Jun 26, 2020
"But the fight for our
planet, physical and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is
not a vague matter of the future; it has already started."
Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave this prophetic
commencement address at
Harvard University on June 8, 1978. Solzhenitsyn’s observations
remain...
Jun 23, 2020
“Mistrust Him, Meg, I will not, even if I feel myself faint."
In this episode, we present the entirety of Dialogue on Conscience, by St. Thomas More and his daughter Margaret.
Dialogue on Conscience is presented in the form of two letters; the first is written by More’s stepdaughter, Alice Alington, to his eldest...
Jun 13, 2020
“Because of something
uncertain, there should not be a definite abandonment of duty —
for, in that event, there is certain ruin for the people, not only
in things pertaining to this life, but also in those of that other
life which must be cared for with incomparably greater attention
and anxiety.”
In his Letter...
Jun 6, 2020
"The man who thinks that he is quiet and peaceful has within him a passion that he does not see."
St. Dorotheus was a 6th century
Palestinian abbot who founded a monastery near Gaza. Excerpts of
his instruction on self-accusation are found in the Office of
Readings.
Excerpts from Doct. 13, De accusatione sui
ipsius,...