“the Council of Florence forbade the postponement of Baptism even for forty or eighty days. Since the Tridentine Council it is a… — Joseph Pohle Religion 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
“Matrimony is not only a Sacrament, but it is also a con tract requiring the mutual consent of both parties. There can… — Joseph Pohle Marriage Copy Share Image
“Perfect contrition (contritio), which is a true supernatural sorrow from a motive of perfect charity, justifies a man independently of the Sacraments.” — Joseph Pohle Contrition Copy Share Image
“course, the dis tinction between the divine potestas auctoritatis and the theandric potestas excellentiae must always be kept in mind. The former… — Joseph Pohle Psychology Copy Share Image
“Confirmation, the Holy Eucharist, Extreme Unction, Matrimony, and Holy Orders presuppose the state of sancti fying grace, which they merely increase (iusti-ficatio… — Joseph Pohle Grace Copy Share Image
“The faithful of to-day should try by a more ardent contrition to make up for the enforced mildness of the Church in… — Joseph Pohle Penance Copy Share Image
“The question arises: How can the Lord's Blood be truly shed in the Chalice? Such an unbloody shedding of blood seems to… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Imperfect contrition (attritio) is a true supernatural sorrow from a motive of incipient charity or fear, coupled with a firm purpose of… — Joseph Pohle Contrition 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
“Innocent III demanded of the Waldenses that they sub scribe to a profession of faith containing these words in regard to the… — Joseph Pohle Faith 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
“This Sac rament," he says, " can effect the forgiveness of sin in two ways. First of all, by being received, not… — Joseph Pohle Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“The Council warns confessors not to " connive at sins and deal too indulgently with penitents by enjoining certain very light works… — Joseph Pohle Present time Copy Share Image
“We are here dealing with ordinary punishments,— of which the Council of Trent says that they may be blotted out by means… — Joseph Pohle Parenting 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 Consecration Copy Share Image
“St. Polycarp (+about 155), who was a personal dis ciple of St. John the Evangelist, admonishes priests to be merciful to sinners.… — Joseph Pohle 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
“Take, e. g., that of "a man who, on presenting a leaden coin, receives, by the king's command, a hundred pounds; not… — Joseph Pohle Intrinsic value 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
“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
“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
“Baptism is a Sacra ment instituted by Christ, in which, by the out ward washing of the body with water, with in… — Joseph Pohle Baptism 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 Copy Share Image
“Hence, if one places an obstacle to sacramental grace, 4 he receives the Sacra ment unworthily, but the Sacrament itself is not… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Tertullian speaks the mind of the Latin Fa thers when he says: "The guilt being removed, the penalty is removed also. Thus… — Joseph Pohle Psychology Copy Share Image
“bishops, and the clergy throughout the world. The holier the Church is in her members (especially the pope and the episcopate), the… — Joseph Pohle Sacrifice Copy Share Image
“St. Au gustine draws a distinction between habere and utiliter habere 6 and asks: " What does it avail a man to… — Joseph Pohle 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
“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
“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
“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
“more common opinion holds that the votum implicitum is all that is required. This " implicit desire " may be defined as… — Joseph Pohle Desire 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 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