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Third Sunday after Easter.

Evidence of the law of God

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Fifth Sunday after Easter.

On hearing the word of God

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Ascension.

On the dangers of temporal pros-

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Sixth Sunday after Easter.

On the fervour of the primitive

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Trinity-Sunday.

Whitsun Monday.

On the necessary dispositions for
the Commencement of a new

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Corpus-Christi.

On an unworthy communion .

Second Sunday after Pentecost.
On the obstacles opposed by self-
love to a life of virtue.

Third Sunday after Pentecost.
On the trials which attend piety
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Fourth Sunday after Pentecost.

SS. Peter and Paul.

On Afflictions

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THE ANNUNCIATION OF OUR

BLESSED LADY.

ON THE MYSTERY OF THE INCAR

NATION.

And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin and the virgin's name was Mary.

Luke i. 26.

THAT the ways of

God are not like the ways of nien, and that the designs of Eternal Wisdom are in direct opposition to the notions of worldly wisdom, is a truth which is particularly displayed in the mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God." -Yes, beloved Christians, the idea of a God descending from his throne of glory, in order to raise his créatures to

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honour and dignity; of a God taking on himself our infirmities, and enduring the punishment which we, the unhappy transgressors, ought alone to have endured; of a God uniting himself with man, in order to unite man with God; this idea, I say, has been in all ages a scandal, and a folly to the wisdom of the flesh and, even to this day, the wisdom of God in this mystery is concealed from the understanding of the worldly wise: we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, says St. Paul, which is hidden which none of the princes of this world knew, 1 Cor. ii. 7, 8.

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According to the world, true greatness is attained only by achievements which excite the admiration and applause. of men and true happiness is to be found only in the enjoyment of sensual ease and pleasure. The world claims to itself the exclusive privilege of judging of every thing by the light of

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