About the booklet: The Secret Of Confession: Including The Wonders Of Confession (1936) is probably the most intriguing and consoling book ever written about the Sacrament of Confession.
The beloved Fr Paul O'Sullivan - author of All About the Angels, How to Be Happy - How to be Holy, Read Me or Rue It, and many other extremely popular books and booklets - brings forth in this little gem a host of true stories about Confession, plus quotations on Confession from Holy Scripture and from the Saints of the early Church.
Many of his anecdotes involve non-Catholics, showing how Confession has won the admiration even of Protestants. He combines all these elements to prove that Confession comes from Our Lord Himself, that it gives renewed courage and youthfulness of spirit to the heart and soul, and that by means of weekly Confession any sin can be conquered!
Fr O'Sullivan also gives sound Catholic counsel to mothers and fathers about encouraging frequent Confession for their children as a means of protecting them from grave dangers against purity.
The Secret of Confession shows that God has given a very practical and workable remedy for every ill that ails the human soul - a divine remedy equally capable of dissolving the hardened indifference of repeated mortal sin and of healing the "lesser" faults of little children.
This book reveals one of the truly great "secrets" of the Catholic Faith. It describes with great warmth and love the Sacrament of Confession - that spiritual tonic whereby God both raises up great and heroic saints and also leads countless "ordinary" Catholics to a remarkable purity of heart in this life and to the eternal reward of Heaven in the next.
About the author: About the author: Father Paul Henry O'Sullivan, O.P., S.T.L., P.G., E.D.M., was born in Tralee, Ireland in 1871 and died in Lisbon, Portugal in 1958. At the age of 16, he entered the Dominican Novitiate and, then, he went on to Rome to complete his priestly studies and be ordained. He was sent to Lisbon for a period of convalescence. The moment he set foot on the soil of Portugal, his health improved and he undertook an apostolate, the likes of which is rarely the part of a single priest’s accomplishment.
It was a dreadful time. In 16 years, there had been over 40 administrations and twenty revolutions. Father Paul grieved over these tragic happenings. He befriended the rich and the poor. When he spoke to the faithful, he referred with deep feeling to their outstanding devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Father O’Sullivan peered through the darkness that surrounded the Nation and beholding the glories of its religious past, he was fired up by apostolic zeal to devote his life and all his energies to the work of restoring the Faith in Portugal. All through his publishing career, he used the initials E.D.M. or Enfant de Marie, Child of Mary! What more glorious title can there be!
Catechism classes were organized on a larger scale than usual, conferences and retreats were multiplied. In 1922, he established a Catholic Press and began to publish Catholic magazines, books, pamphlets and instruction. The output was enormous. Through the years, he wrote on nearly every subject, The Wonders of the Holy Name, How to be Happy - How to be Holy, The Life of St. Philomena, All About the Angels, The Secret of Confession, How to Avoid Purgatory, An Easy Way to Become a Saint, and many more.
With the death of Father Paul O'Sullivan, there has passed away an outstanding Irish Dominican whose fame has spread far beyond the shores of his beloved Portugal, where he laboured in the vineyard of the Lord for sixty-three years. His wish to die on a feast of our Lady had been granted to him, for it was on the feast of the Presentation that our Lady came to present him to her Divine Son.
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