patience – Catholic Louth and Mablethorpe

S. Anthony on virtue and vice

“…great and virtuous powers
have been given to us by God
and are opposed to and help us
against their corresponding vices…”

Yesterday was All Souls day, and as I was walking through the cemeteries, I thought often about why our race buries their dead, and why particularly those of Jewish and Catholic communities use such elaborate ceremonial for funeral and burial/cremation. And I remembered Tobias (Hebrew, Tobi-yah), a short story in our Old Testaments that isContinue reading “Tobias and the angel”