Moralists Without Morals
“I would fain flee to Sarmatia and the frozen Sea when people who ape the Curii and live like Bacchanals dare talk about morals.”
– Juvenal, Satire II
Category: Poems
To Her Refuge I Fly
“Grace is like a paradise in blessings, and mercy remaineth for ever.”
– Ecclesiasticus 40:17
Upon A Picture of My Grandfather, Taken at Montevergine
“The Faith is Europe and Europe is the Faith.”
– Hillaire Belloc
Snowball Fight
“But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such.”
– Matthew 19:14
Prester John
“Put not your trust in princes: in the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.”
– Psalms 145:2-3
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).
Seductress of the Screen
“Look not upon a woman that hath a mind for many: lest thou fall into her snares.”
– Ecclesiasticus 9:3
The Hands of Christ
“Whom when Jesus saw, he was much displeased, and saith to them: Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.”
– Mark 10:14
Stupor Mundi
“When the Judge His seat shall gain,
All that’s hidden shall be plain,
Nothing shall unjudged remain.”
– Excerpt from the “Dies Irae”