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
AT Rome, on the Appian way, the birthday of St. Soter, pope and martyr.—In the same city, pope St. Caius, who was crowned with martyrdom, under the emperor Diocletian.—At Smyrna, the Saints Apelles and Lucius, who were among the first disciples … read more