Creator,
beyond any words
of ours
to describe:
In the fullness
of Your wisdom
You have established
the three celestial hierarchies
of angels
and set them
in wonderfully ordered array
over Your resplendent heaven.
Most gloriously you have disposed all parts
of the whole universe.
You are the true source
of light and wisdom,
You are their first and final cause.
Pour out now,
I beg You
a ray of Your clear light
upon my murky understanding,
and take from me
my doubly dark inheritance
of sin and ignorance.
You who inspire the speech
of little children,
guide and teach my tongue now
and let the grace
of Your blessing
flow upon my lips.
Grant me a sharp discernment,
a strong memory,
a methodical approach to study,
a willing and able docility.
Let me be precise
in interpretation
and felicitous
in choice of words.
Instruct my beginning,
direct my progress,
and bring my work
to its proper finish;
You who are true God
and true Man,
living and reigning forever.
Whether bishop or
bridgebuilder, whether housewife or professor, whether mechanic or Doctor of the Church - whoever it might be that takes up this book - the serious reader of The 12 Steps to Holiness and Salvation will nod his head in agreement: "Yes, this is what we all must do to be happy and holy in this world and to save our souls for all eternity."
Compiled from the writings of St. Alphonsus Liguori - whose works many Popes have commanded to be published and read widely - this book develops in the most simple language, yet with the greatest learning, the 12 key virtues necessary for salvation: faith, hope, love of God, love of neighbor, poverty, chastity, obedience, meekness or humility, mortification, recollection, prayer, and self-denial or love of the cross. This book is written with such an encompassing view that its message is for all - religious or layman, the young or the old, the pious or the wayward. Not one paragraph is lacking some interesting and important point. Not one virtue is less well-expounded upon than another. Not one page can be omitted as extraneous. The reader will marvel at the balance, the simplicity, the learning, the interest, the calm and the holy unction that penetrate this work. And he will find himself repeatedly marking significant passages and returning to them again and again for instruction and edification. Here is a book, quite simply for everyone who would save his soul.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself;
but each of us can
work to change
a small portion of events,
and in the total of all those acts
will be written the history of this generation."
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