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A Family Workroom

“When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.” — Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family,” Heretics

Today in the Roman Martyrology

6 August

ON Mount Thabor, the transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ.—At Rome, on the Appian road, in the cemetery of Callistus, the birthday of blessed Xystus II., pope and martyr, who received the crown of martyrdom in the persecution of Valerian, by bein … read more