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Epistle. (1 Cor. xii.) On the manifold miraculous "workings of the Holy Ghost in the early beginnings of the Church. OnGracesgratuitously given, and those which make the receiver pleasing

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Pharisee. Ven. Bede's explanation; the Pharisee in the Jewish people ; the Publican, the Gentile. appropriately the lesson on Humility follows the history of Destruction of Jerusalem Humility grows, as man approaches nigher to God. How men debase themselves by Pride. It is the Little Children alone that enter the kingdom. Humility is intensest in heaven.

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Epistle. (1 Cor. xv.) St. Paul here continues the subject of Humility, calling himself the least The greatest Saint has need to of the Apostles. think of his past sins. St. Augustine's book of Confessions is a model. Humility makes us

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Hark, vii.) The Deaf and man. This miraculous cure is full of mystery.— The administration of Baptism repeats

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mysterious circumstances. Exquisite these teaching. One detail of this cure reminds God's servants how they should seek to be unknown.

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Epistle. (2 Cor. iii.) How the glory of the Old Ministration is surpassed by that of the New. Each member of Christ may gain all the glory he chooses to gain. Worldlings are senseless in seeking glory in temporal things. What a fund of instruction we should acquire each Year by reading the whole chapter of Scripture from which the Liturgy extracts her Epistles and The glory of the Mosaic dispensation Gospels. described ; what we are taught by the veil worn by Moses. How splendid is the glory of each of the Faithful under the New Covenant. Gospel.— (St. Luke, x.) The Good Samaritan. Continuation of the comparison of the Two Testaments. Who are the Kings who desired to

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