The Four Mysteries of the FaithLongmans, Green and Company, 1926 - 204 pages |
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adoration altar analogy Angels Anointing Apocalypse Apostles Baptism become beginning Blessed blood Body of Christ Branch theory bread Bride of Christ called Catholic child Christian Church Communion consecration course Creation death Divine Organism doctrine earth Eucharist faith Father Four Mysteries glory God's Godhead Grace hath Holy Ghost Holy Orders Holy Spirit human Incarnation incense individual infinite intellectual Jesus Christ John John the Baptist Kingdom of Heaven Lamb light Lord marriage meaning metaphor mind Mivart Mother Motherhood Mount Sion Mystical Body natural Old Testament ourselves parable partakers Paschal Paul Penance Pentecost prayer priest prophecies Prophet Real Presence reality receive Redeemer Redemption revelation Sacrament Sacrifice Satan Scheeben Scripture seventh seal Shechinah Sonship soul spiritual subsacramental supernatural symbol teaching theological Third Mystery Thou thought tion Trinity true truth unity universal victory visible whole woman word worship
Popular passages
Page 117 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 201 - Spirit in the inward man ; that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith ; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Page 86 - For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, My name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to My name a clean oblation :* for My name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 80 - For as we have many members In one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ and every one members one of another.
Page 74 - He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: But the friend of the bridegroom which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease.
Page 183 - ... partings gone, And partings yet to be. She left me marvelling why my soul Was sad that she was glad; At all the sadness in the sweet, The sweetness in the sad. Still, still I seemed to see her, still Look up with soft replies, And take the berries with her hand, And the love with her lovely eyes Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in other's pain, And perish in our own.
Page 186 - And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone : And there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Page 151 - Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Page 87 - The chalice of benediction, which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread, which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord?
Page 152 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself: for no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church: for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.