Prosper Guéranger

We know that the authentic liturgical prayers of the various traditions of the Catholic Church are the work of the Holy Ghost and teach the truth.

Now, one of the Church's greatest experts on the sacred liturgy, the servant of God, Dom Guéranger, whose love for God and neighbor was so great that our Lord has preserved his physical heart incorrupt.

Dom Guéranger teaches that in the entire liturgical tradition of the Roman Rite, the chronology upheld again and again is the one derived from the genealogies in the Hebrew text of Genesis.

which tells us that 4,000 years elapsed from creation to the nativity of our Lord, and that the four weeks of Advent recall the 4,000 years of expectation for the coming of our Lord.

Dom Girish points out that in the entire liturgical tradition of the Roman Rite, there is only one time when a longer chronology derived from the Greek Septuagint translation of the Old Testament is used.

We know that the authentic liturgical prayers of the various traditions of the Catholic Church are the work of the Holy Ghost and teach the truth.

Now, one of the Church's greatest experts on the sacred liturgy, the servant of God, Dom Guéranger, whose love for God and neighbor was so great that our Lord has preserved his physical heart incorrupt.

Dom Guernsey teaches that in the entire liturgical tradition of the Roman Rite, the chronology upheld again and again is the one derived from the genealogies in the Hebrew text of Genesis, which tells us that 4,000 years elapsed from creation to the nativity of our Lord, and that the four weeks of Advent recall the 4,000 years of expectation for the coming of our Lord.

Dom Guérinier points out that in the entire liturgical tradition of the Roman Rite, there is only one time when a longer chronology derived from the Greek Septuagint translation of the Old Testament is used.

It will not be amiss to say a brief word here on the brother and sister of Madame Martin.

Her sister in religion, Sister Marie d'Osateya, led a life so holy at Le Mans that she was cited by Dom Guéranger, perhaps the most distinguished Benedictine of the 19th century, as the model of a perfect nun.

By her own confession, she had never been guilty from earliest childhood of the smallest deliberate fault.

She died on February 24, 1877.

When good thoughts and generous resolutions have sprung up in our souls through reading the lives of the saints, we ought not to content ourselves, as in the case of profane books, with paying a certain tribute of admiration to the genius of their authors.

We should rather consider the price which, doubtless, they have paid for that supernatural good they have produced.

Dom Guéranger And if today Therese transforms so many hearts, and the good she does on earth is beyond reckoning, we may well believe she bought it all at the price with which Jesus bought back our souls, by suffering and the cross.

Not the least of these sufferings was the unceasing war she waged against herself, refusing every satisfaction to the demands of her naturally proud and impetuous nature.

When good thoughts and generous resolutions have sprung up in our souls through reading the lives of the saints, we ought not to content ourselves, as in the case of profane books, with paying a certain tribute of admiration to the genius of their authors: we should rather consider the price which, doubtless, they have paid for that supernatural good they have produced.

Dom Gueranger.

And if to-day Thérèse transforms so many hearts, and the good she does on earth is beyond reckoning, we may well believe she bought it all at the price with which Jesus bought back our souls--by suffering and the Cross.

Not the least of these sufferings was the unceasing war she waged against herself, refusing every satisfaction to the demands of her naturally proud and impetuous nature.