Tota pulchra es Maria: The Feast of the Immaculate Conception

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

Tota Pulchra es Maria by Durufle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg_U-DtwwE4

December 7, 1941

Please follow this link to a fine post on a real hero: http://al007italia.blogspot.com/2009/12/fr-aloysius-h-schmitt-iowa-boy-american.html



(Thank you, Allen.)

To tread the road

"Aliud est de silvestri cacumine videre patriam pacis. . . et aliud tenere viam illuc ducentum."

--Saint Augustine, Confessions, VII, xxi, as quoted by C. S. Lewis in Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

("For it is one thing to see the land of peace from a wooded ridge. . . and another to tread the road that leads to it.")

Lege

Salve! For all Catholics, and in particular you Latin professors and teachers, I have posted the following link: http://hprweb.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=223:bringing-back-latin&Itemid=1



(Thank you, Carl Olson.)

Colors

“The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.”

--Anne Sophie Swetchine

Children

"No man ever really finds out what he believes until he begins to instruct his children."

--Saint Francis Xavier

(On this feast of Saint Nicholas I pray that, at every moment, I am leading my children to God and not away from Him. Saint Nicholas, patron of children, pray for us.)

Southern Catholicism

Please view this very fine post from Recusant Catholic. The link is: http://recusantcorner.blogspot.com/2009/12/clark-gable-confederacy-and-catholicism.html