"The Judge is near, even at the very gate. Life is passing away, as a dream, and as a flower." Image: Cain leads Abel to his Death - Tissot. The incident is mentioned elsewhere in The Great Canon. Wiki Commons. St Andrew of Crete died in the eighth century in Damascus. He became a monk …
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"The clumsiness of the torture that kills was not for him." These notes are not only a continuation of our series Preparation for Tyranny, but also serve as editorial comment on the extract which we published from Fr Henry James Coleridge, on the results of persecution. Image: Cogniet, Wiki Commons One of the most appalling …
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I would like to offer our readers this beautiful text on prayer taken from the Catechetical Instructions of St Thomas Aquinas. This is now available in Tradivox Vol. VI (UK readers click here). It is also available at the Internet Archive. Reminder: We earn with purchases through Amazon links. We hope that the text from St …
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