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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...
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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...
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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...
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O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition. (Saint Bernard of Clairvaux,...
Nota in Brevis
La Vang and Le Sword
On this day in 1798, in the midst of a brutal persecution, Our Lady, holding her Son and with two angels at either side, appeared to a group of Vietnamese Catholics, who had fled...
