"Strengthen What Remains"
“If Jesus be with you, no enemy can harm you.” Image: Christ and the woman at the well, Rubens. Wiki Commons CC The Imitation of ChristThomas à Kempis Book II Chapters VII-VIII The Imitation of Christ is available from Amazon US and Amazon UK Loving Jesus Above All Things Blessed is he who appreciates what …
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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.
“To expect the mature mind to be satisfied with the hazy memory of the limited instruction suitable to boys is, at the least, imprudent.” This extract from Boylan’s This Tremendous Lover, published with permission by Baronius Press, is a wonderful explanation of the sort of reading that nurtures the spiritual life. I recall reading this …
“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 …
“The fierce eagles do not give birth to the timid and cowering dove.” Fr Henry James Coleridge wrote prolifically about the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ. In this extract, he considers how Catholics may know the Church in the final days – gathering around her like the eagles around the body, as Our Lord …
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“Their instincts are more keen and more certain than those of the eagles.” Fr Henry James Coleridge wrote prolifically about the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ. In this extract, he considers how the Church may appear in the final days. Image: Demir’s Lightning. Wiki Commons CC From The Return of the King – Discourses …
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“We know not how soon the tide of war may come to our homes.” Fr Henry James Coleridge wrote prolifically about the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ. This extract, from his book about the end of the world, shows how accurate his warnings were about the aims, ideas and even the slogans used to …
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“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 …