Paul O'Sullivan provides a wonderful little handbook of easy ways to bypass Purgatory so that we can go straight to Heaven when we die. This book forms a perfect companion to Fr. O'Sullivan's famous Read Me or Rue It, on helping the Holy Souls in Purgatory and receiving from them in return signal favors.The author maintains it is God's holy Will that everyone avoid Purgatory, for nobody goes there except for faults which he could have avoided. Moreover, he shows that if we just aim for Purgatory, we may unfortunately find ourselves in Hell; whereas, the best way to avoid Hell is to aim to be perfectly prepared for Heaven when we die. And Fr. O'Sullivan shows how to achieve this.He maintains that every day most people blindly pass by all sorts of opportunities to earn "gold for Heaven." But rather than calling for heroic measures, he tells us: If we are afraid to do much, let us do many little things. And he gives numerous examples and suggestions.Although very brief and easy to read, How to Avoid Purgatory is actually a treasure map showing us how to gain the most from this life and at the same time obtain the greatest possible rewards in Heaven.

    Francis de Sales). However, we can begin today to make good this neglect by using the powerful spiritual means described in this inspiring book. In Read Me or Rue It the very popular priest writer, Fr. Paul O'Sullivan, tells many true stories about the Poor Souls in Purgatory. He relates incidents from the lives of the Saints to show their great sufferings, our obligation to help them, as well as the many helps and graces which they obtain for their benefactors in return. This already-famous little book needs to be spread far and wide. It will lead to a powerful link between ourselves and the "Church Suffering," our brothers and sisters in Christ who suffer the torments of Purgatory - a powerful bond of charity whereby we shall please God, send souls to Heaven, and obtain for ourselves and our families a host of priceless graces and blessings.Don't miss the companion booklet, "How to Avoid Purgatory": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

    The beloved Fr. Paul O’Sullivan—author of All About the Angels, How to Be Happy—How to Be Holy, Read Me or Rue It, and many other extremely popular books and booklets—brings forth in this little gem a host of true stories about Confession, plus quotations on Confession from Holy Scripture and from the Saints of the early Church. Many of his anecdotes involve non-Catholics, showing how Confession has won the admiration even of Protestants. He combines all these elements to prove that Confession comes from Our Lord Himself, that it gives renewed courage and youthfulness of spirit to the heart and soul, and that by means of weekly Confession any sin can be conquered! (Fr. O’Sullivan also gives sound Catholic counsel to mothers and fathers about encouraging frequent Confession for their children as a means of protecting them from grave dangers against purity.)The Secret of Confession shows that God has given a very practical and workable remedy for every ill that ails the human soul—a divine remedy equally capable of dissolving the hardened indifference of repeated mortal sin and of healing the “lesser” faults of little children. This book reveals one of the truly great “secrets” of the Catholic Faith. It describes with great warmth and love the Sacrament of Confession—that spiritual tonic whereby God both raises up great and heroic saints and also leads countless “ordinary” Catholics to a remarkable purity of heart in this life and to the eternal reward of Heaven in the next.

    Garrigou-Lagrange gives a masterful theological exposition of the classic Thomistic teaching on this, the most difficult of all theological tracts, showing the reconciliation - as far as it can be understood this side of the Beatific Vision - of the various elements of the Church\'s teaching on Predestination. Impr. 382 pgs, PB