From Romans 11

I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew.



As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see; and ears that they should not hear, until this present day.


Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear. For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not thee.
. . .

And so all Israel should be saved . . .

The Canadian Martyrs in the "Vineyard of the Hurons"

They [the enemy tribe] therefore practiced, in a short time, savage cruelties, — especially upon the children, whom they tore from their mothers’ breasts in order to throw them alive into the fire. Father Charles Garnier was at that time alone there of ours; nor would he hear mention of fleeing . . .

-- The Jesuit Relations

My Lord JESUS CHRIST, — who through a special disposition of your fatherly providence have made me, although unworthy, a coadjutor of your Holy Apostles in this vineyard
of the Hurons . . . receive me for a perpetual servant of this mission, making me worthy of so sublime a ministry.

-- St. Noel Chabanel

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A Word on Images

From the Catholic Encyclopedia:

Two questions that obviously must be kept apart are those of the use of
sacred images and of the reverence paid to them. That Christians from the very
beginning adorned their catacombs with paintings of Christ, of the saints, of scenes from the Bible and allegorical groups is too
obvious and too well known for it to be necessary to insist upon
the fact. The catacombs
are the cradle of all Christian art.

And, at the same link, from the Council of Trent:

[The holy Synod commands] that images of Christ, the Virgin Mother of God, and other saints are to be held and kept especially in churches, that due honour and reverence (debitum honorem et venerationem) are to be paid to them, not that any divinity or power is thought to be in them for the sake of which they may be worshipped, or that anything can be asked of them, or that any trust may be put in images, as was done by the heathen who put their trust in their idols [Ps. cxxxiv, 15 sqq.], but because the honour shown to them is referred to the prototypes which they represent, so that by kissing, uncovering to, kneeling before images we adore Christ and honour the saints whose likeness they bear (Denzinger, no. 986).

All Dates Approximate

Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state. And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?. . . The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.

-- Job 14

St. James the Greater, A.D. 13 -- A.D. 44

The Blessed Virgin Mary, 15 B.C. -- 57 A.D. (?)

St. Mary Magdalene, A.D. 11 -- A.D. 63

St. Peter, 5 B.C. -- A.D. 64

St. John the Evangelist, A.D. 11 -- A.D. 100

Jesus Christ, A.D. 1 -- A.D. 33; A.D. 33 -- Eternity

In Thanksgiving for the Preservation of a House in New Orleans

Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were discovered: At thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the spirit of thy wrath.
He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many waters.
He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord became my protector.
And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because he was well pleased with me.

Psalm 17 (Douay-Rheims Bible)





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