"... It becomes obvious that we have continual though silent record of decisions and acts of St Joseph." Photo by Saint John's Seminary on Unsplash. Some line breaks added below, with some headings taken from the original Table of Contents. Editors' Notes It is sometimes suggested that the Gospels have relatively little to say about …
"Before the Blessed Mary could be Mother of God... she was set apart, sanctified, filled with grace, and made meet for the presence of the Eternal." Image: La Inmaculada Concepción, Francisco Rizzi, (Source: Wikimedia commons) Editors' Introduction The gospel of the third Sunday in Lent ends with the following verses: "And it came to pass, …
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"... to preserve the sacred treasure of purity, or to regain it after having lost it." Image: British Museum, Commemorative print on the founding of the Angelic Warfare Confraternity (also called the Guild of the Cord of St Thomas Aquinas) in 1649 by Franciscus Deurwaarders. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Editors' Notes(Want to …
"We must surrender to Him all we have, all we are. We must keep nothing back." Image: Temptation of Christ, Félix Joseph Barrias, (Wikicommons: source) Editors' Notes The season of Lent is a season of fasting. Even a cursory glance at the Collects of the Roman Missal will reveal that the Church assumes that the faithful …
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"There was war between the woman and the Serpent. This is most emphatically fulfilled if she had nothing to do with sin" In honour of Our Lady on the great Feast of the Immaculate Conception, we present the "Memorandum on the Immaculate Conception" written by Cardinal Newman for his friend Robert Wilberforce, who was looking for something to help him deal with objections made against the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception by some Protestant friends.
"It is a great difference whether God is deprived of His glory by their complete deliverance even a little later." It's easy to put things off – especially when it involves arranging Masses, arranging November envelopes, and so on. And while a moment's delay for us seems to be a matter of indifference, it can …
Continue reading The price of delay in relieving the souls in Purgatory – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1889
"The Heavenly Power provides a unique and manifold gift when it gives us not only intercessors for our sins but also teachers of eternal life." Image: St Gregory and King Chilperic, Grandes Chronique de France de Charles V, (Wiki Commons, source) Introduction While doing research for The WM Review’s ongoing series on St Gregory the …
Continue reading CLASSIC BOOK REVIEW: The Life of the Fathers, by St Gregory of Tours
"It pleads through the heart and through the lips of Mary herself." This is continuing our series of extracts from the great Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ. This extract from a work on Purgatory nonetheless contains some interesting remarks on the Holy Rosary and its place in the life of the laity. Photo by Annie Spratt …
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"The pain of sense could not, by any possibility, escape her notice." This is continuing our series of extracts from the great Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ. Image: Wiki Commons Public Domain From The Prisoners of the KingThoughts on the Catholic Doctrine of PurgatoryFr Henry James Coleridge SJ Burns and Oates, London 1889 pp 191-202 UK …
"This terrible sorrow is one of their most severe punishments." Image: Wiki Commons Public Domain, Rembrandt - Old Man in an Armchair From The Prisoners of the KingThoughts on the Catholic Doctrine of PurgatoryFr Henry James Coleridge SJ Burns and Oates, London1889pp 206-213UK readersInternet Archive "Woe to thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida; for if …