The Irish Ecclesiastical Record

Author : UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331428619
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Vol. 8 written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Vol. 8: A Monthly Journal And in man himself the perishable frame is of little account compared with the immortal soul, which, with its two imperial faculties of intellect and will, as with two out-stretched arms of yearning, evermore seeks the Supreme Truth and the Sovereign Good, which is God. And since our faculties then reach their perfection, when they are united with the object for which they are formed, how glorious is the purpose of a Christian education, which not only strengthens, purifies, and exercises the faculties of mind and heart, but, furthermore, unfolds to them the blessed vision of the God of Truth and of Goodness, who has made them for himself, that he may make them happy with himself for ever. Now, the Catholic Church alone possesses, in its completeness, this beneficent power of education. Others; who undertake the task, aim merely at developing the intellectual power, forgetful that, in our corrupt nature, intellect is too often the slave, not the controller of passion; or they seek to direct the wayward will by the cold and uncertain light of moral philosophy; or, after having cultivated the soul's faculties to the highest, they declare themselves incapable of satisfying the cravings they have encouraged, and can only say with Pilate, what is truth f or with the Athenian, point to the altar of the unknown God. But it is not so with the Catholic Church. She trains the intellect and disciplines the will, but at the same time with authority, with clearness, without the risk of error, she sets before the former what truths are to be believed, and before the latter what laws are to be observed, while by the grace, of which her sacraments are the channels, Faith and Virtue are made both possible and meritorious. The Catholic notion of the purposes of education is then the only complete one, for it alone embraces the whole of human nature, and consults at once for the temporal and for the eternal interests of man. It alone is the answer to the prayer of St. Paul for his disciples (i Thes. v. 23), that their whole spirit and soul and body might be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.