This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...you would make in saintly humility in a very short time! Ask Jesus earnestly for this grace. Fr. Prevot. O faithful Friend Of me and of my end! Fold up my life in love; and lay 't beneath My dear Lord's vital death. Lo, heart, thy hope's whole plea! her precious breath Pour'd out in prayers for thee; thy Lord's in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...you would make in saintly humility in a very short time! Ask Jesus earnestly for this grace. Fr. Prevot. O faithful Friend Of me and of my end! Fold up my life in love; and lay 't beneath My dear Lord's vital death. Lo, heart, thy hope's whole plea! her precious breath Pour'd out in prayers for thee; thy Lord's in death. Crashaw. exceeding joy. St. Jude 24. DEVOTION FOR THE MONTH "The Precious Blood." ONE of the soldiers opened His side with a spear: and immediately there came out blood and water. _..., . St. John xix. 34. Nails that rivet to the Cross so slow, Force the sluices of the blood to flow; From Thy Heart a ready cistern fills. Blood and water the Centurion spills. Michael Field. FIRST WEEK OF JULY "PRAYER." Lord, teach us to pray. St. Luke xi. 1. ISPAKE: but God was nowhere seen; Was His love too tired to wait? Ah, no! my own unsimple love Hath often made me late.... Not a rustling in the wood, Nor whispered sin, nor inarticulate thought, From that unsleeping audience can escape. Fr. Faber. THOU, when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret will repay thee. st. Matt. vi. 6. We pray in our chamber when we banish from our heart the tumult of our thoughts and anxieties, in order to offer our prayer to God in the " secret " of love. We " close the door " when we close our lips in order to pray in silence to Him who hears the heart much more than the words. Fr. Cassian., S.J. Even as Elias, mounting to the sky, Did cast his mantle to the earth behind, So, when the heart presents the prayer on high, Exclude the world from traffic with the mind. Ven. R. Southwell, S.J. Direct teaching cannot go much beyond pointing out the c...
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