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The Principle Catholic Practices - A Popular Explanation of the Sacraments and Catholic Devotions (Paperback)
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The Principle Catholic Practices - A Popular Explanation of the Sacraments and Catholic Devotions (Paperback)
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My association with converts has taught me that they are so much
happier in the True Faith if they are familiar with the devotions
and practices that are essentially Catholic. Experience has also
demonstrated that not a few who were born and reared in the Faith
betray a lack of thorough instruction, or have simply forgotten the
meanings and purposes of many Catholic practices. For such readers
I have endeavored to gather in the following pages the most salient
features of Catholic life. My aim has been to give interesting and
profitable reading in plain words. And thus I hope that this book
will find favor with all classes of Catholics. In our busy American
life we lose so easily our hold on the things that are eternal.
There is, therefore, all the more need that from time to time we
refresh our souls with the contemplation of the service, the wealth
of consolation, and the brilliant hopes for the future which are
afforded us by the beautiful devotions and practices of our
religion. Let us consider this on devotion to the Blessed Virgin
Mary: "To me it has been one of the most baffling mysteries of the
world that the propriety of honoring and venerating the Mother of
God should ever have been brought into question. On that memorable
day when the Saviour hung on the cross, a bruised and crushed
victim for the world's crimes, some of the last words spoken by Him
were addressed to His Mother and St. John: "Woman, behold thy son.
After that He saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother." (John xix.
26-27.) It has always been the belief of Christians that hereby the
Blessed Redeemer constituted His Mother as the Mother of all
Christians, and placed the faithful of His Church under her special
guidance and protection. But one might object that this
interpretation is forced and not implied in the words. If not, how
can we explain that Our Lord chose such an important moment, if He
merely desired to provide for His Mother. An ordinary human being
makes many requests upon his deathbed because he realizes that he
will be unable to counsel and provide after the hand of death has
touched him. But surely, no one will suggest that Our Saviour just
happened to think of the needs of His Mother as He saw death
approaching. No indeed. The solemnity of the occasion, as well as
the publicity of the act indicated that here was something
important and of interest not only to those who stood beneath the
cross, but to the whole world."
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