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“THE faith of our fathers never ignored the great benefits for which both individuals and nations are indebted to Saint John. So many neophytes received his name in baptism, so efficacious was the aid afforded by him in conducting his clients to sanctity, that there is not a day in the Calendar, on which there may not be honoured the heavenly birthday of one or other so named (Annus Johannis, auctore Johanne N. [Pragae, 1664]).
“THE question What can we do? has many answers. and whoever gives an answer may do so according to his knowledge, his capacity, and his station (there are many, indeed, who give answer beyond all these). But one answer, at least, is possible to the humblest: To bear witness. It is the duty of all who can do so, whether in print, in their letters, or in talk, to withstand or rectify, in however restricted a manner, the cumulative falsification of history perpetrated by the principal media of publicity in our time...” --- F. A. Voight, in Nineteenth Century and After, quoted here
"HE that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that considereth the clouds shall never reap. "As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones are joined together in the womb of her that is with child; so thou knowest not the works of God, who is the maker of all." --- Ecclesiastes, 11:4-5
ALAN writes:
I enjoyed a good laugh recently when I discovered Walter Henry Nelson’s book The Londoners: Life in a Civilized City (Random House, 1974). It is not a comical book. What provoked my amusement was not the book itself but the unexpected discovery of a book with such a title, knowing as I do the character of London when he wrote about it and the character of London today.
It is a “supremely civil city,” he wrote; “…the pace, the color and the charm of London life help one to relax. …in London, it is courtesy which moderates the harsh character of city life. …the discovery of politeness in London was a positive joy; we found it exists all around one. ….neither the temper nor the tempo of the city seems to alter much. …the nonwhite population of Britain is very small indeed….”. (pp. 14, 17, 19, 22, 25, 27)
I visited London in 1971 but did not discover his book until this year. I found that all he wrote about London –as it was then– was true. During my two weeks there in 1971, it was a pleasure to deal with the English people, who were invariably civil, courteous, thoughtful, and unmistakably British. (more…)
"THE sun is clearly reflected in pure and clear water, but not in dirty water. So it is with men: a man of blameless life easily finds his way to the truth, but the sensual man does not perceive the things that are of the Spirit of God (1 Cor. 2:14). A mirror that is dim reflects badly, or not at all. So the soul, which is a mirror on which the light falls from God, cannot receive the truths of faith if it is dimmed by vice." --- The Catechism Explained, Rev. Francis Spirago (Ed. Richard Clarke, S.J., 1890)
"THERE is no knowledge of God in the land. Cursing and lying and killing and theft and adultery have overflowed." -- Osee 4:2-3
ALAN writes: Aristotle's prediction of the consequences of degraded music is a point Americans reached quite some time ago. Today it is much worse. Entire generations have now absorbed such "music" habitually and for decades. When calculatedly-ugly and hideous noise is called "music" and is accepted as such by most of the population -- and when most "adults" do not identify that claim as a lie -- then we can be sure that we have entered a new Dark Age.
“MUSIC directly imitates the passions or states of the soul…when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued with the same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.” --– Aristotle, 344 B.C.
