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Excerpt from Christ Upon the Waters: A Sermon Preached in Substance at St. Chad's Birmingham, on Sunday, October 27, 1850, Occasion of Establishment of the Catholic Hierarchy in This Country
Wonderful are the surges of the sea; wonderful is the Lord on high. It is the Lord from heaven, who is our light in the gloom, our confidence in the storm. There is nothing hard to Him who is almighty, nothing strange to Him who is all manifold in Operation and all fruitful in resource. The clouds break, and the sun shines, and the sea is smooth, in its appointed season. Such, my dear brethren, is the thought which naturally possesses the mind on a day like this, when we are met together solemnly to return thanks to our merciful God for the restoration of the Catholic Hierarchy to the faithful of this land. His works are ever slow and gradual: year after year brings its silent in?uence and contribution in aid of the object which He may have in view; and we are unable, except artificially and for convenience, to divide into portions or stages what with Him is the continuous introduction of an integral whole. But still from time to time occur greater and more striking events, in which the past and the future are, as it were, summed up; and which, though great in themselves, may be taken as symbols, and are representatives of even more than they are, of the labours and the prospects of a course of years. And such as this is the great act which we are now commemorating: it wit nesses that much has been done; it predicts that much is to follow: it is the authoritative recognition and seal of the successes which God has given us, and the instrument of their consolidation. W'ell, then, may we rejoice 011 this day; and happily does it'fall on the Feast of Our Lady's Patronage, for to whom, under God, are our acknowledgments more truly due, and our expectations more securely turned, than to His all-holy and ever-glorious mother?
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