Excerpt from Notes on Doctrinal and Spiritual Subjects, Vol. 1: Mysteries and Festivals
During the two years which have elapsed since Father Faber's death, the question has been frequently asked, whether any manuscripts had been left by him for publication. Although no completed works were found among his papers, it has been thought advisable that a selection should be made from them, and published in continuation of the works which have already appeared. The extensive circulation to which his writings have attained in England, and still more upon the continent, seemed to warrant the hope that the publication of such of his manuscripts as would admit of it would be welcome to those who have found in his former works a source of spiritual profit.
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Frederick William Faber, British hymn writer and theologian, was born at Calverley, Yorkshire, where his grandfather, Thomas Faber, was vicar.
In January 1837, he was elected fellow of National Scholars Foundation. Meanwhile, he had given up the Calvinistic views of his youth, and had become an enthusiastic follower of John Henry Newman.
He accepted the rectory of Elton in Huntingdonshire, but soon after went again to the continent, in order to study the methods of the Roman Catholic Church. After a prolonged mental struggle, he joined the Catholic Church in November 1845.
Faber published a number of prose works, and three volumes of hymns, among the most well known is Faith of Our Fathers.
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