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guarantee for every individual, as well as for the Church at large, is firm Faith. As the Saints of old, so now, we must have our faith tried; heresyThe keeping close is always to be found busy. to the Church, keeps us from false prophets.

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—Farewell to Jerusalem by the just before Roman — How Jerusalem at that time — What a

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siege. Little Flock, beautiful was Mary had pang to leave the lovely City for ever lived in yon Temple; Jesus had so often visited it The strange voices heard, and the Eastern !

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Gate opening of itself. Epistle. {Rom. viii.) We are debtors, not to the flesh, but to the Spirit: the fecundity of the Church ; the Spirit works, unitedly with the Church. The missioners of the Church to particular

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congregations.— Terrible trial when these mission-

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ers sow shrivelled seeds of minced truths Even then, the Church's Liturgy comes with its mighty power to souls. How admirably a christian would be instructed that studied his missal Epitome of the last few Sundays' rich teaching.— The leading idea of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. .terrible the lot of the Jews, who held to their Law, but rejected Him who gave !

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Gospel. — Luke, xvi.) The unjust Steward. —Jesus the rich Lord everything belongs to Him. — He divides his goods the eternal, he makes entirely over to us not so the temporal. —The proper use of temporal goodi. — How St. {St.

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Jerome applies

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J esus's weeping over Jerusalem. Events which preceded the destruction of the City. Epistle. (1 Cor. x.) The misery of the Jewish infidelity to Grace, a lesson to us Gentiles. God is faithful, never suffering us to be tempted beyond our strength. It was unbelief ruined Jews ; we must cultivate vigorous Faith. Our sins would exceed those of Israel. Gospel. {St. Luke, xix.) The time of thy its Visitation Destruction of Jerusalem history and lessons. Description and teaching.

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