"If in Sodom had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto this day." Image: Wiki Commons. This is an expanded extract taken from the article Possible Miracles, Possible Deception. Miracles as proof of Christ’s revelation In the Gospel for the Third Sunday of Lent, Our Lord condemns …
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"Organized warfare is more advantageous for the soldier than were he forced to fight this duel, alone." Image: Wiki Commons Editors' Notes As previously noted, it is not so easy to find pre-conciliar material on "The Angelic Warfare Confraternity" of the Cord of St Thomas Aquinas. We are glad to have the permission of Dominicana …
"Would He drive away the Herodian princes as He had scattered the money-changers?" Image from Wiki Commons. Some line breaks added below, with some headings taken from the original Table of Contents. Fr Coleridge's book on St John the Baptist takes us up to the close of the saint's ministry, but not his life. Nonetheless, …
"... a sign of danger, secret pride, or coldness of charity." Murillo, Wiki Commons. Some line breaks added below, with some headings taken from the original Table of Contents. The following extract from Fr Coleridge's book on the ministry of St John the Baptist sheds an interesting light on more "recent" devotions adopted by the …
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"Teach me, like Mary, to sit at Thy feet, and to hear Thy word." Image: Caravaggio, Supper at Emmaus, Wiki Commons, (source). 1. MY Lord Jesus, how wonderful were those conversations which Thou didst hold from time to time with Thy disciples after Thy resurrection. When Thou wentest with two of them to Emmaus, Thou didst explain …
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"It is over now, O Lord, as with Thy sufferings, so with our humiliations." Image: "Jesus is Placed in the Tomb", Cuypershuis, Wiki Commons, (source) 1. IT is over now, O Lord, as with Thy sufferings, so with our humiliations. We have followed Thee from Thy fasting in the wilderness till Thy death on the Cross. For forty …
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"He gave the word and His heart broke." Image: El Greco, Jesus Carrying the Cross, (source) 1. His bodily pains were greater than those of any martyr, because He willed them to be greater. All pain of body depends, as to be felt at all, so to be felt in this or that degree, on the …
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"Every fresh sin, every fresh ingratitude I now commit, was among the blows and stripes which once fell on thee." Image: Wiki Commons Public Domain. 1. AFTER all His discourses were consummated (Matt. xxvi. 1), fully finished and brought to an end, then He said, The Son of Man will be betrayed to crucifixion. As an …
"He trod the winepress alone." 1. SYMPATHY may be called an eternal law, for it is signified or rather transcendentally and archetypically fulfilled in the ineffable mutual love of the Divine Trinity. God, though infinitely One, has ever been Three. He ever has rejoiced in His Son and His Spirit, and they in Him—and thus through …
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"Now for the first time she is raised to that pre-eminent throne of suffering." Murillo's Virgen Dolorosa – CC Wiki Commons. Some line breaks added below, with some headings taken from the original Table of Contents. FromThe Thirty YearsOur Lord’s Infancy & Hidden LifeFr Henry James Coleridge1885 Burns and Oates, London, 1915154-63 The change of …
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