“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
“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
“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 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 Lord jesus 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 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
“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
“[each] confess those sins by which he remembers that he has mortally offended his Lord and God; whilst the other sins, which… — Joseph Pohle 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 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 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 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 Religion 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 Children Copy Share Image
“Baptism has for its general effect the regeneration of the soul, 1 and hence belongs to the " Sacraments of the dead."… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“After David had confessed to Nathan that he had " sinned against the Lord," 6 the prophet consoled him by saying: "… — Joseph Pohle Holy eucharist Copy Share Image
“efficacy of perfect contrition be reconciled with the dogma that the power of the keys is necessary for the forgiveness of sins?… — Joseph Pohle Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“The sanctifying grace required for these Sac raments can be obtained either by making an act of perfect contrition or by worthily… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“the bidding of one's confessor, or voluntarily, and by patiently accepting trials and sufferings. This is the ex press teaching of the… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Aquinas teaches: " As God did not bind His power to the Sacraments, so as to be unable to bestow the sacramental… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“We do not "adore bread" (adoratio panis, d/oroAarpeta), because, according to Catholic teaching, the substance of bread is no longer present in… — Joseph Pohle Education 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
“The sacramental system of the Reformers flowed quite logically from their false idea of justification. If justification really consisted in a merely… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Augustine observes: " The womb does not repeat its births," 34 and with the latter analogy in mind St. Chrysostom says: "… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Bap tism also effects the supernatural concomitants of sanc tifying grace, viz.: the three divine virtues of faith, hope, and charity, the… — Joseph Pohle Faith hope Copy Share Image
“the amount of grace conferred by a Sacrament in each instance depends (i) on the eternal decree of God, who has endowed… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
