{"product_id":"angel-of-the-eucharist-the-life-spiritual-writings-of-marie-eustelle-harpain","title":"ANGEL OF THE EUCHARIST: THE LIFE \u0026 SPIRITUAL WRITINGS OF MARIE-EUSTELLE HARPAIN","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eIn a small parish church in Saintes, France, a young seamstress kept silent vigil before the Blessed Sacrament. Her name was Marie-Eustelle Harpain (1814–1842).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eUnknown to the world, she lived a hidden life of prayer, sacrifice, and ardent love for Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist. “Jesus alone!” was her motto. Night after night she knelt in adoration before the tabernacle, drawn ever more deeply into union with Him who remains truly present under the sacramental veils.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eAt the command of her bishop, she set down the story of her life. After her holy death at the age of twenty-eight, her writings—her Memoir and letters—were gathered and published for the edification of the faithful. In them we encounter a soul of remarkable simplicity and purity, wholly surrendered to the will of God, and inflamed with love for Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eThese pages speak with the clarity of authentic sanctity: of conversion, humility, suffering borne in silence, and a burning devotion to the Eucharistic Heart of Christ. They belong to that great tradition of Catholic spiritual writing which leads souls to prayer—to recollection, to adoration, and to love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eNow, for the first time, her complete writings are presented in English, carefully translated and annotated.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eAt a time when her cause for beatification has been renewed by the Church, this volume offers a timely and powerful witness: a hidden life, wholly given to God, calling us back to the altar, to the tabernacle, and to the living presence of Christ among us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 3;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eMarie-Eustelle Harpain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e (1814-1842) was a humble seamstress and sacristan in Saintes, France. After a conversion experience in her early teens, Eustelle developed an intense, transformative devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist: Jésus seule! (Jesus alone!) was her motto. She would spend entire nights alone in her parish church of Saint-Pallais, kneeling in adoration before the tabernacle. She had numerous visions of Jesus in the Eucharist and a number of remarkable spiritual transports and revelations. Solitary by nature, Eustelle nonetheless carried on a number of correspondences with several priests of the diocese, Clément Villecourt, her bishop, and ordinary folk who were drawn to her mysterious holiness. Two years before she died, Bishop Villecourt ordered Eustelle to write a memoir of her life, an order she grudgingly obeyed. At her death, the bishop ordered her memoir and surviving correspondence to be collected and published.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eJ. STEPHEN RUSSELL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e is professor emeritus of English at Hofstra University, where he taught for over thirty years. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe English Dream \u003c\/i\u003eVision (1988), \u003ci\u003eChaucer and the Trivium\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) and more than thirty articles on medieval and monastic writers from Langland and Dante to Augustine, Aelred of Rievaulx, and Bernard of Clairvaux. Additionally, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cause\u003c\/i\u003e (2009)  and \u003ci\u003eSome Catholic Words \u003c\/i\u003e(2026). He has edited or translated works by Richard Challoner, John Gennings, OFM, and Albertanus of Brescia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 3;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003ePraise\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e“God sometimes scatters his saints in unusual and hidden places across his kingdom. In this case, he hid one in the sacristy, and gave her the visible job of seamstress, but the invisible task of enjoying sweet unity with the Eucharistic Lord. Stephen Russell’s translation lets her share her gorgeous mysticism with the rest of us. A moving and rewarding read.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e—\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eDavid W. Fagerberg\u003c\/span\u003e, Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUR LADY OF GOOD SUCCESS CATHOLIC TRADER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51156016595177,"sku":null,"price":44.35,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2598\/5001\/files\/AngelofEucharist.jpg?v=1780873794","url":"https:\/\/ologsct.com\/products\/angel-of-the-eucharist-the-life-spiritual-writings-of-marie-eustelle-harpain","provider":"OUR LADY OF GOOD SUCCESS CATHOLIC TRADER ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}