Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Quote #159: on the lack of priestly vocations

“If we are not training young men as altar boys, giving them an experience of serving God in the liturgy, we should not be surprised that vocations have fallen dramatically." -  Raymond Cardinal Burke.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Quote #158: God's presence

"God is in all things." - St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologicae, I, 8, 1.

St. Augustine (by Sandro Botticelli)

St. Ignatius Loyola (by Francisco Zurbaran)

Benjamin Rush (by Charles Willson Peale)

Patrick Henry at the Virginia House of Burgesses (by Henry Rothermel)

Edmund Burke (by Sir Joshua Reynolds)

Samuel Adams (by John Singleton Copley)

Alexander Hamilton (by John Trumbull)