The Crown of Sorrow: Quadragesima : Meditatins on the Passion of Our Lord, Together With a Harmony on the Passion

Goodier, Alban

History

Franklin Classics

The Public Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Vol. 1

The Public Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by bishop Goodier, takes the subject of Christ's life from the coming of John the Baptist until his last day before Palm Sunday and the beginning of His passion. Goodier notes in his introduction: "Hence in a work of this kind it has not seemed necessary to introduce any discussion concerning the four Evangelists, or the authenticity of their work. These have been examined and proved by writers far more skilled and learned than the author and he is content to accept their decision referring readers who would examine these sources to them. On the other hand, when accepting the Gospels, he accepts them wholly and entirely. It seems to him a futile attitude of mind to take a source as authentic, and then, almost entirely from internal evidence, to proceed to whittle it away." Artwork from the Renaissance has been added which is not in the original to aid the reader.

Religion & Spirituality

Press, Mediatrix

Christian Books & Bibles

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The second volume continues where the first left off in Our Lord's life and continues the same original commentary and discussion all the way to passion week. The wonderful thing of Bishop Goodier's narrative is that it does not make use of secondary sources or copious quotes, rather he simply quotes the Scriptures and organizes the teaching of the Gospels into the sequential occurrence of events. If you want to know more about our Lord and understand the places he is going to, what he is doing and why, this is the perfect work. The new edition includes wonderful depictions of events from Renaissance art.

The Public Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Vol. 2

The Public Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ: An Interpretation (Vol. II)

Pauline Books & Media

The Crown of Sorrow

Prince of Peace

This little book of meditations is but one more of very many. Our minds are all different, our method of prayer is different in every case. On this account it partly is that no prayer-book, still more no single collection of meditations, can hope to satisfy all alike. Nor can it even hope to satisfy any single soul, if that soul expects to find in it what prayer alone can give. All it can hope to do is to suggest such matter as may contain substance, such, too, as may help the soul of prayer in its own way to "raise its mind and heart to God." Such, then, is the aim of these meditations. The writer trusts that none of the points are tnere words; certainly, he thinks, none are Inerely futile. He has relied upon his own judgnlent in the matter of selection and expression, feeling that so alone could he hope to give the meditations the vitality that is needed; at the same time he has not scrupled to make use of wiser heads and holier hearts than his own in the choice of his material. Particularly will this be found to be the case by those who are well acquainted with the works of Fr. Coleridge, S.J. It has often been said that some kind of selection from his many volumes is much to be desired; the present meditations at tilnes run parallel with Fr. Coleridge's chapters, at times quote his actual words. Where this has been done, acknowledgment has been made by marks of quotation. We would ask those who are kind enough to give this little book a place upon their prie-dieu, that they would use it in the spirit in which it has been written. The thoughts contained are necessarily brief, but they are thoughts which may easily be developed.They appeal to the heart rather than to the mind; as such, then, let them be taken. In other words let theln not be tested by reading only; let them also be allowed to grow upon the mind and heart. Such an appeal seems necessary; for the writing of another book of meditations, after so many that have been tried and found wanting, must almost appear an impertinence, and must at best be always an anxious thing.

Literature & Fiction

In his The Risen Jesus, Archbishop Goodier examines in thoughtful detail every moment of the events following the crucifixion of Christ.

The Risen Jesus

Is this a book of biography, or is it romance? The author himself scarcely knows. If an honest attempt to give the facts makes biography, then he hopes it may deserve that title. If an effort to interpret some of those facts and give them life makes romance, then must his work be called romantic. In either case he hopes that the picture in each case is true; and that the whole is a proof of a deeper truth which it is needful for us all to remember. It is, that "God is wonderful in His saints"; that He "chooses whom He will Himself"; that in His house "there are many mansions"; and that there is no condition of life to which His grace does not reach, none so low but He can make it worthy of Himself. We have called this book "Saints for Sinners," and in doing so we would take the word "Sinners" in a broad sense. For beside the actual consciousness of sin, and the sense of weakness that comes of it, there is also a kindred consciousness of failure, and ineffectualness, and other hard things in the spiritual life which makes us realize our utter nothingness, and compels us sometimes to wonder whether we are not ourselves their cause. When these hard things oppress us, and tempt us to despair or resent, it is well to bear in mind that they were the lot of all the saints, that "virtue is made perfect in infirmity," and that the life of the Cross is an ideal above every other, however human nature may stumble or be scandalized. For this reason, in these chapters, the human element has been more considered than the sanctity that has been built upon it; the latter rises in proportion to the depth of the foundation.

Saints for Sinners (Essay Index Reprint Series)

Ayer Co. Pub

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