The author’s greatest achievement in this book is that she helps the reader to understand and love Saint Kateri. Readers may also appreciate the author’s personal research and descriptions of the locations where all the events of Kateri’s life took place. The book’s many first hand accounts by eye witnesses are a highlight. Interestingly, these same years were a turning point for the Jesuit missionaries in New France, as their relations with the Indians underwent a change from suffering fearful persecution to achieving widespread conversion, thanks in at least a small part to the influence of the humble Kateri. This biography of her life fills in many details of the history, geography, and important persons and events of Kateri’s time and setting in New York and Canada from 1656 to 1680. In spite of her natural diffidence, she summoned the strength to assert her desire to become a Christian and to consecrate herself as a virgin, and even had the courage to take part in a dangerous escape from her tyrannical uncle. Saint Kateri Tekakwitha’s lifespan of on ly about 24 years was spent in utter humility and penitence. “The mysteries of the life of the holy Mother of God from the Incarnation of the Divine Word in her virginal womb to the return of the holy family from Egypt.” – Summary by Wikipedia and the Introduction Volume two deals with the Incarnation of our Lord. If you’re preferred download method is m4b, please use the links below: To download a free audio version of this book from Librivox, click on the link below: (Summary from an original London Times review and Wikipedia) This apocalyptic novel from the early 1900’s is sometimes deemed one of the first modern dystopias. Benson sees the world, four or five generations hence, free at last from all minor quarrels, and ranged against itself in two camps, Humanitarianism for those who believe in no divinity but that of man, Catholicism for those who believe in no divinity but that of God.” If you’re preferred download method is m4b, click here: To download a free audio version of this book from Librivox, click on either of the links below: This selection of the Summa Theologica covers questions 47-170 of the Secunda Secundae (“Second-half of the Second Part”), comprising a Treatise on the Cardinal Virtues: Prudence (questions 47-56), Justice (questions 57-122), Fortitude (questions 123-140), and Temperance (questions 141-170) – each with their own subordinate moral virtues. The Summa’s topics follow a cycle: the existence of God, God’s creation, Man, Man’s purpose, Christ, the Sacraments, and back to God. It summarizes the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, which, before the Protestant Reformation, subsisted solely in the Roman Catholic Church. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of that time. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. The Summa The ologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. If your preferred download method if m4b, click here: To download this free audio book from Librivox, click on the link below: “The Sacramental Mysteries of the life of the Mother of God from the return out of Egypt up to her divine Son’s ascension into heaven.” – Summary by Wikipedia and Introduction Volume 3 deals with the Life of Blessed Mother after her return from Egypt. The work has the Imprimatur of several Popes and Bishops and appeals primarily to those who believe in “private revelation” and the sanctity of Mary. The book describes at length the various virtues, and how the reader should live in order to see them reflected in their own life, with the Virgin Mary as their model for sanctity. The work alternates between descriptions of the Trinity, the Virgin Mary’s life, and the spiritual guidance she provides to the author, by whom her words were reproduced for the spiritual benefit and growth of the reader. The Mystical City of Go d is a book written in the 17th-century by the Franciscan nun, Venerable Mary of Jesus of Ágreda.Īccording to María de Ágreda, the book was to a considerable extent dictated to her by the Blessed Virgin Mary and regarded the life of the Virgin Mary and the divine plan for creation and the salvation of souls.
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