“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
“God is my first love’s duty,
To whose eternal Name
Be praise for all thy beauty,
Thy grandeur and thy fame;
But ever have I reckoned
Thine, native flag, my second.”
– Fr. Charles Constantine Pise, S.J.,
“The American Flag”
“It is always amusing to see experts suffer a setback.”
– Nicolás Gómez Davila
“The Faith is Europe and Europe is the Faith.”
– Hillaire Belloc
“Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness.”
– Psalm 96:12
What they defended was the Catholic faith that we profess. We, who are the heirs of so great a tradition, ought to know at least something about the story of the long chain that joins us back to the first Whitsunday.
“Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.”
– Psalm 126:1
“No day will pass that I feel no pain for you.”
– Charlemagne
(Laisse 207. 2901)
“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
“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