The Sermons of the Curé of Ars
Published as Sermons de Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney
pauvre curé d’Ars by Le Club du Livre Chrétien. Paris
Copyright © 1960
Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, Illinois
Library of Congress Card Catalog Number 60-7921
NIHIL OBSTAT: Jacobus Canonicus Bastible
censor deputatus
IPRIMATUR: ✠ Corelius, Episcopus Corcagiensis et
Rossensis
Corcagiensis, die 10 Augustii, 1959
Manufactured in the United States of America
CONTENTS
FOREWORD | v | |
By Lancelot Sheppard | ||
INTRODUCTION | xvii | |
By Msgr. François Trochu | ||
NOTES | xxii | |
SERMONS | ||
By the humble Curé of Ars | ||
THE DREADFUL STATE OF THE LUKEWARM SOUL | 1 | |
Sermon for the eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
HAVE YOU RELIGION IN YOUR HEART? | 11 | |
For the seventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
LOST WORKS | 14 | |
WE ARE WRETCHED CREATURES | 14 | |
For Christmas Day | ||
ROUTINE FOLLOWERS | 15 | |
For the seventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
THE WORLD IS EVERYTHING—GOD NOTHING! | 16 | |
For the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
FOLLOW ONE MASTER ONLY | 16 | |
For the second Sunday of Advent | ||
THEY ARE FOR THE WORLD | 17 | |
For the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
WE ARE EXTRAORDINARILY BLIND | 25 | |
For the eighth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
NOT LIKE THE OTHERS | 25 | |
For the tenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
THE EVIL TONGUES | 29 | |
For the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
A PUBLIC PLAGUE | 31 | |
For the eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
YOUR HEART IS BUT A MASS OF PRIDE | 36 | |
For the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
THE TONGUE OF THE SCANDAL-MONGER | 37 | |
OH, EVERYONE SAYS SO! | 37 | |
ST. NICHOLAS AND THE THREE GIRLS | 39 | |
THE SEWER OF HELL | 41 | |
For the first Sunday of the year | ||
“A CURSE WILL FALL” | 43 | |
ARE YOUR AFFAIRS GOING BETTER? | 44 | |
BAD COMPANY | 45 | |
For the fourth Sunday after the Epiphany | ||
ANGER DOES NOT TRAVEL ALONE | 48 | |
For the twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost | ||
HOW DEATH WILL REVEAL THIEVES! | 51 | |
For the twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost | ||
IF YOU KNOW HOW TO GIVE, YOU MUST KNOW HOW TO PAY BACK | 54 | |
WINE IS HIS GOD | 57 | |
For the twentieth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
ALL THAT YOU SAY “OVER AND ABOVE THESE IS OF EVIL” | 60 | |
For the fifth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
THE DUTIES OF THE PREGNANT WOMAN | 81 | |
For the twentieth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
THE DUTIES OF THE MOTHER | 81 | |
THE DUTIES OF PARENTS | 83 | |
YOU WILL ANSWER FOR THEIR SOULS | 84 | |
TO THEIR SHAME IT MUST BE SAID | 85 | |
GETTING TO KNOW THE RIGHT PEOPLE | 85 | |
For the twentieth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
YOU NO LONGER CONTROL THEM | 87 | |
HE WILL HELP US | 89 | |
For the fourth Sunday after the Epiphany | ||
WE MUST EXPECT TEMPTATION | 90 | |
For the ninth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
WE ARE NOTHING IN OURSELVES | 92 | |
For the first Sunday of Lent | ||
BEWARE, IF YOU HAVE NO TEMPTATIONS! | 94 | |
THE BAD DEATH | 100 | |
For the fourth Sunday of Lent | ||
HIS PRAYER IS A LIE | 104 | |
For the third Sunday after the Epiphany | ||
HOW BLIND THE SINNER IS! | 105 | |
PRISONERS OF SIN | 108 | |
For the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
YOU CAN BECOME A GOOD TREE | 110 | |
For the seventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
WHERE ARE YOU GOING? | 116 | |
For the first Sunday of the year | ||
ANNUAL CONFESSIONS | 117 | |
For Low Sunday | ||
THOUGHTS AROUT PENANCE | 118 | |
For the fourth Sunday of Advent | ||
REPAIRING THE WRONG DONE | 121 | |
RENOUNCE SIN FOR GOOD AND ALL | 123 | |
For the thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
MERIT ABSOLUTION | 125 | |
PRAYER COMMANDS ALL | 126 | |
For the fourth Sunday after the Epiphany | ||
YOU HAVE NOT THE TIME | 127 | |
For the fifth Sunday after Easter | ||
I COME ON BEHALF OF GOD | 128 | |
For the commemoration of the dead | ||
YOU SHOULD COME EARLIER | 135 | |
For the sixth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
IT IS NECESSARY TO BE CONVERTED | 137 | |
HAVE A CLEAN FACE | 138 | |
MODEL YOUR DEATH UPON THAT OF JESUS CHRIST | 138 | |
For the twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost | ||
IF MAN KNEW HIS RELIGION | 140 | |
For the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
THOUGHTS ON THE WAY TO CHURCH | 142 | |
For the anniversary of the cansecration or dedication (of the church) | ||
YOU ARE SURPRISED, BUT NOT I! | 147 | |
For the second Sunday after Pentecost | ||
WHEN YOU GO BACK HOME | 149 | |
For the anniversary of the consecration or dedication (of the church) | ||
CLEAR YOUR MINDS | 150 | |
WE ARE KEEPING A FEAST | 152 | |
For the Feast of the Patron Saint | ||
BE RELIGIOUS OR BE DAMNED! | 154 | |
YOUR PRAYERS ARE ONLY AN INSULT | 159 | |
For the seventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
PURITY IS NOT KNOWN | 162 | |
For the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
THE SERVICE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN | 164 | |
For the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin | ||
OUR INCONSISTENCY | 165 | |
For Christmas Day | ||
LOVE OF OUR NEIGHBOR | 166 | |
For the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
WHO HAS CHARITY? | 167 | |
PRAYING, FASTING, AND PLEASING OURSELVES | 170 | |
For the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
DO YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY? | 173 | |
For the first Sunday of the year | ||
THE GIFT OF EVERY DAY | 175 | |
THE PUBLIC CROSSES | 176 | |
For the Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross | ||
THE CROSSES WHICH ARE WORN | 176 | |
HARVEST CROSSES | 179 | |
THE ARMED CROSSES | 180 | |
THE BELOVED CROSSES | 181 | |
AFTERWORD | 183 | |
By Msgr. François Trochu | ||
NOTES | 192 |