Another year, when preaching for the same occasion, this eloquent Pontiff, and Doctor of the Church, was even more energetic and lengthy, in putting these great truths before the people; would to God the words of such a Pope, as Leo the Great, could make themselves heard by our present generation, and induce us Christians to mistrust the individualistic tendencies of what is called the piety suited to the age we live in. Fortunately, the words of the Saint exist, and in all their “pontifical eloquence;” we invite our readers to peruse his “Sermons;” all we have space for, is a short selection from his third Sermon on the Fast of the seventh month (our September Ember Days).
Mwaka mwingine, wakati akihubiri kwa hafla hiyo, hii Baba Mtakatifu fasaha, na Mwalimu wa Kanisa, alikuwa hata zaidi juhudi na marefu, katika kuweka ukweli huu mkuu mbele ya watu; laiti maneno ya hizo Papa, kama Leo Mkuu, inaweza kufanya wenyewe habari na kizazi yetu ya sasa, na kutushawishi Wakristo kutoaminiana tabia ubinafsi wa kile kinachoitwa ucha Mungu inafaa kwa umri tunaishi katika.