(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!
True lords and masters are men who, regardless of the situation in which destiny has placed them, are able to distinguish the common good from individual good.
Michel de Saint-Pierre (1916-1987)
Writer
“Christianity, and Christianity alone, will always refuse to separate culture from the sciences, education from teaching – and psychology from metaphysics. What is immortal in man is his soul, and what is essential to him is the very unity of his being, the force field where his energies, faculties, and personal hopes and dreams are met together. I repeat: In every domain Christianity fiercely counteracts fragmentation, and dislocation, in the heart of the child and of the adult. It’s true that you can’t kill a soul, but you can, as I’ve said, break someone’s spirit into a million pieces, in order to prepare it to undergo the social order according to Marx’s and Lenin’s ideals, where the person no longer exists at all. Arthur Rimbaud proclaimed the “time of assassins” – was he alluding to this murder of modern man in as much as he is a distinct, unique, irreplaceable and free being, and whom we see already vanishing by the millions before our eyes? Here, you and I, in this modest class, we are seeking the soul and unity which have been lost. All the rest, believe me, is just philosophy.”
Michel de Saint-Pierre (1916-1987)
Writer
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