CONTENTS. Eight Sermons preached before the Catholic University of PAGE (Preached Oct. 27, 1850, in St. Chad's, Birmingham, on occasion of the Installation of Dr. Ullathorne, the first Bishop of the See.) (Preached Nov. 11, 1859, in St. Mary's, Oscott, at the funeral of the (Preached May 5, 1873, in the Church of the Jesuit Fathers, London, at SERMON I. INTELLECT, THE INSTRUMENT OF RELIGIOUS TRAINING. (Preached in the University Church, Dublin.) EVANG. SEC. Luc., c. vii. v. 12. Cum autem appropinquaret portæ civitatis, ecce defunctus efferebatur filius unicus matris suæ: et hæc vidua erat. And when He came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. THIS day we celebrate one of the most remarkable feasts in the Calendar. We commemorate a Saint who gained the heavenly crown by prayers indeed and tears, by sleepless nights and weary wanderings, but not in the administration of any high office in the Church, not in the fulfilment of some great resolution or special counsel; not as a preacher, teacher, evangelist, reformer, or champion of the faith; not as Bishop of the flock, or temporal governor; not by eloquence, by wisdom, or by controversial success; not in the way of any other saint whom we invoke in the circle of the year; but as a mother, seeking and gaining by her penances the conversion of her son. It was for no ordinary son that she |