SERMON XVIII. FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT. – ON THE TENDER COMPASSION WHICH JESUS CHRIST ENTERTAINS TOWARDS SINNERS. “Make the men sit down.” JOHN vi. 10. WE read in this day’s gospel that, having gone up into a mountain with his disciples, and seeing a multitude of five thousand persons, who followed him because they saw […]

SERMON XVII THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT. – ON CONCEALING SINS IN CONFESSION. ” And he was casting out a devil, and the same was dumb.” LUKE xi. 14. THE devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. ”For their own malice […]

SERMON XVI. SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT. – ON HEAVEN. ” Lord, it is good for us to be here.” MATT. xvii. 4. IN this days gospel we read, that wishing to give his disciples a glimpse of the glory of Paradise, in order to animate them to labour for the divine honour, the Redeemer was […]

SERMON XV. FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT. – ON THE NUMBER OF SINS BEYOND WHICH GOD PARDONS NO MORE. ” Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” MATT. iv. 7. IN this days gospel we read that, having gone into the desert, Jesus Christ permitted the devil to”set him upon the pinnacle of the temple,” […]

SERMON XIV. QUINQUAGESIMA SUNDAY. – DELUSIONS OF SINNERS. “Lord, that I may see.” LUKE xviii. 41. THE Devil brings sinners to hell by closing their eyes to the dangers of perdition. He first blinds them, and then leads them with himself to eternal torments. If, then, we wish to be saved, we must continually pray […]

SERMON XIII-SEXAGESIMA SUNDAY. – ON THE UNHAPPY LIFE OF SINNERS, AND ON THE HAPPY LIFE OF THOSE WHO LOVE GOD. ” And that which fell among the thorns are they who have heard, and, going their way, are choked with the cares and riches of this life, and yield no fruit.” LUKE viii. 14 In […]

SERMON IX. FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY. – DANGERS TO ETERNAL SALVATION. “And when he entered into the boat, his disciples followed him; and, behold, a great tempest arose in the sea.” MATT. viii. 23, 24. On the greatness of the dangers to which our eternal salvation is exposed, and on the manner in which […]

SERMON VIII THIRD SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY. – ON THE REMORSE OF THE DAMNED. ” But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” MATT. VIII. 12. IN the Gospel of this day it is related that, “when Jesus Christ entered into […]

SERMON VII. SECOND SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY. – ON THE CONFIDENCE WITH WHICH WE OUGHT TO RECOMMEND OURSELVES TO THE MOTHER OF GOD “And the wine failing, the Mother of Jesus saith to him: They have no wine” JOHN ii. IN the Gospel of this day we read that Jesus Christ, having been invited, went […]

SERMON VI. MALICE OF MORTAL SIN. ” Behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. 1 LUKE ii. 48. MOST holy Mary lost her Son for three days: during that time she wept continually for having lost sight of Jesus, and did not cease to seek after him till she found him. How then […]