Be careful in your words and actions not to cause displeasure to any one, no matter how inferior to yourself, unless duty, obedience, or charity force you to oppose him (says Pope Leo XIII.). Our veneration of saints is a perpetual'witness to our adoration of God (says “John Ayscough”). They are saints because He is God; if there were no God there would be no saints. Their light is perfect in its kind and degree, lovely and of ineffable beauty and; serenity ; but it is all reflection. In the wild night of sin and human imperfection it compels man to remember that there is a .God. The world’s bulk .is between }us and Him, but the sanctity of : the f .its insists ; oil' our keeping in mind the existence of / God.
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New Zealand Tablet, 14 February 1918, Page 18
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131Untitled New Zealand Tablet, 14 February 1918, Page 18
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