Fragments:
—El moderno cree vivir en un pluralismo de
opiniones, cuando lo que hoy impera es una
unanimidad asfixiante.
—Modern man believes he lives amidst a pluralism of
opinions, when what prevails today is a stifling
unanimity.
Virtues are no less contagious than vices.
the ablest young people of this place have gone away to receive a college education, which has given them a “professional status” too often understood as a license to become the predators of such places as this one that they came from.
Giving in to anger, says Ephrem the Syrian, leads straight to hell. Christ endured every insult so that we could be preserved from wrath.
Do not keep anger in your soul. Do not hold fury in your soul. You have no power over your soul except in doing what is good.
If pains be a pleasure to you, profit will follow.
Padre nuestro que estás en el cielo,
santificado sea tu nombre;
venga a nosotros tu reino;
hágase tu voluntad así en la tierra como en el cielo.
El pan nuestro de cada día dánoslo hoy;
y perdónanos nuestras deudas,
así como nosotros perdonamos a nuestros deudores;
y no nos dejes caer en la tentación,
mas líbranos del mal.
Amén.
Detachment. How hard it is! Oh, to be fastened by
nothing but three nails and to have no more feeling
in my flesh than the Cross I
Who cannot condemn without fear cannot appreciate
without foreboding.
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