“The transition from the good man to the saint is a sort of revolution; by which one for whom all things illustrate and illuminate God becomes one for whom God illustrates and illuminates all things.” ― G.K. Chesterton, Saint Francis of Assisi I was writing this morning about St. Francis, who the Church honors today, when I received a phone call from…
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Our Guardian Angel: A Gift from God
“We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one’s life. But anyone who shrinks from that…
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St. Therese Martin, The Little Flower
“Chesterton never wanted to get used to (surprises). He said, ‘Things grow new as I grow old,’ and that brings to mind for me Therese’s own remarkable ambition — ‘I must stay little and become this more and more.’… There is something in this littleness, this vulnerability that caused both their hearts to burn. And that something is actually the…
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Forever Fresh Born
“The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother’s darling, and more, his father’s pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born.”* –George MacDonald (b. 1824- d. 1905), The…
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Marian Column in Trebon
The picture (above) is a copy of a painting of the town square of Trebon in the Czech Republic. A Marian column is the centerpiece of the town square. Our Lady is situated high above the space, seeming to declare her love for the people, and the people’s love for her. A visitor to the site wrote this about it: “Central…
