Heroism and Genius: How Catholic Priests Helped Build and Can Help Rebuild Western Civilization & The Chaplet of Reparation and Other Prayers (2 Book Set)

• Heroism and Genius: How Catholic Priests Helped Build and Can Help Rebuild Western Civilization
• The Chaplet of Reparation and Other Prayers
• Conveniently assembled prayers & conference
• Perfect for private meditation

Heroism and Genius: How Catholic Priests Helped Build and Can Help Rebuild Western Civilization

"Every chancellery in Europe, every court in Europe, was ruled by these learned, trained and accomplished men—the priesthood of that great and dominant body."

— President Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

With the evidence of stubborn facts, historians have given their verdict: from the genius of Christianity and the cultures of the Jews, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Germanic peoples, the Catholic Church built a new and original civilization, embodying within its structures the Christian vision of God and man, time and eternity.

Its construction and maintenance, amid attrition and cultural earthquakes, is a saga spread over sixteen hundred years. Catholic priests do not hold a monopoly on the struggles or achievements involved. However, in the embryonic stage of Western Civilization from A.D. 300 to 1000, because they numbered so many men of heroism and genius, and due to their triple mission to teach, sanctify and govern, they became the pioneers and irreplaceable builders of a new culture and socio-political order.

Heroism and Genius presents some of these formidable men of the Dark Ages and the medieval period, sketching their decisive role in the building of the landmark social, artistic and economic institutions that mark Western Civilization: Fathers of the Western socio-political ethos, and Free-Market Economics; leaders of nations, statesmen, and defiers of tyrants; music composers, pioneers of universal education, and architects of some of the world's loveliest buildings; and the clandestine revolutionaries behind the flowering of the culture of romantic love that is the classic model for relations between men and women.

This is a popular history of the key role of the Catholic priesthood in laying the foundations for the socio-political-cultural ethos of Western Civilization, with a sketch of various institutions characteristic of that civilization.

The Chaplet of Reparation and Other Prayers

This book gathers together in convenient form all the prayers first published in In Sinu Jesu—When Heart Speaks to Heart: The Journal of a Priest at Prayer, including the Chaplet of Reparation or Offering of the Precious Blood for Priests. It also makes available the Epiphany Conference of Mother Mectilde de Bar (1614–1698), foundress of the Benedictines of Perpetual Adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar and a spiritual author of the stature of St. Teresa of Jesus or St. John of the Cross. These fervent prayers and this magnificent conference will enlighten and enkindle the souls of all who take them up, especially in the privileged moments of Eucharistic adoration.


Dimensions & Specifications: 

Heroism and Genius: How Catholic Priests Helped Build and Can Help Rebuild Western Civilization

• Author: William J Slattery
• Pages: 292
• Format: Hardcover
• Measures: 7"x 10"

The Chaplet of Reparation and Other Prayers

• Author: A Benedictine Monk
• 74 Pages
• Format: Paperback