A Primer of the History of the Holy Catholic Church in Ireland ...: To the Formation of the Modern Irish Branch of the Church of Rome, Volume 1Curry, 1845 - Great Britain |
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Page 26 - Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.
Page 27 - And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people ; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Page 139 - Laurentius, Mellitus, and Justus, servants of the servants of God. When the apostolic see, according to the universal custom which it has followed elsewhere, sent us to these western parts to preach to pagan nations, we came into this island, which is called Britain, without possessing any previous knowledge of its inhabitants.
Page 157 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 228 - Divine contemplations ; which sort of life, though at first forced upon them by necessity, became so agreeable to some of them, that when the persecution was over they would not return to their ancient habitations again, but chose rather to continue in those cottages or cells, which they had made themselves in the wilderness. The first and most noted of these were Paul and Antonius, two famous Egyptians, whom therefore St. Jerom calls" the fathers of the Christian hermits.
Page 44 - I was as a stone which lies in the deep mire, and He who is mighty came and in His mercy raised me out of it : He hath exalted me and placed me on the top of the wall."* — " What shall I say or what shall I promise to the Lord ? For I possess no strength but what He hath given me ;" and, " from God have I received to be what I am.
Page 21 - Spirit was fervent within me." (Chap, ii.) And again, thus — " I was not from my childhood a believer in the only God, but continued in death and in unbelief until I was severely chastened : and in truth I have been humbled by hunger and nakedness, and it was my lot to traverse Ireland every day sore against my will, until I was almost exhausted. But this proved rather a benefit to me, because by means of it I have been corrected by the Lord, and he has fitted me for being at this day what was...
Page 183 - Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, and to thee I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven...
Page 208 - James above mentioned, the first singing master in the churches of the Northumbrians was Eddi, surnamed Stephen, invited from Kent by the most reverend Wilfrid, who was the first of the bishops of the English nation that taught the churches of the English the Catholic mode of life. Theodore, visiting all parts, ordained bishops in proper places, and with their assistance corrected such things as he found faulty.
Page 297 - Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not for the sea wrought and was tempestuous against them.