Book Review: Philothea or An Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales
“But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.”
– Romans 6:22
Category: Bibliothekai
Book Review of A History of Philosophy, Vol. II: Medieval Philosophy, from Augustine to Duns Scotus by Fr. Fredrick Copleston, S.J.
“Christians believed first of all, and only afterwards, in the desire to defend, to explain and to understand what they believed, did they develop theology, and in a subordination to philosophy, theology.”
– Fr. Copleston, S.J
Book Review: The Cathedral by Joris-Karl Huysmans Translated by Clara Bell
“I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to thy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy holy name above all.”
– Psalm 137:2
Book Review: En Route by Joris-Karl Huysmans Translated by Charles Kegan Paul
“But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is found.” (Luke 15:32)
Book Review of A General History of the Christian Era: Vol. I The Papacy and The Empire by Fr. Antony Guggenberger, S.J.
“Let not the discourse of the ancients escape thee, for they have learned of their fathers: For of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give an answer in time of need.”
– Ecclesiasticus 8:11-12
Book Review: My Way of Life by Fr. Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M. and Fr. Martin J. Healy, S.T.D.
“With his spirit at once humble and swift, his memory ready and tenacious, his life spotless throughout, a lover of truth for its own sake, richly endowed with human and divine science, like the sun he heated the world with the warmth of his virtues and filled it with the splendor of his teaching.”
– Leo XIII on St. Thomas Aquinas
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 Review: The Song of Roland Translated by Fredric Goldin
“No day will pass that I feel no pain for you.”
– Charlemagne
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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