Our Lady of the Rosary, Nuestra Senora Del Rosario, Anonymous Cuzco School, 18th Century
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Our Lady of the Rosary
Happy Lepanto Day!
Our Lady of the Rosary, Nuestra Senora Del Rosario, Anonymous Cuzco School, 18th Century
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Lepanto
The North is full of tangled things and texts and aching eyes,
And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise,
And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room,
And Christian dreadeth Christ that hath a newer face of doom,
And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee,—
But Don John of Austria is riding to the sea.
-- GK Chesterton
King Philip II Offering His Son, Prince Ferdinand to God after the Victory of Lepanto
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Titian
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Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto, 7th October 1571
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The Miraculous Intervention of Ss Peter and Paul in the Battle of Lepanto, 7th October 1571
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Dandini,...
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The Naval Battle of Lepanto, Waged by Don John of Austria in 1571, 1887
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And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise,
And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room,
And Christian dreadeth Christ that hath a newer face of doom,
And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee,—
But Don John of Austria is riding to the sea.
-- GK Chesterton
King Philip II Offering His Son, Prince Ferdinand to God after the Victory of Lepanto
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Titian
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Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto, 7th October 1571
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The Miraculous Intervention of Ss Peter and Paul in the Battle of Lepanto, 7th October 1571
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Dandini,...
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The Naval Battle of Lepanto, Waged by Don John of Austria in 1571, 1887
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
God Heals
And thou hast taken pity upon two only children. Make them, O Lord, bless thee more fully: and to offer up to thee a sacrifice of thy praise, and of their health, that all nations may know, that thou alone art God in all the earth.-- Tobit 8:19
Tobias and the Angel
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Madonna with a Fish (In the Hand of Young Tobias, Accompanied by the Archangel Raphael)
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Raphael
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Archangel Raphael Leaving the Family of Tobias
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
From Romans 11
I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew.
As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see; and ears that they should not hear, until this present day.
Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear. For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not thee.
. . .
And so all Israel should be saved . . .
As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see; and ears that they should not hear, until this present day.
Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith: be not highminded, but fear. For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps he also spare not thee.
. . .
And so all Israel should be saved . . .
Thursday, September 25, 2008
The Canadian Martyrs in the "Vineyard of the Hurons"
They [the enemy tribe] therefore practiced, in a short time, savage cruelties, — especially upon the children, whom they tore from their mothers’ breasts in order to throw them alive into the fire. Father Charles Garnier was at that time alone there of ours; nor would he hear mention of fleeing . . .-- The Jesuit Relations
My Lord JESUS CHRIST, — who through a special disposition of your fatherly providence have made me, although unworthy, a coadjutor of your Holy Apostles in this vineyard
of the Hurons . . . receive me for a perpetual servant of this mission, making me worthy of so sublime a ministry.
-- St. Noel Chabanel
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
A Word on Images
From the Catholic Encyclopedia:
Two questions that obviously must be kept apart are those of the use of
sacred images and of the reverence paid to them. That Christians from the very
beginning adorned their catacombs with paintings of Christ, of the saints, of scenes from the Bible and allegorical groups is too
obvious and too well known for it to be necessary to insist upon
the fact. The catacombs
are the cradle of all Christian art.And, at the same link, from the Council of Trent:
[The holy Synod commands] that images of Christ, the Virgin Mother of God, and other saints are to be held and kept especially in churches, that due honour and reverence (debitum honorem et venerationem) are to be paid to them, not that any divinity or power is thought to be in them for the sake of which they may be worshipped, or that anything can be asked of them, or that any trust may be put in images, as was done by the heathen who put their trust in their idols [Ps. cxxxiv, 15 sqq.], but because the honour shown to them is referred to the prototypes which they represent, so that by kissing, uncovering to, kneeling before images we adore Christ and honour the saints whose likeness they bear (Denzinger, no. 986).
Monday, September 8, 2008
All Dates Approximate
Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state. And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?. . . The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.
-- Job 14
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
In Thanksgiving for the Preservation of a House in New Orleans
Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were discovered: At thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the spirit of thy wrath.
He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many waters.
He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord became my protector.
And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because he was well pleased with me.
Psalm 17 (Douay-Rheims Bible)
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He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many waters.
He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord became my protector.
And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because he was well pleased with me.
Psalm 17 (Douay-Rheims Bible)
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Ave Atque Vale
Well, we're almost back at the Feast of the Assumption, the point in the year where I started blogging these passages from an old book that once belonged to my grandmother. In the next few days, I have a lot of ground to cover, literally, in the real world, and I've decided this is a good place to stop.
Thank you to everyone who has read my posts and clicked on my links throughout the year.
If the Spirit moves me to blog again, I'll let you know in this space.
Please:
Ora pro me Ioanna Wangersky
and
Gaudete in Domino Semper!
-- Jane
Thank you to everyone who has read my posts and clicked on my links throughout the year.
If the Spirit moves me to blog again, I'll let you know in this space.
Please:
Ora pro me Ioanna Wangersky
and
Gaudete in Domino Semper!
-- Jane
Father Olivaint's Advice
When people try to draw you into religious controversy, observe two things:
- Do not argue, but state the Catholic truth, so far as you know it; and, for the many things that you do not know, say that you have never studied theology, and offer to introduce them to a priest.
- If you must argue, follow this rule of strategy: Never stand on the defensive, but attack the other man's position. Ask him what he has to offer as a substitute for the Catholic faith -- little enough, you will find.
-- Joseph Rickaby, SJ, Ye Are Christ's
Monday, August 11, 2008
The Outspoken Christian
He will then be honest and outspoken and truthful, a hater of falsehood and hypocrisy and cheating and underhand dealing. He will think as he says; and although he may not say all that he thinks, not tell everybody all that he knows, for that might be imprudent, or uncharitable, or even unjust, yet what he does say will be the utterance of his real mind; he will not go about sowing falsehoods to serve a purpose. The simple and direct method, wherever it can be taken, will always be the method of his choice.
-- Joseph Rickaby, SJ, Ye Are Christ's
-- Joseph Rickaby, SJ, Ye Are Christ's
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Courage and Sanctity
People useless in the world are seldom much good in the Church. Heroic sanctity requires high courage. One reason why sanctity is so rare is because high courage is so rare.
-- Joseph Rickaby, SJ, Ye Are Christ's
-- Joseph Rickaby, SJ, Ye Are Christ's
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Human Respect
When I feel afraid of the gaze of men, afraid to do before their eyes what my conscience bids me do, let me ask myself: "Do I owe any of these gentlemen money?"
"No, certainly I am not beholden to any of them."
"Why then cringe and cower before them, like a debtor at a meeting of creditors?"
-- Joseph Rickaby, SJ, Ye Are Christ's
"No, certainly I am not beholden to any of them."
"Why then cringe and cower before them, like a debtor at a meeting of creditors?"
-- Joseph Rickaby, SJ, Ye Are Christ's
