J.A. Cullen - IRISH HANDBOOK of The Holy League, called the Apostleship of Prayer

IRISH HANDBOOK of The Holy League, called the Apostleship of Prayer By JA Cullen 1890.
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ARMAGH, 2oth February, 1890. MY DEAR FATHER CULLEN, I have looked over your HANDBOOK OF THE APOSTLE- SHIP OF PRAYER, and have found it everything that could be desired both as to arrangement and matter. Besides all the information and direction which the Members of the Association can possibly require, it contains a body of beautiful devotions which will be useful to the faithful generally. It is an admirable little book of piety, which cannot fail to bring great spiritual profit to those who use it; and, for that reason, I trust it will be used extensively.

Wishing you every blessing and success in your zealous efforts to promote, among our people, an ardent devotion to the Sacred Heart, I am, Dear Father Cullen, Yours most faithfully, & MICHAEL LOGUE. Rev. J. A. Cullen, S.J.
THE PALACE, THURLES, February igth, 1890.

MY DEAR FATHER CULLEN, I have received, through your kindness, a copy of the IRISH HANDBOOK OF THE APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER, and thank you very sincerely for it. It is an admirable com pilation, containing a great deal of truly edifying matter, and well calculated to effect much good, especially amongst the Associates of the Holy League for whom it is chiefly intended. I give my best blessing to yourself personally, and heartily wish success and amplest development to the Organization of which you are the head. I remain, My Dear Father Cullen, Your very faithful servant, ffr T. W. The Rev. J. A. A.

Cullen, S.J.
ST. JARLATH S, TUAM, February 2oth, 1890. MY DEAR FATHER CULLEN, I am much obliged for the copy of the HANDBOOK OF THE APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER which you were good enough to send me. It is a most useful, and comprehensive, and varied book of piety, and I shall gladly take every opportunity of recommending it, as, indeed, it deserves to be recom mended, to Clergy and Laity. J. A. A.

Cullen, S.J.
DEAR FATHER CULLEN, I beg to thank you most cordially for the first copy of your IRISH HANDBOOK OF THE HOLY LEAGUE. Please to send me 200 copies for the clergy- I have read it with great interest and delight. It will supply a want much felt. It appears to be the Manual we looked for. In it you set out, in brief but comprehensive form, the nature and practices of the " Apostleship of Prayer," and the many beautiful connate branches of devotion to which its elastic constitution is applicable.

And that is done in language so simple and chaste, and with an arrange ment so orderly and clear, that the simplest member of the Association can easily learn all that it is necessary to know about the Holy League. Your Handbook will be a great boon to the clergy who desire to establish branches of the "Apostleship of Prayer" in their parishes. I am specially pleased to see two branches treated of in it, viz., " The Apostleship of Study " and " Temperance in the interests of the Sacred Heart" These two branches promise many blessings for the rising genera tion. By the first, children will learn, from their infancy upwards, to consecrate their lives to God, by a tender, practical devotion to the Sacred Heart; the latter, I cherish the fond hope, may yet become the staple basis of a temperance organization for Ireland. When the "Apostleship of Study" is made a daily exercise in every school, and the Temperance branch of the Holy League established in -every parish, Ireland will be truly consecrated to the Sacred Heart. M ALISTER.
TULLOW, Co.
TULLOW, Co.

CARLOW, February 21, 1890. MY DEAR FATHER CULLEN, I looked over your IRISH HANDBOOK OF THE HOLY LEAGUE, called the "Apostleship of Prayer." It is truly Miiltiiiit. in pariio. In so small a compass, and so cheap, it is the very best compendium I know of Holy Prayer and sound Catholic instruction on all points, eminently calculated to restore "the Christian rule of action in private and in public life " the great object our Most Holy Father had in view in his late incomparable Encyclical, " for warding off the evils which are pressing on us, and the fittest way to drive away the dangers with which we are threatened." Please send me eighteen copies, with bill. Wishing you the best blessings of this holy season, and your little work the widest possible circulation, I remain, my Dear Father Cullen, Most faithfully in Jesus Christ, JAMES LYNCH, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin.
BISHOP S HOUSE, MONAGHAN, 20th February, 1890.

DEAR FATHER CULLEN, I have obtained a copy of the little HANDBOOK OF THE APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER, and have perused it with the liveliest satisfaction. It is an excellent compilation, admirably arranged, most comprehensive, and well adapted to the spiritual needs of our people. I shall commend the little Handbook very warmly to the attention of the faithful. Believe me, very sincerely yours, S t JAMES DONNELLY, Bishop of Clogher. To the Rev. A. A.

Cullen, S.J., Central Director of the " Apostleship of Prayer."
MONASTEREVAN, February, 1890. DEAR FATHER CULLEN, Accept my thanks for copy of the IRISH HANDBOOK OF THE HOLY LEAGUE. It will, I am sure, be a great means of helping on the noble work which you have so much at heart. It is wonderful to see how you have succeeded in bringing together, within such narrow limits, so much matter so peculiarly suitable to our people. Wishing you every blessing, Believe me, Dear Father Cullen, Very faithfully yours, ifc M. Rev. J. A. A.

Cullen, S.J.
ST. MEL S, LONGFORD, 24th February, 1890. MY DEAR FATHER CULLEN, I am very much obliged to you for the copy of the little HANDBOOK OF THE APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER. It seems to me an excellent Manual, and, with God s blessing, will do much to advance the glory of the Sacred Heart, and the spiritual interests of the members of that admirable Association, iviick is producing wonderful fruit in this Diocese, as well as elsewhere. Praying the Divine Heart to multiply that fruit every day, and to make it permanent.

I remain, my Dear Father Cullen, Yours most sincerely in Jesus Christ, EARTH. WOODLOCK, Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise. Rev. J. A.
SUMMERHILL, WEXFORD, February 24th, 1890.
SUMMERHILL, WEXFORD, February 24th, 1890.

MY DEAR FATHER CULLEN, I feel great pleasure in saying that I highly approve of the little Manual you have just brought out, entitled, THE IRISH HANDBOOK OF THE HOLY LEAGUE, called the " Apostleship of Prayer." It is an excellent little prayer book, in addition to being the "Handbook of the Apostleship of Prayer." I trust it may obtain a wide circulation among the faithful, not only throughout Ireland, but through all English-speaking Catholic countries. Yours faithfully, fc JAMES BROWNE.
Rev. James A. Cullen, S.J. March 6, 1890.

MY DEAR FATHER CULLEN, I am in receipt of the copy of your " Irish Handbook of the Apostleship of Prayer" with which you have so kindly favoured me. Let me congratulate you on the good work you have done by the publication of this Manual. It explains, simply and fully, the nature, objects, and fruits of the "Apostleship ; " and nothing more, it seems to me, is wanting to attract our fervent Irish people to this organi zation. It is already widely established in the Convents and Convent Schools of this, and, I believe, of most other Dioceses of Ireland, with the happiest results, but it has not yet reached the people. After reading your book, I am strongly of opinion that the time has come to unite the "Apostleship" with the devotions to the Sacred Heart of our Lord, which are now so general and so popular throughout Ireland, and, by this means, to enlarge the scope, and multiply the spiritual advantages of the Sacred Heart Associations. In this Diocese we have a male and female Association of the Sacred Heart attached to every church, and it is my intention to engraft the "Apostleship" on each of those Associations, and to prepare them for this develop ment of their devotion to the Sacred Heart by distributing your Handbook amongst them.

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