History of St. Vincent de Paul: Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) and of the Sisters of CharityLongmans, Green, 1908 - 416 pages |
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Page 384 - Should anyone presume to attempt this, be it known to him that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul. Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, in the year of the incarnation of our Lord one thousand four hundred and ninety-three, the fourth of May, and the first year of our pontificate.
Page 236 - Seek ye therefore first the Kingdom of God and His justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Page 81 - For we have not a high priest, who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.
Page 200 - Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.
Page 127 - Jesus declared, that he would build his church upon a rock, and that the gates of hell should not prevail against it...
Page 382 - Church; by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by Our own authority, We...
Page 214 - The Sister of Charity shall have for her convent the house of the sick, for her cell the chamber of suffering, for her chapel the parish church, for her cloister the streets of the city or the wards of a hospital. Obedience shall be her enclosure, the fear of God her grate, and modesty her veil.
Page 107 - ... help of Almighty God, persevere in ecclesiastical discipline; the holy Synod ordains, that all cathedral, metropolitan, and other churches greater than these, shall be bound, each according to its means and the extent of the diocese, to maintain, to educate religiously, and to train in ecclesiastical discipline, a certain number of youths of their city and diocese, or, if that number cannot...
Page 382 - Paul, and by that invested in us, do, to the honour of the holy and undivided Trinity, for the exaltation of the Catholic faith, and the...
Page 311 - ... Fronde. They tended those enslaved in the galleys, the foundlings in the orphanages, and taught young children. In the 1650s, requesting Sisters to go to Calais in the midst of the religious wars, Queen Maria Teresa wrote of them and the role that women have performed both in and out of such orders: Men go to war to kill one another, and you, sisters, you go to repair the evils which they have done. Oh, what a blessing! Men kill the body, and very often the soul, and you, you go to restore life,...