Spiritual Conferences: Including Fr. Faber's Most Famous Essays: Kindness, Death, and Self-Deceit

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Another Catholic classic now on Kindle, “Spiritual Conferences” was published in 1858, the very year Our Lady appeared at Lourdes, France. Written by the celebrated 19th century priest who translated “True Devotion to Mary,” this collection of Fr. Frederick W. Faber’s conferences includes his most famous essays: —"Kindness” (in General, in Thought, Words, and Actions)—"Death” (its aspects, characteristics, how to prepare for it, and a death precious in God’s sight),—"Self-Deceit” (with eight sub-topics: Simplicity, followed by a study on self-deceit, including its source, varieties, characteristics, remedies, and “the place and hour when we become true” to ourselves and, more importantly, to God).—“Why So Little Comes of Frequent Confession” (A Secret of the Spiritual Life We Really Need to Know)—“Weariness in Well-doing” (and How to Overcome It)—“Wounded Feelings” (or---“Getting Over” Ourselves)—“Why Confidence in God is the Only Worship” (and How to Cultivate It)—“Taking Scandal” (or---How to Recognize Our Own Pride)—“A Taste for (Spiritual) Reading---and Its Benefits—“The Monotony of Piety” (and What to Do about It)—“Heaven and Hell” (One or the Other is Our Final Destination)—“All Men Have a Special Vocation” (or---Yes, You Do Have a Purpose in Life!)As Fr. Faber wrote in the Preface of this book, “As these Addresses had neither the formality of Lectures, nor the dignity of Sermons, I have been accustomed to call them Conferences, using the word rather in a foreign than a native sense… There is a sort of general unity in the selection which occupies this Volume, as the Conferences will be found on the whole to apply to matters closely related among themselves, and proper either to one stage of the Spiritual Life, or to stages which have a close affinity with each other. They embody, also, certain views on the