Series 2025-06-23/2204 - Sermons

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FILING CABINET 009:

DRAWER ONE: SPENCER PAPERS:

FILE: SERMONS:

MS in Fr Ignatius Spencer’s own writing. Undated. Consideration: How our ordinary actions may be made meritorious.

Printed sermon, Opening of the Church of Our Lady of Mt St Bernard, 11 October 1837 by Hon. and Rev. George Spencer (Birmingham, 1837)

The part played by the Hon. and Rev. George Spencer in the Establishment of the Society of St Vincent de Paul in England and Wales, with an account of the Society of St Vincent de Paul which Fr George Spencer gave to the Catholic Magazine, 11 January 1843.

A typed copy of a ‘few words’ Father George Spencer was invited to say at one of Fr Theobald Mathew’s Temperance Rallies, Liverpool, 16 July 1843, and printed in the Irish newspaper, the Freeman’s Journal, Thursday, 20 July 1843

Prayers for the Conversion of England, CTS pamphlet, 1925 but drawn up by Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman in Latin for the students at the English College, Rome and translated into English by Fr George Spencer when he was at Oscott, indulgenced by Pope Gregory XVI on 26 January 1840 and published by Fr George Spencer on 26 May 1845.

Fr Ignatius Spencer, Original MS Sermon Notes, St Joseph’s Asylum, St Francis Xavier’s Church, Dublin, Sunday, 13 May 1849

Sermon at the Clothing of Brother Laurence, St Saviour’s, Broadway, 29 April 1852

Memorial of the Little Mission for the Sanctification of Ireland, undated but 1850s and 1860s, a leaflet Fr Ignatius Spencer distributed at his little missions.

Photostat of pp.7 and 13 of F.J. Doyle, The Society of St Vincent de Paul in Manchester: The First Hundred Years, 1845-1945 (Manchester, 1945)

Original of correspondence between the Passionist Father Provincial (or one of his Consultors) and Miss Edith Renouf, Guernsey, May 1947 about an original print in a German newspaper of a speech made in German by Fr Ignatius Spencer in 1852 and a translation in Miss Renouf’s hand