The Sacraments: Discovering the Treasures of Divine Life

Some of the most important and necessary building blocks of human life are so often taken for granted: water, air, fire, food… We live each day without any sense of gratitude for these blessings that sustain our physical life. And so it is for our spiritual life. The sacraments are the very lifeblood of our soul, yet in the midst of our busy lives, we can fail to understand their power and importance. Without them, we are spiritually dead. With them, the very life of God runs through us. In this new book from Fr. Matthew Kauth, the Church’s seven sacraments are presented in such a way that no reader will ever again take them for granted. Fr. Kauth brilliantly illuminates not only the scriptural foundation and profound spiritual realities of each sacrament but also the necessity of each as a means to living a happy and fulfilled life that leads to heaven. Highlights include: • How the sacraments are anchored in the life and death of Jesus and are the medium through which he pours his life into our souls. • Discovering the purpose, meaning, and symbolism behind the matter of the sacraments: water, bread, oil, wine. • Understanding how Christ administers his sacraments through human hands and what our own role is in receiving them. • How Mary’s strength and fortitude, attributes we don’t normally attribute to her, are a model for Confirmation. • An expert dissection of the instrumentality, effects, elements, character, and fruits of each sacrament. • How the sacrament of marriage reaches all the way back to Genesis but finds its full meaning in the passion of Jesus. Christ told us, “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Stop searching for the treasures of this world that only leave your heart empty, but instead, welcome the treasures he is waiting to give you… the treasures of his divine life.

Religion & Spirituality

Kauth, Fr. Matthew

Christian Books & Bibles

Saint Benedict Press

Some of the most important and necessary building blocks of human life are so often taken for granted: water, air, fire, food. . . . We live each day without any sense of gratitude for these blessings that sustain our physical life. And so it is for our spiritual life. The sacraments are the very lifeblood of our soul, yet in the midst of our busy lives, we can fail to understand their power and importance. Without them, we are spiritually dead. With them, the very life of God runs through us. In this new book from Fr. Matthew Kauth, the Church’s seven sacraments are presented in such a way that no reader will ever again take them for granted. Fr. Kauth brilliantly illuminates not only the scriptural foundation and profound spiritual realities of each sacrament but also the necessity of each as a means to living a happy and fulfilled life that leads to heaven. Highlights include:
<ul>
<li>How the sacraments are anchored in the life and death of Jesus and are the medium through which he pours his life into our souls. </li>
<li>Discovering the purpose, meaning, and symbolism behind the matter of the sacraments: water, bread, oil, wine.</li>
<li>Understanding how Christ administers his sacraments through human hands and what our own role is in receiving them.</li>
<li>How Mary’s strength and fortitude, attributes we don’t normally attribute to her, are a model for Confirmation.</li>
<li>An expert dissection of the instrumentality, effects, elements, character, and fruits of each sacrament.</li>
<li>How the sacrament of marriage reaches all the way back to Genesis but finds its full meaning in the passion of Jesus.</li>
</ul>Christ told us, “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Stop searching for the treasures of this world that only leave your heart empty, but instead, welcome the treasures he is waiting to give you . . . the treasures of his divine life.

The Church is a city set on a hill and on that hill there is a lighthouse. The Church directs her light this way and that as occasion warrants. That we might not make a shipwreck of our faith (see 1 Tm 1:19), she illuminates dangerous crags and reefs when all the world would tell us the water is clear. 
Each age has its heresies, and ours is a hatred of origin, of fatherhood. But if we come from somewhere and someone, we cannot be self-made. As an anchor against the wave of patricide, a light in the darkness of our age, the Church has been fixing her light, ever increasingly, on Saint Joseph. It is him to whom we look. He is who we must imitate. 
But how can we imitate that which we do not know? How do we speak about one whose words are not recorded? How do we attempt to look like one whose visage has never been captured? 
It will do no good to pin virtues onto Joseph as if he were no more than a mannequin. He was and is a fact and he was and is a man, a righteous man. How can we see him? 
In this illuminating work, Fr. Matthew Kauth opens our eyes to what Joseph saw, so that we might imitate what he imitated. Part I examines the teachings of Aquinas to help us understand the depths of our human nature and why we come to love some things more than others, and what it means to imitate that which we love, for better or for worse. Part II looks back at Joseph’s lineage, providing a sweeping tour of salvation history and the patriarchs of the Old Testament, showing how Joseph was their fulfillment. Part III brings us inside the life of the Holy Family, taking us along for their harrowing journeys to Bethlehem and Egypt, and their daily life in Nazareth, to show us how growing closer to Joseph and imitating him binds us to the hearts of Jesus and Mary. Part IV closes with a look at our lives today and the life of the Church, and the challenges we face to live a life of virtue in a fallen world, imploring us to turn to Joseph, the Patron of the Universal Church. In these pages, a true image of Joseph begins to emerge from obscurity. Silence itself begins to speak eloquently. 
Go therefore to Joseph. Imitate what you see. And live without fear under the patronage of our just father.

The Imitation of Saint Joseph

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Imitation Of Saint Joseph

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The Sacraments: Discovering the Treasures of Divine Life

The Sacraments: Discovering the Treasures of Divine Life

The Imitation of Saint Joseph

Imitation Of Saint Joseph