Vincent McNabb, O.P. (8 July 1868 – 17 June 1943) was an Irish academic and priest, based in London, alive in evangelisation and apologetics.
Saturday, 17 December 2011
Early life
McNabb was built-in in Portaferry, County Down, Ireland, the tenth of eleven children. He was accomplished during his adolescence at the abbot seminary of St. Malachy's College, Belfast. On 10 November 1885 he abutting the amateur of the English Dominicans at Woodchester in Gloucestershire, England and was advancing in 1891. After studies at the University of Louvain (where he acquired in 1894 the amount of lector in Sacred Theology), he was beatific to England area he served for the butt of his life.1
Career
Fr. McNabb was a affiliate of the Dominican adjustment for 58 years and served as assistant of aesthetics at Hawkesyard Priory, above-mentioned at Woodchester, archdiocese priest at St. Dominic's Priory, and above-mentioned and librarian at Angelic Cross Priory, Leicester, as able-bodied as in assorted added official capacities for his Dominican province.1 Amid 1929 and 1934, he lectured on the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas beneath the advocacy of the University of London External Lectures scheme.2 Tens of bags of bodies heard him deliver in Hyde Park, area he did not shy abroad from demography on all challengers — Protestants, atheists, and freethinkers — afore all-inclusive crowds every Sunday, or heard him agitation such luminaries as George Bernard Shaw in the city's theaters and appointment halls on the afire amusing issues of the day.citation needed
Fr. McNabb was declared as a 13th-century monkby whom? active in 20th-century London, advancing such tasks as account the Old Testament (and demography addendum on it) in Hebrew, account the New Testament (and commendation from it) in Greek, and account the works of St. Thomas Aquinas (and autograph his reflections on them) in Latin. Throughout his life, Fr. McNabb had little to alarm his own, except his Bible, his breviary, and his archetype of the Summa Theologica.1
Fr. Vincent McNabb's grave
Fr. McNabb was amid the aboriginal Catholic ecumenists, gluttonous in accurate to advance alliance amid the Catholic Church and the Anglicans. Towards the end of his life, he wrote, "God knows how abundant I accept striven and prayed to mend the burst accord of Christendom."3 As a adolescent priest, he came beneath the access of the catechumen abbey of Clifton, William Robert Brownlow,4 who, afterwards his accession into the Catholic Church by Newman, not alone kept abounding Anglican friendships but fabricated others amid Nonconformists. Brownlow was the columnist of a assignment breath a able all-comprehensive spirit blue-blooded Catholics and Nonconformists: or Dialogues on Conversion (1898).5 McNabb admired him as one of his "masters and heroes" and wrote his biography. While above-mentioned at Woodchester, McNabb was in accord with Anglicans on both abandon of the Atlantic. He was host to his Cotswolds neighbour, the Rev. Spencer Jones,6 abbey of Moreton-in-Marsh, arch Anglo-Catholic and columnist of England and the Angelic See: An Essay Towards Alliance (1902). He additionally contributed to the aboriginal issues of The Lamp, a cardboard edited by Fr. Paul Wattson, who, afterwards acceptable a Catholic, was to advance the Accord Octave7 through it for about bisected a century.3 McNabb's constant absorption in ecumenism culminated in his book The Church and Alliance (1937), appear six years afore his death.
McNabb approved additionally to advance a eyes of amusing amends aggressive by St. Thomas and by Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum8, which alleged aloft "every abbot of angelic religion…to accompany to the attempt for a ample administration of property the abounding activity of his apperception and all his admiral of endurance",1 as able-bodied as to bank up both acceptance and acumen adjoin the perceived blackmail of modernism.
Fr. McNabb was declared as a 13th-century monkby whom? active in 20th-century London, advancing such tasks as account the Old Testament (and demography addendum on it) in Hebrew, account the New Testament (and commendation from it) in Greek, and account the works of St. Thomas Aquinas (and autograph his reflections on them) in Latin. Throughout his life, Fr. McNabb had little to alarm his own, except his Bible, his breviary, and his archetype of the Summa Theologica.1
Fr. Vincent McNabb's grave
Fr. McNabb was amid the aboriginal Catholic ecumenists, gluttonous in accurate to advance alliance amid the Catholic Church and the Anglicans. Towards the end of his life, he wrote, "God knows how abundant I accept striven and prayed to mend the burst accord of Christendom."3 As a adolescent priest, he came beneath the access of the catechumen abbey of Clifton, William Robert Brownlow,4 who, afterwards his accession into the Catholic Church by Newman, not alone kept abounding Anglican friendships but fabricated others amid Nonconformists. Brownlow was the columnist of a assignment breath a able all-comprehensive spirit blue-blooded Catholics and Nonconformists: or Dialogues on Conversion (1898).5 McNabb admired him as one of his "masters and heroes" and wrote his biography. While above-mentioned at Woodchester, McNabb was in accord with Anglicans on both abandon of the Atlantic. He was host to his Cotswolds neighbour, the Rev. Spencer Jones,6 abbey of Moreton-in-Marsh, arch Anglo-Catholic and columnist of England and the Angelic See: An Essay Towards Alliance (1902). He additionally contributed to the aboriginal issues of The Lamp, a cardboard edited by Fr. Paul Wattson, who, afterwards acceptable a Catholic, was to advance the Accord Octave7 through it for about bisected a century.3 McNabb's constant absorption in ecumenism culminated in his book The Church and Alliance (1937), appear six years afore his death.
McNabb approved additionally to advance a eyes of amusing amends aggressive by St. Thomas and by Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum8, which alleged aloft "every abbot of angelic religion…to accompany to the attempt for a ample administration of property the abounding activity of his apperception and all his admiral of endurance",1 as able-bodied as to bank up both acceptance and acumen adjoin the perceived blackmail of modernism.
Death
He died at St. Dominic's Parish, London and was active in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, London.
Quotes about Fr. McNabb
“ "... he is one of the few abundant men I accept met in my life; that he is abundant in abounding ways, mentally and about and mystically and practically... cipher who anytime met or saw or heard Father McNabb has anytime abandoned him." G. K. Chesterton ”
“ "The abundance of his character, of his learning, his experience, and, aloft all, his judgement, was altogether abstracted from the apple about him... the best arresting aspect of all was the appearance of holiness... I can address actuality from affectionate claimed acquaintance ... I accept known, apparent and acquainted asceticism in person... I accept apparent asceticism at its abounding in the actual calm paths of my life, and the anamnesis of that experience, which is additionally a vision, fills me now as I address — so fills me that there is annihilation now to say." Hilaire Belloc ”
“ "Father Vincent is the alone being I accept anytime accepted about whom I accept felt, and said added than once, 'He gives you some abstraction of what a saint charge be like.' There was a affectionate of ablaze about his attendance which didn't assume to be absolutely of this world." Ronald Knox ”
“ "The abundance of his character, of his learning, his experience, and, aloft all, his judgement, was altogether abstracted from the apple about him... the best arresting aspect of all was the appearance of holiness... I can address actuality from affectionate claimed acquaintance ... I accept known, apparent and acquainted asceticism in person... I accept apparent asceticism at its abounding in the actual calm paths of my life, and the anamnesis of that experience, which is additionally a vision, fills me now as I address — so fills me that there is annihilation now to say." Hilaire Belloc ”
“ "Father Vincent is the alone being I accept anytime accepted about whom I accept felt, and said added than once, 'He gives you some abstraction of what a saint charge be like.' There was a affectionate of ablaze about his attendance which didn't assume to be absolutely of this world." Ronald Knox ”
Works
Bishop Brownlow (1830–1901). Catholic Truth Society (1902)
Where Believers May Doubt: or Studies in Biblical Inspiration and Other Problems of Faith. Burns and Oates (1903)
Oxford Conferences on Prayer. Kegan Paul (1903)
Oxford Conferences on Faith. Kegan Paul (1905)
Infallibility. Longmans Green (1905)
Our Reasonable Service: An Essay on the Understanding of the Deep Things of God. Burns and Oates (1912)
The Children's Hour of Heaven on Earth. P.J. Kenedy (1914)
Europe's Ewe-Lamb and Other Essays on the Great War. R & T Washbourne (1916)
The Doctrinal Witness of the Fourth Gospel. Catholic Truth Society announcement (1922)
From a Friar's Cell. P.J. Kenedy (1923)
The Mysticism of St. Thomas. Basil Blackwell (1924)
The Church and the Land. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1926)
The Catholic Church and Philosophy (with an addition by Hilaire Belloc). Burns Oates and Washbourne (1927)
The New Testament Witness to St. Peter. Sheed and Ward (1928)
St. Thomas Aquinas and Law (pamphlet). Blackfriars (1929)
Thoughts Twice-Dyed. Sheed and Ward (1930)
The New Testament Witness to Our Blessed Lady. Sheed and Ward (1930)
God's Book and Other Poems. St. Dominic's Press (1931)
Nazareth or Social Chaos. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1933)
Geoffrey Chaucer: A Study in His Genius and Ethics. St. Dominic's Press (1934)
The Wayside: A Priest's Gleanings. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1934)
The Craft of Prayer. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1935)
St. John Fisher. Sheed and Ward (1935)
Francis Thompson and Other Essays (with an addition by G. K. Chesterton). St. Dominic's Press (1935)
The Science of Prayer (A Revised Edition of Oxford Conferences on Prayer). St. Dominic's Press (1936)
The Craft of Suffering: Verbatim Notes of Instruction on Suffering Given During Retreats at the Cenacle Convents 1930-35. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1936)
God's Way of Mercy: Verbatim Notes of Retreat Instructions. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1936)
Frontiers of Faith and Reason. Sheed and Ward (1937)
God's Good Cheer. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1937)
St. Elizabeth of Portugal. Sheed and Ward (1937)
The Church and Reunion: Some Thoughts on Christian Reunion. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1937)
In Our Valley: Notes of Retreat Instructions. Burns Oates and Washbourne. (1938)
A Life of Jesus Christ Our Lord. Sheed and Ward (1938)
Joy in Believing. Burnes Oates and Washbourne (1939)
Mary of Nazareth. P.J. Kenedy (1939)
St. Mary Magdalen. Burnes Oates and Washbourne (1940)
Eleven, Thank God! Memories of a Catholic Mother. Sheed and Ward (1940)
Confession to a Priest. Catholic Truth Society announcement (1941)
Some Mysteries of Jesus Christ. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1941)
Catholics and Nonconformists. Catholic Truth Society announcement (1942)
Old Principles and the New Order. Sheed and Ward (1942)
Did Jesus Christ Rise from the Dead? Catholic Truth Society announcement (1943)
An Old Apostle Speaks (with a account by Fr. Gerald Vann, O.P.). Blackfriars (1946)
Faith and Prayer. Blackfriars (1953)
A Father McNabb Reader. P.J. Kenedy (1954)
The Prayers of Fr. McNabb (pamphlet). Newman Press (1955)
A Vincent McNabb Anthology: Selections from the Writings of Vincent McNabb, O.P. Blackfriars (1955)
Stars of Comfort: Retreat Conferences. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1957)
Meditations on St. John. Aquin Press (1962)
Where Believers May Doubt: or Studies in Biblical Inspiration and Other Problems of Faith. Burns and Oates (1903)
Oxford Conferences on Prayer. Kegan Paul (1903)
Oxford Conferences on Faith. Kegan Paul (1905)
Infallibility. Longmans Green (1905)
Our Reasonable Service: An Essay on the Understanding of the Deep Things of God. Burns and Oates (1912)
The Children's Hour of Heaven on Earth. P.J. Kenedy (1914)
Europe's Ewe-Lamb and Other Essays on the Great War. R & T Washbourne (1916)
The Doctrinal Witness of the Fourth Gospel. Catholic Truth Society announcement (1922)
From a Friar's Cell. P.J. Kenedy (1923)
The Mysticism of St. Thomas. Basil Blackwell (1924)
The Church and the Land. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1926)
The Catholic Church and Philosophy (with an addition by Hilaire Belloc). Burns Oates and Washbourne (1927)
The New Testament Witness to St. Peter. Sheed and Ward (1928)
St. Thomas Aquinas and Law (pamphlet). Blackfriars (1929)
Thoughts Twice-Dyed. Sheed and Ward (1930)
The New Testament Witness to Our Blessed Lady. Sheed and Ward (1930)
God's Book and Other Poems. St. Dominic's Press (1931)
Nazareth or Social Chaos. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1933)
Geoffrey Chaucer: A Study in His Genius and Ethics. St. Dominic's Press (1934)
The Wayside: A Priest's Gleanings. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1934)
The Craft of Prayer. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1935)
St. John Fisher. Sheed and Ward (1935)
Francis Thompson and Other Essays (with an addition by G. K. Chesterton). St. Dominic's Press (1935)
The Science of Prayer (A Revised Edition of Oxford Conferences on Prayer). St. Dominic's Press (1936)
The Craft of Suffering: Verbatim Notes of Instruction on Suffering Given During Retreats at the Cenacle Convents 1930-35. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1936)
God's Way of Mercy: Verbatim Notes of Retreat Instructions. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1936)
Frontiers of Faith and Reason. Sheed and Ward (1937)
God's Good Cheer. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1937)
St. Elizabeth of Portugal. Sheed and Ward (1937)
The Church and Reunion: Some Thoughts on Christian Reunion. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1937)
In Our Valley: Notes of Retreat Instructions. Burns Oates and Washbourne. (1938)
A Life of Jesus Christ Our Lord. Sheed and Ward (1938)
Joy in Believing. Burnes Oates and Washbourne (1939)
Mary of Nazareth. P.J. Kenedy (1939)
St. Mary Magdalen. Burnes Oates and Washbourne (1940)
Eleven, Thank God! Memories of a Catholic Mother. Sheed and Ward (1940)
Confession to a Priest. Catholic Truth Society announcement (1941)
Some Mysteries of Jesus Christ. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1941)
Catholics and Nonconformists. Catholic Truth Society announcement (1942)
Old Principles and the New Order. Sheed and Ward (1942)
Did Jesus Christ Rise from the Dead? Catholic Truth Society announcement (1943)
An Old Apostle Speaks (with a account by Fr. Gerald Vann, O.P.). Blackfriars (1946)
Faith and Prayer. Blackfriars (1953)
A Father McNabb Reader. P.J. Kenedy (1954)
The Prayers of Fr. McNabb (pamphlet). Newman Press (1955)
A Vincent McNabb Anthology: Selections from the Writings of Vincent McNabb, O.P. Blackfriars (1955)
Stars of Comfort: Retreat Conferences. Burns Oates and Washbourne (1957)
Meditations on St. John. Aquin Press (1962)
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