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The Messenger of the Sacred Heart for India August 1918

1918

Francis Xavier laboured for his two and a half years of residence in Japan: here too but a short walk from the town-centre is the holy mountain looking down upon the lovely harbour the scene of the “great martyrdom” in 1622; ana almost in the shadow of the mountain is Urakami the village where the descendents of the martyrs lived and kept the faith during the two long priestless centuries; an [...] The faith in the coining Saviour raised by God's grace into an act of supernatural e'faith is the link that was to unite all the ages and nations before.Jesus Christ came into this world with Him the Saviour the link that was to entitle them to the hiltless of the great pardon and all the graces lie was to obtain for mankind on the cross. [...] (3) In the offering of propitition only a portion of the flesh was burned and the remainder consumed by the priests to signify that the expiation of sin is done through the ministry of the priest ; whenever the offering was made for the sins of the whole people or in a particular manner for the sins of priest then all the flesh was burnt the blood was partly used to bedaub the altar the rest [...] Because the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for your souls and the blood may be for an expiation of the oul" (Tievit 17 IL) All these sacrifices of the old law besides being exterior acts of the interior disposition of man's heart viz. [...] And so with talk and laughter they set out along the white winding road beneath the fragrant whitethorn past the rath and the fairy valley and the clover-fields and over the bill until at last the first friendly brown roofs of Ballyduff are seen and the neighbours drop off one by one with a " God be with you " and at length the white road is bare and empty again and the shadows grow short in
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General Intention for August 1918
267-271 Thomas Barrett view
Vocation
272-272 unknown view
Letter of a Mother to a Lifelong Friend
273-274 unknown view
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
275-279 unknown view
Skethces Illustrating the Promises of Our Lord to Blessed Margaret Mary
280-282 unknown view
The Challenge of Jesus Christ
283-286 Alban Goodier view
New Town
287-291 Kathleen Daly view
Studies in the Bible
292-295 The Editor view
Truth and Untruth
296-299 unknown view
Interests of the Sacred Heart
300-303 unknown view
Spiritual Gleanings
304-305 unknown view
Points and Lines for Meditation
306-306 unknown view

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