Examples of Christian Living
Counsels and Advice for Christian Living
Seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who endured the cross.. (Hebrews 12:1-2)
Have you suffered from depression, sadness and anxiety? Do you feel that God has abandoned you? See lives of Therese of Lisieux and Bartolo Longo. They had the same problems.
Do you have blasphemous, evil thoughts? Many saints had the same thoughts. See: The Saint's Battle. -
Have you had temptations of lust and impurity? Have you committed impure thoughts, actions, alone or with others? See the essay Moral Order of the World. 6th Commandment. Sexuality, by Rev. Albert Drexel (died 1977). ---- See the lives of Mary of Egypt and Augustine. The former was a prostitute who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. Christ converted her by means of a miracle. Augustine was a young man who lived for many years in sins of lust of the flesh. He was converted to Christianity means of the prayers and tears of his mother, Monica. Afterwards he became a preacher, and led many souls to Christ by his sermons and writings, that are still being read today.
Examples of Chastity
* Aloysius Gonzaga was a young man in Italy who died at age 24, and who practiced angelic chastity his entire life. Maria Goretti was a young lady who was assaulted and stabbed many times by a young man, Alessandro, and she died 24 hours later in a hospital, forgiving Alessandro. He was sentenced to jail, and ten years later was converted, when Maria appeared to him in a dream. For story of Maria Goretti, scroll down Aloysius Gonzaga page.
* Charles Lwanga and companions, martyrs of Uganda. They were young men in the court of King Mwanga II of Uganda. When they refused to submit to the immoral demands of King Mwanga, who wanted them to commit unnatural, lustful actions with him, they were all killed, in 1886.
Do you drink too much? Do you have a problem with alcoholism? See the life of Matt Talbot. He had the same problem.
Do you suffer from poverty, hunger and lack of food? Are you homeless? See the life of Benedict Joseph Labre. He had the same problem.
Do you have health problems? Do you have a chronic illness, such as diabetes, tuberculosis, hernia, cancer, etc.? See the life of Lydwina of Schiedam, who had three chronic illnesses for many years. See life of Terese of Lisieux, who died of tuberculosis at age 24. See life of Father Damian, who died of leprosy, after having cared for lepers in Hawaii for many years.
Do you feel the rebellion of the flesh against the spirit? (For the good that I would, I do not, but the evil that I would not, that I do. ... O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? -- Romans 7: 19, 24). Do you keep falling into the same sins again and again? See the life of Moses the Black. He had the same problem.
Do you want to preach the gospel, and help to save souls from perdition, but feel that you can do almost nothing? See the life of Sister Josefa Menendez. Christ appeard to her many times and told her of the value of small actions, united to the actions and sufferings of Christ, and that by means of her small actions of obedience, patience, sorrow, etc., that she could help to save many souls. Sometimes souls appeared to her after they had died, and thanked her for having saved them from falling into hell. See book The Way of Divine Love.
Do you feel the desire of accomplishing great actions for the greater glory of God and salvation of souls, but that you are blocked off by destiny to carry heavy crosses, and that you always meet with opposition and failure, and that your efforts seem to bear no fruit? See Man from the Far North. Charles Reed had the same problem.
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Note. The Greatest Book of All the Ages, is a short introduction to the Holy Bible, for those who are reading it for the first time.
* Thoughts on Paradise, by Ven. Louis de Blois * Happy Death of the Just * Last Judgment *
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