Friday, September 17, 2010

Go, then, and partake


 
 
 
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"The Bread of Life, the Bread of the angels,
is not offered only
for our adoration and homage,
but was given to us as food. 
Let us go, then, and partake of this Food
to nourish and fortify our souls."
 
 
St Robert Bellarmine
 Italy ~ 1542-1621
Jesuit theologian, writer, and cardinal
Key voice and action in Counter-Reformation
Doctor of the Church
FEAST DAY - September 17
 
 
From his treatise On the Ascent of the Mind to God:
 
 "May you consider truly good whatever leads to your goal
and truly evil whatever makes you fall away from it."
 
 
Ste Robert Bellarmine, ora pro nobis!
 

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