To live without faith, without a heritage to defend, without battling constantly for truth, is not to live but to ‘get along’; we must never just ‘get along' (Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, +1925)
Land of our ancestors, Glorious deeds circle your brow, For your arm knows how to wield the sword, Your arm knows how to carry the cross; Your history is an epic of brilliant deeds...
We are celebrating a feast day, consecrated for us by the blood of the apostles. Let us love their faith, their lives, their labours, their sufferings, their confession of faith, their preaching. (Saint Augustine)
A blessed and joyous Sunday to one and all!
Suggestions from Pater Ignotus:
Vivalidi's In Exitu Israel, one of the innumerable, yet profound, pieces, he wrote for the girls' orphanage, of which he was chaplain and...
Our Lord Jesus Christ is nonetheless one, the one true Son, both God and man; not a deified man on the same footing as those who share the divine nature by grace, but true...