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After the eighth edition in 1779, Alphonsus considered his work definitive, and in 1785 the ninth edition finalized the book's contents. [2] Since his death, many further editions have been published, including a partially completed English edition from Mediatrix Press, the first volume of which was released in 2017.
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori CSsR (27 September 1696 – 1 August 1787) was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian.
The book was written in part as a defense of Marian devotion at a time when it had come under criticism. The book combines numerous citations in favor of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary from the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church with Saint Alphonsus' own personal views on Marian veneration and includes a number of Marian prayers and practices.
It is a ministry of the Redemptorists founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori. [1] [2] The newsletter is run by Thomas Santa, a Redemptorist priest who ministers to those with scrupulosity. [3] Liguori himself suffered from "scruples" and feelings of religious guilt in his own life and developed techniques for helping people with the condition.
[15] According to Alphonsus Liguori, for the licit use of a mental reservation, "an absolutely serious cause is not required; any reasonable cause is enough, for instance to free oneself from the inconvenient and unjust interrogation of another." Alphonsus said, "we do not deceive our neighbor, but for a just cause we allow that he deceive ...
A Saint Alphonsus spokesperson said the shooting happened in the ambulance bay by its emergency department. “All patients and staff are safe, the medical center campus is safe and secure, and ...
Spiritual Communion, as St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Alphonsus Liguori teach, produces effects similar to Sacramental Communion, according to the dispositions with which it is made, the greater or less earnestness with which Jesus is desired, and the greater or less love with which Jesus is welcomed and given due attention.
Upload file; Special pages; ... Confession. Penitential canons ... I. 744, 789; the moral theologies, under the treatise De legibus, particularly ST. ALPHONSUS ...