Plain Sermons - Couverture rigide

Dolan, Thomas Stanislaus 1869-1918

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1374299642 ISBN 13 : 9781374299641

Editeur : Wentworth Press, 2016

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Although written for priests, wouldn't lay people also profit by reading sermons? Would this not give us a larger chance of learning and appreciating the Catholic Faith? Consider this excerpt: “Beloved: It does not require any profound study of the New Testament to see most clearly that the religion of Jesus Christ is pre-eminently a religion of the cross, and that the standards which He set up are the perfect antitheses of those of the world. We hear a good deal at the present time about a certain reconciliation of the Church with the world or with the age. The idea is founded upon a mistaken notion of Christianity, a distortion of the character and the teaching of Christ, and no theorizing, no clever subterfuge will ever effect concord between the two irreconcilables. Look at society round about us, and you cannot fail to observe that one of its most distinguishing characteristics is indifference to the things of God' and eternity. The advocates of liberalism in religion, of free-thought and so-called rationalism, are received into presumptively Christian society's midst, with as much grace as is accorded the truly Christian man. It may be added that onaccount of their sophistries, these individuals are especially interesting to society's denizens, if their financial resources will sustain them socially. Going to church, at least on occasion, is, perhaps, a kind of necessity for the maintenance of social respectability, but even where this is in some way required, we find the supremest indifference to dogma and an unmistakable indifference to that high code of morality which is an essential feature of Christianity.” The average priest looks with suspicion upon sermon books, because contact with them has not afforded him the desired help in the work of his ministry. He complains that the discourses he finds in books are for the most part, unattractive in form, trite, platitudinarian, or too long if not too short. Unfortunately his complaints are all too well founded, and hence it is with a certain fear and trembling that one dares bring any thing forward in the shape of sermons or conferences. Yet there is a demand for sermon books on the part of the younger clergy, and if the writer understands that demand aright, it embraces first a good-deal of truth, secondly attractive and direct form, and thirdly moderate brevity. A long sermon, though otherwise a meritorious one, is for most people a distinct failure. There are occasions it is true, when a lengthy discourse IS both expected and required, but these occasions are rare. His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons has said on a number of occasions in the writer's hearing, that generally speaking, a priest has no business in the pulpit for more than half an hour. Most priests will assuredly agree with the Cardinal in this view. The method of memorizing the productions of Lacordaire, Monsabre, Felix, Ravignan, Newman, Hedley and Tyrrell, and declaiming them before American congregations is simply pathetic, yet there are those who adopt this method, and fancy that thereby they advance the ministry of the pulpit. On the other hand, there is an erroneous prejudice among some in favor of a rambling discourse of about ten or fifteen minutes duration, whereby nothing is effected save perhaps a certain irreverence to the word of God. The following sermons are partly dogmatic and partly moral. That they have many defects the writer is deeply conscious, yet there has been an earnest effort to present some of the truths of religion in a lucid and direct manner, to get away from platitude in that presentation, and to invest it with a certain freshness. The dogmatic sermons could be utilized for lenten courses and the moral conferences would serve easily for retreats to sodalities or organizations of young men. These of course would have to be supplemented by short instructions, particularly on the worthy reception of the sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wentworth Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1374299642
• ISBN 13: 9781374299641
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 410
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible