“This Old Testament officer was invested with a uniform of office and given some sort of key, either a symbolic key or an actual large key somehow pinned to his garment, given charge of the king’s castle, able to admit and dismiss in his absence.”
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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…”
Tobias and the angel
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”
Catholic Louth and Mablethorpe 