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Join us for this out of circulation famous talk with this priest/theologian who talks on topics that are relevant for today--spiritual direction and how to pray--for our lives...

    "The world is full of faces, black with anger, green with envy and red with hame, which cold be made radiantly white with holiness and spirituality aglow by the transfiguring power of prayer."                                                                                    Francis Quarles


    "Prayer changes things?  No!  Prayer changes people, and people change things."
                                                                                                               Anonymous

     "Fear drives the wretched to prayer."                                    Seneca: "Ageamenon"

      "He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying."
                                                                                                               Francis de Sales

      When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can."        Dean Edward Goulburn


     "The spectacle of a nation praying is more awe-inspring than the explosion of an atomic bomb.  the force of prayer is greater than any possible combination of man-controlled powers, because prayer is man's greatest means of trapping the infinite resources of God."
                                                                                                  J. Edgar Hoover

        "Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray."       Victor Hugo



    Imitation of Christ-- A timeless arsenal of moral armament and spiritual consolation.  It is a treatise for every Christian soul.  So it has been for 500 years and so it is today when mankind is so sorely in need of serenity and confidence.  The still, small voice of A Kempis, so gentle, so foreful is not only a permanent reminder that we must nourish the love of love and nurture the fear of fear, it tells where and how we can renew our light and refresh our strength.  The devious inclinations of our being, the dangers from within and the troubles from without, are all treated with a terseness, clarity, and simplicity that are reminiscent of Sacred Scripture....

     Chapter XXXV -- That there is no being secure from temptation in this life--
  
      "Son, thou art never secure in this life; but as long as thou livest spiritual weapons are always necessary for thee.
      Thou art in the midst of enemies and art assaulted on the right hand and on the left.  If therefore, thou dost not make use of the buckler of patience on every occasion, thou wilt not be long without a wound.
       Moreover, if thou dost not set thy heart fixedly on Me, with a sincere will of suffering all things for My sake, thou canst neither sustain the heat of this warfare, nor attain to the palm of the blessed.
      It behooveth thee, therefore, to go through all manfully, and to use a strong hand against whatsoever withstandeth thee.
     For to him that overcometh is given manna, and to the sluggard is left much misery.
      If, in this life, thou seekest rest, how then wilt thou come to the eternal rest?
      Set not thyself for much rest, but for great patience.
        Seek true peace not upon earth but in heaven; not in men nor in other reatures, but in God alone.
       Thou must be willing, for the love of God, to suffer all things--namely, labors and sorrows, temptations, vexations, anxieties, necessities, infirmities, injuries, detractions, reprehensions humiliations, confusions, corrections,and contempts.
     These help to virtue, these prove the novice of Christ, these things weave a celestial crown.  I will give thee back for this short labor a reward eternal, and for transitory confusion glory that is infinite.
      Dost thou think always to have spiritual consolations when thou pleasest?
      My Saints had not so; but they met with many troubles, and various temptations and great desolations.
      But they patiently supported themselves in all contingencies and confided more in God than in themselves; knowing that the sufferings of this life are not worthy to merit the glory that is to come.
       Wouldst thou have that immediately which others, after many tears and great labors, have hardly obtained?
       Expect the Lord, do manfully and be of good heart; do not despond, do not fall off, but offer with constancy both soul and body for the glory of God.
       I will reward thee most abundantly; I will be with thee in all thy tribulations."
  

    "The world is full of faces, black with anger, green with envy and red with hame, which cold be made radiantly white with holiness and spirituality aglow by the transfiguring power of prayer."                                                                                    Francis Quarles


    "Prayer changes things?  No!  Prayer changes people, and people change things."
                                                                                                               Anonymous

     "Fear drives the wretched to prayer."                                    Seneca: "Ageamenon"

      "He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying."
                                                                                                               Francis de Sales

      When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can."        Dean Edward Goulburn


     "The spectacle of a nation praying is more awe-inspring than the explosion of an atomic bomb.  the force of prayer is greater than any possible combination of man-controlled powers, because prayer is man's greatest means of trapping the infinite resources of God."
                                                                                                  J. Edgar Hoover

        "Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray."       Victor Hugo



    Imitation of Christ-- A timeless arsenal of moral armament and spiritual consolation.  It is a treatise for every Christian soul.  So it has been for 500 years and so it is today when mankind is so sorely in need of serenity and confidence.  The still, small voice of A Kempis, so gentle, so foreful is not only a permanent reminder that we must nourish the love of love and nurture the fear of fear, it tells where and how we can renew our light and refresh our strength.  The devious inclinations of our being, the dangers from within and the troubles from without, are all treated with a terseness, clarity, and simplicity that are reminiscent of Sacred Scripture....

     Chapter XXXV -- That there is no being secure from temptation in this life--
  
      "Son, thou art never secure in this life; but as long as thou livest spiritual weapons are always necessary for thee.
      Thou art in the midst of enemies and art assaulted on the right hand and on the left.  If therefore, thou dost not make use of the buckler of patience on every occasion, thou wilt not be long without a wound.
       Moreover, if thou dost not set thy heart fixedly on Me, with a sincere will of suffering all things for My sake, thou canst neither sustain the heat of this warfare, nor attain to the palm of the blessed.
      It behooveth thee, therefore, to go through all manfully, and to use a strong hand against whatsoever withstandeth thee.
     For to him that overcometh is given manna, and to the sluggard is left much misery.
      If, in this life, thou seekest rest, how then wilt thou come to the eternal rest?
      Set not thyself for much rest, but for great patience.
        Seek true peace not upon earth but in heaven; not in men nor in other reatures, but in God alone.
       Thou must be willing, for the love of God, to suffer all things--namely, labors and sorrows, temptations, vexations, anxieties, necessities, infirmities, injuries, detractions, reprehensions humiliations, confusions, corrections,and contempts.
     These help to virtue, these prove the novice of Christ, these things weave a celestial crown.  I will give thee back for this short labor a reward eternal, and for transitory confusion glory that is infinite.
      Dost thou think always to have spiritual consolations when thou pleasest?
      My Saints had not so; but they met with many troubles, and various temptations and great desolations.
      But they patiently supported themselves in all contingencies and confided more in God than in themselves; knowing that the sufferings of this life are not worthy to merit the glory that is to come.
       Wouldst thou have that immediately which others, after many tears and great labors, have hardly obtained?
       Expect the Lord, do manfully and be of good heart; do not despond, do not fall off, but offer with constancy both soul and body for the glory of God.
       I will reward thee most abundantly; I will be with thee in all thy tribulations."
  

Join us for this out of circulation famous talk with this holy Marian priest who recently passed away talks on prayer based on questions given -spiritual direction for our lives--how to pray...Bi-lingual...

Join us for this out of circulation famous talk with this Marian priest who talks on topics that are relevant for today--spiritual direction for our lives--how to pray...