Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Introductory Essay.
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are multiplied by an ever-increasing proportion.
This movement, it is true, already gives to
Catholics a considerable numerical importance
in the population
of the kingdom ; but although
time is nothing for the Church of GOD, this
hope does not satisfy the more impatient
longings.
"
According to the second of these opinions
(which, in the last twenty-five years, grows and
strengthens) as in 1841 a young member of
the University of Oxford [Dalgairns] said,
It is a very long work to gather in a nation,
grain by grain, atom by atom. I would point
out to them a way to reap the whole kingdom
and to gather the fruits into the garners of the
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Church.
Of course, I could not adopt some of this
language ; for, e. </., unless
fathers
:
included
"
a the worship of our
the invocation of saints
and the "cultus of the B. V.," I believe
that we have the self-same worship which we
ever had. I cite it only as exhibiting the two
aspects which the idea of Re-union takes. I
might add, as an additional ground why the
Roman Church, too, should desire the way of
Corporate Re-union rather than that of in
dividual conversions, that people,
in calculating
the conversions to the Roman Church, forget
to say where they come from, and also what
the English Church itself gains from the
!