Sounded ID: 9781684931422
ISBN: 9781684931422
Publication Date: September 05, 2022
Publisher: Mockingbird Press
Language: English
Author Name: Fulton J. Sheen
Narrator Name: Larry Peterson
Way to Happiness is a short collection of essays on moral and spiritual principles by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. As he writes in the introduction, his goal for this work was to bring “solace, healing and hope to hearts; truth and enlightenment to minds; goodness, strength and resolution to wills” through his exploration of universal topics like happiness, love, and inner peace.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Archbishop Sheen was a weekly speaker on the popular radio program The Catholic Hour. With an audience in the millions, he shared his wisdom and knowledge of the scriptures and fa...
Way to Happiness is a short collection of essays on moral and spiritual principles by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. As he writes in the introduction, his goal for this work was to bring “solace, healing and hope to hearts; truth and enlightenment to minds; goodness, strength and resolution to wills” through his exploration of universal topics like happiness, love, and inner peace.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Archbishop Sheen was a weekly speaker on the popular radio program The Catholic Hour. With an audience in the millions, he shared his wisdom and knowledge of the scriptures and faith-based morality to aid listeners through their daily lives. This public education continued through the 1950s and 1960s on the television programs Life is Worth Living and The Fulton Sheen Program. Archbishop Sheen won an Emmy for Most Outstanding Television Personality in 1952.
During all of this activity, he found time to write dozens of books on faith. Way to Happiness was published in 1953, at the height of the archbishop’s popularity. The book contains 37 short chapters on subjects key to daily life, including work and repose, self-discipline, the ego, and the spirit of giving. The book’s short chapters make it a wonderful study for a month-long daily devotional.
Broken into eight sections, it explores themes of happiness, work, love, children, youth, inner peace, giving, and man. In each, Archbishop Sheen shares his warmth and wisdom, characterized by support from the scriptures and anecdotes from daily life.
While the work takes an individual-level view of happiness and improvement, Archbishop Sheen is clear that the end result of personal betterment will lead to societal change. “Remake man,” he writes, “and you remake his world.” So while the true Way to Happiness may be walked alone, it was his hope that to walk it would lead the rest of the world to a better future.
# | Title | Duration |
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1. | Opening Credits - Way to Happiness |
0 mins 12 secs |
2. | Introduction: Plan and Purpose |
5 mins 33 secs |
3. | Chapter 1: Contentment |
5 mins 30 secs |
4. | Chapter 2: Reducing Ego to Zero |
5 mins 16 secs |
5. | Chapter 3: Joy |
4 mins 53 secs |
6. | Chapter 4: Is Modern Man Far From Peace? |
6 mins 59 secs |
7. | Chapter 5: Joy From The Inside |
5 mins 57 secs |
8. | Chapter 6: Love Is Infinite |
4 mins 42 secs |
9. | Chapter 7: The Philosophy Of Pleasure |
4 mins 38 secs |
10. | Chapter 8: Work |
6 mins 33 secs |
11. | Chapter 9: Repose |
4 mins 55 secs |
12. | Chapter 10: The Idle in The Marketplace |
4 mins 12 secs |
13. | Chapter 11: The Three Causes Of Love |
6 mins 29 secs |
14. | Chapter 12: When Lovers Fail There Is Love |
4 mins 26 secs |
15. | Chapter 13: True Love |
4 mins 23 secs |
16. | Chapter 14: The Effects Of Want Of Love |
5 mins 38 secs |
17. | Chapter 15: Reflections On Love |
5 mins 04 secs |
18. | Chapter 16: The Mystery Of Love |
4 mins 50 secs |
19. | Chapter 17: Love and Ecstasy |
5 mins 02 secs |
20. | Chapter 18: Motherhood |
5 mins 11 secs |
21. | Chapter 19: Parents And Children |
5 mins 24 secs |
22. | Chapter 20: Blood, Sweat And Tears |
6 mins 06 secs |
23. | Chapter 21: The Teen-Agers |
6 mins 12 secs |
24. | Chapter 22: More About Teen-Agers |
5 mins 19 secs |
25. | Chapter 23: The Loves Of Youth |
5 mins 07 secs |
26. | Chapter 24: Getting Away With It |
5 mins 35 secs |
27. | Chapter 25: Self-Discipline |
4 mins 37 secs |
28. | Chapter 26: Kindness |
4 mins 58 secs |
29. | Chapter 27: Fear And Ethics |
4 mins 29 secs |
30. | Chapter 28: Rest And Mediation |
5 mins 06 secs |
31. | Chapter 29: Better To Give Than Receive |
5 mins 29 secs |
32. | Chapter 30: The Spirit Of Service |
5 mins 19 secs |
33. | Chapter 31: How To Give |
5 mins 26 secs |
34. | Chapter 32: Progress |
4 mins 41 secs |
35. | Chapter 33: The Mass-Man |
5 mins 26 secs |
36. | Chapter 34: A Recall To The Inner Life |
5 mins 18 secs |
37. | Chapter 35: Why We Are Not Better |
5 mins 13 secs |
38. | Chapter 36: Revolution Starts With Man |
5 mins 20 secs |
39. | Chapter 37: There Is Hope |
4 mins 39 secs |
40. | Closing Credits Way to Happiness - 2022 |
0 mins 22 secs |
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