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St. Thérèse of Lisieux in a play as of St. Joan of Arc receives a visit from St. Marguerite (Sister Geneviève) on January 21, 1895.
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“It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.”
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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“A word that rose to honor at the time of the Renaissance, and that summarized in advance the whole program of modern civilization is ‘humanism’. Men were indeed concerned to reduce everything to purely human proportions, to eliminate every principle of a higher order, and, one might say, symbolically to turn away from the heavens under pretext of conquering the earth; the Greeks, whose example they claimed to follow, had never gone as far in this direction, even at the time of their greatest intellectual decadence, and with them utilitarian considerations had at least never claimed the first place, as they were very soon to do with the moderns..."
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Resist.
Pray.
Deny the antichrist from your soul.
Have children.
The winter sun—
On the horse’s back
My frozen shadow.
Matsuo Basho
“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.”
~Plotinus
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"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful;
for beauty is God’s handwriting—a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower,
and thank God for it as a cup of blessing."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, government, etc. exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes? The homemaker’s job is one for which all other’s exist."
~C.S. Lewis
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The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine, 1628.
~Peter Paul Rubens
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“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
John Burroughs
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"...Humanism was form of what has subsequently become contemporary secularism; and, owing to its desire to reduce everything to the measure of man as an end in himself, modern civilization has sunk stage by stage until it has reached the level of the lowest elements in man and aims at little more than satisfying the needs inherent in the material side of his nature, an aim that is in any case quite illusory since it constantly creates more artificial needs than it can satisfy.”
~René Guénon
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00:00 Piano Concerto
No. 11 in D Major
20:57 Piano Concerto
No. 4 in G Major
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