I'm sorry I've been MIA. Be back soon! In the meantime, please enjoy this beautiful recording of the Salve Regina by the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia.
Post by Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia.
Post by Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia.
"Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book." - St. John Bosco
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“This book is a handy compilation of doctrinal, historical, and statistical data and arguments to be used by Campaigners for Christ in their endeavor to reconcile their fellow-Americans of differing beliefs to the cause of unity in Christ and His Church. In it will be found the basic teachings of Catholicity as well as answers to inquiries and objections with which the campaigners are likely to be confronted while addressing open-air meetings in the interest of things Catholic.”There is no one book that you can read to fully understand the faith, but there are many, many books that give a good general overview. I think this book is one of them. Each chapter covers a different topic, presents the Catholic’s belief on the subject, then briefly explains that belief. This book was written to be used by Catholic lay street preachers, essentially, and the chapters were to give them some extra tools in their work with those who did not believe. I’m only on Chapter 4 right now. What really stood out to me this week while reading the chapter on Religion, were the quotes from George Washington’s Farewell Address. To quote here a part, Washington said:
“Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”Wise words.
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