Author: Alfred Monnin
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Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Author: Edward Bowden
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375038925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Translated from the French of M. L'Abbé Monnin. With Seventeen Additional Exhortations.

Author: Alfred Monnin
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Category : Catechisms, French
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: L'Abbe Monnin
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781493519132
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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If we have ever thought, in reading of the apostolic labours of saints who lived in times gone by, that the uncompromising severity of their teaching would have been modified by the altered circumstances of our own age, the life of the Cure of Are shows us that we were mistaken. We see him in the midst of a neighbouring people, the trusted guide of every class of Christians. Every doubt that could arise from the exigencies of the nineteenth century, concerning theology, politics, or even fuhion, was submitted to his decision; and he answered one and all in words which might bave fallen from St. Vincent Ferrer or the B. Leonard of Port Maurice. Thus, when we hear of the numbers of all ranks and conditions who crowded from town and country into the secluded village church to hear his simple exhortations, our thoughts go back to the time when Pharisees and Sadducees, soldiers and publicans, thronged the desert .. banks of the Jordan to hear the preaching of st. John Baptist, and to be told that they must do penance, because the kingdom of heaven was at hand. In peruing the instructions of the Cure of Ars, we may miss the sweetness of his voice. or the bright look and affectionate manner with which they were wont to be accompanied; but our hearts burn within us as we read, for they come from a saint on fire with the love of God, who was raised up in an unbelieving generation to carry on the old tradition, and to sanctify the world by the simple preaching of the Cross.

Author: Alfred Monnin
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Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: Abbé Alfred Monnin
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Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Saint Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney
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Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1230

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Author: Saint John Vianney
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ISBN: 9781980207474
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Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney (known in English as John Vianney), was a French priest that lived from 1786-1859, afterwards to become famous as the Curé of Ars. He was a man that overcame his meager education and was ordained priest. His work as a confessor is John Vianney's most remarkable accomplishment; because of the remarkable spiritual conversion of the people of his community and its surroundings, he spent 11 to 12 hours daily reconciling people. Besides reconciling sinners with God the indefatigable cure was frequently engaged in the important work of directing souls to the knowledge and attainment of their vocation and in giving other counsel valuable in their spiritual life. This book "The Spirit of the Curé of Ars" gathers some of his catechisms, homilies, exhortations and his thoughts when directing the souls of people; in this work the Spirit of God which was in him gave an incomparable fitness and simplicity to all his words, which were animated by the extreme tenderness of his heart. In his homilies he was accustomed to recall the scenes of his early life as a farmer boy, and he employed the analogies and arguments drawn from external nature and according to his own statements, it was evident that there was nothing in the visible world that had not reminded him of God and of eternity. Besides these expressive comparisons, Father Vianney's sermons frequently described incidents drawn from his personal experience. His intellectual and moral perfection of the human faculties, refined by grace, was very striking in M. Vianney. He had no variety or extent of human sciences. But he had what supplies the place of knowledge, and even of experience -the faith which knows and foresees all things. He had great practical wisdom, a profound knowledge of the ways of God and of the miseries of man, an admirable sagacity, a prompt and accurate judgment, an acute, judicious, and penetrating mind. He was endowed, besides, with a supernatural memory, an exquisite tact, and a power of observation which would have made him formidable to those who approached him, if his great and indulgent charity had not softened all his judgments. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney was placed by Providence in an unknown corner of a little town and made him shone under a bushel rather than on a candlestick, he shone before the world with incomparable brilliancy; he was a triple representation of our Lord, setting before men the light of truth, with an example of captivating goodness, and edifying virtue.