penance-by

Updated: August 24, 2024

Deprived of all means of making their new country in America a witness of Catholic prayer and worship not one of them probably being able to offer the holy sacrifice even for a single day, nor administer any sacrament unless perhaps that of penance-by stealth; not one dared open his mouth and preach the truth publicly to all. What could they do?

Augustus J. Thebaud - Irish Race in the Past and the Present