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A Nineteenth Century Miracle - The Brothers Ratisbonne and the Congregation of Notre Dame de Sion (Paperback)
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A Nineteenth Century Miracle - The Brothers Ratisbonne and the Congregation of Notre Dame de Sion (Paperback)
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The story runs curiously parallel with the Tractarian movement,
Oxford having its counterpart in Strasbourg. It throws up its
leaders who, once become Catholics, do not altogether agree in
their policies for the diffusion of the Faith; it is composed
almost wholly of undergraduates and professors; it creates a new
religious Institute (if one may be allowed this inaccuracy when
speaking of so venerable a body as the Oratory); it reacts upon the
religious community from which it came out. But this group is led
by Ratisbonne (1802-1884) instead of Newman (1801- 1890),
shepherded by Bautain instead of Wiseman, preceded by Goschler and
Level instead of Ward and his friends. Moreover the Strasbourg
movement is earlier. Ratisbonne had been a priest already three
years when Keble preached his Assize Sermon on July 14,1833; and
the Institute of Notre Dame de Sion received Episcopal sanction in
Newman's critical year of 1845. But curiously, in the year 1847,
the Constitutions of the Institute were approved by Mgr. Affre and
Newman's Oratory began. The two men do not seem ever to have met,
though Abbe Ratisbonne came to England in 1858, 1863, 1867, and had
already known Manning, Faber, Gaisford, and others of the
Tractarians. Finally in May, 1879, Newman was created a Cardinal by
Leo XIII., and in May, 1880, the same Pontiff raised Ratisbonne to
the rank of Protonotary Apostolic. But these, perhaps forced,
coincidences cannot conceal many differences in the movements
inseparably connected with the names of these two great men;
especially in this, that there has been a gradual slackening of the
Jewish movement towards the Church, while the Anglican movement has
grown in force. So at least we should have said years ago. But now?
To some of us it looks as though the older prophecies were coming
true, more nearly to our own time than we could have dared to hope:
"He that scattered Israel shall gather him, and He shall keep him
as a shepherd doth his flock" (Jer. Xxxi. 10). May this story of
great faith and hope and greater charity help to lead many a "
wandering Jew" to the Feet of Christ " There remaineth therefore a
rest for the children of God."
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