Amid the present darkness and distress this little book may help to minister consolation and inspire drooping hearts with courage, by reminding them that suffering is the Church's heritage, the very condition of her well-being, nay, her highest privilege, inasmuch as it renders her most like to her Divine Spouse and is the pledge and surety of her triumphs. As of the Lord Himself (Luke 24:26), so of His Church it may be truly said that she ought to suffer these things and so to enter into her glory. Her most signal successes have been preceded, and indeed attended, by humiliations and...

A daily devotional with the words of St Ignatius Loyola especially for those who have limited time in their lives. Take and meditate on a thought during the course of the day.

It will be seen that the following Manual of Devotion consists of a series of chapters or instructions upon important points of Christian teaching, which are called "Considerations."These Considerations are written for the purpose of pricking or of wounding the conscience, it may be in many points, that so it may be thoroughly aroused and awakened; of exciting, that is, compunction of the soul, real remorse of conscience for past as well as for present coldness and dryness. It must be a very hard heart, indeed, which is not moved by these "Considerations"so touchingly simple are they, so...

A Short Catechism of Cardinal Bellarmine Large Print Edition Taken from the 1614 Edition A Brief Christian Doctrine to Be Learned by Heart Of the end of a Christian, and of the sign of the cross. Master: Are you a Christian? Scholar: I am by the Grace of God. M. What do you mean by a Christian? S. He that makes the Profession of the Faith and Love of Christ. M. In what does the Faith of Christ chiefly consist? S. In two principal mysteries, which are included in the Sign of the Holy Cross, that is the Unity and Trinity of God and in the Incarnation and Death of our Saviour. M. What does Unity...