“declares: "If anyone saith that in min isters, when they effect and confer the Sacra ments, there is not required the intention… — Joseph Pohle Church Does Copy Share Image
“A Sacrament (sacramentum tantum) and the sacra mental grace which it confers (res tantum, effectus) are two separate and distinct things. A… — Joseph Pohle Sacrament 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
“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
“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
“tity of her priesthood; 20 but she has never condi tioned the validity of a Sacrament on the moral worthiness of the… — Joseph Pohle Education Copy Share Image
“The minister need not be in the state of grace, nor need he have the faith (negative disposi tion), but he must… — Joseph Pohle Faith Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine observes in one of his Sermons: " There were those who said that certain sins must not be forgiven. They… — Joseph Pohle Augustine 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
“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
“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
“Alexander III decided that it would render Bap tism invalid to omit the words : " I baptize thee," and simply to… — Joseph Pohle Holy trinity 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 Aquinas Copy Share Image
“If the desire for Baptism is accompanied by perfect con trition, we have the so-called baptismus ftaminis, which forthwith justifies the sinner,… — Joseph Pohle Desire Baptism 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 Bread 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
“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
“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
“—Baptism is administered by means of washing, i. e. applying the water to the subject. This application must be a true ablu… — Joseph Pohle Baptism Copy Share Image
“As far as mere possibility is concerned, there can be no doubt that Jesus Christ, had He so willed, could have limited… — Joseph Pohle Moral character 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
“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
“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
“Gutberlet answers this question suc cinctly as follows: " First and above all we uphold the idea of the mystical slaying of… — Joseph Pohle Sacrificial Lamb Copy Share Image
“St. Ephraem Syrus writes: " Without the venerable and divine institution of the priesthood men could not obtain forgiveness of their sins.” — Joseph Pohle Forgiveness 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
“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
“—With the sole exception of Penance, which demands certain supernatural acts (faith, contrition, etc.) either as quasi-matter, or at least as a… — Joseph Pohle Faith 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
“In regard to the institution of the Sacraments we may distinguish a threefold power: the divine potestas auctoritatis, the theandric potestas excettentiae,… — Joseph Pohle Sacraments Copy Share Image
“An indulgence is a remission of the temporal punishments which a penitent, whose sins are forgiven, has yet to undergo, either here… — Joseph Pohle Indulgence 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
“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
“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
“Christ, in whom godhead and manhood are so inti mately united, is as it were a living Sacrament — the personal and… — Joseph Pohle Life Copy Share Image
“The sacrifice predicted by Malachias cannot be the Sacrifice of the Cross. The prophet employs the word minchah, which means an unbloody… — Joseph Pohle Jewish people 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 Justification Copy Share Image
“The dogma of Transub-stantiation implies that the entire substance of the bread and the entire substance of the wine are converted, respectively,… — Joseph Pohle Bread Copy Share Image