attend regular services. It bears the imprimatur of Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan, ensuring its conformity with Catholic doctrine.Michael Augustine Corrigan (1839-1902) was a prominent American Roman Catholic prelate who served ...

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St. Alphonsus Liguori, Wyatt North

This book comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section. Stations of the Cross refers to a series of artistic representations, very often sculptural, depicting Christ Carrying the Cross to his crucifixion in the final hours (or Passion) of Jesus, and to devotions commemorating the Passion that use the series, often moving physically around a set of stations. The vast majority of Roman Catholic churches now contain such a series, typically placed at intervals ...

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St. Louis de Montfort

Considered by many to be the greatest single book of Marian spirituality ever written, True Devotion to Mary is St Louis de Montfort's classic statement on the spiritual way to Jesus Christ though the Blessed Virgin Mary. Beloved by countless souls, this book sums up the entire Christian life, showing a way of holiness that is short, easy, secure, and perfect—a way of life chosen by Our Lord Himself. In this beautiful and sublimely inspiring book, de Montfort explains the wonderful spiritu...

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John Donne

**What if the moment you fear most became the moment that changed the way you see everything?** In the winter of 1623, celebrated poet and preacher John Donne faced a devastating illness that brought him dangerously close to death. Forced to confront the fragility of his own existence, he turned his suffering into one of the most extraordinary spiritual journeys ever written. *Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions* is far more than a meditation on sickness. It is an intimate confrontation with...

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Karl Keller

The Traditional pre-Vatican II Little Office with devotional art and arranged to allow continuous use, minimizing the need to jump around.

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William Gurnall

Complete unabridged work of the author. A Treatise of the Saints' War against the Devil: Wherein a Discovery is made of that grand Enemy of God and his People, in his Policies, Power, Seat of his Empire, Wickedness, and chief design he hath against the Saints. A Magazine Opened, From whence the Christian is furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, helped on with his Armour, and taught the use of his Weapon: together with the happy issue of the whole War.

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Reginald Scot

The Discoverie of Witchcraft is a partially sceptical book published by the English gentleman Reginald Scot in 1584, intended as an exposé of early Modern witchcraft. It contains a small section intended to show how the public was fooled by charlatans, which is considered the first published material on illusionary or stage magic. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.

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A.W. Tozer

The purpose of this book is to bring together in one convenient volume some of the best devotional verse the English language affords, and thus to make available to present day Christians a rich spiritual heritage which the greater number of them for various reasons do not now enjoy. I have not hesitated to apply the term "mystical" to the material I have collected here, though I readily admit that fewer than half a dozen of the men and women who would be called true mystics in the strict ...

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St. Gertrude the Great

OUR LORD revealed that the place on earth where He most delighted to be, after the Blessed Sacrament, was "in the heart and soul of Gertrude, My beloved." Therefore, we do not wonder that among all the most remarkable women Saints of the Church, St. Gertrude is the one who carries the extraordinary title The Great. The Revelations of St. Gertrude the Great form one of the classics of Catholic writing. And although they would have to be classified as "mystical literature," their message is ...

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John Donne

John Donne (24 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, satirist, lawyer and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets.This book contains two of his most famous works - "Devotions upon Emergent Occasions" and "Death's Duel".Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by John Donne, who dedicated it to the future King Charles I. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne rec...

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J. B. Lightfoot

The Shepherd of Hermas is an astounding piece of ancient Christian literature. It is usually dated at between 120 A.D. and 150 A.D.. This means that the author may have been in contact with an Apostle such as John who died around 100 A.D.. And he was most certainly contemporaneous with those who knew some of the Apostles such as Ignatius and Polycarp.What is interesting is that this book was once considered Scripture by some of the early Church and it is included in some of the ear...

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Rev. Fr. Ignatius of the Side of Jesus Passionist Carsidoni

A famous book based on the theme of founding one's whole spiritual life on the lessons we learn from the Passion and Death of Jesus. Includes 31 meditations on different aspects of the Passion. Each meditation has 3 points, followed by a holy resolution to be taken and an example from the life of a Saint. The book also has many extras -- the Five Holy Wounds, visits to a crucifix, Mary Queen of Dolors, How to assist well at Mass, and more! Impr. 403 pgs,