- Nov 07, 2020
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- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
- Conscience
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.
- Entertain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!
- Convent
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- Nov 07, 2020
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.
- Dignified
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020