Meditations on the Gospels

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Excerpt from Meditations on the Gospels: For Every Day in the YearOccasionally, though very seldom, a few words have been altered - where the author makes reference to religious 1ife, - ih order that people living in the world may not think that these meditations are unsuited to them. The Editor has found more than sufficient warrant to justify these slight changes, in the example of Father Bolle, a French Jesuit, who published an edition of Médaille, omitting the meditations on the Jesuit Saints, and all special allusions to religious life in the Society.The Editor has, in addition, taken upon him self to tone down some expressions concerning the number of the saved, which possibly would be more susceptible of misinterpretation at the present day than two hundred years ago. When Médaille wrote his book, textual criticism was not in as advanced a stage as it now is, and, in the spiritual writings of many authors, Jansenism was struggling for the mastery with genuine piety.In England we are accustomed, more perhaps than the inhabitants of other countries, to take words in their literal meaning. It is, therefore, more necessary here than elsewhere, that preachers and writers should guard themselves against the risk of exaggeration in phrase or inference.There are supplementary meditations, written in 1818, after the manner of Father Médaille, by the Abbé Vernier, of the Missionary Fathers at Besancon, in which town some of the best editions of the work have been published at various times. These are marked in the Table of Contents with an asterisk. Médaille wrote three meditations only for each week, as every meditation was meant to be repeated on the following day.It may: be remarked, in conclusion, that no subject could possibly be pondered with greater profit than the words which fell from the sacred lips of our Blessed Lord. Hence it would seem assured that any one making daily use of these Meditations on Me Gospels must be laying up in his mind a vast treasure of spiritual wealth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.