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
THE Nativity of St. John the Baptist, precursor of our Lord, son of Zachary and Elizabeth, who, while yet in his mother’s womb, was filled with the Holy Ghost.—At Rome, in the time of Nero, the commemoration of many holy martyrs, who were accused o … read more