Thirty-one sobering, soul-stirring meditations on the majesty of God, our finitude and creaturely dependence upon Him, the shamefulness of sin, the unavoidable and stark reality of the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell), the heart-rending Passion of Our Lord, and much more -- all calculated to convict and convert you to abandon all sin and live a strict Catholic life like nothing you've ever read. Gerry has twice read this enormously edifying book out loud to his family during Lent and Advent, and suggests you could read it through every month (one meditation a day) with life-changing benefit. Bishop Challoner (1691-1781) was the 18th-century reviser of the Douay-Rheims Bible during the penal times in England (when it was a crime to publicly dress and function as a Catholic clergyman). By Bishop Richard Challoner.157 pp, paperback.