An epitome of the priestly life

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VI CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

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AUCTORIS PROLOGI QUAEDA EXCERPTA

VOS scitis, optimi et venerandi acer

dotes, quid dixerit Deus noster et aeternus Rex Iesus: Ille Olus, qui per-SeVeraVerit usque in finem, salvus erit. 'Quid prodesset igitur nobi coepiSSO, Si ad culmen non perveniremus Misimus manum ad aratrum, ne reSpiciamuS retro Sed Deo gratia agenteS, qui eripuit nos de potestate tenebrarum, et transtulit in regnum Filii dilectionis SURO. OremuS, ut qui coepit in nobis Opia bonum, perficiat usque in diem Christi Jesu et ejus, qui erga no adCO dives est in misericordia, gratiae COOPer

tram perficiamus. Iusti adhuc justificemur sancti adhuc sanctificemur, ne Cum aliis praedicaverimus, ipsi reprobi ossiciamur. Videamus ergo, et RVORmUS, O aurum templi ObSCuretur, ne Color opti-mUS Utetur, ne lapides sanctuarii dispersi virtutis formam amittant. Idcirco liceat mediocritati meae, Fratres optimi et Venerandi, leve hoc opus, Memoriale

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Vitae Sacerdotalis dictum, Obi Osferre, in quo praecipua regularum sacerdotalium capita memorantur. Sentio quidem et candide confiteor pia eSS SCOPO nimis impar, minus eruditionis habens, minus pietati SpiranS: Verum animo benevolo parcet certius vestra benignitaS.

O, si scirem loqui O, si verba mea, quasi facula arderent, et OSSent SSevirtutis incentiva sanctitatisque stimulit Sed quod inanis non potuit homo, essiciat potentissimus luminum Pater, qui facit

ministro Suo ignem urentem.

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before his death, presented me with a litile leather-bound volume fmeditations, hos much-thumbed ageSindicated that i had been long his vade mecum. The ille of the work was Memoriale Vitae Sacerdotalis, and thorein iis initiat page the imprimatur of Most Rev. Daniel Murray, Archbishopo Dublin, and the information that twaS Sed asin text-book in the Seminaryo Maynooth ustine hundred ear ago. Α Ι reades was captivated by it charm, it vigor it cogency, it meatineSS, andabove ali by the spirit o priestly ea land charit that tareathed. I seemedas i ou Lord were speaking directi tome and this a no strange for it Waslarget a mosaici Scripture teXtS, OStapti chosen an mos desely applied. In inspiration camerio meri PreSent this volume in Englisti res that it might be acceptabi tomur busyangligh-speakin clerg Who have no the et Sure totranslate the subject matter of thei medi-

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TRANSLATOR S PREFACE

tations, nor the inclination to erus the voluminous tome that have been more recently publiShed. I in quite On- sciolas that many f the riSp, conciSe Latin sentences may have ussered Ome-

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longetli an faintelli for thy OuriS. How lesse ani delightfulcit is to immolate the acre Hos to the in thytabernacle, to in and O mahe music totheel How good i is to declare thy justices,to reacti penanc for the remission offitis lHow good tris toneach and baptige the

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self the honor utiles thouae called by