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Pierre spent some delightful months. Never before had neophyte lived so entirely for the happiness of others. He was all love, consumed by the passion of his apostolate.
Pierre spent some delightful months. Never before had neophyte lived so entirely for the happiness of others. He was all love, consumed by the passion of his apostolate.
With them Christianity is nothing more than social welfare inspired by a vague philanthropy. Differences of creed are being cast to the winds, and Social Service is the basic idea of their forward movement, around which they are trying to rally their dwindling forces. It is then but consequent to have the burden of their message and the policy of their apostolate bear on Citizenship.
The Catholic Church Extension is one of the most beautiful expressions of that Apostolate, for its object is, as we stated, the conservation and propagation of the Faith in the Mission districts of Canada. The principles upon which the activities of this Society are based may be reduced to two: the doctrinal and the historic: 1. Doctrinal Principle.
We know not what to say of his faults, nor can we think that he had any that were not to be traced to his eager love of God's cause, such as his overpowering men with pleading for God in their souls; or too easily crediting unworthy men who prated to him of liberty and the Holy Spirit; or over-fondness during his illness for playing in the lists of fancy at an apostolate denied him in the battle of active life; he repined at being forced to plan great battles in a sick-room.
And in America the pioneer work of the apostolate must be to remove prejudice.
He began to write for publication almost immediately after his arrival in America as a Redemptorist missionary; the Questions of the Soul and the Aspirations of Nature were composed amidst most absorbing occupations between 1853 and 1858. Throughout life he was ever asking himself and others how the Press could be cleansed, and how its Apostolate could be inaugurated.
As regards ourselves, we declare once more that all the thoughts and all the efforts of the Roman Pontiff tend only to increase every day the kingdom of Jesus Christ, which is the Church, and not to extend the limits of the temporal sovereignty, with which Divine Providence has endowed the Holy See, for the dignity and the free exercise of the sublime Apostolate.”
We do not pledge ourselves what we shall believe to-morrow by anything we say to-day." "Certainly," answered Reding, "things have been said to me by your teachers which I must suppose were only private opinions, though they seemed to be more." "But I was saying," said Mr. Highfly, "that at present we are restoring the Gentile Apostolate.
Little by little the Society's influence has spread everywhere and proved beyond doubt to be a great factor of Catholic apostolate in our time. It became the field on which Catholic forces clergy and laity met yearly to exchange ideas, formulate plans, co-ordinate purpose and concentrate activity.
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