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Patience: Thoughts on the Patient Endurance of Sorrows and Suffering (1937) Kindness, The Bloom of Charity, Thoughts on Fraternal Charity (1938) The Catholic Girl's Guide; Manna of the Soul; Visits to Jesus in the Tabernacle, Hours and Half-hours of Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament (1897) Road to Happiness; With Saints and Sages; The ...
Perseverance of the saints, also known as preservation of the saints, is a Calvinist doctrine asserting that the elect will persevere in faith and ultimately achieve salvation. This concept was initially developed by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century, based on the idea of predestination by predeterminism .
Jacobus Arminius (1560–1609) arrived at the same conclusion in his own readings of the early church fathers. In responding to Calvinist William Perkins arguments for the perseverance of the saints, he wrote: "In reference to the sentiments of the [early church] fathers, you doubtless know that almost all antiquity is of the opinion, that believers can fall away and perish."
Roch actively lifted his clothing to display the plague bubo on his thigh. This display of his plague bubo showed that "he welcomed his disease as a divinely sent opportunity to imitate the sufferings of Christ... [his] patient endurance [of the physical suffering of plague was] a form of martyrdom." [24]
Saints have often been prevailed upon in requests for intercessory prayers to protect against or help combatting a variety of dangers, illnesses, and ailments. This is a list of saints and such ills traditionally associated with them. In shorthand, they are called the patron saints of (people guarding against or grappling with) these various ...
No. Title Length; 1. "The Army of One" 2:25: 2. "This Calls For Patient Endurance On The Part Of The Saints" 1:46: 3. "Narrow Road" 1:59: 4. "Whoremonger" 5:01
In several of his messages addressed to the Seven churches of Asia, John makes references to past and future times of persecution, trial and death, and calls upon their endurance and faith. In his letter to Ephesus, he writes: " I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance… I also know that you are enduring patiently and bearing up ...
They beat the martyrs, tore at their bodies with iron hooks, scorched them over red-hot grates, but they were not able to break the wondrous endurance of the Lord's confessors. Three soldiers torturing the saints were struck by the magnanimous spirit of the martyrs, and they in turn believed in Christ.