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To Heal the Broken Hearted

PAUL FRANCIS SPENCER CP

For almost thirty years Saint Charles, who died in 1893, was visited daily by hundreds of people who came to Mount Argus in Dublin to receive his blessing and to be prayed over for physical, emotional and spiritual healing. This biography reveals Charles’ inner struggles through which he learned compassion and understanding for others. Removed from Dublin for a time ‘because of his extraordinary cures’, he was until the end of his life subjected to criticism and humiliation, even within his own religious community. Crippled by constant pain in his later years, he continued to devote his life to the poor, the sick and the needy. Drawing the strength to bear his own suffering from the Passion of Christ, he was able to bring to them the compassionate love of Jesus Crucified.

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In the Heart of God

the spiritual writings of saint paul of the cross

'Rest in the Heart of God, in a silence of faith and love’. These words of Saint Paul of the Cross are an invitation to entrust our lives into the loving hands of God, who loved us so much that he gave his only Son. For Paul of the Cross, the Passion of Jesus is ‘the greatest and most overwhelming work of God’s love’. This little book presents the main strands of his teaching. Drawn from Saint Paul of the Cross’s letters of spiritual direction, the texts it contains invite us to follow Jesus in simplicity and humility on the way of unselfish love, which is the way of the Passion.

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Herald of Hope

reflections on the life and spirit of st charles of mount argus

What can someone who died over a hundred years ago possibly say to us today? Saint Charles of Mount Argus died in Dublin in 1893. Can his life speak to people who live in a very different world? These reflections on Charles’ life and spirit attempt to allow him to dialogue with us, to share with us his sense of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.