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P WE were .asked to name the books that influenced
. X us most in the whole course of our life, and if in our
reply to this question we were permitted to name only fov
books, we would mention the following:
I. The Holy Bible, and especially the New Testament
and the Psalms.
2. Butler's "Lives of the Saints." We have special
pleasure, however, in recornmehding to the pious reader
Bowden's "Miniature Lives of the Saints."
3. "The Imitation of Christ" (or "The Following of
Christ ") by Thomas ii Kern is.
4. St. Ignatius Loyola's 'Book of the Spiritual Exercises."
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We would add to these, if we were permitted to name
just one more book, St. Francis de Sales' *'Devout Life."
We owe a vast debt of gratitude also to St. Alphopsus
de Liguori, especially for his 'Devout Reflections on
Various Spiritual Subjects," on "The Passion of Our
Lord," on "The Love of Our Lord Jesus Christ," on
"The Holy Eucharist," and on "The Blessed Virgin -
Mary."
Concerning the two first-mentioned works of St. Alphonsus,
we read in the preface to "Devo Reflections on
Various Spiritual Subjects," newly tranjated from the
Italian by Father Edmund Vaughan, C.SS.R.:
"The 'Devout Reflections on Spiritual Subjects' have
been retranslated, and are here pvblished separate, in a
convenient form. The 'Reflections on the Passion'
will also be brought out in the same style.
"They were both composed and published together
by the saint, when he was in the seventy-eighth year of his
age. He was still governing the episcopal see of St.
Agatha, in the kingdom of Naples; but, so broken down i-
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