Erwin Chargaff on Montaigne’s Essays: “It resembles an ocean from which all manner of things can be drawn forth: a gleaming pearl, a dead fish.” Quoted in Patrick Kurp, "‘‘It Will Be Saved by the Amateurs’'"
A net thrown in the sea catches every kind of fish. Sc. 39
The inner meaning of the First Great Commandment:
To be loved by me hast Thou not done more than I could have dared hope or desire? —Abbé Grou t.co/uwY8HBJFA…
The first Christians were Catholic.
Abbé Grou, How to Pray
Can we consider any method faulty which is the fruit of humility, of the deep feeling of our own incapacity, of a lively faith and confidence in God, and is a method of prayer that the Holy Ghost Himself suggests, to those souls that apply to Him that they may learn how to pray? —Abbé Grou, How to Pray
A man may receive Holy Communion sacrilegiously, but he cannot pray sacrilegiously. —Fr. Bryan Houghton, “Prayer, Grace & the Liturgy”, Unwanted Priest
Steps were taken that have magnified the idea of race and made it of decisive importance almost everywhere in the culture. —Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence
Interesting phrase: “habitual or sanctifying grace”. Bryan Houghton, “The priests who disliked Mass'
Our worker refused a raise and said he would work for us for less than the little we pay him. I better not tell his name. We hope he will eventually change his mind and accept the raise.
Jesus was on earth for 30 years before making his first disciples. It was not enough to be privately, He must act publicly. So must we if we are his disciples.
Sometimes one learns that a friend is Catholic when he tells you he is going to the funeral Mass for his mother or father.
“Pope” comes from “papa” and earlier words that mean father.
“Unto This Last”: I give to these last the same as I give you. Sc. 71, Matthew 20:14
Happy 50th Birthday to Isaac Waisberg, Publisher.
Roses on Dove St.
An A7 notebook for my Micro.blogs.
