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Evening Prayer, Anna Ancher (1859-1935), 1888, oil on canvas. Skagens Museum / Wikimedia Commons.

A Practice Necessary for All

The exercises of prayer, consideration, and meditation are not just reserved for religious, but also are of great necessity to the laity. Follow along with

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Still-Life with Flowers, Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750), by 1750, oil on canvas. Hallwyll Museum / Wikimedia Commons.

Of the Frailty of Our Life

The meditation upon our mortality can evoke sincere conversion within our hearts. Reflect upon the frailty of life with the following meditation taken from The

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The Good Samaritan, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803-1860), c. 1853, oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art / Wikimedia Commons.

Man’s Duty to His Neighbor

The Sinner’s Guide has been credited with the conversion of millions and has quite literally formed the Church’s saints for centuries. The following excerpt, taken

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Sitting Monk, Reading, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875), 1865, oil on canvas. Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection / Wikimedia Commons

The Five Parts of Prayer

The Book of Prayer and Meditation is one of the greatest works of Venerable Louis of Granada–a spiritual master of the 16th century. The following

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Landscape with Saint John on Patmos, Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), 1640, oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago / Wikimedia Commons.

The Peace of a Good Conscience

The Sinner’s Guide has formed countless saints over the centuries. Credited with the conversion of millions of souls, this spiritual masterpiece is a must-read for

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Intention, Antoni Piotrowski (1853-1924), 1912, oil on canvas. Wikimedia Commons

Remedies Against Pride

The Sinner’s Guide is TAN Books’ 2025 Book of the Year! In this excerpt, discover the most potent remedies against the sin of pride. Since

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God’s Care For The Temporal Needs Of The Just

The privileges of virtue which we considered in the preceding chapters are the spiritual blessings accorded to the just in this life, independently of the eternal reward of Heaven. As, however, there may be some who, like the Jews of old, cling to the things of the flesh rather than to those of the spirit, we shall devote this chapter to the temporal blessings which the virtuous enjoy.

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Uncover the immense joy that comes with a righteous conscience and embrace the blessed hope that fosters patience in times of tribulation. Delve into this website, a haven for the children of God, providing refuge and powerful remedies for life's hardships.

The Confidence Of The Just

THE joy of a good conscience is always accompanied by that blessed hope of which the Apostle speaks when he tells us to rejoice in hope and to be patient in tribulation (Cf. Rom. 12:12). This is the rich inheritance of the children of God, their general refuge in tribulation, and their most efficacious remedy against all the miseries of life.

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Embrace courage as the spiritual hammer to forge your soul in pursuit of virtue. Explore the challenges of prayer, fasting, humility, and other virtues, overcoming obstacles from self-love, the world, and the devil along the way.

The Greatness Of Courage

As the blacksmith requires a hammer to beat the hard iron and shape it according to his will, so do we need cour­age, the spiritual hammer, with which we overcome the difficulties in the road to virtue and fashion our souls after our divine Model. Without this quality we can no more pur­sue virtue than a blacksmith can work without his hammer. For what virtue is there that can be acquired without effort? Consider them one after another: prayer, fasting, temperance, obedience, poverty of spirit, chastity, humility—and you will find that all present some difficulty springing from self-love, the world, or the devil.

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Remedies Against Sloth

Sloth is a reluctance to attend to duty, and, according to Cassian, it is especially a weariness or distaste for spiritual things. The peril to

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Remedies Against Gluttony

Gluttony is an inordinate love of eating and drinking.  Our Savior warns us against this vice, saying, “Take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be

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