I had a chance to speak very briefly with Fr. Christopher Nalty following his talk. He gave to me the booklet that he held up during his talk entitled, "Eucharistic Adoration for the Sanctification of Priests and Spiritual Maternity". He explained that the book is not being produced in the US in English by the Paulines, who have the rights, for whatever reason.
He provided an url where the material and stories he shared would be available online. I suggested I would offer the link here.
Go to clerus.org and choose your language. If you want English, click here.
In the meanwhile, you may want to contact the Paulines and let them know you are interested in purchasing a copy of the book. Perhaps sales were flat when they discontinued publication of it.
There are fascinating accounts in there on how prayer affected priests and bishops. Do read the online version for now.
EDIT: After you click Clerus.org, and then choose your language, simply click the pic in the lower left hand corner and it will take you to some downloadable PDF's.
Here is the page for the English version.
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The obedient are not held captive by Holy Mother Church; it is the disobedient who are held captive by the world!
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Diane-
I am fascinated -but is that the name of the book. I reached the web page, but can't find what you describe...Help!!!!
I edited the post with a direct link to the page with downloadable PDF's. Check the update at the bottom.
For those desiring it in other languages, go to clerus.org, choose your language and click the pic in the lower left hand corner.
This came out about a year ago.
It's too bad that the story of Bl. Agnes of Langeac wasn't mentioned.
In 1631, Jesus and Mary interiorly invited Agnes to intercede and pray for a priest she did not know.
Three years later, in the monastery parlour she met Msgr. Jean-Jacques Olier, founder of the great Seminary of S. Sulpice and she learned that he was the priest she for whom she was offering her life of prayer and sacrifice.
She died a year later, leaving to her sisters her particular vocation to pray for priests.
Agnes of Jesus' is mentioned by St. Louis de Monfort in "True Devotion to Mary". Here is what he says:
Without stopping to prove this truth, I shall simply relate an incident which I read in the life of Mother Agnes of Jesus, a Dominican nun of the convent of Langeac in Auvergne, who died a holy death there in 1634.
When she was only seven years old and was suffering great spiritual anguish, she heard a voice telling her that if she wished to be delivered from her anguish and protected against all her enemies, she should make herself the slave of our Lord and his Blessed Mother as soon as possible. No sooner had she returned home than she gave herself completely to Jesus and Mary as their slave, although she had never known anything about this devotion before. She found an iron chain, put it round her waist and wore it till the day she died. After this, all her sufferings and scruples disappeared and she found great peace of soul.
This led her to teach this devotion to many others who made rapid progress in it - among them, Father Olier, the founder of the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice, and several other priests and students from the same seminary. One day the Blessed Virgin appeared to Mother Agnes and put a gold chain around her neck to show her how happy she was that Mother Agnes had become the slave of both her and her Son. And St. Cecilia, who accompanied our Lady, said to her, "Happy are the faithful slaves of the Queen of heaven, for they will enjoy true freedom." Tibi servire libertas.
Sorry my post is so long!
BTW, Fr. Chris Nalty is a classmate of a priest friend of our monastery.
There's a wonderful homily (mp3) at Audio Sancto on this document, given on June 8, 2008...
Audio Sancto
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