The Cistercian Saints of England: St. Stephen, AbbotJ. Toovey, 1845 - 187 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 104 - SING, O barren, thou that didst not bear ; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child : for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.
الصفحة 114 - There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
الصفحة 57 - They kept huntsmen, who searched the forest through for venison and wild-boars ; their falconers brought them the choicest birds, pheasants, partridges, and wood-pigeons. The province under the archbishopric of Lyons seems at that time to have been especially full of monasteries from which religion had disappeared, inhabited by monks, " whose cloister was the whole world, whose god was their belly...
الصفحة 100 - Well, good father abbot," he answered, "well is it with me, and well be it with thee, for by thy teaching and care I have merited to obtain that never-ending joy, that unknown peace of God, which passeth all understanding, to gain which I patiently and humbly bore the hard toils of our new order. And now according to thy bidding I have returned to bring news of the grace and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to thee, father, and to thy brethren ; you bade me certify you of your state, and I say unto...
الصفحة 113 - After casting our eyes on the holy rood, does it never occur to us to wonder how it can be possible to be saved in the midst of the endearments of a family, and the joys of domestic life? God forbid that any one should deny the possibility ! — but does it not at first sight require proof, that heaven can be won by a life spent in this quiet way ? — Life of St. Stephen Harding, p.
الصفحة 109 - ... bishop, and had seen his first field ; but at last he yielded, for he saw in a vision his sainted mother smiling upon him, and he cried out to Bernard " I see my mother," and at once gave in. But the trial was still sorer when it came to the turn of Guy, the eldest of the brothers ; he was a married man, and his young wife loved him tenderly, besides which he had more than one daughter, with whom it was hard indeed to part in the age of their childhood ; and even after he had yielded to his brother's...
الصفحة 108 - Truly, from that hour, like a flame which burneth the wood, and a fire consuming the mountains, here and there, first seizing on all about it, then going forth to things farther away, thus the fire which the Lord had sent into the heart of his servant, and had willed that it should burn, first attacks his brothers, all but the youngest, who could not yet go into religion, and who was left to comfort his old father, then his kinsmen, fellows, and friends, and all of whose conversion there could be...
الصفحة 52 - How shall I begin to speak ? For on all sides is the sacred end of monkish life transgressed, and hardly aught is left us, save that, as our holy father Benedict foretold, by our tonsure and habit we lie to God. We seem almost all of us prone to pride, to contention, scandal, detraction, lying, evil speaking, hurtful accusations, contumacy, wrath, bitterness, despising of others, murmuring, gluttony," and he winds up all by saying, " we are seduced by a love of costly apparel.
الصفحة 112 - Lord choose to be a poor man, instead of being clothed in purple and fine linen ? why was His mother a poor virgin ? why was He born in an inn, and laid in a manger ? why did He leave His blessed mother, and almost repulse her, when she would speak to Him ? why was that mother's soul pierced with agony at the sufferings of her divine Son ? why, when one drop of His precious blood would have healed the whole creation, did He pour it all out for us ? in a word, why, when He might have died (if it be...
الصفحة 52 - Bitter are the complaints that we hear of one monk* clad in rich grey or party-coloured silks, and another ambling by on a mule which cost 200 solidi. What shall we say to the proud abbot with his train of sixty horse, riding forth, not like the father of a monastery, but like an armed castellan ? Or to another with his robe of costly fur, and his sideboard of gold and silver plate, though he rode but four leagues from...