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One of Fr. Faber's greatest books; and definitely his most encouraging; for it was written precisely to help us save our souls by "serving Jesus out of love;" for "everything comes easy to love." Gives us powerful motives for loving God. Says if we did; it would be with us as it was with Jacob working to earn the hand of Rachel: "Years would seem but days; for the greatness of our love." Makes a person feel rich to be a Catholic. This is Fr. Faber at his best!

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	01 janvier 1991
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781505102925
Langue	English

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All for Jesus
The Easy Ways of Divine Love
Frederick William Faber, D.D.
We approve highly of the republication of the work styled All for Jesus , by the Rev. F. W. Faber, which has been received so favorably by the Catholics of England.
   ✠ Francis Patrick Kenrick Archbishop of Baltimore Baltimore January 20, 1854
This present edition by TAN Books was retypeset from the 23rd American edition, published by John Murphy & Co., 182 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Maryland, around 1854, "with the sanction and corrections of the author."
The type in this book is the property of TAN Books, and may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, for distribution, without written permission from the Publisher. (This restriction applies only to reproduction of this type , not to quotations from the book.)
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 90-70239
TAN Books Charlotte, North Carolina www.TANBooks.com
2012
BOOKS BY FATHER FABER
In This Series
ALL FOR JESUS
or The Easy Ways of Divine Love
BETHLEHEM
THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
or The Ways and Works of God
THE CREATOR AND THE CREATURE
or The Wonders of Divine Love
THE FOOT OF THE CROSS
or The Sorrows of Mary
GROWTH IN HOLINESS
or The Progress of the Spiritual Life
THE PRECIOUS BLOOD
or The Price of Our Salvation
SPIRITUAL CONFERENCES
        "Life, and especially our spiritual life, often drags on heavily . . . It is weary work to be always fighting with our evil passions, and disheartening work to make so little way. Temptations tease us, and scruples worry us; and to be dead, buried, and safe in Purgatory, seems the limit to our peevish ambition. And why is this? Because we do not serve Jesus for love. If we did, it would be with us as it was with Jacob. Years would seem but days, for the greatness of our love. Now let us see if it is, after all, so impossible for us to serve our dear Lord out of love."
                                                                                       —Father Faber (Page 21)
CONTENTS
Chapter I
THE INTERESTS OF JESUS
Jesus all for us—and all for love—His interests the object of the Confraternity of the Precious Blood—men's interests—the devil's interests—the interests of Jesus in 1) the Church Triumphant 2) the Church Suffering 3) the Church Militant—the four chief ones: 1) the glory of His Father, 2) the fruit of His Passion, 3) the honor of His Mother, 4) the esteem of grace; His interests do not follow the same rule as the interests of the world—not to look for visible results—prayer the chief way of forwarding them
Chapter II
SYMPATHY WITH JESUS
Service of love—sympathy with Jesus a mark of a saint—three instincts of saints: 1) eagerness for the glory of God, 2) touchiness about the interests of Jesus, 3) anxiety for the salvation of souls; story of St. Giacinta Mariscotti—example of the three instincts in a Spanish Jesuit—the six advantages of giving away our indulgences to the souls in Purgatory
Chapter III
LOVE WOUNDED BY SIN
God our Father as well as our Creator—this brings us to love of complacency—and so to love of condolence—sorrow for other men's sins—various revelations to the saints about this—special office of nuns—example of the saints—methods of practicing this sorrow: 1) meditation on God's glory, 2) St. Bernard's way, 3) way of Balthasar Alvarez and St. Alphonsus, how the three instincts are satiated in this devotion—St. Paphnutius and the piper—Lancisius on the Carnival—St. Gertrude's vision—the plain English of the lives of most Catholics—God's homeless glory
Chapter IV
INTERCESSORY PRAYER
What goes to the saving of a soul—what is involved in a soul being saved—the mystery of prayer—St. Gertrude's vision of the Ave Maria—the three instincts applied to the practice of intercessory prayer—for whom we should intercede: 1) for those in mortal sin, 2) for the lukewarm, 3) for the saints on earth, 4) for those in tribulation, 5) for our benefactors, 6) for those aiming at perfection, 7) for the increase of the accidental glory of the blessed, 8) for the rich and noble; the time, place and method of intercession—joy and freedom from vainglory the fruits of intercessory prayer
Chapter V
THE RICHES OF OUR POVERTY
Our distress because we love God so little—the ways in which He helps us to love Him—more especially in the way of intercession—the riches He gives us to offer to Him: 1) the Sacred Humanity of Jesus, 2) the intercessory use of the Passion—various examples of the saints, 3) our Blessed Lady-nature of devotion to her—devotion to her Seven Joys, 4) the Angels, 5) all things that are or have been on earth, 6) God's own perfection; fitness of this devotion for invalids
Chapter VI
MINTING MONEY
God the center of everything—so-called pillars of the Church-nature and grace—oblation of our actions in union with those of Christ—minting money—the spirit of oblation: 1) the oblation of our ordinary actions—methods and practices—difference between canonized and uncanonized writers—St. Gertrude's oblations, 2) oblation of recreations—hints to valetudinarians—St. Charles' game of chess—Noe's ark, 3) oblation of solitude, 4) rising to God by common sights and sounds—examples and practices—Peter Faber's three methods of prayer—multiplicity of mental devotions—vocal prayer—dry devotion not solid, 5) ejaculatory prayer—Father Baker—how to say Office, 6) oblation of sufferings; what it is to be allowed to please God—God begging glory of His own creatures
Chapter VII
THANKSGIVING
Neglect of thanksgiving—spirit of the Eucharist—faults of good people—dry people ordinarily self-righteous—fatherly providence—a spirit of thanksgiving the characteristic of the saints—devotion to the Eternal Word—practices—Jewish tradition from Philo—Heads of thanksgiving: 1) Common blessings, 2) personal blessings, 3) afflictions, 4) trifling blessings, 5) miscellaneous blessings, 6) for irrational creatures, 7) blessings of our enemies—the French Apostolate of prayer, 8) for angels and saints, 9) for supernaturalness of the Church, and the gift of faith—St. Jane Frances de Chantal, 10) for Mass—materials for thanksgiving after Mass and Communion; our own practice hitherto—spiritual benefits of thanksgiving—application of it to the three instincts
Chapter VIII
PRAISE AND DESIRE
Science and grace—Tarry-at-Home travelling—what praise and desire are—Loves of Complacency and Benevolence—value of interior acts—description of God—meditation on the attributes of God—application of Praise and Desire to the three instincts—how we get at the love of complacency—Saints made up of six things—the HOLY MIDDLE CLASS of the Church—Examples: 1) From the Raccolta, 2) Lancisius' devotions to Jesus Risen, 3) St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi's preparation for Whitsuntide, 4) renewal of vows and heroic desires—regimental holiness—liberty of spirit—St. Gertrude, and the old Benedictine ascetics—the great wonder that God loves men—the greater that He lets men love Him—the greatest that they will not do so—the spirit of reparation—Mary the Christian's Benedicite —the praise of the Sacred Heart—God's praise of Himself
Chapter IX
PURGATORY
Thoughts on Hell—Rosignoli—the world of sense and the world of spirit—Communion of the Saints—two views of Purgatory-synopsis of the treatise of St. Catherine of Genoa—what the two views agree in—lessons learned, for our own good, and for the good of the Holy Souls—Pleas for this devotion: 1) All devotions center on it, 2) It implies all the works of mercy, 3) An exercise of the three theological virtues, 4) Its effects upon the spiritual life; the ways of practicing it—story of Marie Denise de Martignat—the sorrows of kind hearts—God's description of Himself as a poor invalid—the doctrinal character and fullness of their devotion—sweet song of the Sacred Heart
A Letter to the Members of the Confraternity of the Most Precious Blood
TO THE FREQUENTERS OF THE ORATORY OF ST. PHILIP NERI
IN KING WILLIAM STREET, CHARING CROSS, LONDON
My dear Friends and Benefactors,
I venture to dedicate this little Book to you, for more reasons than one. I would have it stand as a memorial of my gratitude for all the affectionate intercourse which you have permitted to exist between the sons of St. Philip and yourselves; an intercourse which has been bound up with the dearest, because the most sacred, interests of your lives. For four years and more you have made our cause your own, and have rejoiced in our successes, and been anxious in our anxieties, as if they had been yours; while on our side, your griefs and cares, your sorrows and trials, you well know, have been taken upon ourselves, according to the poor measure of our love, and lightened, so far as heart can lighten heart in Christ.
Sacraments and prayer and the daily word of God have formed the triple cord which has bound us together, until we have almost come to think and feel, to sorrow and rejoice, to hope and fear alike, in the one heavenly heart of our common father, St. Philip. We have all along known that this could be only for a season. Like the Apostle of the Gentiles at Rome, we were but as prisoners in a hired house, and our blessed Lord in His great Sacrament humbled, not beyond the depth of His condescension, but beyond the patience of our love. But the circumstances of this immense city do not leave to Catholic communities full liberty to select their own abode or His. Many efforts were made for as much as two years to find a home for our saint near the field of his first labors; and when, after repeated failure and inquiry, they seemed all but successful, they came to nought, we must believe, by the Will of God: and we have been borne away to another region of this peopled wilderness.
Thus there is another motive for my dedicating this little book to you. It is, so far as many of you are concerned, a leave-taking; and I would have it, not merely a token of our mutual love, but also the odor of Christ and the virtue of His