Sep 16, 2023
Will you savor this in your mind,
This old feeling when you're left behind?
Will you hold to this as true,
Or will you dance to another tune?
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Will you savor this in your mind,
This old feeling when you're left behind?
Will you hold to this as true,
Or will you dance to another tune?
Marriage is something greater than a contract, for it involves also a sacrifice. The woman sacrifices an irreparable gift, which was the gift of God and was the object of her mother's anxious care: her fresh young beauty, frequently her health, and that faculty of loving which women have but once. The man, in his turn, sacrifices the liberty of his youth, those incomparable years which never return, the power of devoting himself to her whom he loves, which is vigorous only in his early years, and the ambition--inspired by love--to create a happy and glorious future. All this is possible but once in a man's life--perhaps never. Therefore Christian marriage is a double oblation, offered in two chalices, one filled with virtue, purity, and innocence; the other with unblemished self-devotion, the immortal consecration of a man to her who is weaker than himself, who was unknown to him yesterday, and with whom today he is content to spend the remainder of his life. These two cups must be both filled to the brim in order that the union may be holy and that Heaven may bless it.
Frederic Ozanam, Civilization in the Fifth Century (1868)
Excerpts from a poem attributed to St. Francis, from 'The Franciscan poets in Italy of the thirteenth century', Frédéric Ozanam
QUOTATION: Efficient Use of Time
The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass. --Blessed Frederic Ozanam
QUOTATION: Loving those with whom you argue
Learn to defend your convictions without hating your adversaries and love those who think differently from yourselves. --Blessed Frederic Ozanam
QUOTATION: Efficient Use of Time
The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass. --Blessed Frederic Ozanam
QUOTATION: Loving those with whom you argue
Learn to defend your convictions without hating your adversaries and love those who think differently from yourselves. --Blessed Frederic Ozanam