Perfect in Weakness

Here is a link to a beautiful post on weakness and femininity at Clare's lovely blog The Catholic Young Woman.

Sound familiar?

"We dig deeper and we blow you higher.  We wish to deny all those arbitrary distinctions of vice and virtue, honor and treachery, upon which mere rebels base themselves.  The silly sentamentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man!  We hate Rights as we hate Wrongs.  We have abolished Right and Wrong."

- Gregory to Syme, Chesterton's The Man Who was Thursday



Sounds a bit like the current state of affairs, does it not?

Inexpressibly Irritating Fellow



"Suffice it to say that you were an inexpressibly irritating fellow, and, to do you justice, you are still.  I would break twenty oaths of secrecy for the pleasure of taking you down a peg.  That way you have of lighting a cigar would make a priest break the seal of confession."

-Gregory to Syme, Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday

Madness

Now, why does a man like to be made sad by viewing doleful and tragic scenes, which he himself could not by any means endure?  Yet, as a spectator, he wishes to experience from them a sense of grief, and in this very sense of grief his pleasure consists.  What is this but wretched madness?

- St. Augustine, Confessions [3.2.2]

Put that way, I can't help but agree... but, in the words of Eunice from Quo Vadis, "Do not ask me, my lord, for I am one of the mad!"

"The Strategems of Thy Love..."

"O my Redeemer, most worthy of love, I will no longer resist the strategems of Thy love; I give Thee from henceforth my whole love."

~St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ