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26/07/2024

A new release! 📚The Practice of the Presence of God by Br. Lawrence of the Resurrection.

In this classic spiritual work, Brother Lawrence, a humble 17th-century Discalced Carmelite, gives a simple way to pray without ceasing—constant awareness of the presence of God. The lay brother was considered too unlettered to be a priest and was assigned to work in the kitchen. It was here he would learn to recollect himself continuously while performing all of his duties for the greater glory of God.

He became revered for his sanctity within the monastery and eventually his conversations, letters, and spiritual maxims were collected into this short work, The Practice of the Presence of God.

May this volume be a guide to the practice of recollection and provide a spark to enflame many hearts to persevere in the love of God by performing the duties of our state in life while constantly meditating on the presence of the most Holy Trinity.

“A brief remembrance of God, an interior act of adoration, even while one may be running with sword in hand, are prayers which, however short they are, are nevertheless very pleasing to God." + Br. Lawrence

22/07/2024

If you really love your soul, avoid venial sin.

As sickness gradually causes the death of the body, so venial sin paves the way for the death of the soul.

By venial sin, we grow more indifferent to sin, we become used to it. Satan becomes bolder; he sees that we trifle with sin. He nourishes this carelessness.

Venial sins are like rain-drops; tiny things in themselves—and yet, in time, they destroy strong walls and timbers, change stately palaces into heaps of ruin.

He who is not resolved to avoid deliberate venial sin, is certainly not as much in earnest as he should be in his hatred of mortal sin. Many a venial sin stands in close relation to mortal sin. You are walking on the brink of a precipice.

Venial sin weakens the will, increases the passions, dulls the conscience, and gives strength to bad habits.

Venial sin makes God more reserved in his dealings with us. His intimacy with us decreases, his consolations are withdrawn or diminished, good inspirations become weaker and rarer.

+ Are you not resolved to avoid venial sin?
+ Is it not an offense against God?
+ Did the Saints inquire: Is this a mortal or a venial sin?
+ Did they not rather endeavor with all the strength of their will, to avoid everything which they knew to be displeasing to God?

Who shall reckon that mighty multitude?—
More or less voluntary distractions in prayer
uncharitable thoughts
unkind words
offensive jests
neglects of duty
unguarded feelings
boastful speeches
sensual and, perhaps, even lustful, imaginations and desires
faults proceeding from want of self-control in eating and drinking!

What a chain of miseries! And how little pains do I take to break it!

Cultivate a sensitive conscience. If it has become somewhat hardened, renew its lost tenderness and delicacy.

Listen not to its foolish protest: "This is only a venial sin!"
None but a fool or a madman, will laugh at sin of any sort. Such a one does not understand what it is to offend God.

“He that contemneth small things, shall fall little by little.” (Ecclus. 19:1.)

17/07/2024

⭐New release!⭐

A book instructing beginners on mental prayer by one of the great ascetical saints of the Church:

The Golden Treatise of Mental Prayer provides a practical overview of the life of prayer. Written by St. Peter of Alcantara (1499 – 1562), a Franciscan of the Stricter Observance who was a spiritual director to St. Teresa of Avila, the treatise was once widely read and acclaimed by great saints, including St. Francis de Sales.

St. Peter not only presents a concise method of mental prayer but also offers practical advice on when to deviate from the method. He further provides clear counsel on spiritual reading, strategies to overcome distractions, ways to persevere during spiritual dryness, and how to avoid an excessive inclination towards study during prayer.

He helps the reader apply the teaching by providing guided meditations for each day of the week. The saint also offers a series of beautiful meditations on the Passion of Christ, inviting you to reflect deeply on His great sacrifice.

A biography of the saint, detailing his profound sanctity and rigorous ascetic observances, is also included. His life is a testament to the power of prayer and the transformative effects of a life dedicated to prayer.

15/07/2024

Now available! 📖 Mental Prayer Volume 5 for August + September

Daily Practice of Mental Prayer and of Divine Contemplation provides the Christian soul with six volumes of daily meditations spanning the entirety of the calendar year according to the Church’s traditional liturgical cycle. Drawing almost exclusively from St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross, Fr. Alphonsus of the Mother of Sorrows equips the soul who embarks upon this practice of prayer with meditations concise in length but beaming with the truest spirituality, inflaming the soul with devotion and guiding it towards that unitive dwelling with God, both interior and silent, solitary and life-giving.

In using and utilizing this book, pray valiantly, without ceasing. May you think only of Christ, bearing the Cross and all sufferings for His sake. May you abound in the unceasing joy of His love whereby you may attain true purity of heart, and likewise, heavenly beatitude, for “Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God” (Matt. v, 8).

11/07/2024

A new release: Life with Mary 📚

The Carmelite Order is a Marian Order. In fact, among all the Religious Orders, Carmel stands forth as the Marian Order. For the Carmelite life in its very being is Marian, that is, directed to Mary’s honor and glory through its essential action of prayer and imitation of her sacrifice at the foot of the Cross. With the Venerable Father Michael of St. Augustine, Belgian Carmelite of the seventeenth century, the Carmelite Marian life receives its most profound expression to date.

The present work aims to introduce Carmelite Marian Devotion to the English-speaking world through the presentation of the life and doctrine of the Venerable Michael of St. Augustine.

Venerable Michael of St. Augustine’s “Mariform and Marian Life, in Mary and for Mary” is one of the most beautiful tracts on the Marian life found in the Catholic Church, and is recognized as a compendium of the deepest traditions in Carmelite devotion to Mary.

May this work be pleasing to Our Lady, the Mother of Carmel. To her is it dedicated as a small token of gratitude and filial love, reverence, and obedience.

"I should like to have lips the purest to pronounce the name of Mary, and a pen of gold to write it.” -Blessed Miriam of Jesus Crucified ✍️

In Christ Crucified,
Cor Jesu Press

03/07/2024

Only one thing is necessary.

We have been placed in this world by the Creator for no other purpose but to serve him.

This is our duty of duties—the most urgent—the most unintermitting. All other duties are subordinate to this; there can be no greater obligation or necessity than that of serving God.

Why, then, O rational creature! are you wholly immersed in worldly affairs? You have not time even to think of your soul’s salvation, much less bestow upon it the care its vital importance demands. Now one business concern absorbs your attention; now, another. Always busy, never idle, ever in anxiety and turmoil. Why, and for what end?

To become rich? To become learned? To enjoy good health? To live long? Perhaps, it is possible—such may be the designs of Divine Providence. Certain it is, however, that God requires that you love and serve him; whether you be rich or poor, high or lowly, young or old, he has destined you for heaven. You must save your soul.

Many other things may be good, beautiful, useful, pleasant, honorable, and even important; but the salvation of your soul is all this and a great deal more, for it, alone, is necessary.

Excerpt from Thoughts and Counsels for Catholic Men.

27/06/2024

✨📖 Excerpt from Meditations on the Sacred Heart 📖✨

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22/06/2024

Excerpt from Meditations on the Sacred Heart.

17/06/2024

A new release from Cor Jesu Press! This is a book St. Augustine used regularly to reinvigorate his love for God. From the back of the book blurb:

O devout Christian reader seeking union with the living God, this manual of St. Augustine, which by the mouth of tradition we learn was his companion in prayer, contains a collection of his short reflections on the mysteries of the Christian life, equipping you with the insights of a man great in stature and seraphic in his doctrine, so that you likewise, through the intercession of this holy bishop, who was once a wretched sinner, may be worthy of imitating his virtues and participating in his glory.

Few in history provide such penetrating insight into the spiritual life and the sacred mysteries of the Catholic faith as does the glorious St. Augustine. Amidst the panoply of the Four Latin Doctors, Augustine shines as a resplendent star not only in what he taught, but principally in the depths to which he attained in contemplation and Divine Union, aiming all his actions and all his heart—radiant with the Divine fire of the Holy Ghost—towards that one most sublime goal of the beatific life.

"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.” — St. Augustine of Hippo

10/06/2024

Excerpt from Meditations on the Sacred Heart available from Cor Jesu Press.

08/06/2024

Are you progressing spiritually?

A brief reflection from "Practical Meditations" published in 1868.

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