My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

that they may be such themselves as they wish to
make others."
In thought and tendency, MY PRAYER-BOOK
purposes to be the embodiment of Christian
optimism and altruism; the exponent of all that
is helpful and invigorating in the Christian life -
of whatever is calculated to promote man's temporal
and eternal welfare; it lays stress upon the
fact that while the short cut to happiness is by
way of self-renunciation, selfdenial, self-conquest,
self-control, in the following of Christ, nevertheless
good cheer, heartfelt joy, and genuine happiness, far
from being incompatible with the practice of
religion, and of the Catholic faith in particular,
are really the concomitant or rather the outgrowth
and efflorescence of a virtuous Christian life.
" Virtue only makes our bliss below." - POPE.
"'Tis virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell."
- COLLIXS.
If Christianity sends men to learn the solemn
lessons of the grave and asks them to keep in view
their eternal destiny and the salvation of their
priceless immortal souls, this need not make them
gloomy and morose, this should not and does
not make them sad and depressed; it tends, in
fact, to keep them in that state in which they tirill
be able to "rejoice in the Lord always," to be
glad and cheerful and hopeful and helpful also to
others, no matter what may be their outward
circumstances. The peace of God is with them
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