"The Judge is near, even at the very gate. Life is passing away, as a dream, and as a flower." Image: Cain leads Abel to his Death - Tissot. The incident is mentioned elsewhere in The Great Canon. Wiki Commons. St Andrew of Crete died in the eighth century in Damascus. He became a monk …
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"Another feature of persecution is the great apparent success which is sometimes allowed to it." Image: WikiCommons. Some line breaks added below, with some headings taken from the original Table of Contents. Editors' Notes As usual, we wanted to include some notes and commentary, but this is already a long text. We have published these …
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"It represented the effects of the blood of the lamb with which the doorposts of the Israelites were marked." FromThe Thirty YearsOur Lord's Infancy & Hidden LifeFr Henry James Coleridge1885 Burns and Oates, London, 1915112-120 Image: Wiki Commons Public Domain. Some line breaks added below, with some headings taken from the original Table of Contents. …
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"The true Church of God must be united, fastened and joined together in one same doctrine and belief" Over the last months, we have made the visible unity of the Church's faith a central theme of a number of essays. In short, the Church is essentially united in her external profession of faith. This is an essential aspect of the property of unity itself. As one of the four notes of the Church recited in the Creed, this unity of faith is a "negative" property in the sense that the true Church of Christ can never lack it. Any society claiming to be the Church of Christ shows itself to be a false claimant if it lacks this unity of faith.
"I finish by declaring before God and ready to appear before Him, that I do not reproach myself for any of the crimes which are brought against me." Image: Funerary monument of Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette. Wiki Commons As many know, January 21st marks the anniversary of France’s regicide. King Louis XVI of France was …
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"Do not seek the malicious satisfaction of having discovered an additional enemy to the Church." Editors' Notes In his Apology, the early Christian writer Tertullian imagined pagans looking at Christians and marvelling at our mutual love: "'See,' they say, 'how they love one another' – for the pagans themselves are animated by mutual hatred. 'See …
"His is an omnipotence which can swathe itself in infirmity and can become the captive of its own creatures." Image: Adoration of the Magi, Edward Burne Jones, (Wikipedia Commons: source) Editor's Introduction Today is the great feast of the Epiphany. The word, as many of us know, means an appearance or manifestation. The feast is …
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"A real intrinsic distinction between a public crime and a crime notorious in fact can hardly be established." Image: Wiki Commons Public Domain Editors' notes It is sometimes suggested that only notorious heresy separates someone from the Church; and that notoriety is only attained by some combination of warnings, declarations or sentencing by authority. In …
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"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.