Author: St. Clare Audio

Saint Columba (521 – 597) was an Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in present-day Scotland. He founded the important abbey on Iona, which became a dominant religious and political institution in the region for centuries. He is the Patron Saint of Derry. He was highly regarded by both the Gaels of Dál Riata and the Picts, and is remembered today as a Catholic saint and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. Columba reportedly studied under some of Ireland’s most prominent church figures and founded several monasteries in the country. Around 563 he and his twelve companions crossed to Dunaverty near Southend, Argyll in Kintyre before settling in Iona in Scotland, then part of the Irish kingdom of Dál Riata, where they founded a new abbey as a base for spreading the Faith among the northern Pictish kingdoms who were pagan. He remained active in Irish politics, though he spent most of the remainder of his life in Scotland. Three surviving early medieval Latin hymns may be attributed to him.

The story of St. Columba is not remarkable, however as much for his earthly works, and for the spiritual heritage he left behind. Known for many miracles, and a life of great sanctity, his story is inspiring and well worth the read!

2 Hours and 18 Minutes.

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Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, T.O.S.F., (8 May 1786 – 4 August 1859), commonly known in English as St. John Vianney, was a French parish priest who is venerated in the Catholic Church as a saint and as the patron saint of all priests. He is often referred to as the “Curé d’Ars”. He became internationally notable for his priestly and pastoral work in his parish because of the radical spiritual transformation of the community of Ars, its surroundings, and souls from far reaching places who came to seek his spitritual counsel. Catholics attribute this to his saintly life, mortifications, his persevering ministry in the sacrament of confession, and his ardent devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to Saint Philomena. This truly humble parish priest changed not only a town, but much of the world of his time! This short biography of the beloved saint was written before he was canonized in 1925, thus the title Blessed before his name in the title of this audiobook.

1 Hours and 53 Minutes.

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The story of The Lepers of Molokai and of the Roman Catholic missionary, Father Damien, who ministered to those who languished in that desolate place, waiting for death to release them from a most intense form of physical and mental suffering. Fr. Damien, born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order. His charity and care for the lepers was what turned the island into more of a home and refuge for the poor lepers, who had previously been abandoned to live out their days in desolation, unloved, and forgotten by the world. St. Damien won recognition for his ministry to people with leprosy (Hansen’s disease), who had been placed under a government-sanctioned medical quarantine on the remote island of Molokai in the Kingdom of Hawaii. He, himself, contracted and died of this dreaded disease after caring for the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of the people in the colony for sixteen years.

The author visited Molokai several times, and was quite struck by the holiness and relentless work of Fr. Damien. It was Stoddard, actually, who helped establish Father Damien’s position in public esteem.

1 Hour and 52 Minutes.

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Father Frederick William Faber was a beloved spiritual writer, preacher, and superior of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in London. During the 1850s, Father Faber published several popular spiritual books, which have been treasured by Catholics ever since , including this present work, Kindness.

In this charity-building work, Fr. Faber states that kindness has the “power of making the world happy, or at least of so greatly diminishing the amount of unhappiness in it as to make it quite a different world from what it is at present.” Chapters include: Kindness in General, Kind Thoughts, Kind Words, and Kind Actions.

2 Hours and 40 Minutes.

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A beautiful telling of the life of the most important Person who ever lived, Our Lord Jesus Christ. In Jesus of Nazareth: The Story of His Life Simply Told our dear Mother Mary Loyola, with her rare talent for narrative, brings to life vivid images of Our Lord and His life here on earth. Adding to the story are wonderful details on the geography, time in history, and culture into which Jesus was born. Mother Loyola helps us understand how the prophecies about the Messiah were foreshadowed and fulfilled by Jesus Christ, all supported by the biblical quotations and references chosen by the author. An enjoyable read for middle grade children and adults alike!

8 Hours and 55 Minutes.

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The Interior Castle or The Mansions was written by Saint Teresa of Ávila in 1577. After being ordered to write her autobiographical The Life of S. Teresa of Jesus, Teresa was hesitant to begin writing again on her views of the perfection found in internal prayer. Her humility and claims that, “I am not meant for writing; I have neither the health nor the wits for it,” almost prevented Teresa from composing The Interior Castle. However, according to a letter written by Fray Diego, one of Teresa’s former confessors, Teresa was finally convinced to write her book after a she received a vision from God. Diego wrote that God revealed to Teresa, “…a most beautiful crystal globe, made in the shape of a castle, and containing seven mansions, in the seventh and innermost of which was the King of Glory, in the greatest splendor, illumining and beautifying them all. The nearer one got to the center, the stronger was the light; outside the palace limits everything was foul, dark and infested with toads, vipers and other venomous creatures.” With that, Interior Castle was born. It contained the basis for what she felt should be the ideal journey of faith, comparing the contemplative soul to a castle with seven successive interior courts, or chambers, analogous to the seven heavens.

7 Hours and 6 Minutes.

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The Imitation of Christ is widely considered one of the greatest manuals of devotion in Christianity, an enduring favorite for centuries, found in almost every Catholic household for generations. The life of Christ is presented as the highest study possible to a mortal, as Jesus’ teachings far excel all the teachings of the saints. The book gives counsel to read the scriptures, statements about the uses of adversity, advice for submission to authority, warnings against temptation and how to resist it, reflections about death and the judgment, meditations upon the oblation of Christ, and admonitions to flee the vanities of the world.

8 Hours and 39 Minutes.

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Some of the most beautiful writings on Mary and explanations of devotions to her, assembled by the beloved Doctor of the Church, St. Alphonsus Ligouri, from the many writings of the saints, holy authors, and Sacred Scripture, as well as his own. The greatest compendium of nearly eighteen centuries of teaching on Our Lady, this book seeks to lead souls to a greater love of Jesus through a more intimate knowledge of Mary and her sublime role in the salvation of mankind.

Topics include: the Salve Regina (Hail Holy Queen), and how God gave Mary to mankind as the “Gate of Heaven”; the principal Marian feasts including the Immaculate Conception, Nativity, Purification, Annunciation, and Assumption, with fresh and enlightening truths surrounding these important feasts in the Church Year; the Seven Sorrows of Mary and how her “prolonged martyrdom” was greater than that of all other martyrs; ten different virtues of Our Lady; a collection of Marian prayers, meditations and devotions; and lastly, a defense of the role of Mary as “Mediatrix of All Graces”. The Glories of Mary is a compelling work and truly well worth the read for anyone who wants to grow in their love for and understanding of Our Blessed Mother!

19 Hours

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In The Friendship of Christ the great Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson shows us how to achieve a deeper relationship with God the Son. We all have an innate need for friendship; in this timeless work, this need is raised to the supernatural, illustrating the greatest friendship one could ever possess and how to nurture it. The book shows how Christ works in the soul of those who seek Him, in His public life, and in the historical examples given in the Gospels. “There is one supreme friendship to which all human friendship points,” writes Benson, “one ideal Friend in whom we find, perfect and complete, that for which we look in the faces of our human lovers.” In the Part I, the author shows how one enters into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ through the purgative and illuminative ways. In Part II, he discusses several modes in which Christ offers us His friendship here and now, such as in the Eucharist, in the Church, in the priest, in the saint, in the sinner, in the average person, and in the sufferer. In Part III, Benson recalls how Jesus Christ proved the depth of His friendship with us by willingly accepting death on the cross for our sake, and how He raises His friends to everlasting life with Him.

5 Hours and 29 Minutes.

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Fraternal Charity is an excellent read with valuable insights into the virtue of charity, the virtue that, if well-practiced, will bring us closest to the perfection of Christ. Whether Our Lord was speaking to His ignorant and often rude Apostles, the sick and poor, or with His enemies and sinners, He was always benign, merciful, affable, patient; in a word, His charity appeared in all its most amiable forms. The author wrote this book for members of religious orders, to enrich their practice of charity to each other. However, as the translator notes “Though specially written for religious, it cannot fail to prove beneficial to seculars in every sphere of life; as love, the sunshine of existence, is wanted everywhere.” Would make a great title to listen to as a family, for study, discussion, and growth in the virtue of charity! Who amongst us could not stand to grow in this virtue?

1 Hour and 35 Minutes.

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