Prester John
“Put not your trust in princes: in the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.”
– Psalms 145:2-3
Author: Theodosius
Book Review: The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret
“Son, thou must not be turned back, nor presently cast down, when thou hearest what the way of the perfect: but rather be inclined thereby to undertake great things, or at least to sigh after them with an earnest desire.”
– Imitation of Christ Bk. III, Chapter 32
Book Review of They Lived the Faith: Great Lay Leaders of Modern Times by Thomas P. Neill
“I see no reason why men of the world, who from inclination have applied themselves to serious studies, should not number themselves among the defenders of the most holy of causes.” – Joseph de Maistre
Book Download: History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages by Fr. Johannes Janssen (Vol. I)
The wonderful development of spiritual and intellectual life that characterized this period was only possible in view of the fact that all minds were still influenced by the Church doctrine of ‘salvation by good works.’ This teaching resulted, on one hand, in innumerable charitable bequests, in the founding of hospitals, asylums, and orphanages, as well as in the building of churches and cathedrals adorned with all that was most beautiful in art; while it also prompted the establishment of higher and lower education institutions, and the liberal endowment of them.
The Temptation
“This fraud of Sinon, his accomplished lying,
Won us over; a tall tale and fake tears
Had captured us, whom neither Diomedes
Nor Larisean Achilles overpowered,
Nor ten long years, nor all their thousand ships.”
– Aeneid II. 268-272 (trans. by Fitzgerald).
Book Review: The Aeneid by Virgil translated by Robert Fitzgerald
“Be happy, friends; your fortune is achieved,
While one fate beckons us and then another.”
– Aeneid III. 655-656.
Book Review: The Meaning of the Mass by Rev. John Kearney, C.S.Sp.
“My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.” – Proverbs 23:26
Book Review of Jerome: Select Letters Translated by F.A. Wright
“Nothing is happier than the Christian, for to him is promised the kingdom of heaven: nothing is more toil-worn, for every day he goes in danger of his life.”
– St. Jerome
Book Review of Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
“Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.”
– Jeremias 10:14