The Deepening the Spiritual Life in Our Parishes. A Paper, Etc

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S.P.C.K., 1873 - Spiritual life - 47 pages
 

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Page 18 - Truths, of all others the most awful and interesting, are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.
Page 24 - Christ, and drink his blood; then we dwell in Christ, and Christ in us; we are one with Christ, and Christ with us...
Page 24 - For as the benefit is great, if with a true penitent heart and lively faith we receive that holy Sacrament; (for then we spiritually eat the Flesh of CHRIST, and drink His Blood; then we dwell in CHRIST, and CHRIST in us; we are one with CHRIST, and CHRIST with us ;) so is the danger great, if we receive the same unworthily.
Page 9 - Lord, fit me for thyself, and then call me to those joys unspeakable and full of glory, when thou pleasest, and that for the sake of thy only Son Jesus, my Saviour, in whose holy words I sum up all my wants : Our Father, &c.
Page 47 - STIR up, we beseech thee, 0 Lord, the wills of thy faithful people ; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 41 - ... would most urge him to express. The happier worshippers, on the other hand, who come to the house of prayer less in the spirit of fear than of love, will willingly adopt every sentence of this confession ; for the remembrance of their past lives furnishes them with numberless reasons for acknowledging that they have erred and strayed from God's ways like lost sheep...
Page 23 - He is more willing to give than we are to ask ; and, as our Lord Himself invites us, persevere when our petition seems not to be • granted, until we gain by "importunity...

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