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    The Seven Last Words of Christ Explained
    The Seven Last Words of Christ Explained
    The Seven Last Words of Christ Explained
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    The Seven Last Words of Christ Explained

    By Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

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    During the 1930s and '40s, Fulton Sheen was the featured speaker on The Catholic Hour radio broadcast, and millions of listeners heard his radio addresses each week. His topics ranged from politics and the economy to philosophy and man's eternal pursuit of happiness.

     

    Possessing a burning zeal to dispel the myths about Our Lord and His Church, Sheen gave a series of powerful presentations on Christ's Passion and His seven last words from the Cross. As a Scripture scholar, Archbishop Sheen knew full well the power contained in preaching Christ crucified. With St. Paul, he could say, "For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified" (1 Cor. 2:2).

     

    During his last recorded Good Friday address in 1979, Archbishop Sheen spoke of having given this type of reflection on the subject of Christ's seven last words from the cross "for the fifty-eighth consecutive time." Whether from the young priest in Peoria, Illinois, the university professor in Washington, D.C., or the bishop in New York, Sheen's messages were sure to make an indelible mark on his listeners.

     

    Given their importance and the impact they had on society, it seemed appropriate to bring together in this anthology some of Archbishop Sheen's meditations on the Seven Last Words Our Blessed Lord spoke from the Cross.

     

    The meditations contained in this book are taken from several books and articles written by Sheen between 1933 and 1945.

     

    The Seven Last Words.  (New York: Century, 1933)

    The Seven Last Words and the Our Father. (Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor 1935)

    Calvary and the Mass. (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons,1936)

    The Cross and the Beatitudes. (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons,1937)

    The Rainbow of Sorrow.  (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, 1938)

    Victory over Vice.  (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, 1939)

    The Seven Virtues.  (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, 1940)

    Seven Words to the Cross.  (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, 1944)

    Seven Words of Jesus and Mary.  (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons,1945)

     

    These mediations have been selected to provide nine unique reflections for study and meditation on the Seven Last Words.

     

    First Meditation - A reflection on the words spoken by Christ from the Cross.

    Second Meditation – A reflection on a passage from the Lord's Prayer.

    Third Meditation – A reflection on a part of the Mass.

    Fourth Meditation – A reflection on one of the Beatitudes.

    Fifth Meditation – A reflection about sorrow and suffering.

    Sixth Meditation – A reflection addressing one of the seven deadly sins.

    Seventh Meditation – A reflection on the virtues.

    Eighth Meditation – A reflection on dealing with individuals who reject the Church and Christ's teachings.

    Ninth Meditation – A reflection on the unity of Jesus and Mary.

     

    As the reader ponders these reflections, they might have to pause for a moment or two over a sentence that is full of deep meaning that stirs the heart. He might also find that Archbishop Sheen has repeated certain lines throughout these reflections to drive home a point or an important theme, as any good teacher would do.

     

    Archbishop Sheen's dynamic personality combined with his brilliant mind, tireless pen, and eloquent voice has made him one of the best-known figures in the world.   His books and magazine articles continue to gratify and attract a boundless circle of readers.  This collection of meditations gives still another example of why this continues to be so today.

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    PublisherBishop Sheen Today
    Release dateNov 27, 2021
    ISBN9781990427251
    The Seven Last Words of Christ Explained
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    Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

    Fulton John Sheen was born in El Paso, Illinois, in 1895. In high school, he won a three-year university scholarship, but he turned it down to pursue a vocation to the priesthood. He attended St. Viator College Seminary in Illinois and St. Paul Seminary in Minnesota. In 1919, he was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois. He earned a licentiate in sacred theology and a bachelor of canon law at the Catholic University of America and a doctorate at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Sheen received numerous teaching offers but declined them in obedience to his bishop and became an assistant pastor in a rural parish. Having thus tested his obedience, the bishop later permitted him to teach at the Catholic University of America and at St. Edmund's College in Ware, England, where he met G.K. Chesterton, whose weekly BBC radio broadcast inspired Sheen's later NBC broadcast, The Catholic Hour (1930-1952). In 1952, Sheen began appearing on ABC in his own series, Life Is Worth Living. Despite being given a time slot that forced him to compete with Milton Berle and Frank Sinatra, the dynamic Sheen enjoyed enormous success and in 1954 reach tens of millions of viewers, non-Catholics as well as Catholics. When asked by Pope Pius XII how many converts he had made, Sheen responded, "Your Holiness, I have never counted them. I am always afraid if I did count them, I might think I made them, instead of the Lord." Sheen gave annual Good Friday homilies at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral, led numerous retreats for priests and religious, and preached at summer conferences in England. "If you want people to stay as they are," he said, "tell them what they want to hear. If you want to improve them, tell them what they should know." This he did, not only in his preaching but also in the more than ninety books he wrote. His book, Peace of Soul was sixth on the New York Times best-seller list. Sheen served as auxiliary bishop of New York (1951-1966) and as bishop of Rochester (1966-1969). The good Lord called Fulton Sheen home in 1979. His television broadcasts, now on tape, and his books continue his earthly work of winning souls for Christ. Sheen's cause for canonization was opened in 2002, and in 2012 Pope Benedict XVI declared him "Venerable."

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