Amfortas
“And they came to him, and awaked him, saying: Lord, save us, we perish.”
– Matthew 8:25
Tag: faith
Book Review: History of the Byzantine State by George Ostrogorsky
“Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”
– 1 Peter 2:17
Book Review of The Sinner’s Return to God: The Prodigal Son by Fr. Michael Müller, C.S.S.R.
“I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.”
– Luke 15:18-19
Book Review: The Miracles of St. Anthony Mary Claret by Fr. Juan Echevarria
“People give their heroes life-blood, language, character, geniality, impulse; but heroes, on the other hand, bestow immortal history upon their people.”
– Fr. Juan Echevarria
Prester John
“Put not your trust in princes: in the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.”
– Psalms 145:2-3
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 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