Convent Life in ItalySkeet, 1862 - 347 ページ |
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335 ページ - We will, therefore, at present, advert to only one important part of the policy of the Church of Rome. She thoroughly understands, what no other church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. In some sects, particularly in infant sects, enthusiasm is suffered to be rampant In other sects, particularly sects long established and richly endowed, it is regarded with aversion.
338 ページ - I, replying to a cast upwards with his eyes, with which he had concluded his address — 'tis very true — and heaven be their resource, who have no other but the charity of the world ; the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it. As I pronounced the words great claims...
339 ページ - I : — a coarse habit, and that but once in three years, with meagre diet, — are no great matters ; and the true point of pity is, as they can be earned in the world with so little industry, that your order should wish to procure them by pressing upon a fund which is the property of the lame, the blind, the aged, and the infirm ! — the captive, who lies down counting over and over again the days of his afflictions, languishes also for his share of it ; and had you been of the order of Mercy,...
338 ページ - When he had entered the room three paces, he stood still ; and, laying his left hand upon his breast (a slender white staff...
337 ページ - The moment I cast my eyes upon him, I was predetermined not to give him a single sous; and accordingly I put my purse into my pocket buttoned it up set myself a little more upon my centre, and advanced up gravely to him: there was something, I fear, forbidding in my look: I have his figure this moment before my eyes, and think there was that in it which deserved better. The monk, as I judged...
339 ページ - The monk gave a cordial wave with his head — as much as to say, No doubt, there is misery enough in every corner of the world, as well as within our convent — But we distinguish, said I, laying my hand upon the sleeve of his tunic, in return for his appeal — we distinguish, my good father ! betwixt those who wish only to eat the bread of their own labour — and those who eat the bread of other people's, and have no other plan in life, but to get through it in sloth and ignorance, for the love...
338 ページ - ... of it — might be about seventy; but from his eyes, and that sort of fire which was in them — which seemed more tempered by courtesy than years — could be no more than sixty. Truth might lie between — He was certainly sixty-five; and the general air of his countenance— notwithstanding something seemed to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time — agreed to the account.
337 ページ - He lives by the alms of those who respect his spiritual character, and are grateful for his instructions. He preaches, not exactly in the style of Massillon, but in a way which moves the passions of uneducated hearers ; and all his influence is employed to strengthen the Church of which he is a minister. To that Church he becomes as strongly attached as any of the cardinals whose scarlet carriages and liveries crowd the entrance of the palace on the Quirinal. In this way the Church of Rome unites...
337 ページ - Church makes an enemy, and whatever the polite and learned may think, a most dangerous enemy, the Catholic Church makes a champion. She bids him nurse his beard, covers him with a gown and hood of coarse dark stuff, ties a rope round his waist, and sends him forth to teach in her name. He costs her nothing. He takes not a ducat away from the revenues of her beneficed clergy. He lives by the alms of those who respect his spiritual character, and are grateful for his instructions.
340 ページ - I, with an air of carelessness, three several times — but it would not do : every ungracious syllable I had uttered, crowded back into my imagination : I reflected, I had no right over the poor Franciscan, but to deny him ; and that the punishment of that was enough to the disappointed, without the addition of unkind language — I...