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thanksgiving

Fr. Faber: On the importance of thanksgiving

"Ah! if we have reason to pity God, if we may dare so to speak with St. Alphonsus, because men sin against His loving Majesty, still more reason have we to do so when we see how scanty and how cold are the thanksgivings offered up to Him. Nothing is so odious among men as ingratitude; yet it is the daily and hourly portion of Almighty God. There is no telling wh…

prayer

How God helps us to love Him

Excerpt from Fr. Faber's book "All for Jesus" (Ch.5 - The Riches of Our Poverty) "If we are in earnest about our souls, with a quiet fidelity to those duties, practices, and devotions, which obedience sanctions to us, our love of God increases without our knowing or feeling it. It is only now and then, in certain temptations, or on great feasts, or…

intercession

All for Jesus - Father Faber

Excerpt from Chapter IV - Intercessory Prayer "Let us see what goes to the saving of a soul, and what is involved in its being saved. In the first place, it was absolutely necessary that God should become man, in order that that soul should be saved, according to the dispensation of God. It was absolutely necessary that Jesus should be born, teach, act, pray, me…