“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“satisfaction blots out the temporal punishments due to sin. Consequently the just man must be able to merit de condigno forgiveness of… — Joseph Pohle Prayer 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 Baptism 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 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
“all that is necessary for the valid administration of the Sacraments is the direct intention, i. e. the purpose of performing the… — Joseph Pohle Management Copy Share Image
“Faith, as such, is merely a dispositive cause of justification,— part of its causa materialis, — whereas a Sacrament is a true… — Joseph Pohle Faith 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
“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
“[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
“the amount of grace conferred by a Sacrament in each instance depends (i) on the eternal decree of God, who has endowed… — Joseph Pohle Sacrament Copy Share Image
“—The Fathers teach that God does not forgive sins without the cooperation of the Church. See the Patristic texts quoted infra, Part… — Joseph Pohle Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“The simplest explanation is that the process of corrup tion brings back those elementary substances which cor respond to the peculiar nature… — Joseph Pohle 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“St. Thomas, following his master Albert, proves the necessity of a right intention on the part of the minister from the proposition… — Joseph Pohle Books 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
“A man who is sorry for his sins, is sorry either be cause sin is an evil done to God (malum Deo),… — Joseph Pohle 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 Copy Share Image
“In one sense the Eucharistic Christ is indeed exalted and glori fied, but in another sense He is abased and humbled. In… — Joseph Pohle Eucharistic 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
“Though Baptism completely blots out the guilt of original sin (reatus culpae), there still remains concu piscence (fomes peccati, concupiscentia), which, however,… — Joseph Pohle Guilt Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine repeatedly speaks of the power inherent in the desire for Baptism. " I do not hesitate," he says in his… — Joseph Pohle Holy ghost Copy Share Image
“The remission of punishments called an indulgence is not an unconditional amnesty, but postulates in the re cipient a moral disposition or… — Joseph Pohle Generosity 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 Baptism 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