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Editor's Corner
Churches Spared
Even the secular news had to admit that it was odd, even using the word ‘miraculous’ as this headline proclaimed, that the Catholic church was spared in the tragic wildfires on Maui.
Across the Pacific,...
Quotes
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. (Saint Augustine, +430)
Quotes
Those who undertake this work of teaching, surely a task to be carried out with the greatest care, must be endowed with overflowing charity, inexhaustible patience, and, above all, profound humility (Saint Joseph Calasanz,...
Nota in Brevis
Zoom Predicted by…Penguins
A friend of mine just sent along a clip from the 2014 Penguins of Madagascar, which predicted Zoom, replete with the various glitches of the technology. It's both funny, but also eerie in its...
Nota in Brevis
New Life: A Poem
The following is a poem by Anne Schell, requiescat in pace, submitted by her friend Margaret Maines, who wrote to me:
The family found this poem and passed it on to me for a keepsake, and...
Nota in Brevis
Learn Latin This Fall!
An alumnus of Seat of Wisdom is offering personalized on-line Latin classes, one for beginners, and another in Latin hymnody, beginning in September. The cost is minimal, and the benefits for some immersion in...
Quotes
Do not fear this sickness nor any other sickness, nor any sharp and hurtful thing. Am I not here, I, who am your mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I...
Quotes
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but...
