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Volume II

Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year

by St. Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787)

The full course of fifty-seven sermons for the Sundays and great feasts of the year, the most widely preached body of Catholic sermons ever written, with his spiritual writings and the Brief Practice for Perfection.

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The whole of this volume is free to read here, all 57 sermons and 4 spiritual writings. This is the nineteenth-century English of Bishop Grimm and the house of Benziger, restored and corrected line by line against the saint's own Italian; the four feast-day sermons, for St. Joseph, the Annunciation, the Sorrows of Mary, and the Passion, are translated here afresh from the Italian. If you would rather have it in hand, it is also a book.

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Contents· 57 sermons and 4 spiritual writings, all free to read

Sunday Sermons

  1. Sermon 1. First Sunday of Advent — General judgment16 min
  2. Sermon 2. Second Sunday of Advent — Advantages of tribulations23 min
  3. Sermon 3. Third Sunday of Advent — Means necessary for salvation14 min
  4. Sermon 4. Fourth Sunday of Advent — Love of Jesus Christ for us, and on our obligations to love him17 min
  5. Sermon 5. Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity — In what true wisdom consists21 min
  6. Sermon 6. First Sunday after the Epiphany — Malice of mortal sins19 min
  7. Sermon 7. Second Sunday after the Epiphany — Confidence with which we ought to recommend ourselves to the Mother of God24 min
  8. Sermon 8. Third Sunday after the Epiphany — Remorse of the damned16 min
  9. Sermon 9. Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany — Dangers to Eternal Salvation18 min
  10. Sermon 10. Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany — Pains of Hell20 min
  11. Sermon 11. Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany — Death of the just30 min
  12. Sermon 12. Septuagesima Sunday — Importance of salvation18 min
  13. Sermon 13. Sexagesima Sunday — Unhappy life of sinners, and on the happy life of those who love God21 min
  14. Sermon 14. Quinquagesima Sunday — Delusions of sinners16 min
  15. Sermon 15. First Sunday of Lent — Number of sins beyond which God pardons no more19 min
  16. Sermon 16. Second Sunday of Lent — Heaven17 min
  17. Sermon 17. Third Sunday of Lent — Concealing sins in confession19 min
  18. Sermon 18. The Feast of St. Joseph — God and the Great Love He Bears Us32 min
  19. Sermon 19. Fourth Sunday of Lent — Tender compassion which Jesus Christ entertains towards sinners19 min
  20. Sermon 20. The Feast of the Annunciation — The Incarnation24 min
  21. Sermon 21. Passion Sunday — Danger to which tepidity exposes the soul20 min
  22. Sermon 22. Palm Sunday — Evil effects of bad habits22 min
  23. Sermon 23. Good Friday — On the Sorrows of Mary
  24. Sermon 24. The Passion of Jesus Christ — The Three Theaters of Calvary
  25. Sermon 25. Easter Sunday — Miserable state of relapsing sinners
  26. Sermon 26. First Sunday after Easter — Avoiding the occasions of sin
  27. Sermon 27. Second Sunday after Easter — Scandal
  28. Sermon 28. Third Sunday after Easter — Value of time
  29. Sermon 29. Fourth Sunday after Easter — Obedience to your confessor
  30. Sermon 30. Fifth Sunday after Easter — Conditions of prayer
  31. Sermon 31. Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension — Human respect
  32. Sermon 32. Pentecost Sunday — Conformity to the will of God
  33. Sermon 33. Trinity Sunday — Love of the three Divine persons for man
  34. Sermon 34. First Sunday after Pentecost — Charity to our neighbor
  35. Sermon 35. Second Sunday after Pentecost — Holy Communion
  36. Sermon 36. Third Sunday after Pentecost — Mercy of God towards sinners
  37. Sermon 37. Fourth Sunday after Pentecost — Death is certain and uncertain
  38. Sermon 38. Fifth Sunday after Pentecost — Sin of anger
  39. Sermon 39. Sixth Sunday after Pentecost — Vanity of the world
  40. Sermon 40. Seventh Sunday after Pentecost — Education of children
  41. Sermon 41. Eighth Sunday after Pentecost — Particular judgment
  42. Sermon 42. Ninth Sunday after Pentecost — Death of the sinner
  43. Sermon 43. Tenth Sunday after Pentecost — Efficacy and necessity of prayer
  44. Sermon 44. Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost — Vice of speaking immodestly
  45. Sermon 45. Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost — Abuse of Divine mercy
  46. Sermon 46. Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost — Avoiding bad company
  47. Sermon 47. Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost — All ends, and soon ends
  48. Sermon 48. Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost — Practical death, or on what ordinarily happens at the death of men of the world
  49. Sermon 49. Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost — Impurity
  50. Sermon 50. Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost — Love of God
  51. Sermon 51. Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost — Bad thoughts
  52. Sermon 52. Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost — Pain of loss which the damned suffer in Hell
  53. Sermon 53. Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost — Predominant Passion
  54. Sermon 54. Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost — Eternity of Hell
  55. Sermon 55. Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost — Straits and anguish of dying Christians who have been negligent during life about the duties of religion
  56. Sermon 56. Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost — Impenitence
  57. Sermon 57. Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost — Blasphemy

Spiritual Writings

  1. Brief Practice for Perfection
  2. Maxims of Faith6 min
  3. Practical Reflections of Faith5 min
  4. On the Necessity of Prayer