(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!
“My soul belongs to God, my life to the king, and my heart to women; my honor alone belongs to me.”
François-Athanase de CHARETTE (1763-1796)
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“Our country, our fatherland, is our villages, our altars, our tombs; it is all that our mothers loved before us. Our country is our Faith, our land, our king. Their country, what is it? Do you really understand? They want to destroy all customs, order, and tradition. So what is this mock country, so devoid of fidelity and love? What is this wandering and irreligious country? Just a beautiful discourse, isn’t it? For them, the fatherland is only an idea; for us, it is the very earth. They have it in their brains, but we have it under our feet, which is much more solid. And their world, which they claim is new and which they want to found without God, is actually as old as the devil…. As old as the devil himself… They tell us that we are the dupes of old superstitions… what a joke. In the face of these demons that are reborn each century, we are the youth. Young Sirs, we are God’s youth, His young men who are faithful! And we, these young men, wish to preserve the true right of man, for us and for our sons, that is, the liberty of the interior man.”
François-Athanase de CHARETTE (1763-1796)
Vendéen Leader
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