My Prayer Book by Father Lasance

About the book: This book by Father Francis Xavier Lasance provides counsels, prayers, devotions and reflections on the pursuit of happiness in goodness for Holy Mass and throughout the day, and incentives for being generous and unselfish in the imitation of Christ. 

My Prayer Book (1908) is replete with counsels, prayers, devotions, novenas, litanies, spiritual communions, prayers before and after Holy Communion, and prayers before and after Confession. 

There is hardly a prayer book available which is more thorough or complete than this. 

About the author: Father Francis Xavier Lasance (1860-1946) was an American priest and writer of Roman Catholic devotional works. Father Lasance served as curate in various parishes in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati including churches in Kenton, Reading, Dayton, Lebanon, and Monroe, Ohio. He also served as chaplain at Our Lady's Summit, in East Walnut Hills, in Cincinnati. Ill health forced him to relinquish parish work in 1890; from then on, he lived a "retired, semi-invalid existence" at St. Francis Hospital, Cincinnati, writing various books on spiritual subjects and serving as spiritual director of the Tabernacle Society. A number of Lasance's writings have been reprinted and are currently available from various traditionalist Catholic publishers, including My Prayer Book, Manna of the Soul, Blessed Sacrament Book, and The New Roman Missal (reprinted in 1993 by Christian Book Club of America), which at present is one of the most popular hand missals favoured by American traditionalist Catholics. His works were translated into numerous languages. In total, his texts were published in the millions. He refused all compensation for his work and asked that any profits be donated to charity or toward providing his works free of charge to those unable to purchase them. Father Lasance died at the age of eighty-six, in his native city. (Wikipedia)

For his devotional works, he was given a special blessing in a letter by Pope Pius XI on May 10, 1927:

"His Holiness (Pope Pius XI) wishes that these volumes, which assuredly will promote the spiritual life, may receive an ever-increasing welcome in all the Christian families of your great country."