The Young Priest's Keepsake

Works specially suited to the priest, the layman and the nun are happily abundant; but to the young man standing on the threshold of his career as a priest, how few are addresse...

Now, ask any distinguished writer when did _he_ begin to cultivate a literary taste. He will tell you with Pope that he "lisped in numbers." He began almost with the dawn of rea...

Those who champion the method of extemporary preaching lay great stress on two points. (I) The extemporary preacher has a natural warmth and earnestness of conviction that goes...

It is said that the great mastery O'Connell exercised over the people mainly sprang from the passionate earnestness of his conviction. The nation's heart seemed merged into his...

The great Cardinal Franzelin said to one of his most distinguished pupils[2]--"As a professor of theology at Rome for many years I had every day opportunities of studying the ch...

"Preach," says Dr. Ireland, "in a manner that the people will understand, and that goes straight to their hearts, and not in the stilted phraseology of the seventeenth century s...

With regard to our pious sodalities. Did the question ever present itself--How much of the average sodalist's piety is resting on sentiment and tradition, and how little of it o...

We reply:--Look at our Confirmation classes, and at the admirable lives of the youth before they leave us. Neither of these weaken the contention. At the age a child is confirme...

"The ecclesiastical student who takes up 'The Young Priest's Keepsake' will quickly realise that he has not only fallen in with a wise mentor but a cordially kind friend, to say...