Preface and Introduction - In this introductory episode the author lays the historical groundwork for the founding of Freemasonry, including the diabolical Voltaire, and its threat to the Roman Catholic Church and all of Christianity. This work was originally a series of lectures given by the author. The War of Anti-Christ with the Church and Christian Civilization is a book written in 1885 by an Irishman, George F. Dillon, DD. It was republished by Fr. Denis Fahey in 1950 as Grand Orient Freemasonry Unmasked as the Secret Power Behind Communism. The central theme of the book alleges that atheistic Illuminism, through the infrastructure of Grand Orient freemasonry, driven by the ideology of the philosophies laid the foundations for a large scale, ongoing war against Christendom in general and Catholic Church in particular. The document claims that this had been manifested primarily through manipulating the outbreak of various radical liberal republican revolutions. Particularly those focused on atheism or religious indifferentism in their anti-Catholicism. The book details revolutionary activity in France, Italy, Germany and Ireland.
Included within the scope of the book is material on the Illuminati, Kabbalism, Jacobinism, the French Revolution, the Carbonari and Fenianism. The Alta Vendita document was given wider exposure in the Anglosphere after being first translated for the book and placed within a historical context. The book was influential to Catholic integralism in Ireland, Britain and the United States, as well as national conservative politics. Fahey who republished the book in the 1950s founded the Maria Duce political movement—critical of Fenianism associating it with Communism, it instead proposed an Irish National Catholicism under the social and spiritual reign of Christ the King. The company who republished it, the Britons Publishing Society, described the book as "of world-wide importance". (Summary from Wikipedia) This audiobook is from Librivox and is part of the public domain. For more details and to download the entire audiobook go to https://librivox.org/the-war-of-antichrist-with-the-church-and-christian-civilization-by-george-f-dillon/.

Today, St. John Eudes teaches us why we should, in a way, separate ourselves from God, that is to say from the temporal satisfactions that our pious actions give us. For if we act only for those warm feelings which we receive when we perform some pious action can we truly serve our Lord in times of despondency and despair?

Yours in Jesus and Mary.

From the book The Reign of Jesus by St. John Eudes (R. & T. Washbourne, 1911, pages 22-25).

For the nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost we are told that we should not allow ourselves to be consumed by anger and thoughts of revenge but we are to love our enemy and pray for him. This is difficult to do, but necessary. Our Lord commands us to bear all pain and suffering in His name. If we are to enter the gates of Heaven we must learn to bear suffering and injustice and forgive those who wish us harm.

Yours in Jesus and Mary.

From the book Discourses and Sermons for Every Sunday and Principal Day of the Year by James Cardinal Gibbons (John Murphy Company, 1908, pages 466-476).