Progress Through Mental Prayer Asceticism and Hell—while dismantling excuses for

and Hell—while dismantling excuses for delaying conversion and exposing the miseries of sin even in this life

scholastic style cuts through modern religious confusion

writing in 1913

this classic sparks meaningful conversations about obedience and honesty

is a vivid memoir of life on the American frontier after the Civil War

Progress Through Mental Prayer Asceticism and Hell—while dismantling excuses forThe instructions on prayer given to the public in these pages are meant to be a help for the ordinary soul. They are printed at the request of very many who are kind in stating that they have found them helpful to themselves. May they prove of use to others, inspire them with an ambition to cultivate an interior life, and bring them into close friendship with Jesus Christ.Fr. Leen. In his spiritual classic, Progress Through Mental Prayer, Fr. Edward