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Showing posts with label Mortification. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mortification. Show all posts
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Let Us Shut Out the Fear of Death and Meditate upon Immortality

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Let Us Shut Out the Fear of Death and Meditate upon Immortality Our obligation is to do God’s will, and not our own. We must rem...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Whoever Conquers Will Not Be Harmed By the Second Death

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Whoever Conquers Will Not Be Harmed By the Second Death In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye as the final trumpet sounds,...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

Let Us Die With Christ, to Live With Christ

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Let Us Die With Christ, to Live With Christ We see that death is gain, life is loss. Paul says:   For me life is Christ, and dea...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

CHAPTER VIII. The Eight Precept, On Fasting

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  The Eight Precept, On Fasting ACCORDING to the order given by the angel, we will now briefly speak on fasting. Omitting many of th...

CHAPTER IV. The Fourth Precept, Containing Three Evangelical Counsels

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The Fourth Precept, Containing Three Evangelical Counsels ALTHOUGH what we have said on faith, hope, and charity, may seem suffici...

CHAPTER II. The Second Precept, Which Is, To Die to the World

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The Second Precept, Which Is, To Die to the World Now, that we may live well it is necessary, in the first place, that we die to t...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Imitating Christ and Despising All Vanities on Earth

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Imitating Christ and Despising All Vanities on Earth HE WHO follows Me, walks not in darkness," says the Lord. By these words ...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

The Lenten Fast an Opportunity for Restoring our Purity

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The Lenten Fast an Opportunity for Restoring our Purity In proposing to preach this most holy and important fast to you, dearly b...

The Duty of Fasting is Based on Both the Old and New Testaments

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The duty of fasting is based on both the Old and New Testaments, and is closely connected with the duties of prayer and almsgiving...

The Benefits of Abstinence Shown by the Example of the Hebrews

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The Benefits of Abstinence shown by the Example of the Hebrews In former days, when the people of the Hebrews and all t...

Restoration to the Divine Image

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Restoration to the Divine image in which we were made  is only possible by our imitation of God's will If, dearly be...