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How Our Lady felt on the Day of Pentecost – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ
Pentecost marks the promulgation of the New Covenant. What did the Blessed Virgin Mary feel about the 3,000 new Christian converts baptized that day?
St Matthias, his election and Our Lady – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ
How did the Blessed Virgin Mary feel when St Matthias was elected as an Apostle to fill the place left by Judas?
"What is the New Covenant?" The Prophet Jeremiah and Cornelius à Lapide explain
Some Jewish authorities say there can be no New Covenant or New Testament, because the Old was already perfect. What did Jeremiah actually prophesy?
Awaiting Pentecost: Our Lady and the Apostles in the Cenacle – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ
"She could understand, more than any other, the gifts and fruits of the Holy Ghost as they are drawn out for us by Isaias and by St. Paul."
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Our Lady, the Rosary and the Holy Souls – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1889
“It pleads through the heart and through the lips of Mary herself.”
The Rosary: A School of Contemplation – Garrigou-Lagrange, 1941
“The words are a kind of melody which soothes the ear and isolates us from the noise of the world.”
What did Cardinal Newman say about the Rosary to a school of young men and boys?
"The great power of the Rosary lies in this, that it makes the Creed into a prayer."
Why was St Robert Bellarmine declared a Doctor of the Church?
Sometimes it can feel like Heaven uses dates in a providential way.
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S.D. Wright
Denouncing heretics "... according to the mind of St Alphonsus" – Scavini 1869
"Any person, if they know someone to be an heretic or suspected of heresy, is obliged to report them."
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Recognising heretics "... according to the Mind of St Alphonsus" – Scavini, 1869
"Whoever delights in such novelties, I deduce from this fact alone that he is a heretic."
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“Do you pray to Our Lady as you should, as befits her?” from Georges Bernanos, 1937
“The last-born of their ancient race, celestial hostage round which demons howl.”
Cardinal Newman and the validity of Holy Orders – what would he think today?
"Is it not charitable to hope, to believe, that so great a treasure has not been given to their keeping?"
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