This Is the Faith By Rev. Francis Riple, Purgatory by Fr. Faber

This Is the Faith is TAN's most awaited new title in years. This new edition of Canon Francis Ripley's 1951 masterpiece has been updated to include coverage of new disciplines introduced since the earlier editions. Each chapter is almost a book in itself, and is suitable both as a catechism of the teachings of the church, but also as an apologetic work demonstrating the truth of the Catholic Faith. This book will convert souls, and help good Catholics become better Catholics. A priest friend brought us a copy of This Is the Faith with the endorsement that this is the best book he had ever seen for instructing people in the Faith - whether converts or those whose education in the Faith has not been complete, or who just want a review. Once we read it, we had to agree! This book is at once complete and thorough, but also easy to read and very intelligible. Here is a book you can confidently give to friends and relatives inquiring about what the Church teaches and know it is excellent and will not be dry, long-winded or over their heads. Originally published in 1951, the book covers the nature of God, the nature of man, the meaning of life, the nature of religion, the sources of Faith, the necessity of prayer, the duty of belief, the consequences of sin, the Commandments of God, the Holy Trinity, belief in Christ, the Redemption, the nature of the Church, the supremacy of the Pope, his infallibility, the Commandments of the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, the Sacraments, the Mass, the priesthood, devotion to Mary and the Saints, what happens after death, the devotional life of a Catholic, etc. This Is the Faith covers everything the convert or inquirer needs to know about the Catholic faith, and does so with a thoroughness that is at once completely satisfying, but never trying. Moreover, its approach is always dignified, reverent and commanding of respect. The result is that the reader will garner a true picture of the reasonableness, thoroughness and beauty of the Catholic religion that - with grace - will all but guarantee the assent of his will if he approaches the book with honesty and integrity. This book belongs in every Catholic home. It is unparalleled as a review, as a catch-up course for the poorly informed, or as an introduction to the truth of the Catholic Faith for converts. Great, sadly needed and destined to do great good in our time!
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Is Purgatory almost like Hell? Or is it a place of peace and even joy? The famous Fr. Faber explains both of these classic Catholic views of Purgatory, basing his discussion on Catholic teaching and the revelations of saintly souls, especially St. Catherine of Genoa, in her Treatise on Purgatory. This now famous work (originally a chapter in All for Jesus) is both sobering and inspiring. For here Fr. Faber discusses whether it is better to pray for the conversion of sinners or to pray for the Souls in Purgatory, how the fear of Hell helps save souls, the influence through supernatural means which God has given us on those in Purgatory, how helping the Poor Souls shows our love of Jesus, how it increases our fear of offending God, how the Holy Souls tenderly love God and are loved by Him, their yearning for God, their desire for purification, their pain of loss, their pain of sense, their joy, their helplessness, the length of their suffering, the Angels' role in aiding them, our false confidence in our own goodness, how some on earth are angered by the thought of Purgatory, how our charity toward the Poor Souls benefits us by increasing Faith, Hope and Charity in us, and the example of the Saints towards the Poor Souls. Over all, Purgatory is a book to help us appreciate the supernatural treasures at our disposal, both to help the Poor Souls, and to help us avoid Purgatory ourselves: to inspire us to use wisely the rest of our time on earth so that we ourselves one day will not have to go there.
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St. Francis de Sales
A Biography of the Gentle Saint
(1567-1622)
By Louise Stacpoole-Kenny

St. Francis de Sales is famous in the Catholic world for his personality, as well as for his writings and other accomplishments. When he was being considered for beatification, 5,000 witnesses testified to his heroic virtues and miracles. The Calvinist minister of Geneva said of St. Francis de Sales: ËIf we honored any man as a Saint, I know none more worthy than this man since the days of the Apostles.Ó As a young priest, he attracted papal attention when he brought back to the Catholic Faith 72,000 French Calvinists in only four years. He later became Bishop of Geneva, fopunded the Visitation Order and eventually was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church. He confessed that God had given him an affectionate and loving heart; he was never angry, but rather received most graciously even the roughest and rudest persons, such that he became known as ËThe Gentleman Saint.Ó All types of people were irresistably drawn to him from Kings to the most lowly. This beautiful, popularly written book relates his life and gives the best and most famous stories of St. Francis and the Church in 17th-Century France. It includes his famous reply to King Henry IV who had offered him a richer diocese; the assassination attempts against him by Calvinists; his holy love for his mother, his sister and St. Jane Frances de Chantal; the controversy regarding St. Robert Bellarmine's writings; the tragedy of Mother Angelique of Port Royal; how he raised to life a dead baby in order to administer Baptism and much more! This is the story of one of the greatest and best-loved Saints of the Church. He did not work many miracles, but he was a miracle of a man. St. Vincent de Paul, his contemporary, said that Francis de Sales was the most perfect exemplar of a Christian he had ever met.
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