Excerpt from Great French Sermons From Boussuet, Bourdaloue and Massillon
These translations of sermons of the famous French preachers of the seventeenth century appeared during the past two years in the Southampton Catholic Magazine. It is thought that their merit warrants their being offered to a wider public. The sermon on Mary Magdalen and those on Impurity and on the Thought of Death are adapted from old translations now out of print: all the others were translated specially for the Southampton Magazine.
The great length of the sermons in the original French has, in most cases, necessitated some condensation in the English version. We have omitted the ingenious compliments addressed to the royal personages before whom some of the sermons were delivered. The lengthy exordiums of some of Bossuet"s sermons are curtailed. Two of the sermons from Massillon are considerably abridged; and of Bourdaloue"s sermon on Death only a fragment is reproduced.
The special excellence of Bossuet"s and Bourdaloue"s discourses on the Passion has induced us to give several of their many sermons for Good Friday. Three of Bossuet"s sermons on Our Lady are included.
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