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Post by Eric Gajewski on Feb 11, 2016 15:06:45 GMT
TradCatKnight: Saint Bernadette of LourdesA Sermon by Msgr. Ronald A. Knox, preached February, 1934. Videos included...
Bernadette was sent to a world in bondage, and to a world which rejoiced in its bondage. Those apparitions of hers took place in the very middle of the Victorian age, when mankind, or at any rate, the richer part of mankind, was enjoying material plenty to a degree, I suppose, unexampled before or since. And the presence of material plenty had given rise to a general spirit of materialism; a spirit which loves the good things of this life and is content with the good things of this life, does not know how to enlarge its horizons and think about eternity. She was sent to deliver us from that captivity of thought; to make us forget the idols of our prosperity, and learn afresh the meaning of suffering and the thirst for God. tradcatknight.blogspot.com/2016/02/saint-bernadette-of-lourdes.htmlAttachments:
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