A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, August 17, 2011 – St Aloysius Gonzaga

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It is better to be the child of God than king of the whole world. -- St. Aloysius Gonzaga

The Early Church Fathers, Sunday, August 14, 2011 – St Jerome

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But as regards Victorinus, I assert what has already been proven from the gospel—that he [Victorinus] spoke of the brethren of the Lord not as being sons of Mary but brethren in the sense I have explained, that is to say, brethren in point of kinship, not by nature.

(Against Helvidius: The Perpetual Virginity of Mary 19 [A.D. 383]).

Founders Friday, Friday, August 12, 2011 – Samuel Adams

Image via WikipediaA general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.

Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, February 12, 1779

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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"Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor." -- St Aelred of Rievaulx

The Early Church Fathers, Sunday, August 7, 2011 – Origen

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If a man departs this life with lighter faults, he is condemned to fire which burns away the lighter materials, and prepares the soul for the kingdom of God, where nothing defiled may enter. For if on the foundation of Christ you have built not only gold and silver and precious stones (I Cor., 3); but also wood and hay and stubble, what do you expect when the soul shall be separated from the body? Would you enter into heaven with your wood and hay and stubble and thus defile the kingdom of God; or on account of these hindrances would you remain without and receive no reward for your gold and silver and precious stones? Neither is this just. It remains then that you be committed to the fire which will burn the light materials; for our God to those who can comprehend heavenly things is called a cleansing fire. But this fire consumes not the creature, but what the creature has himself built, wood, and hay and stubble. It is manifest that the fire destroys the wood of our transgressions and then returns to us the reward of our great works. (Patres Groeci. XIII, col. 445, 448 [A.D. 185-232]).

Founders Friday, Friday, August 5, 2011 – James Madison

A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.

James Madison, essay in the National Gazette, February 2, 1792

Wacky Wednesday, Wednesday, August 3, 2011

It's Wednesday, we've made it half way through the week, it's time to sit back and enjoy a few laughs with Rodney Dangerfield.