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The Mystical Body of Christ captures the theological precision and communicative genius of Fulton J Sheen (1895-1979), whose radio and television broadcasts, including Life Is Worth Living, have reached millions of homes since the 1950s. With more than thirty of his works still in print, Sheen is one of the most beloved Catholic evangelists of all time. This full-length and fully developed work on the Church as an extension of the Incarnation reveals Sheen's accessible and theologically astute teaching style in the early years of his ministry. First published in 1935, the book's themes of the Eucharist as a source of unity for the Mystical Body of Christ-the Church-and the link between the liturgy and works of social justice were echoed in the SecondVatican Council several decades later. A recent advance in Sheen's cause for beatification, the healing of a young boy for which there is no medical explanation, will create renewed interest among his admirers and introduce the spirituality of this Catholic icon to a whole new generation of believers.

One of the greatest and best-loved spokesmen for the Faith here sets out the Church's beautiful understanding of marriage in his trademark clear and entertaining style. Frankly and charitably, Sheen presents the causes of and solutions to common marital crises, and tells touching real-life stories of people whose lives were transformed through marriage. He emphasizes that our Blessed Lord is at the center of every successful and loving marriage. This is a perfect gift for engaged couples, or for married people as a fruitful occasion for self-examination. 

Archbishop Fulton Sheen was one of the preeminent sociopolitical thinkers of the twentieth century. He hosted one of the most popular television series in America and his sermons have been seen by millions. First published in 1940 during the height of geopolitical conflict between world powers, Freedom Under God offers a uniquely Catholic perspective to economics and morality that is perhaps even more relevant today. In his gripping style, Sheen points out the faults of both capitalism and communism and presents an alternative that could just save the world.

Why is it, asks Bishop Fulton Sheen, that one hears so often the expression "Go to hell " and almost never the expression "Go to heaven " Here, at his most penetrating, challenging, and illuminating best is Bishop Sheen with his answer, in a book that breathes new meaning into the truths about heaven and hell, and new life into the concepts of faith, tolerance, love, prayer, suffering, and death. Beginning with "The First Faint Summons to Heaven," Sheen shows how unpopular it is today to be a true Christian, and describes the struggle for living our faith amid the disorders of our times. Keenly aware of evil in the myriad forms it takes in today's world, Bishop Sheen writes about the constant battle man faces with the "seven pallbearers of character" - pride, avarice, envy, lust, anger, gluttony and sloth - linking them with the corrosive forces that never cease in their attacks on the Church and those who earnestly desire to be serious Christians. In Go to Heaven, a great spiritual teacher and writer, deeply aware of the human and spiritual conflicts being waged in the world, shows us the way to heaven in a most eloquent book, encouraging the reader to choose heaven now, and to understand the "reality of hell."

2022 Reprint of the 1940 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this title Archbishop Sheen provides a collection of his sermons on the subject of the seven virtues. He encourages the reader to practice and reflect on each. These are the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity as well as the four cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude.Sheen draws the reader's attention to the connection between these seven virtues and the Seven Last Words spoken by Jesus from the Cross. He correlates Jesus' last seven words to the seven virtues. CONTENTSPREFACEINTRODUCTIONTHE FIRST VIRTUE - FORTITUDE - "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."THE SECOND VIRTUE - HOPE - "This day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise."THE THIRD VIRTUE - PRUDENCE - "Woman, behold thy son (Son) Behold thy mother ."THE FOURTH VIRTUE - FAITH - "My God My God Why hast Thou hast abandoned Me?"THE FIFTH VIRTUE - TEMPERANCE - I thirst." THE SIXTH VIRTUE - JUSTICE - "It is finished."THE SEVENTH VIRTUE - CHARITY - "Father, into Thy Hands, I commend My Spirit."

2022 Reprint of the 1944 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In Love One Another Bishop Sheen offers an inspiring solution to the problem of intolerance among men-one of the most pressing problems of his time. Hate and distrust dominated the minds and actions of man and kept the world in a state of constant social strife and unrest. Much of this is still true today."The solution of the problem is not the carrying on of anti-hate campaigns for, unless there is love, how can hate be abolished...The discords and hates among classes and races and creeds can be sublimated and abolished only by a love of God."Bishop Sheen makes clear that what mankind needs today is a new philosophy of life; one based upon a commandmentgiven to man by God, Himself, who said: "A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another; that as I haveloved you, you also love one another." (John 13: 34-35)This book is another excellent example of the brilliance and scope of Bishop Sheen's mind and the eloquence of his pen. His practical contribution to the growing universal movement against intolerance makes important, as well asinspiring reading.Contents: The foundation of love: God -- Some characteristics of God's love -- Man fleeing God's love -- God's love pursuing man -- Divine friendship -- Ways of preserving friendships -- Disciplining myself for love -- Love of neighbor in general -- Friendship of Christians with Jews -- Friendship of Jews with Christians -- Friendship of Catholics with Protestants -- Friendship of non-Catholics with Catholics -- Friendship with all peoples, races, classes and colors -- Necessary basis of love of neighbor: love of God -- Prayers.

"In Christ and through Christ God has revealed himself fully to mankind and has definitively drawn close to it." Although written three decades after Life of Christ first appeared, these words of Pope St. John Paul II could very well stand as its epigraph. Diligently attending to the Gospel sequences, Fulton J. Sheen expands and enlivens the narrative to illuminate the central truth of the Incarnation. Namely, that in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, God has shown Himself to man-and man to himself-in every time and place, without limitation. Life of Christ also features Sheen's customary timeliness, offering a rebuke and correction of the two defining atheistic systems of modernity: the one which takes up the Cross but denies Christ, reducing it to a harsh, unloving discipline; the other which accepts Christ but rejects his Cross, making the Gospel merely a "brotherhood without tears." Following Christ's ministry through to its culmination in the Paschal Mystery, Sheen shows how God "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." The fruit of more than twenty-five years of devoted research and writing, Life of Christ succeeds as few books have in uniting labor and love. The result is a beam of light that illuminates the mystery of life, suffering, and death-the light of Christ, which "shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."