...participation of his fpirit, (he becometh one fpirit with him. Of this fire our Lord faid : " I am come to caft fire on the •' earth, and what will I but that it be kindled (24) !" This fire was particularly an emblem of the light, which th* apoftles received and communicated...

...fountain of all holiness, may also sanctify us in truth. Thro'. COMM. Luke xii. — I am come to cast fire on the earth, and what will I, but that it be kindled ? P. COMM. Laudis. — May the sacrifice of praise, O Lord, which we have offered thee with thanksgiving...

...roses, when endured for the love of our God ! — " I am come, says Christ, Luke, xii, 49, to send fire on the earth, and what will I but that it be kindled?" Divine Pastor and lover of our souls ! whose unworthy representative I here stand ; while in pursuance...

...required : and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more. 49 1 am come to cast fire on the earth ; and what will I but that it be kindled? 50 And I have a baptism, where- ' w'uh I am to be baptized : and how am I straitened until it be accomplished...

...he desires nothing else than to be loved.' (Ser. 83 in Can.) The Redeemer said : ' I am come to cast fire on the earth ; and what will I but that it be kindled ?' (Luke xii. 49.) I, says JESUS Christ, came on earth to light up the fire of divine love in the hearts...

...five sparowes sold for two farthings : and one of them is not forgotten before God ? 491 came to cast fire on the earth : and what will I, but that it be kindled? CHAP. XIII. 21 It is like to leaven, which a woman tooke and hid in three measures of meale, till the...

...whole and entire. Make it thine, O Jesus, wholly and entirely thine. Thou sayest : I am come to cast fire on the earth, and what will I but that it be kindled ? Let my desire, O Lord, correspond with the ardour and tenderness of thine ; let me receive by love...

...enkindle in the heaiis of all the fire of Divine love, as He Himself declared : "I am come to cast fire on the earth, and what will I but that it be kindled?"1 Let us only imagine, what a flame He must have enkindled in that pure heart of His Holy...

...required : and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more. I AM come to cast fire on the earth ; and what will I, but that it be kindled ? And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptised : and how am I straitened, until it be accomplished?...

...confidence ; she is the whole ground of my hope ! The usual prayer. FIFTEENTH VISIT. " I am come to cast fire on the earth ; and what will I but that it be kindled ?" St. Luke xii. 49. Father Francis Olimpio, the Theatine, used to say, that there was nothing on earth...