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In this booklet, St. Alphonsus Ligouri teaches us how to use the small events of everyday life to raise our hearts and minds to God: in praise, contrition, hope, joy, and union with God's will. In this way, we can "pray unceasingly" and converse with God in the way most pleasing to him-personally and confidently. This booklet features 20 bite-sized chapters, either for study or for daily meditation, and an index full of short prayers and aspirations. It is the perfect size to slip into a wallet, purse, or pocket, for use in church, at home, or at work-wherever you may be, for as this booklet shows, we can pray to God at any place and at any time. (77 pgs. .)

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	01 janvier 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781505103021
Langue	English

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How to Converse with God
St. Alphonsus de Liguori
Imprimi Potest:
E. Chouinard
Nihil Obstat:
L. Laplante, C.SS.R. Provincial Superior Ste-Anne de Beaupre
Imprimatur:
J. M. R. Card. Villeneuve, OM.I. Archbishop of Quebec
Published by the Daughters of St. Paul, Boston, circa 1963. Retypeset and published in 2005 by TAN Books, with permission of the Redemptorist Fathers of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré (Quebec). Bible quotations have been converted to the Douay-Rheims version.
Cover illustration: Detail (one of the 12 Apostles) from "Assumption of Our Lady" stained-glass window. Photo copyright © 1992 by Alan Brown. Used by arrangement with Al Brown Photo, 3597 N. Roberts Rd., Bardstown, KY 40004.
TAN Books Charlotte, North Carolina www.TANBooks.com 2013
"Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears—of everything that concerns you. Converse with Him confidently and frankly; for God is not wont to speak to a soul that does not speak to Him."
—St. Alphonsus de Liguori
St. Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787) Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of the Church, Founder of the Redemptorists
Contents
   1. Love and Confidence
   2. Why Have You Loved Me?
   3. The Mercies of the Lord
   4. The Paradise of God
   5. "Taste and See..."
   6. Every Moment of Every Hour
   7. Love Will Find Words
   8. Source of All Consolation
   9. The God of Salvation
   10. Rejoice in the Lord
   11. "A Contrite and Humble Heart"
   12. What Will You Have Me Do, Lord? .
   13. "After This Our Exile"
   14. Sanctify Every Day
   15. Every Action with God and for God
   16. Keep Eternity Near at Hand
   17. Creation's Hymn of Praise
   18. God Your Only Good
   19. Conformity with the Will of God .
   20. Ask and You Shall Receive
Short Prayers and Aspirations
Chapter 1
Love and Confidence
J OB was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return. In his amazement he cried out to the Lord: "What is man that Thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that Thou visitest him?" (Ps . 8:5). Is it not a mistake, then, to think it a lack of respect for God's infinite Majesty to act toward Him with great confidence and familiarity?
Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins. Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him. True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He. Far from despising our confidence in Him, He rejoices that we have it—confidence and familiarity and affection like that which little children show toward their mothers.
Behold how He invites us to come to Him, and the loving embraces which He promises to lavish on us: "You shall be carried at the breasts, and upon the knees they shall caress you. As one whom the mother caresseth, so will I comfort you." (Is . 66:12-13). Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
Chapter 2
Why Have You Loved Me?
C ONSIDER that no one—whether friend or brother, father or mother, lover or spouse—loves you more than your God. And divine grace is the inestimable treasure through which vile creatures and servants like ourselves become dear friends of our Creator. "For she is an infinite treasure to men! which they that use, become the friends of God." (Wis . 7:14). It was for the purpose of increasing our confidence that He "emptied Himself" (Phil . 2:7), so to speak, humbling Himself to the point of becoming a man in order to live in familiar converse with us. "He conversed with men." (Bar . 3:38). He went so far as to become a little Babe and to live in poverty and die on a cross for our sake. He even placed Himself under the species of bread so as to be with us always and in the most intimate union. "He that eateth My Flesh, and drinketh My Blood, abideth in Me, and I in him." (John 6:57).
In short, so great is God's love for you that He seems to love no one but you. And therefore, you should love no one but Him. * You should be able to say t

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