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CHUKCH THE MOTHER AND INSPIRATION OF ART. t Lecture delivered by
the Very Rev. T. N. Burke, O.P., in the Church of St. Vincent
Ferrer, New York, March 10, 1872.] Dearly Beloved Brethren: This
morning I told you the Holy Catholic Church was the spouse of the
Lord Jesns Christ, so described to us in Scripture as "dear to the
Lord," the interior beauty of which the Psalmist says is " like the
beauty of the king's daughter," and of the exterior of Vhich he
spoke when he said: " The queen stood at His right hand, in golden
garb, surrounded with variety." We saw, moreover, this morning,
that the interior beauty and ineffable loveliness of the Church
consists, above all, in this, that she holds enshrined in her
tabernacles the Lord, the Redeemer of the world, as the Blessed
Virgin Mary, His mother, held Him in her arms in Bethlehem, as the
cross supported Him on Mount Calvary; that she possesses His
everlasting truth, which He left as her inheritance, and which it
is her destiny not only to hold, but to proclaim and propagate to
all the nations; and, finally, that she holds in her hands the
sacramental power and agencies by which souls are sanctified,
purified, and saved. In these three features we saw the beauty of
the Church of God; in these three we beheld how the mystery of the
Incarnation is perpetuated in her, for Christ our Lord did not for
ever depart from earth, but, according to His own word, came back
and remained. ''' I will not leave you orphans," He said, " but I
will come to you again, and I will remain with you all days, even
to the consummation of the world." We see in these three wonderful
features of the Church's interior beauty how she is truly "the city
of the Living God," " the abode of grace and holiness;" and,
therefore, that all the majesty, all th...
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