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Often appears with: scripture and its interpretation · sin, guilt, and repentance · prayer and worship · limits of human imagination · judgment, heaven, and hell · holy days self-examination · forgiveness of offences · education and the training of the young · beatific vision · 1 corinthians isaiah citation
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“Is it hard to forgive a small Offence to your Brother, whose mutual Forgiveness thou wilt stand in frequent need of, when Christ has at once forgiven us all our Offences, and is every Day forgiving us?” Desiderius Erasmus, The Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. · insight
“For since the very essential substance of all the celestial joy standeth in the blessed beholding of the glorious Godhead face to face, no man may presume or look to attain it in this life.” Sir Thomas More, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation · insight
Anthony urges repeated meditation and hearing of scripture about heaven, insists this life cannot grasp it fully because the bliss depends on beholding God face to face, citing “Oculus non vidit.”
be, with how good will and how gladly would he then give this whole world, if it were his, to have the feeling of some little part of those joys! And therefore let us all who cannot now conceive such delight in the consideration of them as we should, have often in our eyes by reading, often in our ears by hearing, often in our mouths by rehearsing, often in our hearts by meditation and thinking, those joyful words o…
Gaspar explains bedtime prayer, posture when sleeping, self-examination on holy days, forgiveness of offences, and how to meditate on scripture when hearing a priest is inconvenient.
*Er.* Do you salute Jesus again? *Ga.* Yes, if I have an Opportunity; but if it so happen that I have not an Opportunity, or it be not seasonable, as I pass by the Church I salute him mentally; and then I do what is to be done at School with all my Might; and when I go Home again I do what I did before Dinner: After Supper I divert myself with some pleasant Stories; and afterwards bidding my Parents and the Family g…