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TITLE

AUTHOR

A Grammar of the Latin Language: WM. Bingham, With Exercises and Vocabularies A.M.

The Faith of our Fathers: Being a Plain Exposition and Vindication James Cardinal of The Church Founded by Our Gibbons Lord Jesus Christ

Date

Library of Congress

1866 PA2087 .B63 1863

1879

BX1751 .G5

Our Christian Heritage

James Cardinal Gibbons

1889

BX1751 .G63

On Prayer

de Caussade, Jean-Pierre

Christian Perfection and Contemplation

GarrigouLaGranges, Reginald

first published in 1931

1937

BV209 C2

BX2350.5 G33

DESCRIPTION/ NOTES

A late-Victorian book of Latin grammar, specifically "for the use of schools and colleges." Includes lessons on numbers, masculine and feminine nouns, adjectives, verbs, and particles.

LINEAGE

(?) Academy of the Assumption 1517 Brickell Avenue, Miami 36, Florida" Ex Libris Baby Haven. SSJ Archives, St.

"The object of this little volume is to present, in a plain and practical form, an exposition and a vindication of the principal tenets of the Catholic Church."- from the Preface. Includes discussions on The Blessed Trinity, the supremacy of the Pope, the primacy of Peter, SSJ Archives, St. and invocation of saints, among other important topics. Augustine

"This little volume is affectionately addressed to a large, and I fear an increasing class of persons who, through association, the absence of Christian training, a distorted education, and pernicious reading, have not only become estranged from the specific teachings of the Gospel, but whose moral and religious nature has received such a shock that they only have a vague and undefined faith even in the truths of natural religion underlying Christianity." - From the Introduction, written by Cardinal Gibbons himself The dialogues that form this book take as their starting point the teachings of Bossuet in his Instruction sur le divers etats d'Oraison on the various states of prayer, but they go beyond the analysis of the great 17th century Bishop of Meaux to outline a method of attaining that prayer for the simple presence of God which is an aim requiring special teaching not to be found in conventional guides to

"My dear Gertrude X'mas 1889" SSJ Archives Sr. Christine Zimorski, SSJ Novitiate

Father Garrigou-LaGrange was a member of the faculty of Angelico, SSJ Mercy the Dominican institute of higher ecclesiastical studies in Rome. Medical Center Reportedly no one has done more to advance the cause of Catholic Orlando, Fl thought than he.


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