Pape Benoît XVI parle aux jeunes, Paris
September 13, 2008. Notice the Monk of Le barroux at the beginning, near the Sisters of St John.
September 13, 2008. Notice the Monk of Le barroux at the beginning, near the Sisters of St John.
Pope Benedict, arrives at Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris thru the streets of Paris, Sept. 12, 2008
Frederick Hohman plays the popular Toccata from the Fifth Organ Symphony in F, Op 42 #1, by Charles-Marie Widor on the Schantz pipe organ at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, New Jersey USA.
The organ at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart was originally built and installed in the 1950s by the Schantz Organ Company of Orrville, Ohio. In 1989, renovations were made, which included a new 4-manual console located in the Chancel of the Cathedral.
Selected readings from ‘The Imitation of Christ‘, by Thomas a Kempis, written by a Brother and compiled by Canons, intended for the Religious Life.The work is a manual of devotion intended to assist the soul with its pursuit of holiness and communion with God. Its sentences are statements, not arguments, and are pitched in the highest key of Christian experience. Behind and within all its reflections runs the counsel of self-renunciation.
The Imitation of Christ (or De imitatione Christi), by Thomas à Kempis, is a widely read Christian spiritual book. It was first published anonymously, in Latin, ca. 1418;
Selected readings from ‘The Imitation of Christ‘
It was written by a Brother and compiled by Canons, intended for the Religious Life.The work is a manual of devotion intended to assist the soul with its pursuit of holiness and communion with God. Its sentences are statements, not arguments, and are pitched in the highest key of Christian experience. Behind and within all its reflections runs the counsel of self-renunciation.
The Imitation of Christ (or De imitatione Christi), by Thomas à Kempis, is a widely read Christian spiritual book. It was first published anonymously, in Latin, ca. 1418; several other authors have been proposed, but Kempis’ authorship is now generally accepted.is a writing of the mysticist German-Dutch school of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and is widely considered one of the greatest manuals of devotion in Christianity. Protestants and Roman Catholics alike join in giving it praise. The Jesuits give it an official place among their “exercises”. John Wesley and John Newton listed it among the works that influenced them at their conversion. General Gordon carried it with him to the battlefield. It is said Pope John Paul I was reading a copy when he died. And I always keep a copy by in my cell where I sleep. God bless you all.
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