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Preparation for Death

St. Alphonsus de Liguori

AI-assisted English translation from the Italian; selected passages reviewed. Source, method & review limits

Thirty-six considerations on the eternal truths, each unfolding through three points for meditation.

36 considerations · 108 points · English translation from the Italian

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Contents

  1. About this edition
  2. Dedication
  3. The Purpose of This Work — Which Must Be Read
  4. Consideration I — Portrait of a Man Who Has Recently Passed to the Other Life
  5. Consideration II — With Death Everything Ends
  6. Consideration III — The Brevity of Life
  7. Consideration IV — The Certainty of Death
  8. Consideration V — The Uncertainty of the Hour of Death
  9. Consideration VI — Death of the Sinner
  10. Consideration VII — Sentiments of a Negligent Dying Man, Who Has Thought Little of Death
  11. Consideration VIII — Death of the Just
  12. Consideration IX — Peace of a Just Man Who Dies
  13. Consideration X — Means for Preparing for Death
  14. Consideration XI — The Value of Time
  15. Consideration XII — The Importance of Eternal Salvation
  16. Consideration XIII — The Vanity of the World
  17. Consideration XIV — The Present Life Is a Journey to Eternity
  18. Consideration XV — On the Malice of Mortal Sin
  19. Consideration XVI — On the Mercy of God
  20. Consideration XVII — The Abuse of Divine Mercy
  21. Consideration XVIII — Of the Number of Sins
  22. Consideration XIX — What a Great Good Is the Grace of God, and What an Evil Is the Disgrace of God
  23. Consideration XX — The Madness of the Sinner
  24. Consideration XXI — The Unhappy Life of the Sinner and the Happy Life of One Who Loves God
  25. Consideration XXII — On the Evil Habit
  26. Consideration XXIII — Deceptions that the Devil Puts into the Minds of Sinners
  27. Consideration XXIV — Of the Particular Judgment
  28. Consideration XXV — Of the General Judgment
  29. Consideration XXVI — On the Pains of Hell
  30. Consideration XXVII — The Eternity of Hell
  31. Consideration XXVIII — The Remorse of the Damned
  32. Consideration XXIX — Of Paradise
  33. Consideration XXX — On Prayer
  34. Consideration XXXI — On Perseverance
  35. Consideration XXXII — Confidence in the Patronage of the Divine Mother
  36. Consideration XXXIII — Of the Love of God
  37. Consideration XXXIV — On Holy Communion
  38. Consideration XXXV — On the Loving Dwelling That Jesus Makes upon the Altars in the Blessed Sacrament
  39. Consideration XXXVI — On Uniformity with the Will of God
About this translation

This English translation from the Italian was drafted with AI assistance using SWE-2 Max and prepared as a reading edition for this library. Review has included source provenance, section structure, and selected source comparisons and corrections. It has not included a complete independent, sentence-by-sentence translation audit.

Translated from the Italian author text transcribed by IntraText from Opere ascetiche, volume IX (Rome, 1965), pages 3–376. The introductory note records the source and limited review of this modern translation.

This is a reading copy, not a critical edition. No professional translation certification or ecclesiastical approval is claimed for this modern edition. The source edition’s separate editorial footnotes are not included. The shorter meditations elsewhere on this site use a different, historical English translation from 1843.

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