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If, On A Rare Occasion, It Is Necessary To Speak With Some Severity In Order To Make A Grievous Crime Felt, We Should Always, At The Conclusion Of The Rebuke, Add Some Kind Words. We Must Heal Wounds, As The Samaritan Did, With Wine And Oil. But As Oil Floats Above All Other Liquors, So Meekness Should Predominate In All Our Actions.

St. Augustine And St. Thomas Define Mortal Sin To Be A Turning Away From God: That Is, The Turning Of One's Back Upon God, Leaving The Creator For The Sake Of The Creature. What Punishment Would That Subject Deserve Who, While His King Was Giving Him A Command, Contemptuously Turned His Back Upon Him To Go And Transgress His Orders? This Is What The Sinner Does; And This Is Punished In Hell With The Pain Of Loss, That Is, The Loss Of God, A Punishment Richly Deserved By Him Who In This Life Turns His Back Upon His Sovereign Good.

New Revelations Regarding Faith Or Morals ... Have Always Been Abhorred And Challenged In The Church ... Hence, The Sovereign Pontiffs, The Councils, And The Fathers Have Been Most Careful To Reject All Novelties Or New Doctrines On Matters Of Faith Which Differed From Those Already Received.

The Heart Of Man Is, So To Speak, The Paradise Of God.

So Great Is The Compassion Excited In Mary By Our Misery, And Such Is The Love That She Bears Us, That She Prays Constantly, And Relaxes Not Her Efforts In Our Behalf.