Overcoming Sin

by Ralph Martin

Many of us live with the frustration and discouragement of not being able to overcome aspects of sin in our lives. In this booklet, Ralph Martin clearly explains the wisdom of the saints that many have found helpful in overcoming patterns of sin. This wisdom is both inspiring and practical and many have benefited from it.

18 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 27, 2017

About the author

Ralph Martin has been a leader in renewal movements in the Catholic Church for many years. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame, he did graduate work in philosophy at Princeton University and holds an MA in Theology from Sacred Heart School of Theology in the Archdiocese of Detroit, a Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.) from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., and a Doctorate in Sacred Theology (S.T.D.) from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (the “Angelicum”) in Rome. He worked for a number of years for the National Office of the Cursillo Movement and subsequently became a leader in the national and international development of the charismatic renewal movement in the Catholic Church. He was the founding editor of New Covenant Magazine, as well as the founding director of the International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Office, currently located in Rome.

Currently, Ralph is president of Renewal Ministries, an organization devoted to Catholic renewal and evangelization (www.renewalministries.net). Ralph is also the host of “The Choices We Face” a widely viewed weekly Catholic television and radio program distributed throughout the world. Renewal Ministries is accountable in its work to a Board of Directors in the United States, which Archbishop Robert Carlson of St. Louis, serves as Episcopal Advisor, and to a Board in Canada that Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto, serves as Episcopal Advisor. Renewal Ministries is also actively involved in assisting the Church in more than 30 different countries through leadership training, evangelistic conferences and retreats, and the publication and distribution of Catholic resources.

Ralph is also an associate professor and Director of Graduate Theology Programs in the New Evangelization at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit (www.shms.edu) and a Visiting Professor of Theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He was named by Pope Benedict XVI as a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization and was also appointed as a “peritus” to the Synod on the New Evangelization in October of 2012.

He and his wife Anne have six children and 14 grandchildren and reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Reviews

[Paul Uwemedimo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Christ centered, challenging, encouraging and inspiring at same time

Ralph Martin's very short book is based on the Wisdom of God"s Word in the Scriptures and in the teaching of some of the Doctors of the Church especially St Francis De Salle and St Therese of Liseux. It is a challenging message, being very realistic about the pervasiveness and seriousness of sin. It is also encouraging and inspiring because it reminds us of God's Love for us, his desire for us to be saved and changed and his ability to save and change us in his infinite power. We are reminded on the need to look to Christ, lean on him and to persevere with faith and trust.

[Cindy SamRod · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book with a lot of really thought provoking topics and answers.