Saint Alphonsus
Adapted for Modern Readers by John Steingraeber, C.SS.R.
With an Introduction by R.J. Miller, C.SS.R.

The words of Saint Alphonsus continue to provide inspiration and enlightenment to new and old readers alike. As one of the Doctors of the Church - an honor that proclaimed him a teacher of the Catholic Church - he was given a special gift from God for bringing the old truths and doctrines more clearly to the hearts of the people. The central message of Saint Alphonsus' preaching and writing was a proclamation that the redemption offered by Jesus Christ is available to all those who pray. And, through these excerpts of Saint Alphonsus' own writings, readers will learn the importance of prayer and love of God in their lives.

Topics include:

• The Importance of Prayer
• Love of God and How to Gain It
• Conformity to the Will of God
• Thoughts on the Incarnation
• Thoughts on the Holy Spirit
• The Glories of Mary
• Prayers of Saint Alphonsus

• Binding: Paperback
  Pages: 192

Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787) is best known for his Moral Theology writings. Saint Alphonsus founded the Redemptorist Congregation. He made great pastoral reforms in the pulpit and confessional, replacing the pompous oratory of the time with simplicity. For nearly ninety years, he had been a model of holiness, prayer, and mortification. Alphonsus fought against Jansenism, which later became condemned as heretical. He spent twenty-six years on the road preaching in the Kingdom of Naples. Saint Alphonsus was made bishop of Palermo at age 66. His life was filled with illness, eight times, he was administered the sacrament of dying. He was declared "Venerable", May 4, 1796; was beatified in 1816, and canonized in 1839. In 1871, was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius IX.