Dec 29, 2021 | Other / Misc, Wednesday Quotes
“The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.” J.R. Tolkien, The Lord of...
Dec 22, 2021 | Wednesday Quotes
“[T]he whole of man, soul and body, is nourished sanely by a multiplicity of observed traditional things.” Hilaire Belloc, ‘A Remaining Christmas’ Real festivity, like a human person, has a soul and body. A person’s thriving is most of...
Dec 5, 2018 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“…anyone who carelessly rejects the external traditions or treats them with irony is doing something dangerous.” Josef Pieper “Indeed, modern men, who lack such things, lack sustenance, and our fathers who founded all those ritual observances were very...
Nov 21, 2018 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“So take refreshment, take your ease in hall, and cheer the time with stories. I’ll begin. Not that I think of naming, far less telling, every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, but here is something that he dared to do…” Helen of Troy, in Homer, The Odyssey VIDEO,...
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