The Saint Who Fulfilled all the Prophecies about Him
Happy Feast of Saint Alfonso Maria Antonio Giovanni Francesco Cosimo Damiano Michaelangelo Gasparo de' Liguori. His long list of names are recorded in the entry of his baptism in the Church of Our Lady …More
Happy Feast of Saint Alfonso Maria Antonio Giovanni Francesco Cosimo Damiano Michaelangelo Gasparo de' Liguori.
His long list of names are recorded in the entry of his baptism in the Church of Our Lady of the Virgins in Naples on the 29th day of September 1696 and added are the simple statements of subsequent events of his great career: ordained priest 1726, consecrated Bishop 1762, Died 1787, canonised 1839 Doctor of the Church 1871.
True greatness, so simply and yet eloquently expressed
Alphonsus was born for greatness, into a great and Noble Neapolitan family at an age when earthly rank and prestige were worshiped.
His Father Don Joseph de Liguori was the Captain of a Royal Galley and his mother Donna Anna Cavalieri came from an equally illustrious family who were counsellors to the Bourbon Royal court of Naples.
He was baptised by St. Francis Jerome, of the Society of Jesus, who prophesied that: "This child will be blessed with length of days; he shall not see death before his …More
His long list of names are recorded in the entry of his baptism in the Church of Our Lady of the Virgins in Naples on the 29th day of September 1696 and added are the simple statements of subsequent events of his great career: ordained priest 1726, consecrated Bishop 1762, Died 1787, canonised 1839 Doctor of the Church 1871.
True greatness, so simply and yet eloquently expressed
Alphonsus was born for greatness, into a great and Noble Neapolitan family at an age when earthly rank and prestige were worshiped.
His Father Don Joseph de Liguori was the Captain of a Royal Galley and his mother Donna Anna Cavalieri came from an equally illustrious family who were counsellors to the Bourbon Royal court of Naples.
He was baptised by St. Francis Jerome, of the Society of Jesus, who prophesied that: "This child will be blessed with length of days; he shall not see death before his …More
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Servant Of Divine Mercy
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Read his book on the Preparation for Death and you won't be lukewarm nor a coward any longer.
Naomi Arai
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Only his Novus Ordo feast.
Luigi Scorsoppi
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@Naomi Arai don’t embarrass yourself publicly by posting a stupid comment. If you’ve got nothing positive to say don’t say anything. St Alphonsus feast is the 2nd of August (when this article was posted) his novus ordo calendar feast is the 1st of August. It’s wonderful that we get to celebrate this great Saint twice.
Naomi Arai
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@Luigi Scorsoppi Bugger off, hall monitor.
Luigi Scorsoppi
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@Naomi Arai if I was a hall monitor you’d be out of GTV. This is NOT a place for such uncouth language. We don’t care to know about your sexual proclivities. Now please take your prescription anti psychotics.
@Luigi Scorsoppi Why all the random insults for someone who merely pointed out it was only +Liguori's Novus Ordo feast day? It IS only his Novus Ordo feast day. Even I don't have any idea why they decided to move it from Aug 2 to Aug 1 for the Protestant Rite. You're a bit of an oddball to go all unhinged because someone pointed something out about it.
Luigi Scorsoppi
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@Ari B have a look at the date of the post. It’s 2nd August. Are you and @Naomi Arai related? Or perhaps the same person?
chris griffin
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He is considered the Church's best moral theologian. His work is invaluable to me.
Faith In The Ruins
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He did much to push back against Jansenism at great personal cost. A true hero of the faith.
Luigi Scorsoppi
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Personal cost to him was often from within his own congregation and the Church. In 1796 Pope Pius VI expelled Alphonsus and the Redemptorists in the Kingdom of Naples, who accepted a change to the rule, surreptitiously added without the aging Saint’s knowledge. The betrayal was by another Redemptorists (de Paula) who was head of the houses in the Papal States and who wanted to usurp St Alphonsus …More
Personal cost to him was often from within his own congregation and the Church. In 1796 Pope Pius VI expelled Alphonsus and the Redemptorists in the Kingdom of Naples, who accepted a change to the rule, surreptitiously added without the aging Saint’s knowledge. The betrayal was by another Redemptorists (de Paula) who was head of the houses in the Papal States and who wanted to usurp St Alphonsus position as the leader of all the Redemptorists.
Luigi Scorsoppi
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@chris griffin his Theologia Moralis with its nine editions was a best seller, and made his Venetian publisher, Ramondini a very rich man, at an age where books were a precious thing. The work started as a field manual for his priests preaching missions, on the frame work of a little known treatise by Jesuit Bussembaum (initially Alphonsus credited the original author by titling his own work ‘ Ad …More
@chris griffin his Theologia Moralis with its nine editions was a best seller, and made his Venetian publisher, Ramondini a very rich man, at an age where books were a precious thing. The work started as a field manual for his priests preaching missions, on the frame work of a little known treatise by Jesuit Bussembaum (initially Alphonsus credited the original author by titling his own work ‘ Ad notationes et Bussembaum), which later became Alphonsus own system of moral theology known as equi-probabilism charting a way between probabilism and probabiliorism.
chris griffin
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@Luigi Scorsoppi... thank you for your very helpful insight and detail.
.... and Alphonsus truly venerated and loved Our Lady. (The Glories of Mary....)..
Luigi Scorsoppi
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Absolutely…he had private visions of Our Lady at a small cave at Scala, near a Redemptoristine convent he helped found. Where Our Lady promised anyone who died in the congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists) a crown in heaven. Tremendous Saint.
Luigi Scorsoppi
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Yes indeed, he often admonished his sons in the congregation that they ought not preach a sermon that the poorest most ignorant person couldn’t understand. He also famously held that a preacher should roar as a lion in the pulpit but be a lamb in the confessional. Mentioning to his missionary priests to be ready to collect the fruits in the confessional when they shake the tree from the pulpit…my …More
Yes indeed, he often admonished his sons in the congregation that they ought not preach a sermon that the poorest most ignorant person couldn’t understand. He also famously held that a preacher should roar as a lion in the pulpit but be a lamb in the confessional. Mentioning to his missionary priests to be ready to collect the fruits in the confessional when they shake the tree from the pulpit…my goodness, if only priests today read his ‘Selva’ and learned of the ‘duties and dignities of a Priest’….
Liam Ronan
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