| THE | SERMONS |
| OF THE | |
| CURÉ OF ARS | |
| Translated by | |
| UNA MORRISSY | |
| with a special Foreword to | |
| the English translation by | |
| LANCELOT SHEPPARD |
Published as Sermons de Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney
pauvre curé d’Ars by Le Club du Livre Chrétien. Paris
Copyright © 1960
Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, Illinois
Library of Congress Card Catalog Number 60-7921
NIHIL OBSTAT: Jacobus Canonicus Bastible
censor deputatus
IPRIMATUR: ✠ Corelius, Episcopus Corcagiensis et
Rossensis
Corcagiensis, die 10 Augustii, 1959
Manufactured in the United States of America
CONTENTS
| FOREWORD | v | |
| By Lancelot Sheppard | ||
| INTRODUCTION | xvii | |
| By Msgr. François Trochu | ||
| NOTES | xxii | |
| SERMONS | ||
| By the humble Curé of Ars | ||
| THE DREADFUL STATE OF THE LUKEWARM SOUL | 1 | |
| Sermon for the eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| HAVE YOU RELIGION IN YOUR HEART? | 11 | |
| For the seventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| LOST WORKS | 14 | |
| WE ARE WRETCHED CREATURES | 14 | |
| For Christmas Day | ||
| ROUTINE FOLLOWERS | 15 | |
| For the seventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| THE WORLD IS EVERYTHING—GOD NOTHING! | 16 | |
| For the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| FOLLOW ONE MASTER ONLY | 16 | |
| For the second Sunday of Advent | ||
| THEY ARE FOR THE WORLD | 17 | |
| For the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| WE ARE EXTRAORDINARILY BLIND | 25 | |
| For the eighth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| NOT LIKE THE OTHERS | 25 | |
| For the tenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| THE EVIL TONGUES | 29 | |
| For the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| A PUBLIC PLAGUE | 31 | |
| For the eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| YOUR HEART IS BUT A MASS OF PRIDE | 36 | |
| For the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| THE TONGUE OF THE SCANDAL-MONGER | 37 | |
| OH, EVERYONE SAYS SO! | 37 | |
| ST. NICHOLAS AND THE THREE GIRLS | 39 | |
| THE SEWER OF HELL | 41 | |
| For the first Sunday of the year | ||
| “A CURSE WILL FALL” | 43 | |
| ARE YOUR AFFAIRS GOING BETTER? | 44 | |
| BAD COMPANY | 45 | |
| For the fourth Sunday after the Epiphany | ||
| ANGER DOES NOT TRAVEL ALONE | 48 | |
| For the twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| HOW DEATH WILL REVEAL THIEVES! | 51 | |
| For the twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| IF YOU KNOW HOW TO GIVE, YOU MUST KNOW HOW TO PAY BACK | 54 | |
| WINE IS HIS GOD | 57 | |
| For the twentieth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| ALL THAT YOU SAY “OVER AND ABOVE THESE IS OF EVIL” | 60 | |
| For the fifth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| THE DUTIES OF THE PREGNANT WOMAN | 81 | |
| For the twentieth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| THE DUTIES OF THE MOTHER | 81 | |
| THE DUTIES OF PARENTS | 83 | |
| YOU WILL ANSWER FOR THEIR SOULS | 84 | |
| TO THEIR SHAME IT MUST BE SAID | 85 | |
| GETTING TO KNOW THE RIGHT PEOPLE | 85 | |
| For the twentieth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| YOU NO LONGER CONTROL THEM | 87 | |
| HE WILL HELP US | 89 | |
| For the fourth Sunday after the Epiphany | ||
| WE MUST EXPECT TEMPTATION | 90 | |
| For the ninth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| WE ARE NOTHING IN OURSELVES | 92 | |
| For the first Sunday of Lent | ||
| BEWARE, IF YOU HAVE NO TEMPTATIONS! | 94 | |
| THE BAD DEATH | 100 | |
| For the fourth Sunday of Lent | ||
| HIS PRAYER IS A LIE | 104 | |
| For the third Sunday after the Epipbany | ||
| HOW BLIND THE SINNER IS! | 105 | |
| PRISONERS OF SIN | 108 | |
| For the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| YOU CAN BECOME A GOOD TREE | 110 | |
| For the seventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| WHERE ARE YOU GOING? | 116 | |
| For the first Sunday of the year | ||
| ANNUAL CONFESSIONS | 117 | |
| For Low Sunday | ||
| THOUGHTS AROUT PENANCE | 118 | |
| For the fourth Sunday of Advent | ||
| REPAIRING THE WRONG DONE | 121 | |
| RENOUNCE SIN FOR GOOD AND ALL | 123 | |
| For the thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| MERIT ABSOLUTION | 125 | |
| PRAYER COMMANDS ALL | 126 | |
| For the fourth Sunday after the Epiphany | ||
| YOU HAVE NOT THE TIME | 127 | |
| For the fifth Sunday after Easter | ||
| I COME ON BEHALF OF GOD | 128 | |
| For the commemoration of the dead | ||
| YOU SHOULD COME EARLIER | 135 | |
| For the sixth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| IT IS NECESSARY TO BE CONVERTED | 137 | |
| HAVE A CLEAN FACE | 138 | |
| MODEL YOUR DEATH UPON THAT OF JESUS CHRIST | 138 | |
| For the twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| IF MAN KNEW HIS RELIGION | 140 | |
| For the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| THOUGHTS ON THE WAY TO CHURCH | 142 | |
| For the anniversary of the cansecration or dedication (of the church) | ||
| YOU ARE SURPRISED, BUT NOT I! | 147 | |
| For the second Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| WHEN YOU GO BACK HOME | 149 | |
| For the anniversary of the consecration or dedication (of the church) | ||
| CLEAR YOUR MINDS | 150 | |
| WE ARE KEEPING A FEAST | 152 | |
| For the Feast of the Patron Saint | ||
| BE RELIGIOUS OR BE DAMNED! | 154 | |
| YOUR PRAYERS ARE ONLY AN INSULT | 159 | |
| For the seventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| PURITY IS NOT KNOWN | 162 | |
| For the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| THE SERVICE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN | 164 | |
| For the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin | ||
| OUR INCONSISTENCY | 165 | |
| For Christmas Day | ||
| LOVE OF OUR NEIGHBOR | 166 | |
| For the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| WHO HAS CHARITY? | 167 | |
| PRAYING, FASTING, AND PLEASING OURSELVES | 170 | |
| For the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost | ||
| DO YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY? | 173 | |
| For the first Sunday of the year | ||
| THE GIFT OF EVERY DAY | 175 | |
| THE PUBLIC CROSSES | 176 | |
| For the Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross | ||
| THE CROSSES WHICH ARE WORN | 176 | |
| HARVEST CROSSES | 179 | |
| THE ARMED CROSSES | 180 | |
| THE BELOVED CROSSES | 181 | |
| AFTERWORD | 183 | |
| By Msgr. François Trochu | ||
| NOTES | 192 | |