Counsels Of Perfection For Christian Mothers + The Life Of St. Columba (Apostle Of Scotland) & More

Father P. Lejuene explains in very practical ways what real Christian Perfection is. He goes through the various Spiritual Exercises, and explains how to derive the most benefit from them. He addresses his book to Christian Mothers, but it is very beneficial to all. Imprimatur 1913.
Rich in its simplicity yet brimming with advice so wise, this book (with nihil obstat and imprimatur) is a beautiful and practical guide for the catholic–and every Christian–woman who seeks to fully live out her vocation as wife and mother. In the reading of its pages you will be longing to more perfectly serve God through service to your fellow human being. Deo Gratias!

Columba (Irish: Colm Cille, ‘church dove’;[a][1][2] Scots Gaelic: Calum Cille, Scots: Columbkille;[3] 7 December 521 – 9 June 597) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission. He founded the important abbey on Iona, which became a dominant religious and political institution in the region for centuries. He is the patron saint of Derry. He was highly regarded by both the Gaels of Dál Riata and the Picts, and is remembered today as a Catholic saint and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland.[4] In Ireland, he is commonly known as Colmcille.

Columba studied under some of Ireland’s most prominent church figures and founded several monasteries in the country. Around 563 he and his twelve companions crossed to Dunaverty near Southend, Argyll, in Kintyre before settling in Iona in Scotland, then part of the Ulster kingdom of Dál Riata, where they founded a new abbey as a base for spreading Celtic Christianity among the northern Pictish kingdoms[5][6] who were pagan. He remained active in Irish politics, though he spent most of the remainder of his life in Scotland. Three surviving early medieval Latin hymns may be attributed to him.[7]