Father Ralph (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Father Ralph It was his mother's idea that Ralph O'Brien should be a priest. She had brooded happily on the thought for months before his birth. She had prayed that her first-born should be a son, and never doubted that it would be. He was to grow up unspotted from the world, holy as a priest of God should be. Day after day at mass in Clarendon Street Church she dedicated him to God. One day, during the consecration of the mass, when the child in her womb quickened, as if in response to a question as to whether he would wish to serve God at the altar, she took it as a sign from heaven. When the child was born, she looked on him as the child of miracle. She had prayed for a son and a son had been given to her. She had promised that he should be a priest, it was because of the promise her son had been given. The nursery of her house in Harcourt Terrace was hung with religious prints: St. Francis Xavier preaching to the Japanese, St. Stanislaus Kotska, St. Aloysius Gonzaga, the Sacred Heart. Mrs. O'Brien kept on her monthly nurse in charge of Ralph, while she sought for a suitable permanent nurse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.