Fulton J. Sheen

Victory Over Vice & The Seven Virtues (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Victory Over Vice & The Seven Virtues

Two of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's best-selling books have been brought together in one special collection.

The first part of this book is a collection of engaging sermons from this Emmy award-winning and New York Times best-selling author will encourage the reader to better understand that the seven deadly sins can be overcome with the help of the advice given in the Seven Last Words spoken by Christ from His Cross.

Using these words spoken by Jesus from the Cross on Calvary as a backdrop, Sheen will address matters concerning various addictions and patterns of habitual sin. He will use his inimitable writing style, with immediacy, yet conveying joy and comfort in the subject matter.

These meditations on the Seven Last Words correlated to the seven deadly sins make no pretence to absoluteness. The Words are not necessarily related to the seven deadly sins but they do make convenient points of illustrations.

HELP IN OVERCOMING THE SIN OF ANGER

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

HELP IN OVERCOMING THE SIN OF ENVY

"This day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise."

HELP IN OVERCOMING THE SIN OF LUST

"Woman, behold thy son! (Son) Behold thy mother!"

HELP IN OVERCOMING THE SIN OF PRIDE

"My God! My God! Why hast Thou hast abandoned Me?"

HELP IN OVERCOMING THE SIN OF GLUTTONY

"I thirst."

HELP IN OVERCOMING THE SIN OF SLOTH

"It is finished."

HELP IN OVERCOMING THE SIN OF COVETOUSNESS

"Father, into Thy Hands, I commend My Spirit."

This second part of this book includes more of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen's engaging sermons which will encourage the reader in the practice of the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity along with the four cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, justice and fortitude.

Sheen will make the connection between the seven virtues and the Seven Last Words spoken by Jesus from the Cross. While these meditations by Fulton J. Sheen on the Seven Last Words correlated to the seven virtues make no pretence to absoluteness, they do make convenient points of illustrations.

FOR THE VIRTUE OF FORTITUDE

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

FOR THE VIRTUE OF HOPE

"This day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise."

FOR THE VIRTUE OF PRUDENCE

"Woman, behold thy son! (Son) Behold thy mother!."

FOR THE VIRTUE OF FAITH

"My God! My God! Why hast Thou hast abandoned Me?"

FOR THE VIRTUE OF TEMPERANCE

"I thirst."

FOR THE VIRTUE OF JUSTICE

"It is finished."

FOR THE VIRTUE OF CHARITY

"Father, into Thy Hands, I commend My Spirit."

This book has one main aim and that is to awaken an appreciation of the Passion of Our Lord and to hopefully incite the reader to turn away from the seven deadly sins and to practice the virtues. If it does that in but one soul its publication has been justified.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bishop Sheen Today
• Seitenzahl: 265
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781990427602
• Artikelnr.: 62302645

Autorenporträt

Fulton John Sheen was born in El Paso, Illinois, in 1895. In high school, he won a three-year university scholarship, but he turned it down to pursue a vocation to the priesthood. He attended St. Viator College Seminary in Illinois and St. Paul Seminary in Minnesota. In 1919, he was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois. He earned a licentiate in sacred theology and a bachelor of canon law at the Catholic University of America and a doctorate at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Sheen received numerous teaching offers but declined them in obedience to his bishop and became an assistant pastor in a rural parish. Having thus tested his obedience, the bishop later permitted him to teach at the Catholic University of America and at St. Edmund's College in Ware, England, where he met G.K. Chesterton, whose weekly BBC radio broadcast inspired Sheen's later NBC broadcast, The Catholic Hour (1930-1952). In 1952, Sheen began appearing on ABC in his own series, Life Is Worth Living. Despite being given a time slot that forced him to compete with Milton Berle and Frank Sinatra, the dynamic Sheen enjoyed enormous success and in 1954 reach tens of millions of viewers, non-Catholics as well as Catholics. When asked by Pope Pius XII how many converts he had made, Sheen responded, "Your Holiness, I have never counted them. I am always afraid if I did count them, I might think I made them, instead of the Lord." Sheen gave annual Good Friday homilies at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral, led numerous retreats for priests and religious, and preached at summer conferences in England. "If you want people to stay as they are," he said, "tell them what they want to hear. If you want to improve them, tell them what they should know." This he did, not only in his preaching but also in the more than ninety books he wrote. His book, Peace of Soul was sixth on the New York Times best-seller list. Sheen served as auxiliary bishop of New York (1951-1966) and as bishop of Rochester (1966-1969). The good Lord called Fulton Sheen home in 1979. His television broadcasts, now on tape, and his books continue his earthly work of winning souls for Christ. Sheen's cause for canonization was opened in 2002, and in 2012 Pope Benedict XVI declared him "Venerable."