The Complete Works of Saint Alphonsus de Liguori: The Ascetical Works, Volume 2

Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori

Redemptorist Fathers, 1926 - Devotional literature

Contents

• PART I: 15
• Sin as it dishonors God: 17
• The patience of God in waiting for sinners: 18
• The certainty of death: 20
• The loss of all things in death: 21
• The great thought of eternity: 23
• The death of Jesus Christ: 24
• The abuse of Gods mercy: 26
• The emptiness and shortness of human life: 28
• The contempt with which the sinner treats God: 30
• The pain of loss: 31
• The particular judgment: 33
• Preparation for the particular judgment: 35
• The suffering of souls in hell in their mental faculties: 37
• Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary: 38
• Jesus suffering for our sins: 40
• The one thing necessary: 42
• The sinners disobedience to God: 43
• The merciful chastisements of God: 45
• The patience of God with sinners: 47
• Death the passage to eternity: 49
• The reformation of our lives before death: 50
• MEDITATION PAGE XXIII The Lamb of God sacrificed for our sins 52 3333: 52
• The value of time: 53
• The terrors of the dying man at the thought of: 55
• proaching death 5555: 57
• The vanity of wordly things: 58
• The number of sins: 60
• The folly of living as enemies of God: 62
• The sacred wounds of Jesus: 63
• The great affair of salvation: 65
• The frequent thought of death: 66
• The turning away from God by sin: 68
• The mercy of God in calling sinners to repentance: 69
• The souls appearance at the tribunal of God: 71
• The unhappy life of the sinner: 73
• The love of Jesus crucified: 74
• The will of God to save all: 76
• The near approach of death: 77
• God abandons the sinner in his sins: 79
• The examination at the particular judgment: 80
• The journey to eternity: 82
• Jesus the man of sorrows: 83
• The folly of neglecting salvation: 85
• The moment of death: 87
• The desire of God to save sinners: 88
• The sentence of particular judgment: 89
• An unprovided death: 91
• The eternity of hell: 93
• The uncertainty of grace: 94
• The death of Jesus for the love of men: 96
• The certainty of being either saved or lost: 97
• The certainty of death: 99
• The vanity of the world ΙΟΙ: 101
• The provoking of God by sin: 102
• The last judgment: 104
• The intensity of the pains of hell: 105
• The love of Christ crucified: 107
• The irretrievable loss of the soul: 109
• We must die: 110
• The love with which God receives the repentant sin ner: 112
• The resurrection of the body: 115
• The love of God in giving us his Son PAGE 113 115: 116
• Earnest labor to secure eternal salvation: 118
• The appearance of the body immediately after death: 120
• The state of the body in the grave: 121
• Man is soon forgotten after death: 123
• The appearance of all mankind in the valley of Josaphat: 124
• The blindness of those who say if we be lost we shall not be lost alone: 126
• The measure of grace: 127
• Loving God because he has died for: 129
• The care of our salvation: 130
• The leaving of all at death: 132
• The moment of death: 133
• The examination of our sins at the last: 135
• The great love of God for our souls: 137
• The remorse of the reprobate: 138
• Jesus the king of love: 140
• The miserable death of the sinner: 141
• The happy death of the sinner: 143
• At the point of death: 144
• The rashness of the sinner in committing mortal sin: 146
• The parable of the prodigal: 148
• The evil of lukewarmness: 149
• The giving of ourselves to God without reserve: 151
• The trouble and confusion of the hour of death: 153
• The provoking of God by sin to depart from us: 154
• The abuse of grace: 156
• Divine love victorious over God himself: 157
• The sentence of the wicked at the last judgment: 158
• The sentence of the elect: 160
• The dishonoring of God by sin: 162
• The joy of Jesus Christ at finding the lost sheep: 163
• Jesus suffering the punishment due to our sins: 164
• The happiness of possessing the grace of God and misery of being deprived of it: 166
• Conformity to the will of: 168
• PART II: 171
• We are pilgrims on earth: 174
• God deserves to be loved above everything: 178
• In order that a soul may become holy it must give itself to God without reserve: 181
• The two great means for becoming holydesire and resolution: 184
• 166: 187
• Our eternal safety consists in prayer: 191
• must one day die: 196
• Preparation for death: 199
• He that loves God must love and not abhor death: 201
• Our salvation is in the cross: 204
• How much it pleases Jesus Christ that we suffer for the love of him: 208
• Divine love conquers all things: 212
• The necessity of mental prayer: 214
• The object of mental prayer: 217
• The mercy of God: 221
• Confidence in Jesus Christ: 225
• Salvation alone is necessary: 229
• Perfect resignation to the divine will: 232
• Happy is he who is faithful to God in adversity: 236
• He that loves Jesus Christ ought to hate the world: 239
• The words of a dying man to Jesus crucified: 241
• Acts of devotion for the time of death: 243
• The house of eternity: 246
• Souls who love God desire to see him in heaven: 249
• Jesus is the good shepherd: 251
• The affairs of eternal salvation: 253
• What will be the joy of the blessed: 255
• The pain of having lost God will be that which con stitutes hell: 257
• Contempt for the world: 261
• Love of solitude: 264
• The solitude of heart: 267
• The sight and love of God in the next life will con stitute the joy of the blessed: 270
• We ought to have God alone as the end of our actions: 279
• PART III: 307
• HYMNThe Love of God: 329
• HYMNThe love which Jesus bears to the soul: 351
• Excellence of this virtue: 353
• Happiness obtained from perfect conformity: 362
• Special practices of this conformity: 371
• HYMNHOW amiable is the will of: 389
• Of what when and how we should converse with God: 398
• God answers the soul that speaks to: 408
• A SHORT TREATISE ON PRAYER: 428
• The conditions requisite for the due performance of prayer: 434
• God has pledged himself to grant us not temporal but spirit: 442
• HYMNDescription of the life of a soul the true spouse of Jesus: 448
• Counsels from which a soul when in desolation may: 460
• Reason for having confidence in the divine mercy through: 469
• St Lidwine: 484
• HYMNThe loving soul in desolation: 489
• HYMNThe soul introduced into the wine cellar and already: 499
• 168: 511

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Complete Works of Saint Alphonsus de Liguori: The Ascetical Works, Volume 2; The Complete Works of Saint Alphonsus de Liguori: The Ascetical Works, Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori
• Author: Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori
• Editor: Eugene Grimm (C.SS.R.)
• Publisher: Redemptorist Fathers, 1926
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Aug 21, 2009