Here is the book that will help you climb St. Paul's 'eight steps,' to attain happiness, holiness, and Heaven. Bestselling author Kevin Vost breaks open St. Paul's life and spirituality through the lens of St. Thomas Aquinas as well as other saintly and noble men and women.
Dr. Kevin Vost reveals hidden treasures such as: why St. Paul is a 'four-in-one special'; three intellectual virtues that help us discover important truths; two fundamental senses of truth, and three vices opposed to truth; eight aspects of the nature of truth according to Aquinas; eight types of justice and how you can exercise them in your life; the link between modesty and latria, dulia, and hyperdulia.
Each chapter unpacks one of these outstanding virtues and contains an invaluable 'Summing Up' section. Further highlighted are exemplary individuals to imitate in their exercise of the heroic virtue, from St. Dominic to Our Lady and St. Joseph to St. Agnes of Rome and St. Brigid to Aristotle and Cicero.
You will find the six types of grace and their effects that God is waiting to pour into your life. You will find our practical ways to develop each virtue, the fruits that result, and how to reap them in your life.
Yes, I know that memorizing the Faith is no substitute for living a holy life, but even devout people can't live by truths and precepts they don't remember.
That's why, over 700 years ago, St. Thomas Aquinas perfected an easy method for his students to memorize most any information, but especially the truths taught by Christ and His Church.
Now thanks to Memorize the Faith!, you can easily keep all these in mind by tapping into the power of the classical memory system that helped St. Thomas become the Church's preeminent theologian, and made it easier for him to become one of its greatest saints.
Here, Catholic scholar Kevin Vost makes available again Aquinas's easy-to-learn method-the method Dr. Vost himself has used for decades to recall names, dates, phone numbers.
Dr. Vost will teach you to remember virtually anything, but he devotes most of his book to showing you how to improve your memory of Catholic truths so you can live the Faith better.
By the time you finish this book, you will have memorized dozens of key teachings of the Church, along with hundreds of precepts, traditions, theological terms, Scripture verses, and other elements of the Faith that every good Catholic needs.
In this book, you'll learn St. Thomas Aquinas's unique powers of intellect and will, and how he can train us to perfect them. The bestselling author of The One-Minute Aquinas offers here a fully guided tutorial of exercises to perfect your intellectual powers of memory, understanding, logical reasoning, shrewdness, foresight, circumspection, practical wisdom, and so much more that lead to happier and holier lives. You'll also learn:
- The connections between thinking, happiness, and holiness
- How to perfect intellectual powers you may not know you possess
- Why a failure to understand human nature impairs our ability to understand anything
- The three fundamental acts of practical wisdom
- How to spot twenty common logical fallacies
- And much more
Many of us fail to recognize that obtaining the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential to getting to heaven. We often block their reception through our own faults. We fail to see how they are passed on or strengthened in the sacraments. And, sadly, we forget to petition God in prayer to bestow these gifts upon us.
In this book, Dr. Kevin Vost, bestselling author of The One-Minute Aquinas, provides us with a substantive yet accessible introduction to the seven gifts and how we can humbly submit our wills to the stirrings of the Holy Spirit.
As Dr. Vost explains, these God-given gifts help us to conform our lives to His image, intellect, and will. They prevent us from being drawn into frustration and possibly self-destruction by following our own sensual appetites. Indeed, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are the only path to being fully happy on earth and in the life to come.
In this book, Dr. Kevin Vost unpacks the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas, history's greatest theologian, in an engaging and accessible way. He unveils the hidden connections between common sins and shows how each gives birth to daughters, other thoughts, and deeds that help it reach its sinful goals.
We all struggle with the seven deadly sins to varying degrees. With this book, you'll walk away armed with an arsenal of practical weapons to combat these sins and to clear the path for greater virtue, deeper happiness, and more profound union with God.
You'll also learn: which sin can truly be called the deadliest in the world; why there are only seven deadly sins; what takes place within our souls when we grapple with sin; the relationship between vices and sins-and how to sever their bonds; how each and every deadly sin is outnumbered by several opposite virtues; six deadly dominoes: learn about the sins that almost always cause us to commit additional sins; how 'the mother of the virtues' dethrones 'the queen of the vices'; and seven sacramental and saint-sanctioned strategies to call forth God's graces to grapple with each deadly sin.
