Charles Williams : The New Christian Year

St. Andrew's Day (November 30th, 2019)

The Church was created before all things, and for her sake the world was framed.

Hermas: The Shepherd.

If you have the unity (of the Church), whoever possesses anything in that unity possesses it also for you.

St. Augustine: On St. John.

Everything in the Church is done to create love, in love, for the sake of love, and by love.

St. Francis de Sales: On the Love of God.

24th Saturday after Trinity (November 30th, 2019)

They used to say that one of the old men asked God that he might see the fathers, and he saw them all, with the exception of Anthony; and he said unto him that showed them to him, "Where is Anthony?"  And he said unto him, "Wheresoever God is there is Anthony."

The Paradise of the Fathers.

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Now therefore, my children, abide in peace, for, behold, Anthony bringeth his journey to an end, and he goeth whither Divine Grace shall bring him.

St. Athanasius: Life of St. Anthony.

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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

John Donne: Sermons.

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24th Friday after Trinity (November 29th, 2019)

It is part of righteous living not to stand in fear of things which ought not to be feared . . . In order that no kind of death should trouble an upright man, the cross of this Man had to be set before him, because, of all kinds of death, none was more execrable, more fear-inspiring than this.

St. Augustine: Questions.

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God compasses us with songs of deliverance, we are sure he would not leave us; but he compasses us with cries too, we are afraid, we are sure, that we may drive him from us.

John Donne: Sermons.

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24th Thursday after Trinity (November 28th, 2019)

Grace is only the type of glory, for it is not the ultimate end.  It has been symbolized by the law, and itself symbolizes (glory).  But it is the type of it, and the origin or cause.

Pascal: Pensées.

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The tree lies as it falls; it is true; but yet it is not the last stroke that fells the tree; nor the last word, nor the last gasp that qualifies the soul.

John Donne: Sermons.

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