This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... future, his duties, his responsibilities, his solemn trial, and his eternity. May God's grace, His love, His peace, rest on all of you, united as you are in the Oratory of St. Philip, on old and young, on confessors and penitents, on teachers and taught, on living and dead. Apart from that grace, that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... future, his duties, his responsibilities, his solemn trial, and his eternity. May God's grace, His love, His peace, rest on all of you, united as you are in the Oratory of St. Philip, on old and young, on confessors and penitents, on teachers and taught, on living and dead. Apart from that grace, that love, that peace, nothing is stable. All things have an end, but the earth will last its time, and while the earth lasts Holy Church will last; and while Holy Church lasts may the Oratory of Birmingham last also, amid the fortunes of many generations, one and the same, faithful to St. Philip, strong in the protection of Our Lady and all Saints, not losing as time goes on its sympathy with its first fathers, whatever may be the burden and interests of its own day, as we in turn now stretch forth our hands with love and with awe towards those our unborn successors whom on earth we shall never know. at the london oratory. On the last Sunday in June, 1881, Cardinal Newman, who was accompanied from Birmingham by Father Bellasis, preached at the London Oratory, after reading from a Pastoral from the Cardinal Archbislwp on Catholic education. The Card1nal testified to the great work done by the Cardinal Archbishop for Christian education, and said that an objection commonly made was that, man being a double being, composed of body and soul, and having relations with this world and with the next--why, then, should he not be trained in those things which concern this world by men of this world, and in those which concern the next world by men of the next world? In answer to this objection, he answered that, in fact, it is impossible to separate body and soul, and that the whole tone and drift of the teaching of the Apostles and of our Blessed Lord...
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