Publications of the Catholic Truth Society, Volume 33

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Catholic Truth Society, 1897
 

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Page 36 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place...
Page 32 - Wherefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
Page 3 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Page 6 - At a time that a vast number of bad books, which most grossly attack the Catholic religion, are circulated even among the unlearned, to the great destruction of souls, you judge exceedingly well, that the faithful should be excited to the reading of the Holy Scriptures, for these are the most abundant sources, which ought to be left open to every one, to draw from them purity of morals and of doctrine, to eradicate the errors which are so widely disseminated in these corrupt times.
Page 13 - The evil sect, called Christian, is strictly prohibited. Suspicious persons should be reported to the proper officers, and rewards will be given Prohibitive Notices Removed.
Page 11 - I went up and opened the door. I had scarce time to say a Pater when three women between fifty and sixty years of age knelt down beside me, and said in a low voice, placing their hand upon their heart : '• The hearts of all of us here do not differ from yours.
Page 10 - For first we offer the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving ; then next we plead and represent before the Father the Sacrifice of the Cross, and by it we confidently entreat remission of sins and all other benefits...
Page 1 - We read of Christians being executed in a barbarous manner in sight of each other, of their being hurled from the tops of precipices, of their being buried alive, of their being torn asunder by oxen, of their being tied up in rice-bags, which were heaped up together, and of the pile thus formed being set on fire. Others were tortured before death by the insertion of sharp spikes under the nails of their hands and feet, while some poor wretches by a refinement of horrid cruelty were shut up in cages...
Page 10 - You are aware, venerable brethren, that a certain society, commonly called the Bible Society, strolls with effrontery throughout the world ; which society, contemning the traditions of the holy Fathers and contrary to the well-known decree of the Council of Trent...
Page 26 - More,2 writing about 1 530, affirms that " the whole Bible was, long before Wycliffe's days, by virtuous and well-learned men, translated into the English tongue ; and by good and godly people, with devotion and soberness, well and reverently read For as for old translations, before Wycliffe's time, they remain lawful and be in some folks

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