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Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so utterly lovely, how gloriously beautiful must he be who made them! The...
Quotes
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us. (Saint John Vianney)
Nota in Brevis
Saint Robert of Newminster
There is only one saint in the calendar today, Saint Robert of Newminster, a twelfth century monk and abbot who died on this day in 1159.
Quotes
The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course. (Saint Boniface, +754)
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These African martyrs herald the dawn of a new age. If only the mind of man might be directed not towards persecutions and religious conflicts but towards a rebirth of Christianity and civilisation! (Pope...
Nota in Brevis
An (Open) Letter to My Township
(Here, should it prove in any way useful, is a letter I wrote to my own local township on their decision to exhibit the 'pride' flag. Oddly, the motion to fly the actual flag...
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Two Magnificats for Mary
On thisĀ feast of the Visitation, the last day of May, here are two musical renditions of the Magnificat, which Mary says - sings? - in today's Gospel:
The first, J.S. Bach's magnificent rendering of Our...
