THE LOVE OF GOD IN PRACTICE

The Love of God in Practice by St Alphonsus Liguori reflects on the consuming fire of God's love and the love of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Its chapters offer points for meditation, inviting the reader to place the love of God at the heart of Christian life.

Translated from the Italian by Rev. W. Frean, CSSR.

First published in 1963, with imprimatur by J. O'Collins, DD.

Copyright: Redemptorist Fathers, Ballarat, Victoria, 1963.

Contains 17 chapters and two supplements: Divine Love and Novena to the Eternal Spirit of Love.

Suitable for use as points of meditation on the love of God.

At the beginning of the book, St Alphonsus presents the practice of love for Jesus Christ through the words of St Paul: “Charity is kind” (1 Cor., 13) and “If any one does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be outcast” (1 Cor., 16,22).

The book also quotes the 1921 letter of the Most Rev. P. Murray, CSSR, to Pope Benedict XV:

“St Alphonsus, himself a man of the deepest piety, was firmly convinced that the love of God was both the ever-flowing fountain of all virtues and the bond by which Faith becomes united with the Christian life. Therefore, he built the foundations of holiness on the love of God.”