Book Review: Lord of the World by Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson
“And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world.”
– 1 John 4:3
Tag: faith
Book Review: The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order by Otto Von Simson
“Against the darkness of the interior, the windows are in effect grey or black, and one must go inside the church and turn round in order to see the fire of the glass catch alight; the outside is here sacrificed to the inside. Why?
Perhaps, Durtal answered himself, it’s a symbol of the soul illuminated in its innermost places, an allegory of the spiritual life…”
– J.K. Huysmans, The Cathedral
Light and Darkness
“I am the light of the world: he that followeth me, walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
– John 8:12
Book Review: Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson
“If I lose myself, I save myself!”
– Galahad
(HG 178)
Right and Might: The Reign of Christ the King and National Identity (Part I)
“We must therefore combine right and might, and to that end make right into might or might into right.”
– Blaise Pascal
Book Review: The Love of Learning and the Desire for God by Jean Leclercq, O.S.B.
“The love of God is honourable wisdom.”
– Ecclesiasticus 1:14
The Death of Saint Louis IX
“Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.”
– Psalms 30:6
The Ruin of the Empire
“These wall-stones are wondrous —
calamities crumpled them, these city-sites crashed, the work of giants
corrupted. The roofs have rushed to earth, towers in ruins.”
– “The Ruin”, an Anglo-Saxon poem by an anonymous author
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
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