So many pre-pubs today shipping. I sure hope 'Paul the Simple' and 'Brother Ero' make their appearance before the weekend!
https://www.logos.com/product/32856/the-fathers-of-the-desert
So many pre-pubs today shipping. I sure hope 'Paul the Simple' and 'Brother Ero' make their appearance before the weekend! https://www.logos.com/product/32856/the-fathers-of-the-desert
Clever, Denise. [:D]
Well,gee. Who could resist this 'come-on' ...
'This pride rapidly increased from generation to generation, suffocating virtue, and nourishing self love, and after a few centuries the daughters of the Gracchi and the Scipios became a degenerate race of women ; that most terrible thing of all others upon earth.'
I'm really afraid to imagine the Scipios!!
And I thought it was something akin to the Daughters of the American Revolution or the Daughters of the Confederacy!
Well,gee. Who could resist this 'come-on' ... 'This pride rapidly increased from generation to generation, suffocating virtue, and nourishing self love, and after a few centuries the daughters of the Gracchi and the Scipios became a degenerate race of women ; that most terrible thing of all others upon earth.' I'm really afraid to imagine the Scipios!!
Blessings and Peace! *smile*
Whew! What a close call. Ignoring the issue that the author's carriage return was apparently broken:
' What power of renewing the soul must the Christian faith and holy asceticism possess to form saints out of such a race! What strength of will was required to rise from such a sea of indulgence to the cold shore of poverty and abnegation, and to keep pace with the leadings of grace!'
Thank goodness for monasticism (and God, of course).
