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Lenten Conferences of Fr. Lacordaire No. 17

by .famvin | Mar 12, 2024 | Formation | 1 comment

At the request of Frederic Ozanam and other university students, the Archbishop of Paris, Monsignor de Quélen, instituted the Lenten Conferences at Notre-Dame, which are still held today. The first cycle of conferences took place from February to March 1834. Father Lacordaire, who would later join the Dominicans but was then a diocesan priest, preached those of 1835 and 1836. These extracts come from those conferences.

Faith and humility

Conferences of the Rev. Père Lacordaire, p. 458

The faith of the poor is the same as the faith of the learned. All believe in and pray to the same God, with the same obligation of humbling their pride, and knowing their nothingness.

Jean-Baptiste-Henri-Dominique Lacordaire (1802-1861) was a renowned preacher and restorer of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) in France. He was a great friend of Frederic Ozanam (in fact, he is the author of a very interesting biography on Ozanam) and very close to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

Image: Lacordaire, painted by Louis Janmot (1814-1892), friend of Frederic Ozanam and an early member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

*Source: Conferences of the Rev. Père Lacordaire: Delivered in the Cathedral of Nôtre Dame, in Paris. Author: Jean Baptiste Henri Dominique Lacordaire. Translated from the French by Henry Langdon. Publisher: T. Richardson in 1853.

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1 Comment

James E Ruiz on March 12, 2024 at 11:51 am
These Lenten series have been very insightful and truthful. What a wise preacher he was to have influenced great men and woman.