Sunday, December 11, 2011
Strange
Such a sad, strange thing - that people in the wealthiest, most affluent period and place in human history believe themselves too poor to have children! Indeed, they are poor! They are afflicted with a most terrible poverty - poverty in charty...
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Immaculate Conception
As the Holy Spirit loved its spouse, Mary, preserving her from sin, willing for her good from the moment of her conception, and protecting her for the whole of her life, so should all men love their spouses. For in the Holy Spirit's espousal of Mary is the example which Christ followed in His own marriage to the Church - not because He needed an example, but because in His love for us He desired that we should have one. As the Spirit willed for Mary's purity and goodness all the days of her life, so too does Christ wish to make us holy and pure. She becomes a microcosm of the Church, the spouse of God, and is given to us as a gift from the Cross.
Monday, December 5, 2011
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