This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...arduous labor, constantly on her feet, going and coming amongst the poor and the sick; breathing the foul air of hospital wards and cellars and garrets; fasting as rigorously as any Carmelite, and grudging her body all but the bare necessaries of life, she was able to pass an entire night before the Blessed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...arduous labor, constantly on her feet, going and coming amongst the poor and the sick; breathing the foul air of hospital wards and cellars and garrets; fasting as rigorously as any Carmelite, and grudging her body all but the bare necessaries of life, she was able to pass an entire night before the Blessed Sacrament, and be apparently none the worse for it. Such wonderful things are those who love God strengthened to do for Him. Yet this woman was made of the same flesh and blood as ourselves; she had the same natural shrinkings and antipathies; her body was not made of different clay from ours, or supernaturally fashioned to defy the attacks of the devil, and the allurements of the world; to endure hunger and thirst and pain and fatigue without feeling them; she had the same temptations to fight against; the same corrupt inclinations to overcome, and the same weapons of defence against the enemy of souls that we have, --faith and prayer and the sacraments. What, then, is the difference between us? Only this, she was generous and brave, and we are mean and cowardly. We bargain and hang back, whereas she made no reserves with God, but strove to serve Him with all her heart and all her strength. He did the rest. He always does it for those who trust Him to the full, and hearken unconditionally to that hard saying: " T: -ke up thy cross and follow Me!" For them He changes all bitter things into sweet; all weakness into strength. For the old Adam that they cast aside he clothes them with the new, thus rendering them invincible against their enemies, and repaying a hundred-fold, even in this life, the miserable rags that we call sacrifices. He fills the hungry with good things, and in exchange for creatures and the perishable delights which they...
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Add this copy of A Daughter of St. Dominic to cart. $174.63, good condition, Sold by RARE BOOK CELLAR rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pomona, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1888 by Thomas B. Noonan.
