The Prisoner of Love

by Francis Xavier Lasance

A REPRINT OF FR. LASANCE’S–PRISONER OF LOVE–IN A BIGGER FONT SIZE TO MAKE IT EASIER TO READ. Containing helpful “instructions and reflections on our duties toward Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar” and numerous “prayers and devotions for Visits to the Blessed Sacrament” etc., this book is truly a must read to help increase one’s devotion to Our Lord in the Holy Sacrament and “to make the Prisoner of Love better known and more fervently loved.” It is our sincerest hope that through this reprint, God may be greater glorified! O Sacrament most holy! O Sacrament Divine! All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine! (Other reprints that you may be interested in Meditations and Readings for Every Day of the Year Volume I, Parts I and II, covering Advent through Septuagesima, by Saint Alphonsus—republished in December 2024, Saint Joseph’s Help, The Sacred Heart, Maria Sanctissima, and Stories for First Communicants by The Very Rev. J. A. Keller, D. D., and The Sign of the Cross in the Nineteenth Century—republished on March 25th, 2017, The Christian Cemetery in the Nineteenth Century—republished on August 22nd, 2017, and The Genuflection in the Nineteenth Century—republished on September 29th, 2017, by Monsignor Jean-Joseph Gaume, also available on Amazon.)

Genres: Catholic

560 pages, Paperback

Published June 27, 2014

About the author

Francis Xavier Lasance [F. X. Lasance] was an American priest and writer of Roman Catholic devotional works.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was the son of Augustine and Philamena (Detert) Lasance. He was educated at St. Mary's School and St. Xavier College (Cincinnati) and St. Meinrad Archabbey (Indiana), and was ordained by the Most Reverend William Henry Elder, Archbishop of Cincinnati, on May 24, 1883.

During the next seven years, Lasance served as curate in various parishes in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati including churches in Kenton, Reading, Dayton, Lebanon, and Monroe, Ohio. He also served as chaplain at Our Lady's Summit, in East Walnut Hills, in Cincinnati. Ill health forced him to relinquish parish work in 1890; from then on, he lived a "retired, semi-invalid existence" at St. Francis Hospital, Cincinnati, writing various books on spiritual subjects and serving as spiritual director of the Tabernacle Society. He wrote thirty-nine volumes, including Thoughts on the Religious Life (1907), My Prayer Book (1913), Reflections for Religious (1920), Our Lady Book (1924), The New Roman Missal (1937, with the Reverend Father Augustine Walsh, OSB), Patience: Thoughts on the Patient Endurance of Sorrows and Suffering (1937); Catholic Girl's Guide; Manna of the Soul; Visits to Jesus in the Tabernacle; Road to Happiness; With Saints and Sages; Young Man's Guide; Let Us Pray; Come Holy Spirit: Prayer Book for Religious; Lift Up Your Hearts; Blessed Sacrament Book; My God and My All; Holy Souls Book; Sacred Heart Book; Little Manual of St. Anthony; Rejoice in the Lord; Prisoner of Love; With God; Sweet Sacrament, We Thee Adore; Emmanuel; Holiness and Happiness; Novenas and Devotions in Honor of the Holy Ghost; Thoughts on the Religious Life; Self-Conquest; Remember. He also compiled and edited the Blessed Sacrament Book (1913).

For his devotional works, he was given a special blessing by Pope Pius XI on May 10, 1927. Lasance died at the age of eighty-six, in his native city.