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For some time, I have thought that Henry Cardinal Manning should be canonized. He championed the papacy and the Church in difficult times, a...

I have been looking at the actual sermons of young Cardinal Manning in his handwriting. His handwriting and mine are so similar, I was taken...

Cardinal Manning writes that we can make reparation to the Holy Ghost in three ways. The first is through following His inspirations p...

This is the penultimate post on Manning’s works for now. I am sorry to leave the work of this great man. I feel a connection to him ...

The chapter on the Beatitudes includes a long section on the need for perfection for priests and bishops. I shall let those two groups of ...

Manning continues on the theme of perfection. In this state, there are two opinions are to whether people still sin venially. The ke...

Perfection involves acting in the life of virtue, exhibiting all the fruits of the Holy Spirit and, eventually, having a character complet...

By the way, Cardinal Manning, besides the two books I have highlighted on this blog, wrote many others. If anyone would like to fi...

I shall continue with more Manning tomorrow, but today, let me end with a section found earlier in the section on the fruits of the Holy G...

Because of limited access to the Net and because I want to pass this magnificent book on to friend before I move in two weeks, I am ...

Manning and the Passive Perfection All I can say of this section is “wow”! Read on… Manning tells us that the Beatitudes are a for...

Cardinal Manning presents us with excellent basic catechesis on the virtues, gifts, and fruits of the Spirit. Faith, hope and charity,...

There are still several more pages in the book by Cardinal Manning on the interior working of the Holy Spirit in our lives, which I must...

The reading of Cardinal Manning is like a cool, sea breeze on a stifling hot day. His clarity of mind and intense spirituality leads one i...

How often did Our Lord and His Mother suffer because of the powers that be? The other day, I told someone I could not trust an a...

Cardinal Manning cuts to the quick concerning why so many people who are baptized and confirmed, have the gifts of wisdom and counsel, as ...

This section on the gifts of the Holy Spirit truly strikes at the heart of the new Church in some parishes. Years ago, someone in au...

As this is the Feast of the Holy Trinity, it is appropriate to concentrate on the way of perfection. Remember that from baptism, we all ...

This is worth repeating... from Cardinal Manning... “…if you are the true followers of Jesus Christ, it (the world) will misu...

I write this for S and J, especially.. The great man writes this: “…do not be afraid when the consciousness of your past sins and of...