our gifts, 502; prevents us from returning by "strait way," 533; incompatible with love,
475, 535; Christ repelled the proud man who would have followed Him, 298.
Priests, peril of office of, 362; in Old Testament were to offer for themselves, 514.
Princes, as God's ministers, may restrain heathen or heretics, 303, 304.
Promises, having done what God commands, we may ask for His, 442.
Prophets, foretold evil, but did not wish it, 275; words of, explained by their acts, 388.
Psalms, imprecations in, not curses, but predictions, 275.
Pure, the, "reach" God, 460, 485.
Rebuke, for secret sins, to be given secretly, 360 sq.; St. Joseph an example of this, 360 sq.;
for public, publicly, 360; given by St. Stephen severely, but in love, 396; love should al-
ways accompany, 358; with meekness and charity, 385.
Reconciliation, necessity of, with an aggrieved brother, before acceptance with God, 358,
359; difficulty of persuading men to the self-humiliation necessary for, although the
real humiliation their own sin, 359.
Remission, of sin, article in the Creed, 286; given by Holy Ghost through Church, 325,
329-332, 419; first gift of Spirit in Baptism, 324; given not by man, but by God, 418;
through man or without man, 419; Apostles taught to pray for, 286; joint gift of The
Three Persons in the Holy Trinity, 326; effect of, deliverance from dominion of Satan,
330; "Seventy times seven," complete remission, 365.
Repentance, useless if barren of its fruit, almsgiving, 294; figured by Lazarus raised from
dead, 415; place of, not denied in Church to any sins whatever, 320; time of mercy
granted for, 442.
Repetition not wearisome in divine things, 475.
Rest, our, foreshadowed by God's after work of creation, 477 sq.
Restituta, the great church in Carthage, 392 (note).
Resurrection, of body, ordained for all, 488 sq.; difference between that of good and bad,
489; great and incredible, but not more so than our first creation, 491.
Rhadagaisus, 434 (note).
Rich, the: equal with poor in life and death, 296, 297, 368; danger of, in attaining to salvation,
366, 367; may use luxuries which their infirmities demand, if careful to give necessaries
to poor, 297, 298; must lay out what they have, that they may receive what they have
not, 367; need not give all to poor, but must exceed a tenth, the Scribes' and Pharisees'
portion, 367; by them God helps the needy, and by needy proves them, 368; real wants
of, not more than those of poor, 297 sq.; if humble, better than poor if proud, 367;
warned against pride, 367; two kinds of, those of this world, and those of the next (i.e.,
the poor), 367; have "received" all, and therefore give nothing of their own, 474. See
Alms.
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