Venerable Fulton Sheen Speaks About Matt Talbot

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1975), one of the most dynamic preachers of the Catholic Faith in the twentieth century, speaks in this four minute video about "Matt Talbot, Patron Saint of Alcoholics."

 

In this twenty minutes video, Fulton Sheen talks about

 "Three Drunks Worth Knowing"

Importance of the Blessed Sacrament for Venerables Matt Talbot and Fulton J. Sheen

As these quotes indicate, the Blessed Sacrament was "essential" in the lives of Venerable Matt Talbot and (newly recognized) Venerable Fulton J. Sheen: 

 

"You know that Matt Talbot, the Dublin workingman, found in the Blessed Eucharist his support and his strength?  As a young man he was a slave to drink. He took the pledge and kept it. But who can tell what it cost him? When the temptation was fiercest Matt would make his way to the church and sit there. "I'm safe as long as I stay here"!”

(THREE TABERNACLES (1943) by Rev. Robert Nash, S.J. at http://www.catholicpamphlets.net/pamphlets/Three%20Tabernacles.pdf, page 4-5.)

"How can anyone be lonely, with Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament?" 

http://www.stmonicaadoration.org/20th%20Century%20Saints.htm#Ven.%20Matt%20Talbot

"The secret (to my preaching) is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That's where the power comes from. That's where sermons are born. That's where every good thought is conceived."

http://www.stmonicaadoration.org/Saints%201.htm#Archbishop%20Fulton%20Sheen

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen on Coping on Alcoholism

Pope Benedict XVI signed a decree on Thursday, June 28, 2012 that American Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) is now “Venerable,” in recognition that he lived a heroic, virtuous life. (See http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/archbishop-fulton-sheen-beatification-could-come-very-quickly/ and http://catholiceducation.org/articles/civilization/cc0107.html among hundreds of links.)

Among his prolific writings and presentations, a three-part series, Timeless Wisdom for Those Coping with Alcoholism, may be of particular interest. Information is available at http://www.amazon.com/Bishop-Fulton-Sheen-Timeless-Alcoholism/dp/B000R3X3FE and http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002JIBAUK.