# Manualist Press

> Manualist Press is a small Catholic publisher that returns out-of-print Catholic books to print and offers free tools for prayer and the liturgical year.

Manualist Press publishes 27 restored editions of out-of-print Catholic books, each set from an identified source edition, proofed against it, and sold in print and on Kindle through Amazon. It also publishes free texts and tools for prayer and the liturgical year. Nothing on the site requires an account.

## Books

- [Solid Virtue: A Treatise on Christian Perfection](https://manualistpress.com/books/solid-virtue/): A blunt Jesuit program for the Catholic who has been going through the motions for years and knows it. By Father Aloysius Bellécius, S.J. Source edition: 1914, R. & T. Washbourne, Ltd., with Benziger Brothers. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/solid-virtue/read/ Opening chapters free: https://manualistpress.com/books/solid-virtue/sample/
- [Prayer: Its Necessity, Its Power, Its Conditions](https://manualistpress.com/books/prayer-necessity-power-conditions/): Why so many prayers go unheard, and what to change, from a Redemptorist with sixty years in the ministry. By Father Ferreol Girardey, C.Ss.R. Source edition: 1916, B. Herder Book Co., St. Louis. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/prayer-necessity-power-conditions/read/ Opening chapters free: https://manualistpress.com/books/prayer-necessity-power-conditions/sample/
- [The Christian Father: What He Should Be, and What He Should Do](https://manualistpress.com/books/the-christian-father/): A short, direct book for the Catholic father who has left the praying to his wife, with two dozen prayers written for him to take his own part. By Bishop Franz Wilhelm Cramer. Source edition: 1883, Benziger Brothers. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/the-christian-father/read/ Opening chapters free: https://manualistpress.com/books/the-christian-father/sample/
- [The Life of St. Alonso Rodriguez: A Biography of the Jesuit Lay-Brother](https://manualistpress.com/books/the-life-of-st-alonso-rodriguez/): The life of the Jesuit lay brother who became a saint keeping a school door, built from his own notebook and the men who lived with him. By Father Francis Goldie, S.J. Source edition: 1889. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/the-life-of-st-alonso-rodriguez/read/ Opening chapters free: https://manualistpress.com/books/the-life-of-st-alonso-rodriguez/sample/
- [Catholic Bible Stories: From the Old and New Testaments](https://manualistpress.com/books/catholic-bible-stories/): Bible stories that turn, every time, toward the child's own soul, from Creation to Pentecost and on to his first confession and Communion. By Josephine Van Dyke Brownson. Source edition: 1923, Extension Press, Chicago. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/catholic-bible-stories/read/
- [Catholic Ceremonies: And Explanation of the Ecclesiastical Year](https://manualistpress.com/books/catholic-ceremonies/): The Latin Mass, Sunday Vespers, and the feasts of the year explained step by step, each ceremony read as a scene from the life of Christ. By Fr. Alfred Durand. Source edition: 1896, Benziger Brothers, New York. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/catholic-ceremonies/read/
- [The Catholic Church and Secret Societies](https://manualistpress.com/books/the-catholic-church-and-secret-societies/): A priest got hold of the lodge rituals of 1902 and printed what they say beside what the Church teaches. By Fr. Peter Rosen. Source edition: 1902, Cannon Printing Co., Milwaukee. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/the-catholic-church-and-secret-societies/read/
- [The Divine Plan of the Church: Where Realised, and Where Not](https://manualistpress.com/books/the-divine-plan-of-the-church/): One argument for the Catholic Church that does not depend on winning a point of history, written for ordinary readers and without sarcasm. By Fr. John MacLaughlin. Source edition: 1901, R. & T. Washbourne, London. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/the-divine-plan-of-the-church/read/
- [Duty: Twelve Conferences to Young Men](https://manualistpress.com/books/duty-twelve-conferences-to-young-men/): Twelve plain talks to young men on what a man owes, and to whom, by a priest who respected his listeners enough to be blunt with them. By Fr. William Graham. Source edition: 1910, Joseph F. Wagner, New York. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/duty-twelve-conferences-to-young-men/read/ Opening chapters free: https://manualistpress.com/books/duty-twelve-conferences-to-young-men/sample/
- [An Essay on Beatification, Canonization, and the Processes of the Congregation of Rites](https://manualistpress.com/books/an-essay-on-beatification-and-canonization/): What the Church has vouched for when she canonizes a saint, and how much of the marvels a Catholic is bound to believe. By Fr. Frederick William Faber. Source edition: 1848, Richardson and Son, London. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover.
- [Guide for Catholic Young Women: Especially for Those Who Earn Their Own Living](https://manualistpress.com/books/guide-for-catholic-young-women/): A priest who spent years among working girls tells the Catholic young woman how to become holy at the job she already has. By Fr. George Deshon, C.S.P. Source edition: 1900, The Catholic Book Exchange, New York. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/guide-for-catholic-young-women/read/
- [A Handbook of Fundamental Theology, Volume I: A General Introduction to Fundamental Theology; Natural Religion](https://manualistpress.com/books/handbook-of-fundamental-theology-volume-i/): The Catholic case that mankind began with one God and fell away from Him, with the evidence laid out people by people. By Fr. John Brunsmann, S.V.D. Source edition: 1928, B. Herder Book Co., St. Louis and London. Kindle (Volumes I–II), Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/handbook-of-fundamental-theology-volume-i/read/
- [A Handbook of Fundamental Theology, Volume II: Revealed Religion](https://manualistpress.com/books/handbook-of-fundamental-theology-volume-ii/): The Catholic case for revealed religion, with the critics quoted in their own words and answered one by one. By Fr. John Brunsmann, S.V.D. Source edition: 1929, B. Herder Book Co., St. Louis and London. Kindle (Volumes I–II), Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/handbook-of-fundamental-theology-volume-ii/read/
- [Helps to a Spiritual Life: For Religious and for All Who Desire to Serve God Fervently](https://manualistpress.com/books/helps-to-a-spiritual-life/): The spiritual life as a set of instructions: a daily rule, meditation step by step, the particular examen, and a calm way to make frequent confession. By Fr. Joseph Schneider, S.J. Source edition: 1903, Benziger Brothers, New York. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/helps-to-a-spiritual-life/read/
- [The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Volume I: Dogmatically, Liturgically and Ascetically Explained](https://manualistpress.com/books/the-holy-sacrifice-of-the-mass-volume-i/): The full case that the Mass is a true sacrifice, and the reason behind everything at the altar, written by a priest for priests. By Rev. Dr. Nicholas Gihr. Source edition: 1902, B. Herder, St. Louis and Freiburg im Breisgau. Kindle (Volumes I–II), Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/the-holy-sacrifice-of-the-mass-volume-i/read/
- [The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Volume II: Dogmatically, Liturgically and Ascetically Explained](https://manualistpress.com/books/the-holy-sacrifice-of-the-mass-volume-ii/): The rite of the Mass taken prayer by prayer, each prayer in Latin and English, with its history and what the Church means by it. By Rev. Dr. Nicholas Gihr. Source edition: 1902, B. Herder, St. Louis and Freiburg im Breisgau. Kindle (Volumes I–II), Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/the-holy-sacrifice-of-the-mass-volume-ii/read/
- [Home Duties and Home Difficulties](https://manualistpress.com/books/home-duties-and-home-difficulties/): A London mission priest’s blunt, practical guide to the Catholic home, written in 1885 from inside the houses he visited. By Fr. Bernard Feeney, S.A.C. Source edition: 1885, James Duffy and Sons, London and Dublin. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/home-duties-and-home-difficulties/read/
- [How to Live a Traditional Catholic Life: A Practical Guide for Church and Home](https://manualistpress.com/books/how-to-live-a-traditional-catholic-life/): A parish priest’s 1897 rule book for what a Catholic does at Mass, at the rail, in the confessional, at a sick call, a wedding and a funeral, and at home. By Fr. Alexander L. A. Klauder. Source edition: 1897, Angel Guardian Press, Boston. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/how-to-live-a-traditional-catholic-life/read/
- [The Life of Blessed Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows](https://manualistpress.com/books/the-life-of-blessed-gabriel-of-our-lady-of-sorrows/): A vain, quick-tempered college boy walked into a Passionist novitiate in 1856 and died a saint five years later. The men who lived with him swore to it. By Fr. Nicholas Ward, C.P. and Fr. Hyacinth Hage, C.P. Source edition: 1910, H. L. Kilner & Co., Philadelphia. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover.
- [The Life of St. Agnes of Rome: Virgin and Martyr](https://manualistpress.com/books/the-life-of-st-agnes-of-rome/): She was thirteen or fourteen when the prefect of Rome put her on trial. The Acts kept her answers, and this short 1856 life gives them in full. By Anonymous. Source edition: 1856, Peter F. Cunningham, Philadelphia. Kindle and Paperback.
- [The Man of God: Catholic Prayers and Devotions for Men](https://manualistpress.com/books/the-man-of-god/): A small, complete prayer book for Catholic men: the Mass in Latin and English, confession, and plain advice on marriage, fatherhood, and growing old. By Fr. Charles J. Callan, O.P. and Fr. John A. McHugh, O.P. Source edition: 1928, P. J. Kenedy & Sons, New York. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/the-man-of-god/read/
- [Marriage and Parenthood: The Catholic Ideal](https://manualistpress.com/books/marriage-and-parenthood-catholic-ideal/): A short, plain guide to Catholic married life, from courting to the raising of children, by a priest who was willing to say what others left unsaid. By Father Thomas J. Gerrard. Source edition: 1911, Joseph F. Wagner, New York. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/marriage-and-parenthood-catholic-ideal/read/ Opening chapters free: https://manualistpress.com/books/marriage-and-parenthood-catholic-ideal/sample/
- [Official Documents of the Definition of the Immaculate Conception: In Latin and English](https://manualistpress.com/books/official-documents-of-the-definition-of-the-immaculate-conception/): What Pius IX asked the cardinals, what he defined, and what he told the bishops the day after, in Latin and in English. By Pope Pius IX. Source edition: 1855, John Murphy & Co.; Charles Dolman, Baltimore and London. Kindle and Paperback.
- [Popular Instructions to Parents: On the Bringing Up of Children](https://manualistpress.com/books/popular-instructions-to-parents/): A Redemptorist priest tells Catholic parents plainly what to do with a child from baptism to the wedding day, with prayers for the hard moments. By Father Ferreol Girardey, C.Ss.R. Source edition: 1897. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/popular-instructions-to-parents/read/
- [The Sacred Heart and the Catholic Home: Devotion to the Sacred Heart in Family Life](https://manualistpress.com/books/the-sacred-heart-and-the-catholic-home/): Twenty-six short, plain-spoken chapters on what the picture of the Sacred Heart on your wall asks of the family living under it. By Fr. Edward F. Garesché, S.J. Source edition: 1927, The Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/the-sacred-heart-and-the-catholic-home/read/
- [The Spirit of the Curé of Ars: With Seventeen Additional Exhortations](https://manualistpress.com/books/spirit-of-the-cure-of-ars/): The Curé of Ars in his own words, from the pulpit, the catechism class, and the fireside, written down by a priest who stood in the church and heard him. By Fr. Alfred Monnin, S.J. and St. John Vianney. Source edition: 1865, Burns, Lambert, and Oates, London. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/spirit-of-the-cure-of-ars/read/
- [True Men as We Need Them: A Book of Instruction for Men in the World](https://manualistpress.com/books/true-men-as-we-need-them/): What a Catholic man owes at home and at work, from a priest who spent his life among families and tells it through their stories. By Fr. Bernard O'Reilly. Source edition: 1888, P. J. Kenedy, Excelsior Catholic Publishing House, New York. Kindle, Paperback and Hardcover. Full text free: https://manualistpress.com/books/true-men-as-we-need-them/read/ Opening chapters free: https://manualistpress.com/books/true-men-as-we-need-them/sample/

## Prayers

[All 344 prayers](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/), one page each, transcribed from Catholic prayer books printed Infinity–-Infinity, with the source, page and scan. Grouped as on the site:

- [Morning](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#morning): 12 — Morning Offering; Before work; Daily Offering; On leaving the house; To the Holy Trinity, on waking; While washing and dressing; …
- [Night](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#night): 8 — Bedtime Blessing; Bedtime Prayer; Before sleep; Evening examen, in verse; Night Hymn; Night prayer to my angel and Our Lady; …
- [Grace at meals](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#meals): 2 — Grace Before Meals; Grace After Meals
- [At Mass and in church](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#mass): 11 — Going into church; Taking holy water; Before Sunday Mass; Prayers after Low Mass; Prayers after Low Mass (Leo XIII); Preparation for Mass and Communion; …
- [Holy Communion](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#communion): 7 — St. Gertrude's prayer before Communion; Asking Our Lady's help before Communion; Inviting Jesus into my heart; Thanksgiving after Communion; Before and after Communion; Before Communion; …
- [Before the Blessed Sacrament](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#adoration): 8 — The Divine Praises; The Divine Praises, in reparation; Ye Angels, Lend Your Heavenly Tongues; Prayers for Corpus Christi; Short prayers to the hidden Jesus; Act of Reparation to the Blessed Sacrament; …
- [Confession](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#confession): 17 — Act of Contrition; Before examining my conscience; Before examining my conscience: a protest of faith; Confiteor (I confess); Thanksgiving after Confession; After Confession; …
- [For the sick](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#sick): 3 — Daily prayer in sickness; Prayers of the sick: accepting illness; Against the plague
- [For a good death](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#dying): 4 — At the hour of death; For the dying and the dead; Way of the Cross for the dying; Commendation of a Departing Soul
- [For the dead](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#dead): 9 — Eternal Rest (Requiem aeternam); De Profundis (Out of the depths); For the holy souls, by the Precious Blood; Prayer for the Dead; Absolution at the Coffin; Heroic Act of Charity for the holy souls; …
- [Family and children](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#family): 4 — A child's prayer for parents; Consecrating a child to St. Joseph; A child's day, in verse; Morning and night prayers for children
- [In temptation](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#temptation): 1 — For strength in temptation
- [Thanksgiving](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#thanks): 3 — Benedicite (All works of the Lord, bless the Lord); Holy God, We Praise Thy Name; Te Deum, in English verse
- [God and the Holy Trinity](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#trinity): 18 — Our Father (Pater Noster); Apostles' Creed; Suscipe (Take, Lord, receive); Act of Faith; Act of Hope; Act of Love; …
- [Our Lord](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#lord): 9 — Anima Christi (Soul of Christ); Prayer to the Infant Jesus for Those in Charge of Children; Thanking my Redeemer; To follow Christ the King; To Jesus, who became a servant for me; To Jesus, despised for my sake; …
- [The Sacred Heart](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#sacred-heart): 8 — Dear Lord, Have Mercy; O Heart of Love, I place all my trust in Thee; Short Consecration to the Sacred Heart; Consecration to the Sacred Heart (Leo XIII); Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart; Offering the Our Father to the Heart of Jesus; …
- [The Passion and the Cross](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#passion): 12 — Stations of the Cross; En Ego (Prayer before a crucifix); Offering the Passion for my sins; Entrusting myself to the Five Wounds; Greeting the wounded body of Jesus; St. Gregory's prayers on the Passion; …
- [The Holy Ghost](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#holy-ghost): 6 — Veni Creator and Veni Sancte Spiritus; Prayer to the Holy Ghost; Veni Sancte Spiritus (Come, Holy Ghost); Prayers for Pentecost; Humble Prayer to the Holy Ghost; For the fire of the Holy Ghost (St. Philip Neri)
- [Our Lady](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#our-lady): 33 — Memorare; The Angelus; Salve Regina (Hail, Holy Queen); Sub Tuum (We fly to thy patronage); Act of Consecration to Our Lady; Alma Redemptoris Mater; …
- [St. Joseph](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#joseph): 16 — Memorare to St. Joseph; Choosing St. Joseph as patron; Consecration to St. Joseph for a good death; Hail Joseph; To St. Joseph for a good death; To St. Joseph for a sinner's conversion; …
- [The angels](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#angels): 4 — Angel of God; Angel of God (with a petition); Prayer to St. Raphael; Gozos to St. Raphael
- [The saints](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#saints): 24 — Si Quaeris: St. Anthony's responsory, for lost things; To all the angels and saints; Prayer to St. Anne; Prayer to St. Francis of Assisi; Prayer to St. Margaret Mary; Four Prayers to St. Philip Neri; …
- [Advent and Christmas](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#advent-christmas): 7 — Hymn to the Infant Jesus; Christmas Litany Hymn; Prayer before the Crib; Prayer before the Crib (New Raccolta); Prayer to the Infant Jesus; Mysteries of the Holy Childhood; …
- [Easter and Pentecost](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#easter): 1 — Devotion to the risen Jesus
- [Litanies](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#litanies): 97 — Litany of Loreto; Litany of Humility; Litany of the Sacred Heart; Litany of St. Joseph; Eucharistic Litany; Golden Litany; …
- [The Rosary and chaplets](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#rosary): 8 — The Holy Rosary; Chaplet of St. Joseph; Little Rosary of St. Anne; How to pray the Rosary; Rosary for the Dead; Chaplet of the Twelve Stars; …
- [Hymns and chants](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#hymns): 4 — Lucis Creator Optime (Sunday Vespers hymn); Benedictus (Canticle of Zachary); Nunc Dimittis (Canticle of Simeon); Gozos to the Immaculate Conception
- [The Little Office, Vespers and Compline](https://manualistpress.com/prayers/#offices): 8 — Responses after the Magnificat; Little Office of Our Lady: Terce; Little Office of Our Lady: Sext; Vespers of the Passion; Little Office of Our Lady; Vespers of Our Lady; …

## Novenas

[All novenas](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/), by the date they next begin; each page gives the nine days in full.

- [Novena for the Immaculate Conception](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/novena-immaculate-conception/): The Raccolta, 1878
- [St. Andrew Christmas Novena](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/novena-st-andrew-christmas/): The Little Treasury of Leaflets, Vol. II, 1914
- [Novena to St. Jude](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/novena-st-jude/): St. Jude Novena, 1939
- [Benediction for the Novena to St. Francis Xavier](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/saluts-pour-la-neuvaine-de-st-francois-xavier/): Novena to St. Francis Xavier, 1839
- [Christmas Novena](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/a-little-book-of-novenas-p0998-1/): Prayer-Book for Religious, 1914
- [French Novena for the Immaculate Conception](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/neuvaine-pour-se-preparer-a-la-fete-de-l-immaculee-conception-de-marie-marian-and-st/): Marian and St. Anne Novenas, 1886
- [Novena for Christmas](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/meditations-for-the-novena-for-christmas-p0217-0/): The Incarnation, Birth, and Infancy of Jesus Christ
- [Novena in Preparation for Christmas](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/novena-the-path-to-2/): The Path to Heaven
- [Novena in Preparation for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/novena/): The Catholic Prayer Book and Manual of Meditations, 1883
- [Novena of Christmas: Meditations for December 16 to 24](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/other-meditations-for-the-novena-of-christmas-the-incarnation-birth/): The Incarnation, Birth, and Infancy of Jesus Christ
- [Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/novena-the-carmelite-manual-2/): The Carmelite Manual, 1846
- [Novena to St. Francis Xavier](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/novena-in-honor-of-saint-francis-xavier/): Novena of Grace to St. Francis Xavier, 1850
- [Novena to St. Teresa of Avila](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/novena-before-the-feast-of-s-teresa/): The Spirit of St. Teresa, 1866
- [Novena to the Holy Child Jesus before Christmas](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/another-novena-to-the-holy-child-jesus/): Prayer-Book for Religious, 1914
- [Spanish Novena for the Immaculate Conception](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/preparacion/): Novena y meditaciones de la Inmaculada Concepción, 1788
- [Novena to Our Mother of Consolation](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/our-mother-of-consolation/): 1885
- [Novena to St. Anne](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/novena-in-honor-of-st-anne/)
- [Novena to St. Joseph](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/novena-of-st-joseph/): 1883
- [Novena to the Holy Name of Jesus](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/novena-to-the-holy-name-of-jesus-p0454-1/)
- [Novena to the Infant Jesus of Prague](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/neuvaine-au-saint-enfant-jesus-miraculeux-de-prague-novena-to-the-2/)
- [Prayers for the Souls in Purgatory for Each Day of the Week](https://manualistpress.com/novenas/prayers-for-every-day-in-the-week-in-aid-of-the-souls-in-purgatory/): 1914

## Examinations of conscience

- Before confession (29): [Examination of Conscience on Purity of Heart](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/points-for-self-examination/); [Examination of Conscience for Wives](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/special-duties-of-wife/); [Examination of Conscience for Servants, Clerks and Apprentices](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/duties-of-tradesmen-servants-clerks-or-apprentices/); [The Importance of the Examination of Conscience](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/of-the-examination-of-conscience/); [Examination of Conscience on the Gift of Faith](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/of-faith/); [Examination of Conscience: the Manner of Performing It](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/of-the-examination-of-conscience-ascetic-library-vol/); [Examination of Conscience for Children](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/examination-of-conscience-for-little-children/); [Examination of Conscience for Every Night](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/an-examination-of-conscience-for-every-night/); [Examination of Conscience for Religious Sisters](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/interior-practice/); [Examination of Conscience for Those Who Confess Regularly and Frequently](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/prayer-before-examination-of-conscience-the-sodalist-s/); [Night Prayers and Examination of Conscience](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/night-prayers/); [Examination of Conscience for Confession](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/examen-for-confession-p0382-1/); [Examination of Conscience on the Present State of the Soul](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/reflections-on-the-present-state-of-the-soul/); [Night Prayers](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/x-prayers-for-night/); [Evening Prayers and Examination of Conscience](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/evening-prayers/); [Prayers Before Examination of Conscience](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/prayers-and-preliminary-directions-before-examination-of-conscience/); [Examination of Conscience for Clergy](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/duties-of-the-clergy/); [Examination of Conscience before Confession](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/prayer-before-the-examination-of-conscience-the-catholic-s-2/); [Examination of Conscience for Young Women](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/examination-of-conscience-for-young-women/); [Examination of Conscience, With God](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/examination-of-conscience/); [Examination of Conscience on the Duties of Your State](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/on-the-duties-of-your-state/); [Examination of Conscience on the Commandments of God and the Church](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/examination-on-the-commandments-of-god-and-the-church/); [Particular Examination on the Virtues and Christian Duties](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/particular-examination-on-faith/); [Table of Sins for Examination of Conscience](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/a-table-of-sins-which-may-be-a-help-in-the-examination-of-conscience-river-s-manual/); [Examination of Conscience and Prayers before Confession](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/devotions-for-confession-catholic-hours/); [Examination of Conscience, Garden of the Soul](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/garden-of-the-soul-preparation-for-confession-examination-of-conscience/); [Devotions before Confession](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/devotions-before-confession-st-joseph-s/); [Examination of Conscience for a General Confession](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/examination-of-conscience-for-a-general-confession/); [Examination of Conscience for Priests in a Retreat](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/examination-of-conscience-in-a-retreat/)
- Daily examen (5): [Method of Examination of Conscience](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/methode-d-examen-de-conscience/); [Particular Examen, Fervent Adorer](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/a-particular-examen/); [Short Method of Daily Examen](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/another-short-method-of-daily-examen/); [First Method of Prayer (St. Ignatius)](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/first-method/); [Particular Examen, Flowers of Nazareth](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/the-particular-examen/)
- From the manuals (11): [The Roman Hymnal](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/the-roman-hymnal/); [Abridged Catechism of Christian Doctrine](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/abridged-catechism-of-christian-doctrine/); [The Purgatorian Consoler](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/the-purgatorian-consoler/); [Manual of the Purgatorian Society](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/manual-of-the-purgatorian-society/); [With God - A Book of Prayers and Reflections](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/with-god-a-book-of-prayers-and-reflections/); [Blessed Be God - A Complete Catholic Prayer Book](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/blessed-be-god-a-complete-catholic-prayer-book/); [The Manual of the Holy Catholic Church](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/the-manual-of-the-holy-catholic-church/); [Theory and Practice of the Confessional](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/theory-and-practice-of-the-confessional/); [The Sodalist's Vade Mecum](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/the-sodalist-s-vade-mecum/); [Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection, vol. 1](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/practice-of-christian-and-religious-perfection-vol-1/); [Ascetic Library, vol. 4 - Examination of Conscience upon Special Subjects](https://manualistpress.com/examinations-of-conscience/ascetic-library-vol-4-examination-of-conscience-upon-special-subjects/)

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