Past Points Archive - January 2007
from the bulletin of 7th January 2007
“The magi were the ones who gave gifts to the Lord. The first is said to have been Melchior, and old man with a white hair and a long beard .. who offered gold to the Lord as a king. The second, Caspar, by name, young and beardless and ruddy complexioned .. honoured him as God by his gift of incense, an offering worthy of divinity. The third, black skinned and heavily bearded, named Balthasar .. by the gift of myrrh testified to the Son of Man who was to die” .
(from a legend associated with St Bede c.700)
from the bulletin of 14th January 2007
“To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom”.
(Evelyn Waugh, Catholic author)
from the bulletin of 21st January 2007
“What the soul is to the human body, the Holy Spirit is to the members of Christ, that is the body of Christ, which is the Church”.
(St Augustine)
from the bulletin of 28th January 2007
“The poor judge the world”
“It is only by saving others that one can be saved oneself”.(Two of the sayings of L’Abbe Pierre founder of the Emmaus movement for the homeless, who died this past week, aged 94)
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