Good morning, digital neighbors! Happy Thursday! An earlier post than usual today—I have early-morning adoration. Some quiet time with the Lord in His Sacrament. It’s an Advent tradition in our parish to hold an all-night vigil, with people signing up to pray in silence throughout the night. It concludes around 7:00 a.m. On to a few quotes about change and a photo. Have a blessed day!
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Way to Freedom
To change and to improve are two different things. - German Proverb
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world – and never will. - Mark Twain, "Consistency", speech (1887)
Mountain - Artem Makarov - Unsplash
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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