MEDITATIONS FOR CATECHUMENS. THE YOUTHFUL JESUS
For youths, Thou didst become a youth, that Thou mightest set them an example, and sanctify them unto Thyself! When Thou wast "twelve years old," Thy parents took Thee with…
For youths, Thou didst become a youth, that Thou mightest set them an example, and sanctify them unto Thyself! When Thou wast "twelve years old," Thy parents took Thee with…
How oft have sin and Satan strove To rend my soul from Thee, my God; But everlasting is Thy love, And Jesus seals it with His blood. The oath and…
All repentance of a baptized person is but a return to God's covenant-mercy, signed and sealed in his baptism; and all hope of remission of sin must rest on that…
Blessed covenant in which you stand! Blessed promises which it holds out to you! Blessed grace which it bestows! Your faith- ful Father will never forget it — never forget…
You have not only a right to all these glorious blessings of His grace, but the Holy Ghost given to you in your baptisms begets in you a desire after…
So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and…
"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for re- proof, for correction, for instruction in right- eousness; that the man of God may be…
From a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make three wise uto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus. -St. Paul We have also…
Though you are thus graciously related to Christ, bear in mind that you are only at the beginning and not at the end of the Chris- tian life. "I beseech…
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they…