Today’s One-Liner (#215)
Be praised, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens you have made them, precious and beautiful. –Saint Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun, translated by Bill Barrett from the Umbrian…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Re-readable
Sometimes, it is sobering to reflect the entire corpus of the New Testament covers a mere 243 pages in the English Revised Standard Edition. Those of us who are fortunate enough to be literate do…
Today’s One-Liner (#214)
We might suggest this rich young man was one of Christ’s conspicuous failures along with, say, Judas, one of the thieves, the scribes, Pontius Pilate, Herod, and some of His home-town relatives. –James V. Schall,…
Going Further
One day St John of the Cross confided to a friend that there was still something which prevented his complete detachment from earthly affections. Fetching a bundle of papers he threw them into the fire…
Today’s One-Liner (#213)
(Luis de Leon, returning to his university after five years’ imprisonment by the Inquisition, resumed his lectures with the words:) As we were saying yesterday. –Stephen Clissold, The Wisdom of the Spanish Mystics
More of Simone’s Loves
I love the saints through their writings and what is told of their lives … I love the six or seven Catholics of genuine spirituality whom chance has led me to meet in the course…
Today’s One-Liner (#212)
I fell in love with Saint Francis of Assisi as soon as I came to know about him. –Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Books You’ll Never Be Graded on Except by Reality
1. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Genesis, the Psalms. 2. The Gospel according to St. John. 3. St. Augustine, The Confessions 4. Plato, The Apology; The Crito; The Phaedo 5. Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ. 6. The Epistles of St. Paul….
Today’s One-Liner (#211)
Most universities today are so structured that they have no time for reading Aristotle or Aquinas. James V. Schall, Docilitas: On Teaching and Being Taught, 114
Perfect Joy
ONCE when St. Francis was coming from Perugia to Santa Maria degli Angeli with Friar Leo in the winter, and the very great cold vexed him sore, he called Friar Leo, who was going before,…