item: #1 of 27 id: 13500 author: Everett-Green, Evelyn title: A Heroine of France: The Story of Joan of Arc date: None words: 72582 flesch: 80 summary: I made it my task to see her safely home; and as we went, I asked: Was it an offence to you, fair Maid, that he should thus seek to test and try you? Not an offence to me, Seigneur, she answered gently, but he should not have had need to do it. Before the season now beginning so tardily has reached its height, the Dauphin will be the anointed King of France, the English will have suffered defeat and Orleans will be free! Heaven send you speak sooth, fair Maid, answered the rugged old soldier, as he eyed the slim figure before him with something of mingled doubt, wonder, and reverence in his eyes. keywords: army; baudricourt; bertrand; city; dauphin; day; days; english; eyes; face; fear; france; god; good; hand; head; heart; heaven; king; light; little; look; lord; maid; man; men; orleans; place; power; set; soldiers; thought; time; victory; voice; way; white; words cache: 13500.txt plain text: 13500.txt item: #2 of 27 id: 14072 author: Tyler, James Endell title: Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary date: None words: 123329 flesch: 65 summary: When the conscience-struck Israelites felt that they had exposed themselves to the wrath of Almighty God, whose sovereign power, put forth at the prayer of Samuel, they then witnessed, distrusting the efficacy of their own supplication, and confiding in the intercession of that man of God, they implored him to intercede for them; and Samuel emphatically responded to their appeal, with an assurance of his earnestly undertaking to plead their cause with heaven: And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we die not. In tracing the history of the worship of saints and angels, we proceed (gradually, indeed, though by no {65} means at all periods, and through every stage, with equal rapidity,) from the earliest custom established and practised in the Church,--of addressing prayers to Almighty God alone for the sake of the merits of his blessed Son, the only Mediator and Intercessor between God and man,--to the lamentable innovation both of praying to God for the sake of the merits, and through the mediation of departed mortals, and of invoking those mortals themselves as the actual dispensers of the spiritual blessings which the suppliant seeks from above. keywords: almighty; angels; apostles; author; bellarmin; body; book; brethren; case; catholic; christ; christian; church; council; day; death; divine; doctrine; earth; evidence; example; faith; faithful; father; fellow; flesh; following; footnote; general; glory; god; good; grace; greek; heart; heaven; heavenly; holy; holy virgin; honour; hope; inquiry; intercession; invocation; jesus; jesus christ; john; judgment; justin; letter; life; lord; lord god; love; man; martyr; mary; men; mercy; merits; mind; mother; nature; nos; offer; origen; paris; passage; people; place; point; power; practice; praise; prayer; present; principle; question; regard; roman; rome; saints; saviour; second; sentiments; service; son; soul; spirit; subject; testament; testimony; thee; things; thomas; thou; thy; time; truth; virgin; virgin mary; vol; word; works; worship; writers cache: 14072.txt plain text: 14072.txt item: #3 of 27 id: 16772 author: Thérèse, de Lisieux, Saint title: The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse date: None words: 107190 flesch: 82 summary: In my 'little way' everything is most ordinary; all that I do, little souls must be able to do likewise. In that hour let us in all humility take our place among the imperfect, and look upon ourselves as little souls who at every instant need to be upheld by the goodness of God. keywords: ask; carmel; child; cross; céline; day; days; dear; death; desire; divine; earth; eyes; face; father; flower; god; good; grace; heart; heaven; holy; home; jesus; joy; life; lord; love; marie; mother; night; papa; peace; prayer; sister; soeur; soul; suffering; tears; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; thérèse; time; way; wish; words; world cache: 16772.txt plain text: 16772.txt item: #4 of 27 id: 18787 author: Sabatier, Paul title: Life of St. Francis of Assisi date: None words: 157463 flesch: 73 summary: Was it not rendering a great service to those to whom they resorted to teach them charity? Francis in his poetic language gave the name of _mensa Domini_, the table of the Lord, to this table of love around which gathered the _little poor ones_. Cf. _Speculum_, 50b. keywords: 8vo; account; angelo; archiv; assisi; author; authority; away; bishop; body; bon; bonaventura; brother; brother francis; bull; cardinal; cel; celano; century; chapter; christ; chronicle; church; city; clara; clergy; come; companions; conform; country; cross; damian; date; day; days; death; desire; disciples; divine; documents; doubt; edition; egidio; elias; end; example; eyes; f^o; fact; faith; family; father; fior; follow; francis; franciscan; friars; general; giovanni; god; good; gospel; hands; heart; history; holy; hour; house; ideal; iii; innocent; inspiration; italy; jesus; joy; learned; left; legend; leo; letter; liberty; life; light; like; living; look; lord; love; making; man; master; men; minister; minor; mission; moment; movement; nature; need; new; non; number; order; pages; paris; people; picture; place; point; pope; portiuncula; potthast; poverty; power; prayer; preaching; present; priest; question; return; rome; rule; saint; san; saw; second; shows; simple; simplicity; soc; son; sort; soul; speak; spec; speculum; spirit; study; text; thee; things; think; thomas; thought; thy; time; time francis; ugolini; vide; voice; vol; way; words; work; world; years cache: 18787.txt plain text: 18787.txt item: #5 of 27 id: 2139 author: O'Reilly, A. J. (Augustine J.) title: Alvira: The Heroine of Vesuvius date: None words: 35141 flesch: 70 summary: They invariably shunned low society, and thus they won the esteem of all; they passed as young men of virtue as well as of beauty and of grace. Emblazoned on the annals of the past he read the names of great men who played their part for a brief hour on the stage of life. keywords: alvira; cassier; cast; chapter; charles; child; church; city; day; death; deep; father; francis; god; great; hand; heart; heaven; henry; holy; home; joy; life; louis; love; madeleine; man; moment; mother; mountain; nature; night; poor; secret; soul; spirit; tears; thought; time; world cache: 2139.txt plain text: 2139.txt item: #6 of 27 id: 21454 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: The Seven Champions of Christendom date: None words: 40908 flesch: 71 summary: Thereon Saint George, resisting no longer, owned his love, and promised, on his knightly word, to come back when he had achieved a few more heroic deeds and wed her. On the deck of one of them, yet at a little distance, who should they behold but two of the great Champions of Christendom, their honoured father, Saint George, and his dear friend, Saint Andrew, standing calm and undismayed, waiting the time for their vessel to approach near enough to take part in the combat. keywords: adventures; andrew; armour; castle; champion; country; david; day; dragon; fairy; faithful; fistycuff; gallant; giant; green; hand; head; king; knight; lady; land; length; master; monster; saint; saint andrew; saint david; saint george; squire; sword; time; way cache: 21454.txt plain text: 21454.txt item: #7 of 27 id: 22112 author: Canton, William title: A Child's Book of Saints date: None words: 61981 flesch: 75 summary: That blue way has been beaten plain by the Lord Christ, and the Apostles, and many holy men from the beginning. As the sun blazed out, and the sea glittered over all his trackless ways, Serapion said to the chorister: Ha, little brother, 'tis good, is it not? keywords: abbot; air; angel; blue; brethren; brother; child; day; days; earth; eyes; face; fire; god; good; green; hand; head; heart; holy; home; house; joy; land; lay; life; lord; love; man; men; night; people; place; prior; sea; stone; thee; things; thou; thy; time; tree; way; white; wild; world; years cache: 22112.txt plain text: 22112.txt item: #8 of 27 id: 26130 author: Barclay, Vera C. (Vera Charlesworth) title: Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light date: None words: 40293 flesch: 85 summary: We cannot follow all the brothers and hear all their adventures, so I will just tell you one or two which show what kind of men St. Francis and his Friars were. His name was St. Francis of Assisi. keywords: akela; benedict; boy; christ; church; cubs; day; edmund; father; francis; god; good; heart; life; lord; man; martin; men; night; patrick; people; sea; story; things; thought; time; way cache: 26130.txt plain text: 26130.txt item: #9 of 27 id: 27706 author: Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice) title: Life of St. Vincent de Paul date: None words: 20354 flesch: 71 summary: Mazarin's astonishment and disgust when he heard that Vincent de Paul had been appointed one of the number were as great as Vincent's own consternation. After such a statement as that there could be no longer question of friendship between Vincent and St. Cyran, although the latter, anxious not to break with a man who was held in such universal esteem as Vincent de Paul, tried to persuade him that he, St. Cyran, was really in the right, justifying himself in the elusive language which was more characteristic of the Jansenists than the frank declaration he had just made. keywords: charity; country; day; god; good; life; man; mission; paris; people; poor; priests; queen; sisters; time; vincent; vincent de; work; years cache: 27706.txt plain text: 27706.txt item: #10 of 27 id: 27707 author: Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice) title: Saint Athanasius, the Father of Orthodoxy date: None words: 20611 flesch: 74 summary: Seizing Athanasius in their arms, they bore him out of the church, passing right through the midst of the soldiers, who were searching everywhere for the Patriarch. Receive, therefore, beloved, with all joy and glory to God, your Bishop Athanasius. keywords: alexandria; arians; arius; athanasius; bishop; christ; church; constantine; council; emperor; eusebius; faith; god; man; men; patriarch; people; time; years cache: 27707.txt plain text: 27707.txt item: #11 of 27 id: 28990 author: Brown, Abbie Farwell title: The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts date: None words: 41180 flesch: 91 summary: So they dragged the poor fellow off to a dark, damp dungeon and left him there howling and tearing his hair, wishing that wolves had never been saved from the flood by Noah and his Ark. Now not far from this place little Saint Bridget lived. It was Kentigern who sang the loudest and was never off the pitch; and good Saint Servan loved him best of all his pupils. keywords: beasts; birds; day; eyes; francis; gerasimus; good; goose; hand; head; hervé; home; kind; king; leo; lion; man; master; men; monks; mother; people; saint; sea; time; way; white; wolf cache: 28990.txt plain text: 28990.txt item: #12 of 27 id: 3296 author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo title: The Confessions of St. Augustine date: None words: 112287 flesch: 71 summary: Send Thou Thy word into it by Thy messengers: for we speak of their working, yet it is Thou that workest in them that they may work out a living soul in it. But such was I. Nor do I blush, O my God, to confess to Thee Thy mercies towards me, and to call upon Thee, who blushed not then to profess to men my blasphemies, and to bark against Thee. keywords: body; day; didst; earth; eyes; flesh; form; god; good; hast; hath; heart; heaven; holy; joy; know; life; light; long; lord; love; man; memory; men; mind; o lord; past; place; present; soul; speak; spirit; thee; thine; things; thou; thou art; thought; thy; time; true; truth; way; words; world cache: 3296.txt plain text: 3296.txt item: #13 of 27 id: 33596 author: None title: Mary, Help of Christians, and the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers Instructions, Novenas and Prayers with Thoughts of the Saints for Every Day in the Year; To Which is Added an Appendix on the Reasonableness of Catholic Ceremonies and Practices date: None words: 95459 flesch: 75 summary: [Illustration: The Crowning of the Blessed Virgin in Heaven.] Before Retiring (_Prayer of St. Alphonsus._) MY LORD and God Jesus Christ! St. John in the Book of Revelations tells us that before the throne of God angels stand with golden censers, multitudes from all nations follow and adore the Lamb, while virgins sing the new song which they alone can utter. keywords: alphonsus; amen; body; christ; church; cross; day; day mary; death; divine; earth; faith; father; god; good; grace; great; heart; heaven; holy; honor; intercession; jesus; jesus christ; life; lord; lord jesus; love; man; mary; mercy; mother; novena; o god; o jesus; o lord; power; practice; prayer; saints; sin; sins; son; soul; thee; thou; thy; time; virgin; virgin mary; world cache: 33596.txt plain text: 33596.txt item: #14 of 27 id: 33649 author: None title: Thoughts and Counsels of the Saints for Every Day of the Year date: None words: 9953 flesch: 81 summary: 8 The best preparation for death is a perfect resignation to the will of God, after the example of Jesus Christ, who, in His prayer in Gethsemani prepared Himself with these words, Father, not as I will, but as Thou wilt. 21 O most blessed Virgin, who declarest in thy Canticle that it is owing to thy humility that God hath done great things in thee, obtain for me the grace to imitate thee, that is, to be obedient; because to obey is to practise humility.--ST. keywords: alphonsus; de paul; god; great; ignatius; louis; louis de; love; mary; teresa; vincent de cache: 33649.txt plain text: 33649.txt item: #15 of 27 id: 33671 author: Hammer, Bonaventure title: Mary, the Help of Christians Novenas in Preparation for the Principal Feasts of the Blessed Virgin date: None words: 22814 flesch: 73 summary: O MOST benign Mother Mary! FIRST DAY Predestination of the Blessed Virgin Mary PREPARATORY PRAYER IN THY conception, O Virgin Mary, thou wast immaculate; pray for us to the Father, whose Son Jesus, conceived in thy womb by the Holy Ghost, thou didst bring forth. Indulgence. keywords: church; day mary; god; grace; hail mary; heart; heaven; holy; mary; mother; novena; prayer; sin; son; thee; thou; thy; virgin mary cache: 33671.txt plain text: 33671.txt item: #16 of 27 id: 33950 author: Douglas, Eileen title: Brother Francis; Or, Less than the Least date: None words: 44812 flesch: 82 summary: The most interesting point to us nineteenth-century Christians is, that by the grace of God Francis never yielded to this temptation--that having once put his hand the plough, he never turned back, but remained faithful to the end. From his babyhood these neighbours sat in judgment on little Francis. keywords: assisi; bernardo; brethren; brother; chapter; christ; church; cloth; day; days; faith; father; francis; god; good; heart; home; house; life; lord; love; man; men; order; pages; people; saw; sidenote; son; soul; thee; thought; time; way; work; world cache: 33950.txt plain text: 33950.txt item: #17 of 27 id: 36674 author: Steedman, Amy title: In God's Garden: Stories of the Saints for Little Children date: None words: 38420 flesch: 81 summary: He warns other little children to kill these faults at the very beginning, for he knows how strong they grow and how difficult to conquer, when the mean child grows into a man whom no one can trust. Let us remember that God has given to all of us, little children as well as grown-up people, a place in His garden here on earth, and He would have us take these white flowers, the lives of His saints, as a pattern for our own. keywords: child; christ; city; day; eyes; father; francis; god; good; heart; help; king; man; offero; people; saint; thou; thought; time; ursula; way cache: 36674.txt plain text: 36674.txt item: #18 of 27 id: 37862 author: Miller, Elizabeth title: Saul of Tarsus: A Tale of the Early Christians date: None words: 112809 flesch: 81 summary: Marsyas hath departed unto Judea, and Agrippa lacks his controlling hand! But, objected Peter, with the querulousness of an old man, after the first flush of satisfaction over the return of his three talents, I took thee in hostage, young man, because I wanted thy service as steward, not because I wished to please Agrippa. keywords: agrippa; alabarch; alexandria; answer; arm; art; caligula; city; classicus; cypros; cæsar; day; days; death; end; essene; eutychus; eyes; face; father; flaccus; flora; gate; god; good; great; half; hand; hast; hath; head; heart; herod; house; jerusalem; jew; jews; judea; junia; lady; let; life; lips; look; lord; love; lydia; man; marsyas; moment; nazarene; night; people; place; prince; proconsul; rabbi; rome; saul; silence; stephen; temple; thee; thine; thou; thou art; thy; tiberius; time; voice; way; white; wilt; woman; world cache: 37862.txt plain text: 37862.txt item: #19 of 27 id: 45187 author: Manning, Anne title: The Household of Sir Thomas More date: None words: 42379 flesch: 83 summary: _Father_, strange to say, seemed taken at Vantage, and was pausing for a Retort, when _Hobson_ coming in and whispering Somewhat in his Ear, he rose suddainlie and went forthe of the Hall with him, putting his Head back agayn to say, Rest ye alle awhile where ye be, which we did, uneasilie enow. Hearde _Mother_ say to _Barbara_, Be sure the Sirloin is well basted for the King's Physician; which avised me that Dr. _Linacre_ was expected. keywords: alle; answer; bess; book; church; day; dear; enow; erasmus; eyes; face; father; god; goe; good; hand; hath; head; heart; house; illustration; john; king; life; lord; love; man; manie; meg; men; mercy; mind; mistress; mother; new; noe; onlie; patteson; poor; sayd; saying; sayth; shoulde; sir; soe; somewhat; tell; thou; time; tis; twas; way; woman; woulde; young cache: 45187.txt plain text: 45187.txt item: #20 of 27 id: 45604 author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine) title: The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): February date: None words: 141313 flesch: 69 summary: S. EPHRAEM THE SYRIAN, D. C. (A.D. 378.) [Illustration: S. EPHRAEM SYRUS. keywords: a.d; abbot; account; acts; age; bishop; body; brethren; brother; cell; cent; child; christ; christian; church; circ; city; companions; constantinople; council; country; cross; daughter; day; days; death; diocese; emperor; eyes; face; faith; father; feb; february; fire; god; good; governor; great; hands; head; heaven; holy; house; jesus; king; lay; left; life; lord; love; man; martyrdom; martyrologies; martyrology; martyrs; men; monastery; monks; mother; near; new; night; number; order; patriarch; people; place; pope; prayer; present; priest; prince; relics; religious; roman; rome; romuald; s. benedict; s. bridget; s. gregory; s. ignatius; s. jerome; s. john; s. matthias; s. patrick; s. paul; s. peter; s. sabine; s. valentine; s. william; saint; set; son; thee; thou; time; virgin; way; wife; work; world; years cache: 45604.txt plain text: 45604.txt item: #21 of 27 id: 46947 author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine) title: The Lives of the Saints, Volume 01 (of 16): January date: None words: 158244 flesch: 72 summary: S. Timothy was afterwards associated with S. John; and in the Apocalypse he is the Angel, or Bishop, of the Church of Ephesus, to whom Christ sends His message by S. John.[120] [Illustration: S. HILARY BAPTIZING S. MARTIN, OF TOURS. keywords: a.d; abbot; account; acts; age; alexandria; antony; away; bishop; body; brethren; brother; came; cast; cell; cent; christ; christian; church; circ; city; council; day; days; dead; death; desert; emperor; face; faith; father; feet; forth; god; good; governor; great; hands; head; heart; holy; house; jan; january; king; life; lives; lord; love; man; martyrologies; martyrology; martyrs; men; monastery; monks; mother; near; new; night; order; parents; patriarch; people; place; poor; pope; prayer; priest; rest; return; roman; s. ambrose; s. augustine; s. basil; s. benedict; s. cadoc; s. chrysostom; s. cyril; s. francis; s. genoveva; s. gregory; s. hilary; s. jerome; s. john; s. kentigern; s. lucian; s. macarius; s. paul; s. peter; s. severinus; saint; saw; saying; set; son; soul; thee; things; thou; thy; time; way; wife; work; world; years cache: 46947.txt plain text: 46947.txt item: #22 of 27 id: 49450 author: Petrarca, Francesco title: Petrarch's Secret; or, the Soul's Conflict with Passion Three Dialogues Between Himself and S. Augustine date: None words: 51615 flesch: 85 summary: Think also of the shortness of our life, concerning which many great men have left their books. Not to speak of other men, I call to witness Her who has ever been the ruling spirit of my life; you yourself also I call to witness how many times I have pondered over my own misery and over the subject of Death; with what floods of tears I have sought to wash away my stains, so that I can scarce speak of it without weeping; yet hitherto, as you see, all is in vain. keywords: body; case; cicero; day; death; desire; end; eyes; god; good; hand; heart; hope; know; life; look; love; man; men; mind; nature; petrarch; place; reason; s. augustine; soul; things; think; thought; time; truth; way; wish; words; world cache: 49450.txt plain text: 49450.txt item: #23 of 27 id: 52225 author: Flaubert, Gustave title: The Temptation of St. Anthony date: None words: 51489 flesch: 81 summary: Honor marriage; the Holy Spirit is feminine! (_Hilarion has disappeared; and Anthony, carried along by the crowd, arrives in the presence of_--) THE CARPOCRATIANS (_reclining with women upon scarlet cushions._) The sobs of the women cease--and after an interval of silence_,) ALL (_psalmody together_): Fair! keywords: anthony; apollonius; appears; arms; beholds; beneath; black; blood; blue; body; cross; damis; darkness; day; dead; death; desire; devil; dost; earth; end; eyes; face; feet; fire; flaubert; flowers; form; god; gods; gold; good; ground; hair; hands; head; heart; heaven; hilarion; illustration; jesus; left; life; light; love; man; men; midst; open; order; people; place; red; saint; sea; soul; spirit; stars; sun; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; trees; voice; way; wind; woman; world cache: 52225.txt plain text: 52225.txt item: #24 of 27 id: 52481 author: Connolly, Richard title: Life of St. Rita of Cascia, O.S.A. from the Italian date: None words: 55380 flesch: 60 summary: The father went to Cascia to beg the intercession of St. Rita, and to his prayers were added those of the nuns, who also gave him a little piece of Rita's habit. We may, then, easily imagine what grief Rita felt as she considered in the light of her lively faith all the evil on the one part and the other that may have preceded and accompanied that homicidal attempt, or as she dwelt on the uncertainty of pardon or of her husband's penitence, or his having to appear before his Judge without having received the last Sacraments. keywords: body; cascia; chapter; charity; child; church; convent; day; death; devotion; eyes; favour; glory; god; good; grace; health; heart; heaven; holy; husband; life; lord; love; miracles; mother; new; nuns; order; parents; people; place; prayers; present; rita; saint; son; spirit; things; time; virtue; way; world; years cache: 52481.txt plain text: 52481.txt item: #25 of 27 id: 749 author: John of Damascus, Saint title: Barlaam and Ioasaph date: None words: 83500 flesch: 68 summary: Then he turned him round toward the king's son and said, Tell me now, thou man, whose soul is enlightened, will Christ accept me, if I forsake my evil deeds and turn to him? Yea, said that preacher of truth; Yea, he receiveth thee and all that turn to him. The very fact that your foul idols are commended by many men of marvellous wisdom, and established by kings, while the Gospel is preached by a few men of no mark, sheweth the might of our religion and the weakness and deadliness of your wicked doctrines. keywords: away; barlaam; body; christ; day; death; earth; evil; father; forth; glory; god; gods; good; great; hast; hath; heart; heaven; holy; ioasaph; king; life; light; like; lord; love; man; men; mind; power; present; saith; son; soul; spirit; thee; thine; things; thou; thy; time; way; words; world cache: 749.txt plain text: 749.txt item: #26 of 27 id: 8120 author: Teresa, of Avila, Saint title: The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel date: None words: 204832 flesch: 79 summary: See ch. xxxviii. See ch. xxxix. keywords: account; body; chapter; confessor; day; desire; end; evil; experience; father; fear; god; good; grace; help; holy; house; humility; joseph; joy; life; light; lord; love; majesty; man; matter; men; monastery; o lord; order; pain; people; person; place; pleasure; power; prayer; reason; saint; satan; sins; soul; speak; spirit; state; teresa; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; understanding; vision; way; wish; words; work; world; years cache: 8120.txt plain text: 8120.txt item: #27 of 27 id: 9069 author: Bertrand, Louis title: Saint Augustin date: None words: 103531 flesch: 75 summary: He used them as an excuse for making Augustin mark time, so to speak. Again was baptism postponed, and from the same reason: to lessen the gravity of the sins which young Augustin was bound to commit. keywords: african; alypius; ambrose; augustin; barbarians; basilica; bishop; bishop augustin; carthage; catholic; charity; child; children; christian; church; city; country; day; days; death; donatists; doubt; empire; end; eyes; fact; faith; faithful; father; friends; future; god; good; great; heart; hippo; house; human; kind; land; life; light; love; man; master; men; milan; mind; moment; monnica; mother; order; pagan; patricius; people; place; pleasure; priest; public; religion; rhetorician; roman; romanianus; rome; sea; set; son; soul; thagaste; things; thought; time; time augustin; town; truth; way; words; work; world; years cache: 9069.txt plain text: 9069.txt