Principles and Practices - September 15

Variety From Unity

It was the same principle that drove St. Anthony into the wilderness, that sent St. Francis into the towns and villages of Italy. Under the same law, St. Ignatius drilled and disciplined his great army of the Society of Jesus to deal with the cultured world of his day, and St. Theresa drew her daughters out of the world, and placed them behind grills and barriers to plead for the world they left, and to do penance for it in a life hidden with Christ in God. St. Francis Xavier in a life of unwearied activity preaching to the heathen, and St. John of the Cross, or St. Peter of Alcantara, shutting themselves out from the world in a life of mystic contemplation, were very different types of men in many ways, yet they were the product of the self-same laws.

-Maturin.
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From Principles and Practices
Compiled by Rev. J. Hogan of The Catholic Missionary Society
Published by Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., Publishers To The Holy See
Nihil Obstat; Eduardus J. Mahoney, S.T.D. Censor deputatus.
Imprimatur; Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius generalis.
First printed in 1930