Purgatory by Sadlier, Mrs. James, 1820-1903
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| In the commemorative services and solemn supplications offered in this cathedral, the first place, dear brethren, is deservedly due to your own lamented archbishops.... Besides these, memory turns, with fond regret, to a long list of Right Reverend Prelates, who were all present at the late Plenary Council, and who have since, one by one, passed away.... As we repeat each well-known name, hosts of pleasant memories come crowding on the mind just as by-gone scenes are awakened to new life by some sweet strain of once familiar music. Venerable forms loom up again before us with the paternal kindness, the distinguished presence, the winning ways we knew so well of old; and while the vision lasts we seem to hear a still small voice saying: "To-day for me, to- morrow for thee," or the echo of the words spoken by the wise woman of Thecua to the king on his throne: "We all die, and fall down into the earth, like waters that return no more." "Star differeth from star in glory." The bishops, whose virtues we commemorate, differed in gifts of mind, in habits of thought, in nationality, in early training, in personal experience, in almost everything else but their common faith. This golden bond united them to each other and to us. There was still another point of resemblance and another link that bound them all together--the participation in the divine work of the Good Shepherd which was laid upon them all.... PART IV.THOUGHTS OF VARIOUS AUTHORS ON PURGATORY.And mercy blows the coals, The metal in this furnace wrought Is men's defiled souls.--SOUTHWELL. THOUGHTS OF VARIOUS AUTHORS ON PURGATORY.PURGATORY.CARDINAL NEWMAN. |



