Archbishop Sample Pontifical Mass Homily

Ash Wednesday

Gen. 3.  "Remember, O man, that thou art dust, and into dust thou shalt return." 

Little Europe: The Vatican City

History is Prologue

To know history is to be Catholic. 

Vatican Stamps

Image from the Internet. 

Rome Quotes

“A few decades ago, nobody believed in the confession of sins except the Church. Today everyone believes in confession – with this difference: some believe in confessing their own sins; others believe in confessing other people’s sins. The popularity of psychoanalysis has nearly convinced everyone of the necessity of some kind of confession for peace of mind. This is another instance of how the world, which threw Christian truths into the wastebasket in the nineteenth century, is pulling them out in isolated secularized form in the twentieth century, meanwhile deluding itself into believing that it has made a great discovery. The world found it could not get along without some release for its inner unhappiness. Once it had rejected confession and denied both God and guilt, it had to find a substitute.” 

- Fulton Sheen (Footprints in a Darkened Forest)

75th Anniversary of the Election of Pius XII

SEPTVAGESIMO QVINTO ANNO AB ELECTIONE IN SVMMVM PONTIFICEM EMINENTISSIMI AC REVERENDISSIMI DOMINI DOMINI EVGENII S.R.E. TITVLI SANCTORVM IOANNIS ET PAVLI PRESBYTERIS CARDINALIS PACELLI, ROMANI, QVI SIVI NOMEN IMPOSVIT PIVM DVODECIMUM, SEXTO NONAS MARTII ANNO SALVTIS MILLESIMO NONGENTESIMO VNDEQVADRAGESIMO, AETATIS SVAE SEXAGESIMO TERTIO EXPLETO.

Thanks, Francesco!

C.S Lewis - Mere Christianity (Part 1)

Interesting Book on Life in 1950s Africa

See here: http://www.slopeofkongwahill.com/.

Yours truly is enjoying this book at the moment.

A rare glimpse into the fading end of an Empire African scene in the 1950s.  A difficult era.  You can just imagine yourself driving through the rural bush in an old 1940s Citroën.  The names and places come alive.  Absorbing and beautifully written.  Edwards has brilliantly woven scores of contemporary accounts into a fluid narrative.  A portrait of late-colonial life now gone forever.  The author, an Englishman, did a very fine job.  I highly recommend this book.

The Latin motto of the Kongwa school seems fitting: Conabor (I shall try)!

Thanks, Tony!
 

Rome Quotes

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." 

-Francis Bacon