Sermon of the Right Rev. James Vincent Cleary, S. T. D., Bishop of Kingston, on the Supernatural Agency of Bishops (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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If the Episcopate were an office for which, beside legitimate appointment, nothing more were required than a just combination of priestly virtue and learning and stability of character, of zeal and prudence, of firmness of purpose and gentleness of disposition, there would beno necessity for the venerable Archbishop and Bishops of this Province to come together here at much personal inconvenience for the sake of an empty ceremony of pu blie investiture with the insignia of power and dignity. There would be no substance m it, certainly no true couse cration; because there would be no sacramental grace, no divine communication of power, no transforming virtue, no spiritual reality; but only a religious pageant, calculated to impress the minds of the beholders with something like awe, perhaps with a reverential idea of the higher order of ecclesiastical dignities. But now, although the Bishop elect of Peterboro has received his appointment from the Supreme Pastor of the whole fold of Christ, to whom, be cause of his sovereign jurisdiction and by express precept of the Son of God, the clergy of all grades turn, as to the centre and source of sacerdotal unity,' 'consequently of honor and preferment and hierarchical institution, he -is not qualified to discharge the ministry of salvation for you till, like the first twelve bishops, he be indued with virtue from on high, by the infusion of the Holy Ghost and His gifts of spiritual agency proportioned to the work to be done, which 13 wholly supernatural, depend ent on supernatural means, and ordained to a super natural end. All whatsoever man by his natural powers and gifts could do, all that the wisdom and learning and eloquence and wealth and marvellous enterprise of this age could accomplish, would not suffice to save a single soul. The beatitude of heaven IS a supernatural goal that cannot be reached but by paths of supernatural direction and by helps transcending the highest powers of nature. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what God hath prepared for those that love him. (1 Cor., 2c, 9v.)

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