Robert Aston Coffin

Robert Aston Coffin (19 July 1819 – 6 April 1885) was an English prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Southwark.

Quotes

• No Catholic need be told that it is ordinarily impossible to love our Blessed Saviour as we ought, without at the same time having a most intense devotion to the Blessed Virgin. The one naturally flows from the other, and the more we meditate upon the Mystery of the Incarnation, the more we dwell on and fix in our minds the great doctrine that God became man for us; the more we shall see and feel, that no words, no language can adequately express the exceeding dignity to which the Blessed Virgin has been raised as Mother of God, the more shall we perceive the claim She has upon our veneration and love, and become convinced that no consequences are too great to follow from that most wonderful and incomprehensible mystery.
  • The Oratory of the Faithful Soul; Or, Devotions to the Most Holy Sacrament, and to Our Blessed Lady (1848)