December 2009
“Tous les méchants sont buveurs d’eau. C’est bien prouvé par le...”
– Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Chapitre 4
“Maybe we are not lacking anything, maybe this is exactly our wealth, this...”
– School of Community 12/16/09
“Truth frees charity from the constraints of an emotionalism that deprives it of...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas et veritate 3
“Who will repair what we’ve destroyed or what we’ve allowed to sink...”
– Fr. Luigi Giussani, Is It Possible to Live this Way? Vol 2: Hope
“Anyone who wishes to give love must also receive love as a gift.”
– Benedict XVI
“The energy of the human intellect “does from opposition grow,” it...”
– Cardinal John Henry Newman, Apologia pro Vita Sua
“[M]en of the world … thought that the humility and inoffensiveness of...”
– Cardinal John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua
“What if you have a disease, or a situation that doesn’t change: what does...”
– Fr. Julian Carron
“Each person finds his good by adherence to God’s plan for him, in order to...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate 1
“The children die for Christ, though they do not know it. The parents mourn for...”
– Feast of the Holy Innocents, St Quodvultdeus
“I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter’s...”
– Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”
“Christ’s challenge is this: I take everything from you so as to give you...”
– Sr. Giusy, “The Silence that Fills Life”
“If I looked into a mirror, and did not see my face, I should have the sort of...”
– Cardinal John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua
“I came to the conclusion that there was no medium, in true philosophy, between...”
– Cardinal John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua
“And then I felt altogether the force of the maxim of St. Ambrose, “Non in...”
– John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua
“Be my soul with the Saints! and shall I lift up my hand against them? Sooner may...”
– Cardinal John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua
“Let Your goodness Lord appear to us, that we
made in your image, conform...”
– The Nativity Prayer of St Bernard of Clairvaux, via Catholic Key
“The world grows terrible and white,
And blinding white the breaking day;...”
– “The Wise Men”, G.K. Chesterton
“Yet how many times are we tempted to look at the concrete humanity in which we...”
– “That Nostalgia for the Infinite”, Julián Carrón
“Yesterday our king, clothed in his robe of flesh, left his place in the...”
– St. Fulgentius of Ruspe
“To wake up means to leave that private world of one’s own and to enter the...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, Christmas Eve Homily 2009
“The path is too much for our strength. But God has come down.”
– Pope Benedict XVI, Christmas Eve Mass 2009
Felt like a shepherd today … trudged thru snow/ice/wind with Miriam to Christmas morning Mass …. lovely.
“For what greater grace could God have made to dawn on us than to make his only...”
– St. Augustine
