Maidens of Hallowed Names

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P.J. Kenedy, 1881 - Women saints - 366 pages
 

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Page xx - Lord: 33 But he that is married caretb for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirit : but she that is married, careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Page 14 - If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.
Page 24 - But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels, and to the Church of the first-born, who are written in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the sprinkling of blood which speaketh better than that of Abel.
Page 8 - For who maketh thee to differ from another.' and what hast thou that thou didst not receive'.' now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
Page 217 - And, with light in her looks, she entered the chambers of sickness. Noiselessly moved about the assiduous, careful attendants, Moistening the feverish lip and the aching brow, and in silence Closing the sightless eyes of the dead, and concealing their faces, Where on their pallets they lay, like drifts of snow by the roadside.
Page 364 - Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who, fled to Thy protection, implored Thy help, and sought Thy intercession, was left unaided.
Page 281 - That undisturbed song of pure concent, Aye sung before the sapphire-coloured throne, To Him that sits thereon, With saintly shout, and solemn jubilee ; Where the bright Seraphim, in burning row, Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow; And the Cherubic host, in thousand choirs, Touch their immortal harps of golden wires, With those just Spirits that wear victorious palms, Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly...
Page 364 - Angel of God, my Guardian dear, To whom God's love commits me here, Ever this day be at my side To light and guard, to rule and guide, Amen.
Page 250 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Page xx - The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirit: but she that is married, careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. And this I speak for your own profit ; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

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