Sermons Documents

This series contains preparatory copies for sermons, preaches for retreats, commentaries on Tamil writings. These writings are in French, often with Sinhala or Tamil terminology inside the French text.

This series contains the following 37 files.

  • EAP981/1/2/1: Sermons, prayers, retreats, descriptions and essays on Christian principles mostly by Mgr Bonjean (1875)
  • EAP981/1/2/2: List of sermons to be published in the Church of Chilaw with notes in Sinhalese and in Tamil (1896)
  • EAP981/1/2/3: Sermons and description of attrition with texts and notes in Sinhalese (1896-1898)
  • EAP981/1/2/4: Reports of theological lectures and printed pamphlets (1895-1915)
  • EAP981/1/2/5: Catholic doctrine on invocation and veneration of Saints, with notes and interpretation in Sinhalese (1894)
  • EAP981/1/2/6: Donors to the Seminaire de St. Martin (1878-1924)
  • EAP981/1/2/7: Various notes on materiality and morality (1923-1926)
  • EAP981/1/2/8: Notes on Seminary de St. Vincent de Paul and description of retreats and prayers (1878-1908)
  • EAP981/1/2/9: Sermons on salvation (19th century)
  • EAP981/1/2/10: Tamil sermons, Pesalai (1905)
  • EAP981/1/2/11: Chequebook used as a notebook for random notes (1934)
  • EAP981/1/2/12: Rules and regulations for the interns of the (St. Vincent de Paul) seminary (1903-1911)
  • EAP981/1/2/13: Descriptions of some Christian doctrine by Rouffiac (1872)
  • EAP981/1/2/14: "Justice de Dieu" and other subjects (19th century)
  • EAP981/1/2/15: Spiritual notes (1902)
  • EAP981/1/2/16: Descriptions and essays on Christian charity (1911-1914)
  • EAP981/1/2/17: Sermons and sermon plans by Aristide St. Geneys (1889)
  • EAP981/1/2/18: Several collections of texts on retreat and meditation and psalms by Joulain (1868-1880)
  • EAP981/1/2/19: Constitutions of the Brothers and Sisters of the Congregation of the Good Samaritans. (19th century)
  • EAP981/1/2/20: Analysis of the Treaties on Perfection by Rodriguez (1866-1867)
  • EAP981/1/2/21: Tamil translation of "Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues" by Alphonsus Rodriguez (1888)
  • EAP981/1/2/22: Tamil translation of "Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues" by Alphonsus Rodriguez, Vol.4 (1887)
  • EAP981/1/2/23: Tamil translation of "Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues" by Alphonsus Rodriguez, Vol.1 (1893)
  • EAP981/1/2/24: Tamil Translation of "Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues" by Alphonsus Rodriguez, Vol.2 (1885)
  • EAP981/1/2/25: Instructions on confession and other sermons by Joulain (1876-1877)
  • EAP981/1/2/26: Notes, accounts etc (1925-1940)
  • EAP981/1/2/27: Tamil Translation of "Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues" by Alphonsus Rodriguez, Vol.3 (1886)
  • EAP981/1/2/28: Sacramentis in Latin. (1930)
  • EAP981/1/2/29: Notes on retreats, sermons and liturgy (1891-1921)
  • EAP981/1/2/30: Notes for retreats, sermons and instructions to Priest (1886-1891)
  • EAP981/1/2/31: Notes and sermons (19th century)
  • EAP981/1/2/32: Sermons and sermon plans by Aristide St. Geneys (1889)
  • EAP981/1/2/33: Sermons and instructions (19th century)
  • EAP981/1/2/34: Essays on Christian principles (19th century)
  • EAP981/1/2/35: Explanations on retreats and sermons (1889)
  • EAP981/1/2/36: Christian doctrines, printed pamphlets, paper cuttings (1881-1895)
  • EAP981/1/2/37: Notes, prayers, sermons, list of names, and accounts (1910-1919)