"My dear boys, throughout your life find a home in the Holy Family." Image: From right to left: Father Thomas Pope, Father William Neville, Father Paul Eaglesim, Cardinal Newman, the Cardinal's 'Gentiluomo', the 'Caudatario', or Trainbearer. Source: Wiki Commons Public Domain Editors' Notes A few words about the context of this short address. It was …
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"The Mystic Body shares the shame of the real Body. It is scoffed at and despised. But it also shares his glory." Image: Muncaksy, Christ in front of Pilate, Wiki Commons. Editors' Notes Many of those discussing the post-Vatican II crisis refer to "The Passion of the Church". Behind this is the idea that the …
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"She will comfort you in your discouragements, solace you in your fatigues, raise you after your falls, reward you for your successes." Image: Wiki Commons Public Domain This is the second part of the sermon on the Assumption of our Blessed Lady by John Henry Cardinal Newman. It was published as one sermon in the …
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"She gave birth to the Creator, and what recompense shall be made her?" Image: Wiki Commons Public Domain This sermon on the Assumption of our Blessed Lady by John Henry Cardinal Newman was published in the collection Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations (and for UK readers). It was published in 1849, the first that he …
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"Take this glorious Saint for your master, and you will not wander out of the way.” In honour of St Joseph, we are publishing this exclusive translation of a sermon by Fr José María Bover SJ in two parts. This first part was published in advance of the feast of St Joseph the Worker (1 …
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"Great evils must be met with great remedies." "The great remedies for the evils that weigh upon the earth are to be sought in heaven. The great remedies for the immense evils that afflict us (and for the greater evils that threaten us) are these: devotion to the Heart of Jesus Christ; to the Immaculate …
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"O my Eternal Father, give me Thyself." 1. I ADORE Thee, O my God, with Thomas; and if I have, like him, sinned through unbelief, I adore Thee the more. I adore Thee as the One Adorable, I adore Thee as more glorious in Thy humiliation, when men despised Thee, than when Angels worshipped Thee. Deus meus et …
"Teach me, like Mary, to sit at Thy feet, and to hear Thy word." 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 all the prophecies which related to Thyself. And …
"Though hast paid the price, it is done, it is secured." 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 days we have professed to do penance. The time has been long …
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Image: El Greco, Jesus Carrying the Cross, (source) "He gave the word and His heart broke." 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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