We were not given life to be happy but to render glory to God. However, it is important to note that even from the viewpoint of earthly happiness, neopaganism is bad business. There is more joy in an austere and Christian society, even when life is modest, than in the fallacious splendor of a super-civilization – perhaps better said, a “pseudo-civilization”- that puts all its happiness in the delights of sensuality or the illusions of money.

—– Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

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Jeanette V. writes:

What a lovely photo of the young man bringing bottles of wine home to his family.  It brought nice memories when I was a child in New York City.  I remember visiting my Puerto Rican relatives in Manhattan which was close to little Italy.  That was a sight I saw often.

 Anita Kern writes:

The boy with the bottles is by Henri Cartier-Bresson, taken Rue Mouffetard, I believe. He and Robert Doisneau were two of the famed photographers mid-last-century.

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