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are

1. FROM WITHIN.

Heaven. And I know such 2 C11, 28- Besides those things which a man, whether in the body, without : my daily or out of the body, I know instance, the solicitude for not: God knoweth :-That all the Churches Who is he was caught up into Paraweak, and I am not weak? dise; and heard secret Who is scandalised, and I words, which it is not am not on fire ?-If I must granted to man to utter.— needs glory: I will glory of For such an one I will glory: the things that concern my but for myself I will glory infirmity. The God and nothing, but in my infirmFather of our Lord Jesus ities.

2 C6, 11

Christ, Who is blessed for For even if I should have 2 C12, 6 ever, knoweth that I lie not. a mind to glory, I shall not

2 C 12, 1- If I must glory (it is not be foolish: for I will say the expedient indeed :) but I will truth.

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But I forbear, lest come to the visions* and any man should think of me revelations of the Lord.-I above that which he seeth in know a man in Christ above me, or any thing he heareth fourteen years ago (whether from me.

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in the body, I know not, And lest the greatness of 2 C 12,7-
or out of the body, I know the revelations should lift
not, God knoweth) such an me up, there was given me a
one rapt even to the third sting of my flesh, an angel of

* Ac 9, 3.

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satan to buffet me. For
which thing thrice I besought
the Lord, that it might|
depart from me:-And He
said to me: MY GRACE IS
SUFFICIENT FOR THEE: FOR
POWER IS MADE PERFECT IN
INFIRMITY. Gladly there-
fore will I glory in my infirm-
ities, that the power of Christ
may dwell in me.-For which
cause I please myself in my
infirmities, in reproaches, in
necessities, in persecutions,
in distresses, for Christ. For
when I am weak, then am I
powerful.

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2. FROM WITHOUT. 2 C11, 22- They are Hebrews: so am I. They are Israelites: so am I. They are the seed of Abraham so am I.-They are the ministers of Christ: (I speak as one less wise) I am more: in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

Dt 25, 3

Ep 5, 32

Ge 2, 24

Ma 2, 15

Pv 19, 14

24.

1. Of the Jews five
times did I receive!

-THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY: A CONTRACT
THAT CANNOT BE BROKEN: DIVORCE FOR-
BIDDEN. EXHORTATION TO THE MARRIED.

This is a great Sacrament, tion, she shall be given in the
but I speak in Christ and in portion of them that fear God,
the Church
to a man for his good deeds.
A man shall leave father-Rich or poor if his heart
and mother, and shall cleave is good, his countenance shall
to his wife and they shall be cheerful at all times.
be two in one flesh.

Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.

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House and riches are given by parents but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.

Ac 14, 18

Ac 27, 41

He that hath found a good Pv 18, 22 wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord.

She is a help like to him- Eci 36, 26 self, and a pillar of rest.

From the beginning of the Mk 10,6-9 creation, God made them

Eci 26,3-4 A good wife is a good por-male and female.-For this

107,7

Ro7, 3

Mk 10, 11

Mt 19, 6

1 C7, 15

To 4, 13

Lu 16, 18

C7, 1011

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cause a man shall leave his as long as her husband liveth;
father and mother; and shall but if her husband die, she is
cleave to his wife.-And they at liberty: let her marry to
two shall be in one flesh. whom she will only in the
Therefore now they are not Lord.-But more blessed
two, but one flesh.-What shall she be, if she so remain,
therefore God hath joined according to my counsel:
together, let not man put and I think that I also have
asunder.
the Spirit of God.
Every one hath his proper Let women be subject to Ep 5, 22-
gift from God, one after this their husbands, as to the
manner, and another after Lord: - Because the hus-
that.
band is the head of the wife;
Whilst her husband liveth as Christ is the Head of the
she shall be called an adult- Church.-Therefore as the
eress if she be with another Church is subject to Christ,
so also let the wives be to
Whosoever shall put away their husbands in all things.
his wife and marry another, Husbands, love your wives, Ep 5,25-26
committeth adultery against as Christ also loved the
Church, and delivered Him-
What God hath joined self for it :-That He might
together let no man put sanctify it.

man.

her.

asunder.

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So also ought men to love Ep 5, 28If the unbeliever depart their wives as their own let him depart. For a bodies. He that loveth his brother or sister is not under wife, loveth himself. For servitude in such cases. no man ever hated his own But God hath called us in flesh but nourisheth and peace. cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the Church.

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Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from fornication, Adam was first formed: 1 Ti 2,13 and beside thy wife never then Eve.-And Adam was endure to know a crime. not seduced: but the woman Every one that putteth being seduced, was in the away his wife, and marrieth transgression.-Yet she shall another,committeth adultery: be saved through childand he that marrieth her that bearing: if she continue in is put away from her husband faith and love and sanctificommitteth adultery. cation with sobriety.

To them that are married, Let every one of you in Ep 5, 33 not I, but the Lord com- particular love his wife as mandeth, that the wife himself: and let the wife depart not from her husband : reverence her husband.

-And if she depart, that Wives, be subject to your Cl 3,18-19 she remain unmarried, or be husbands, as it behoveth in

reconciled to her husband. the Lord.-Husbands, love

And let not the husband put away his wife. 1C7,39-40 A woman is bound by the law

your wives, and be not bitter
towards them.

In like manner also let 1 Pt 3,1-6

Ge 2, 21

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Jn 2, 1-2

wives be subject to their whose daughters you are.
husbands that if any be- Ye husbands, likewise 1 Pt 3,7-9
lieve not the Word, they may dwelling with them accord-
be won without the Word, by ing to knowledge, giving
the conversation of the wives, honour to the female as to the
-Considering your chaste weaker vessel, and as to the
conversation with fear. coheirs of the grace of Life,
Whose adorning let it not be that your prayers be not
the outward plaiting of the hindered.-And in fine be ye
hair, or the wearing of gold, all of one mind, having com-
or the putting on of apparel: passion one of another, being
-But the hidden man of lovers of the brotherhood,
the heart in the incorrupti- merciful, modest, humble :-
bility of a quiet and a meek Not rendering evil for evil,
spirit, which is rich in the nor railing for railing, but
sight of God.-For after this contrariwise, blessing; for
manner heretofore the holy unto this are you called, that
women also, who trusted in you may inherit a blessing.
God, adorned themselves, be- For MASS FOR BRIDE-
ing in subjection to their own GROOM AND BRIDE, see
husbands. As Sara obeyed Epistle, Ep 5, 22-33; Gospel,
Abraham, calling him Lord: Mt 19,3-6

25. THE MARRIAGE OF Adam and evE.
The Lord God cast a deep And the wine failing, the Jn 2, 3-4
sleep upon Adam: and when Mother of Jesus saith to
he was fast asleep, He took Him: They have no wine.—
one of his ribs, and filled up And Jesus saith to her:
flesh for it. And the Lord Woman, what is to Me, and
God built the rib which He to thee? My hour is not yet
took from Adam into a come.
woman and brought her to

His Mother saith to the Jn 2, 5-8
Whatsoever He

Adam.-And Adam said: waiters:
This now is bone of my shall say to you, do ye.-
bones, and flesh of my flesh; Now there were set there six
she shall be called woman, water-pots of stone, according
because she was taken out to the manner of the purify-
of man.-Wherefore a man ing of the Jews, containing
shall leave father and two or three measures a
mother, and shall cleave to piece.-Jesus saith to them :
his wife and they shall be Fill the water-pots with
two in one flesh.
water. And they filled
them up to the brim.-And
Jesus saith to them: Draw

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THE DIVINE BLESSING ON

MARRIAGE.

There was a marriage in out now, and carry to the
Cana of Galilee: and the Chief Steward of the Feast.
Mother of Jesus was there. And they carried it, &c.
And Jesus also was invited,
and His Disciples, to the
marriage.

This beginning of miracles Jn 2, 11 did Jesus in Cana of Galilee.

St. Raphael on Marriage,p.619.

BOOK V.

ON SIN, JUSTIFICATION, MERIT, DEATH, JUDGMENT, HELL, HEAVEN.

PART I.

ON SIN.

SIN is a voluntary violation of the Divine Law. Sin is either original or personal. Original sin is the sin which we inherit from Adam. God conferred on human nature, in the person of Adam, original justice, or the supernatural friendship and society of God. With the fall of our first parent human nature was deprived of this Divine friendship and communion, and thus we are born in a state of aversion from God. "We were by nature children of wrath."* We are freed from original sin by Baptism, whether it be Baptism of water, of blood (martyrdom), or of desire. The Baptism of desire does not necessarily involve an explicit wish for Baptism, or even a knowledge of Baptism. It is sufficiently contained in acts of contrition and of perfect charity. Those who die with no other sin than original upon their souls will not be punished with the "pain of sense;" for, as S. Thomas points out, the "pain of sense" corresponds to the conversion to the "bonum commutabile," which conversion, though involved in actual has no place in original sin. They will indeed undergo the loss of the Beatific Vision, since this loss corresponds to the tq. q. disp. De Malo. a. 2 et 3.

* Ephes. 2, 3.