"Come, my soul, and think over within you, if the created sun
makes
all things so happy
at its rising, what will the uncreated sun do,
which is incomparably
brighter and more beautiful,
when it rises in pure
hearts to be seen and contemplated,
not for a short time
but forever?" - St Robert
Bellarmine
"The Holy Eucharist is offered to us on our pilgrimage
as food so
that we do not faint
on the path to the
fatherland,
especially at the time when, tired by a long journey,
our forces are apt to wane…
The Lord left His Body in the Eucharist
as a pledge of heavenly beatitude."
St Robert Bellearmine, “Comments on Aquinas’ O Sacrum
Convivum”
St Robert
Bellarmine
Italy ~
1542-1621
Jesuit theologian, writer,
and cardinal
Key voice and action in
Counter-Reformation
"Prince of the
Apologists"
Doctor of the
Church
Patron of Canon lawyers,
catechists,
students, those with Down's
syndrome
FEAST DAY - September
17
From St Robert Bellarmine's 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."
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