Rooting Out Hidden Faults: What Is the Particular Examen, and How Does It Conquer Sin? (Paperback)

Rooting Out Hidden Faults: What Is the Particular Examen, and How Does It Conquer Sin? By James McElhone Cover Image

Rooting Out Hidden Faults: What Is the Particular Examen, and How Does It Conquer Sin? (Paperback)

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This step-by-step guide on how to make a Particular Examen is rooted in the five wounds of Jesus and includes prayers, sample format, and predominant faults to avoid in prayer, work, study, and recreation. As most of us struggle with the same assortment of sins, these targeted reflections will assist you in conquering your faults.

This reprint of the 1952 classic contains prayers for each topic from the traditional Roman Missal that help you foster the proper spirit of mind and unction of heart for fruitful meditation.

Here is a valuable resource for any Catholic -- priest, consecrated, or lay -- wishing to develop a plan for spiritual holiness. It provides self-inventory questions for each vice to help determine angles of attack and addresses misconceptions about each vice. You will learn ways to defeat your vices, and thus serve God more wholeheartedly, and will find rules for practicing fraternal charity by contemplating the cardinal and theological virtues.

Fr. James F. McElhone, C.S.C. (1890-1963) was a Holy Cross priest who worked extensively with youth and in the "apostolate of the press." He taught English at Holy Cross Seminary and was a spiritual guide to seminarians as well as a baseball coach and enthusiast. Fr. McElhone authored the books Following Our Divine Model, Tim, Feasts of Our Lady, and Spirituality for Postulate, Novitiate, Scholasticate. He served as editor for Annals of Our Lady of Lourdes and the Ave Maria.
Product Details ISBN: 9781644136485
ISBN-10: 1644136481
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Publication Date: February 22nd, 2022
Pages: 176
Language: English