“ceases to be merciful, no matter what sins have been conv mitted.” — Joseph Pohle Merciful Copy Share Image
“Origen says: " The Church hath received it as a tradition from the Apostles that infants, too, ought to be baptized." 21” — Joseph Pohle Apostles Infants Copy Share Image
“As the sacramental sign is the inanimate medium of grace, 16 so the minister is its animate instrument in the hands of Christ.” — Joseph Pohle Sacramental Copy Share Image
“To allow a baptized child, when he attains the use of reason, to choose freely between the true and a false re… — Joseph Pohle Baptized Copy Share Image
“St. Thomas 29 recommends Christian rulers, " for the honor of the Sacrament," to remit capital punishment to convicted pagans who ask… — Joseph Pohle Capital punishment Copy Share Image
“In case of necessity, not only a priest or a deacon, but a lay man or woman, nay even a pagan and… — Joseph Pohle Necessity Priest Copy Share Image
“The Church has always regarded the admin istration of a Sacrament in the state of mortal sin as a sacrilege, and insists… — Joseph Pohle Mortal sin Copy Share Image
“the whole substance of the bread has been converted into the Body and the whole sub stance of the wine into the… — Joseph Pohle Bread Copy Share Image
“bread and wine." These species must, therefore, be acci dents, and, having by Transubstantiation lost their con natural subjects, which cannot be… — Joseph Pohle Body of christ Copy Share Image
“—The form of Baptism consists in the words accompanying the ablution. There are two essential parts: (i) the verbal designa tion of… — Joseph Pohle Holy trinity Copy Share Image
“under certain conditions, the place of Baptism by water (baptismus fiuminis) may be supplied by Baptism of desire (baptismus flaminis) or by… — Joseph Pohle Water Copy Share Image
“The confectio of a Sacrament, i. e. the combina tion of matter and form into the sacramental sign, is not necessarily of… — Joseph Pohle Sacramental Copy Share Image
“THE MINISTER OF A SACRAMENT MUST BE IN THE WAYFARING STATE. —This condition ex cludes the angels and the departed. Christ con… — Joseph Pohle Men Apostles Copy Share Image
“it would be perfectly proper to regard the Sacraments in the sense of Luther as a kind of acted sermons calculated to… — Joseph Pohle Justification Copy Share Image
“Alterations in the formula of Baptism may or may not affect its substance. Substantial changes render the Sacrament invalid ; purely accidental… — Joseph Pohle Change Copy Share Image
“Up to the time of the so-called Reformation no one ever questioned the power of the Church to forgive sins. The ancient… — Joseph Pohle Time Copy Share Image
“St. Bruno of Asti, who says: " The first tabernacle, therefore, is the Synagogue; the second, the Church; the third, Heaven. .… — Joseph Pohle Life Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine says: " Baptism does not consist in the merits of those by whom it is ad ministered, nor in the… — Joseph Pohle Truth Copy Share Image
“There is, first, the actual intention, operating with the full advertence of the intellect. When a minister wishes here and now to… — Joseph Pohle Intention Copy Share Image
“Gutberlet rightly observes: " It were mere quibbling to try to disprove the idea of a mystically real separation by saying that… — Joseph Pohle Body of christ Copy Share Image
“a) Theologians generally* agree that in itself (in actu primo) the Mass, as a sacrifice of impetration and pro pitiation, has infinite… — Joseph Pohle Human nature Copy Share Image
“the scientific development of the doctrine of indulgences. 29 St. Thomas knows but one plenary indulgence, i. e. that granted for the… — Joseph Pohle Science Copy Share Image
“Our Lord Jesus Christ is a wise and just lawgiver who must demand that the power of for giving or retaining sins… — Joseph Pohle Confession Copy Share Image
“St. Chrysostom says: "What is worse than hell? But nothing is more profitable than the fear thereof. For the fear of hell… — Joseph Pohle Divine love Copy Share Image
“The Second Council of Mileve (416) anath ematized all "who deny that new-born infants should be baptized immediately after birth." n The… — Joseph Pohle Baptism Copy Share Image
“the dogma of the Communion of Saints. All the members of Christ's mystic body are organi cally connected with one another and… — Joseph Pohle Communion Copy Share Image
“[each] confess those sins by which he remembers that he has mortally offended his Lord and God; whilst the other sins, which… — Joseph Pohle Theologians Indirect Copy Share Image
“minister begins with an actual intention, but is distracted while administering the Sacrament, he has a virtual in tention. Thirdly, an habitual… — Joseph Pohle Intention Copy Share Image
“i. e. a sacrifice offered " from the rising of the sun to the going down" and " in every place." Moreover,… — Joseph Pohle Holy eucharist Copy Share Image
“While it is possible for the con fessor in some cases to obtain such knowledge without confession, this is not the rule,… — Joseph Pohle Wisdom Copy Share Image
“We are compelled to concur in another view of Cardinal De Lugo, namely, that the value of the Mass is dependent on… — Joseph Pohle Lesser Holiness Copy Share Image
“heretics can validly administer all the other Sacraments, with the sole exception of Penance, 30 which cannot, barring cases of urgent necessity,… — Joseph Pohle Administer Sacraments Copy Share Image
“According to Catholic teaching the remote matter of Baptism is natural water; its proximate matter is the act of external washing; while… — Joseph Pohle Holy ghost Copy Share Image
“Merits are not physical but purely moral entities. They live and are revived in the knowledge and accepta tion of God, which… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Does the external sign receive from God a peculiar super natural power enabling it physically to produce sanctify ing grace in the… — Joseph Pohle Nature Copy Share Image
“When corruption (corruptio specierum) sets in, e. g. when the host becomes mouldy or the contents of the Chalice sour, Christ is… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Since it was no mere death from suffocation that Jesus suffered, but a bloody death, in which His veins were emptied of… — Joseph Pohle Death Copy Share Image
“The so-called Sacraments of the dead require for their worthy reception attrition along with its various dispositive acts (faith, fear, hope, etc.),… — Joseph Pohle Sacraments Copy Share Image
“devoutly and reverently, he obtains the grace of charity, which will perfect his [imperfect] contrition, and bring forgiveness of sin.” — Joseph Pohle Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“sacramental rite or not. Hence the necessity of a proper intention.” — Joseph Pohle Sacramental Copy Share Image
![“In case of necessity, not only a priest or a deacon, but a lay man or woman, nay even a pagan and a heretic, can [validly] baptize, provided only that he observes the form prescribed by the Church and has the intention of doing what the Church does.” quote by Joseph Pohle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/82f/joseph-pohle-3769_quote_in-case-of-necessity-not-only-a-priest-o_378512.jpg)
![“St. Bruno of Asti, who says: " The first tabernacle, therefore, is the Synagogue; the second, the Church; the third, Heaven. . . . The first was in a shadow and an image, the second is in an image and in truth, and the third [will be] in the truth alone. In the first, life is foreshadowed; in the…” quote by Joseph Pohle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7d8/joseph-pohle-3769_life_st-bruno-of-asti-who-says-the-first-tabe_36723.jpg)
![“St. Augustine says: " Baptism does not consist in the merits of those by whom it is ad ministered, nor in the merits of those to whom it is ad ministered, but in its own sanctity and truth, on account of Him by whom it has been instituted, [it is] for the perdition of those who use it badly and…” quote by Joseph Pohle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5cc/joseph-pohle-3769_truth_st-augustine-says-baptism-does-not-consi_796880.jpg)
![“[each] confess those sins by which he remembers that he has mortally offended his Lord and God; whilst the other sins, which do not occur to him after diligent thought, are understood to be included as a whole in that same confes sion." 6 The last-quoted phrase is of great dogmatic importance…” quote by Joseph Pohle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c71/joseph-pohle-3769_quote_each-confess-those-sins-by-which-he-reme_1093453.jpg)
![“devoutly and reverently, he obtains the grace of charity, which will perfect his [imperfect] contrition, and bring forgiveness of sin.” quote by Joseph Pohle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/127/joseph-pohle-3769_forgiveness_devoutly-and-reverently-he-obtains-the-g_1389223.jpg)
