Seductress of the Screen
“Look not upon a woman that hath a mind for many: lest thou fall into her snares.”
– Ecclesiasticus 9:3
Tag: faith
Book Review: The Life of St. Gemma Galgani by Venerable Fr. Germanus, C.P.
“He often makes choice of those who seem to themselves the most unfit for the greatest achievements and chooses such as the world despises to confound the pride of the world.” – Bishop Richard Challoner
A Summary and Brief Exposition of Joseph De Maistre’s Theory of Language
“In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence.” – Job 12:12
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
Film Review: Is Genesis History?
“Look at those other impious men who work with all their strength to destroy our holy religion by their writings, a Voltaire, a Jean Jacques Rousseau, a Diderot, an Ingersoll, a Darwin, and so many others, who only lived to disseminate by their writings what the devil had instilled in them. Alas! They have worked a great deal of misery, they have ruined countless souls and cast them into hell; but they could not destroy religion, as they believed—they were dashed to pieces on that rock.”
– St. Jean Marie Vianney, Sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent
Book Review: The Case for Jesus by Brant Pitre
“But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you.” – 1 Peter 3:15
How Aristotle Helps Us to Understand Spiritual Slavery to the Virgin Mary and to her Son, Jesus Christ
“And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.” – Matthew 23:12
Book Review: History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages by Fr. Johannes Janssen (Vol. I)
“It is an oft-repeated tale,
A century old and more,
Who ne’er in sorrow hath wept,
Never in love hath smiled.”
– A Medieval German poem
Book Review: The Love of Eternal Wisdom by St. Louis de Montfort
“Jesus Christ, Eternal Wisdom, is all that you can and should wish for. Long for Him, seek Him; He is the most precious pearl you should wish to acquire, even at the cost of selling all that you possess.” – St. John Chrysostom
Book Review: The Love of Jesus To Penitents by Cardinal Henry Edward Manning
“He that shall overcome, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall go out no more; and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.” – Apocalypse 3:12