(Ephesians 5:8)
Parents, leaders, and educators, we have a mission, a duty to lead children's souls toward the Light which will be their guide and their happiness. In order to illuminate the way that lies before each one of us, once a week we invite you to discover some of the words of certain wisemen and witnesses, measuring their worth by the words of St. Thomas Aquinas: “Do not consider the one who speaks, but whatever good you hear from him, confide it to your memory.” (from The Sixteen Ways to Acquire the Treasure of Knowledge by St. Thomas). Happy reading!
“Literature is the place where two souls meet.”
Charles DU BOS (1882-1939)
French Writer and Literary Critic
“We must insist again, as many others have, on the genius of our language and the beauties of our literature. One must recognize in it, without a doubt, a particular aptitude for proofs, for the order of the French sentence is an order that is direct. This means that we say the subject of the thought first, then the verb which is describing the action, and finally the object of the action. Rivarol said that our syntax is incorruptible. Blessed Rivarol! He never saw the French manuals of our children! We love to prove things because we’re capable of doing so, and that’s why our literature and our art are infinitely social. To please a public without abasing yourself before them, such was the primary preoccupation of our writers for centuries. “There can be no literature without society” — only a French critic could write such a thing, and it was written by Henri Massis in 1924. In those words he expressed a profound truth: here more than anywhere else, without a doubt, the life of the mind and society go hand in hand.”
Jean de VIGUERIE (1935-2019)
Historian
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