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Padre Pio:The Stigmatist died September 23, 1968, his funeral attended by over 100,000 people. During the 58 years he was a priest, his monastery at San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, became a mecca for pilgrims from all over the world. Born Francesco Forgione on May 25, 1887 at Pietrelcina in southeastern Italy, Padre Pio joined the Capuchin Order in 1903 and was ordained in 1910. On September 20, 1918 he received the sacred wounds of Christ, or the stigmata, which he bore the rest of his life. Renowned for the stigmata, which modern medical science could not explain, Padre Pio also possessed other unusual qualities, such as bilocation, celestial perfume, the reading of hearts, miraculous cures, remarkable conversions and prophetic insight. Although he did not leave his monastery and was under obedience not to preach, this humble Capuchin monk became world famous for his piety, his counsel and his miracles, and he was universally regarded as a Saint in his own time.
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Stories of Padre Pio - In this book one sees the marvelous way in which Padre Pio dealt with people to heal their bodies, souls and hearts - through miracles, providential coincidences and other remarkable answers to prayers. Madame Tangari (who was herself a remarkable person) describes how she met Padre Pio, how she became his spiritual daughter and how he guided her during the last eighteen years of his life. She tells stories of wonderful assistance that she and others received from Padre Pio regarding conversions, illness, bereavement, lost objects, broken marriage, irrational fear, business, getting out of Freemasonry and, of course, the spiritual life. Madame Tangari describes Padre Pio's amazing gift of easily solving difficult problems with a few highly inspired words, enabling the petitioner to receive special graces and favors from God and begin life anew in happiness and peace. Stories of Padre Pio gives a rare, firsthand view of this great and holy priest who - as many are hoping - may soon become a canonized Saint of the Catholic Church.

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Purgatory Explained by the Lives and Legends of the Saints - As regards the severity of these pains, since they are inflicted by Infinite Justice, they are proportioned to the nature, gravity, and the number of sins committed. Each one receives according to his works, each one must acquit himself of the debts with which he sees himself charged before God. Now these debts differ greatly in quality. Some, which have accumulated during a long life, have reached the ten thousand talents of the Gospel, that is to say, millions and tens of millions; whilst others are reduced to a few farthings, the trifling remainder of that which has not been expiated on earth. It follows from this that the souls undergo various kinds of sufferings, that there are innumerable degrees of expiation in Purgatory, and that some are incomparably more severe than others. However, speaking in general, the doctors agree in saying that the pains are most excruciating. The same fire, says St. Gregory, torments the damned and purifies the elect. "Almost all theologians," says Bellarmine, teach that the reprobate and the souls in Purgatory suffer the action of the same fire."
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The Little Catechism of the CurŽ of Ars is an incomparable analysis of the spiritual battle we all face to save our souls and is probably the simplest and most persuasive exhortation ever written admonishing us to renounce our sins and to lead a pure and holy life. Divided into 36 short chapters, The Little Catechism by St. John Vianney covers every basic aspect of our spiritual struggle and the means Jesus Christ has provided through His Church to overcome our spiritual problems. But more than this, The Little Catechism reflects the wisdom of a lifetime of labor spent in the vineyard of the Lord, wisdom stated in a profound yet simple and direct way that the reader will find nowhere else but in the writings of the Cure of Ars. For here we find many many of the Cure's memorable and epigrammatic sayings, so expressive of spiritual truths, such as, "I know two very certain ways of becoming poor: they are working on Sunday and taking other people's propoerty." No one who seeks spiritual understanding will the work to be a unique and profound understanding of the pitfalls we all face in trying to save our souls.

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How Catholic Churches Are Being Sapped Of Their Spiritual Vitality - and what to do about it. The problem with new-style churches isnÕt justs that theyÕre ugly - they actually distort the Faith and lead Catholic away from Catholicism - So argues Michael Rose in these eye-opening pages, which banish forever the notion that lovers of traditional-style churches are motivated by taste or nostalgia. In terms that non-architects can understand. Rose shows that far more is at stake: modern churches actually violate the three natural laws of church architecture and lead Catholics to worship, quite simply, a false god.

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Dom Gueranger's The Liturgical Year - Some have justly called the fifteen volumes of Dom Gueranger's Liturgical Year the "Summa" of the liturgy of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Not only did this giant of the Benedictine Order almost single-handedly restore the ancient regime of his order's monastic tradition, he was also a preferred theologian of his friend, Blessed Pius IX, due to his energetic support for the soon-to-be defined doctrines of papal infallibility and the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God. Still, he is best known for his literary accomplishment, a life-long labor, the composition of these magnificent volumes honoring the liturgical year. These productions express the very heart of the Church's public worship, botrh in her sacrificial liturgy and in various extracts from the divine office which celebrate her principle feasts. In essence this incredible work is a commingling, as it were, of divine and human elements, the human being Abbot Gueranger's own excess of devotion as expressed in his daily meditation. These profound reflections accompany the prayers of the Mass (as well as parts of the divine office) and they are especially fruitful in the biographies he provides for those saints who highlight the ecclesiastical calendar. What better time than now to immerse oneself in this rich and fruitful spiritual reading! This Pentecost season The Liturgical Year can provide for you a priceless treasure for your holy exploitation. Such was the strategy employed year-round by Louis Martin, the pious father of St. Thérése of Lisieux, who made it his practice to read daily to his five daughters from these very volumes. So great was the fruit thereof that all five entered religious life.

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Stories About Purgatory – Arranged as 30 Days for the Holy Souls, this book was written to engrave on the minds and hearts of its readers an indelible understanding about Purgatory - firstt, that it exists; second, that the souls detained there suffer long and excruciating pains, of the same nature of those of Hell, and thus that they desperately need our prayers, sacrifices and Mass intentions; and finally, that while we are still living, we ourselves should strive mightily to avoid Purgtory.

We read in St. Matthew's Gospel, "Be ye therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect." (Matthew 5:48). Yet we know that none of us is really perfect and that few human beings die in a state of soul where all their past sins have been atoned for during this life. Most people who sae their souls, therefore, are destined to be detained in Purgatory, where the passage of "time" in their perceptions slowed to a hundreth or less of what we on earth experience. thus, the agony of the Poor Souls often seems almost interminable.
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The Mother of the Little Father - Was St. Therese's mother herself a saint? Zelie Martin and her husband, Louis, were declared "venerable" by the Church in 1994 for their "heroic virtue," and the couple's cause is now progressing toward Beatification. Zelie married at 27, bore nine children, ran a home business, and did superb job of raising five daughters - including "The Greatest Saint of modern times." She died of breast cancer at 45, but her greatness was recognized by her family and her friends, and is now known to the world. Zelie suffered many of the ordinary burdens of life, yet she was happy, loved her children "madly" and enjoyed them immensely. Turned down by the convent because of poor health, Zelie Martin courageously faced the worldly struggles of dealing with family worries, illnesses, the death of four of her children, discipline problems, business problems, irreligious peopole - even quartering and counseling young german soldiers during the Franco-Prussian War - bringing her totally Catholic outlook to everything she did. This book was written by her daughter Celine, who had access to Zelie's letters and to the reminiscences of her older sisters in the Carmel of Lisieux. It is authentic and inspiring, showing what a tremendous life's work and accomplishment it is to be a truly Catholic mother.
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The Father of the Little Flower - Louis Martin was the pattern of Fatherhood on which St. Therese built her now famous, "Little Way of Spiritual Childhood." These authentic reminiscences describe Louis Martin's marriage at age 34, his love and support for Zelie, his firm discipline and tender affection for his children, his piety, observance of Sunday, business practices, self-conduct, generosity to the poor, etc. Celine gives particular attgention to the sufferings of her father's old age, foreseen in a vision by Therese, which included a period of time spent in a mental institution. She describes his beautiful death, as well as the sign received by Therese, indicating that their father's soul had gone straight to heaven. A selection of letters written by Louis gives additional insight into his character. All of Louis Martin's daughters considered themselves highly blessed to have so good a father. And we today, in turn, are blessed to possess an authentic portrait (front cover) of the saintly father of the "Greatest Saint of Modern times."
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Mary Magdalen In The Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich - The visions of Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich are the world's greatest source of detail on St. Mary Magdlen - great sinner, great penitent, and the second most prominent woman in the Gospels. Fully referenced to The Life of Jesus Christ (their source), these pages agree compeltely with Sacred Scripture, but also tell of Mary Magdalen's life from age 9, her extravagant attire, her second repentance after falling back into sin, her exorcism by Our Lord, His defense of her against the self-righteous, her relationship with Marth and Lazarus, her external appearance, her role at Calvary, and much more. This book provides a welcome antidote to the absurd fantasies about Mary Magdalen which periodically appear in the secular world. Besides it wealth of practical detail, it is full of enlightening spiritual insights about Our Lord's public ministry, and it is a great introduction to the four volume The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations of Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich.
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The Mass - A Study of the Roman Liturgy - by Adrian Fortescue - This book was a tremendous contribution to English speaking Catholics. With knowledge of the origin and development of the rite of Mass, Catholics could more confidently defend its sacrificial nature against the heretics who despised it. Too, the book was a great help in answering the questions of those curious Protestants who were in various degrees jealous of the liturgical beauty of the Roman Mass.

The author, the son of a converted Anglican clergyman, was born in 1874. He was educated in England by the Jesuits and pursued further studies in Rome at the Scots College, finishing his theological courses at the University of Innsburck. After ordination he was assigned various curateships, from one wof which he managed to take a year sabbatical in Syria. Already a Hebrais scholar, here he perfected his fluency with the Arabic language. Fortescue was proficient in a variety of subjects including ecclesiastical history, Greek patrology, linguistics, dogmatic theology, and especially, liturgical history. In addition to these and many other subjects, he was a gifted choirmaster. Adrian Fortescue did much in his native country to publicly defend the papacy, specifically in one aspect, papal infallibility. Fortescue died young, aged forty-nine, from cancer.
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The Roman Martyrology - We have the names of almosts all the martrys arranged according to the days on which they suffered, collected in one vollume, and daily we offer Masses in thier honor. This book does not tell us to what extent each one suffered, only his name, and the place and the day of his suffereing is recalled. And so it happens that many from different lands and provinces are glorified with the commemoration of their mertyrdom each day.
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Henry Denznger's - The Sources of Catholic Dogma - A reprint of the 1957 B. Herder Edition. In this age of doctrinal latitude and speculative innovation there is a pressing need for a comprehensive source book on authentic Catholic dogma that is magisterially anchored while at the same time both practical and non-voluminous. You have such a book in this English translation of Father Heinrich DenzingerÍs Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum. Since it was first published a century and a half ago, this handbook or collection (enchiridion) of articles (symbols) of faith and morals has enjoyed universal appeal and approbation since the pontificate of Blessed Pope Pius IX. The Enchiridion has been updated periodically; the edition being offered here by Loreto is that issued in 1957. The collection includes all articles and creeds of the Catholic Faith beginning with that of the twelve apostles, all dogmatic definitions stamped with the Petrine authority of the apostolic See (ex cathedra), decrees of the solemn magisterium, papal bulls, encyclicals and letters, as well as some of the more weighty decisions of the Holy Office prior to 1957. Although not every entry in this 653 page compendium of Church teaching is definitional (i.e. ex cathedra) it still should be considered the "locutus est" for every wayfaring Catholic whose patria, this side of heaven, is Roma. In addition to a general index there is a scriptural index plus an invaluable systematic or topical index making for very easy reference. Note, too, this edition comes with a one page Corrigenda which is a list of sixteen corrections that must be applied to errors (usually omissions) that escaped the eyes of editors in previous editions.
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Chief Truths of the Faith

Mass & The Sacraments

Catholic Morality

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Suggestions for Study. The best brief outline of our Faith we know. Penetrating explanations of all essential truths of the Faith. Written as a high school textbook, it is excellent even for college work and is geared also for adult reading as are all Fr. Laux's books. Fr. Laux is always brief, clear, thorough, undated and interesting! He taught this subject in high school for years, and this excellent book is the fruit of his work.
The doctrine and history of the 7 Sacraments. Also covers Indulgences and Sacramentals. Topics include the Scriptural background of the Sacraments, their institution by Christ, essential requirements for receving them, their effects in the soul, etc. Will deepen understanding of these 7 lifelines of grace and salvation.
A brief but complete book on traditional Catholic morality. Covers every basic aspect -- the purpose of life, free will, the Natural Law, elements of a moral act, nature of sin, and much more. Illustrated. See also: - Chief Truths of the Faith - A Course in Religion, Book I - Mass and the Sacraments ...
Suggestions for Study. One of the best apologetics books we have ever seen. Covers the nature of our knowledge, justifications for our belief, proofs for the existence of God, Immortality of the soul, proofs of Revelation, reasonableness of our belief in the Church, primacy of the Pope, etc.

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