Devout Soul -- An Amazing Book

These are Excerpts of Maxims from this awesome Book "The Devout Soul". 

1.The world is a scene, which quickly passes away.

2. All who live piously in Jesus Christ must suffer persecution.

3. To become a saint, it is necessary to esteem and practise what the world despises and shuns; to despise, and shun what the world esteems and practises.

On the Love of Jesus Christ for us, in having instituted the most Holy Eucharist as a compendium of all the works of his infinite goodness and mercy.

The Royal Psalmist, speaking prophetically of the Blessed Eucharist, says, that the Lord has summed up therein, and formed a compendium of the most wonderful and stupendous works that he has elsewhere worked in favor of those who love him. Memoriam fecit mirabilium suorum, misericors et miserator Dominus, escam dedit timentibus se.

To he fully convinced of this truth, it suffices to revolve briefly in our mind the many wonders, which God has worked in our favor. See, O Devout Soul, the Lord extending his omnipotent arm over the hidden face of nothingness: ?

forth bursts the light at his simple nod? the vaulted heavens expand ? the earth appears ? the moon, stars, and planets shine. Behold, the fishes glide through the deep? the birds fly in the air ?

Who does not admire the great power of God, which by a single command draws forth so many stupendous works from the abyss of nothing ?

But greater still is that, which he repeatedly exerts throughout the day in the Sacrament of the Blessed Eucharist, in which, by an unheard of prodigy, he changes the substance of bread and wine into that of his own body and blood, for our food and drink.

Devotion to the Most Holy Sacrament

A learned prelate, writing on the names given in the Church’s Liturgy to the Holy Eucharist, very properly says that each name is a picture. 

In like manner, we might say that a well-chosen sentence from the Holy Scriptures is a Treatise, for it supplies abundant matter for reflection according to each one’s own disposition and devotion. 

This we consider to be the special merit of this little book. 

The writer of the Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, the pious author of The Anima Divota, furnishes the Devout Soul with many well-chosen passages from Holy Writ for each day of the month, having reference to Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.

Readings and Reflections for the Holy Hour

Lately, There has been a wonderful spread of devotion to the Blessed Sacrament of the altar among the faithful; there is a happy rivalry between the clergy and the laity in their efforts to extend to our Divine Lord in His Sacrament of Love every token of the deepest love and veneration.

Next to the intimate union of our souls with the beloved Jesus in Holy Communion, the piety of the devout Christian has found another method by which he can approach his Lord in the Holy Eucharist, namely the "Holy Hour".

This beautiful service was suggested by real faith and burning love of Adoration, Thanksgiving, and Reparation. The various Eucharistic Associations and Tabernacle Societies have introduced into parishes the weekly or monthly Holy Hour.

This little book goes forth, in a very humble way, to join the many other Eucharistic gems that are placed at our disposal to enhance the Holy Hour. These readings of the Manifestations of the Real Presence, taken from Christian authors of learning and piety, are intended to rouse the lukewarm, to bring sinners back to God, to inflame the pious with more ardent love for Jesus Christ, and to cause the unbeliever to reflect on the truths of our holy religion.

I strongly recommend reading this awesome and amazing book to all who have dedicated their lives to the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament where He is present Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.

Love Peace and Joy

This Little Book was written to carry out the great desire of Jesus Christ to make His Sacred Heart known and loved. It is based on the actual words of Our Lord to St. Gertrude, as recorded in her Revelations.

Jesus said to St. Gertrude: "I wish your writings to be for later times a proof of the tenderness of My Heart, and I will make them a source of grace to many souls. While you write, I will keep your heart near to My Heart, and will instill into it, drop by drop, what you are to say."

In Love, Peace, and Joy, Father Prevot gives the actual words of Our Lord to St. Gertrude, then explains their meaning, and shows the practical ways in which a person can respond to the Heart of Jesus in order to satisfy Our Lord's great thirst to pour out His love and mercy on souls.

By following these teachings in daily life, a soul will become enriched with incomparable merit and will be filled, even in this life, with the profound peace and joy which comes from loving the Sacred Heart of Jesus. "Nothing gives Me so much delight as the heart of man, of which I am so often deprived of.

A Must Read Book in my Humble Opinion as it opens one up to the Unfathomable Love of the Sacred Heart.

The Imitation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ

The Imitation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Rev. Father Arnoudt S.J.  is a Book of Books that should be read and meditated on by all Catholics, as well as those who are confused and/or are indifferent to the idea of God. The book is similar, but more personalized, than The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a' Kempis.

This book presents a conversational dialogue between Our Lord Jesus Christ and His disciple, the "reader" of the book. The book is very absorbing and captures you attention immediately. As the dialogue develops the "reader" finds himself sitting in a silent atmosphere usually found only in the privacy of the "confessional".

Reading this book should bring back many souls who have become indifferent and ungrateful to God by enlightening the meaning of eternity (eternity is forever!) and by understanding more fully the mercy and love of God for all mankind.

Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations Complete in 4 Volumes -- A Review

These are Extraordinary Books that have been published.

These four volumes record the visions of the famous 19th-century Catholic Mystic; Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich; An Augustinian Nun who was privileged to see with the eyes of faith innumerable events of biblical times; going back all the way to the creation of the world.

She witnessed the fall of the Angels; the sin of Adam and Eve; Noah and the Flood; the lives of St. John the Baptist; St. Anne; St. Joseph; the Blessed Virgin Mary; and St. Mary Magdalen.

It also includes the birth; life; public ministry; Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ; as well as the founding of  the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Besides describing persons; places; events and traditions in excellent detail; Anne Catherine Emmerich describes the mystical significance of these visible realities.

A must Read for every Catholic and for Every Student of Biblical History. 

The Blessed Sacrament By Father Faber and The Precious Blood by Father Faber

1) The Blessed Sacrament By Father Faber :

The Blessed Sacrament is The "Very Life of the Church" as we know it. It is the Queen of all the Sacraments that has been handed down to us by Apostles and Evangelists gone before us.

In this Book, which is the "Mother of all Treatises" on the Blessed Sacrament Father Faber explores the Doctrine of the Blessed Sacrament in his own unique way. He in particular tackles the Concepts of the Real Presence and Transubstantiation very well.

He calls the Blessed Sacrament "The Compendium of all Miracles" and the Central Aspect of the Catholic Faith.

This Book is a must read for all souls who are devoted to Eucharistic Adoration.

2) The Precious Blood By Father Faber :

Jesus Christ, Our Lord and The Lord of the Universe died on the Cross from a terrible loss of Blood.

Therefore, His Precious Blood is key to our salvation.

In this Book, Father Faber explores all aspects of the Precious Blood in our spiritual lives specially Its Mystery and Necessity.

The Precious Blood By Father Faber is actually speaking a "Study of Our Salvation".

I have personally found this book to be extremely scriptural in more ways than one.

It is a must read for all those who often meditate on the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ.