Upon A Picture of My Grandfather, Taken at Montevergine
“The Faith is Europe and Europe is the Faith.”
– Hillaire Belloc
Author: Theodosius
Book Review: The Age of Martyrs by Abbot Giuseppe Ricciotti
“Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness.”
– Psalm 96:12
Book Download: The Greek Fathers by Father Adrian Fortescue
What they defended was the Catholic faith that we profess. We, who are the heirs of so great a tradition, ought to know at least something about the story of the long chain that joins us back to the first Whitsunday.
The Westphalian Fallacy
“Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.”
– Psalm 126:1
Book Review: The Song of Roland Translated by Fredric Goldin
“No day will pass that I feel no pain for you.”
– Charlemagne
(Laisse 207. 2901)
Book Review: The Glories of Mary by St. Alphonsus Ligouri
“When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.”
– John 19:26
Book Review: The Iliad of Homer Translated by W.C. Bryant
“The Greek epics express, with an incomparable depth and fulness, the eternal knowledge of truth and destiny which is the creation of the heroic age—the age that cannot be destroyed by any bourgeois ‘progress’.”
– Werner Jaeger
Judith Butler’s Gnostic Nonsense
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
– Ephesians 5:11
Book Review: The Confessions of Saint Augustine Translated by E.B. Pusey
“Thou touchedst me, and I burned for Thy peace.” – St. Augustine
Book Review: Parsifal by Richard Wagner as Retold by Oliver Huckel
“If thy heart be pure / The Grail will be to thee as food and drink!” – Gurnemanz