I wonder what it’s like to live your life in a family that had suddenly chosen to stay mostly at home now (in the time of Covid), when they had scarcely been home for ages. And how that would improve your quality of life and engender more opportunities for sweet-bits and savoury morsels. And to…
Saint Augustine, the great Bishop of Hippo (modern-day Annaba, Algeria), Africa, chose to appoint his successor four years before he died. Thus, on 26 September 426, he gathered the people to the Basilica of Peace at Hippo to present to the faithful the one he had designated for this task. He said: In this life…
The great Catholic broadcaster and preacher, Archbishop Fulton Sheen (1895-1979) said this about retirement: “When I resigned, I did not “retire”. I retreaded. I took on another kind of work. I believe that we spend our last days very much the way that we lived. If we have lived with ease, taking our rest, never…