Food that sustains...

"The school of Christ is the school of charity.  
On the last day, when the general examination takes place, 
there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, 
the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian.  
Charity will be the whole syllabus." - 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 Bellarmine, “Comments on Aquinas’ O Sacrum Convivum”

St Robert Bellarmine

 Italy ~ 1542-1621

Jesuit theologian, writer, and cardinal

Key voice and action in Counter-Reformation

Dubbed: "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."

Click here: St. Robert Bellarmine - YouTube (2 mins)

Click here: Fr. Hardon Archives - St. Robert Bellarmine,

St Robert Bellarmine, pray for us!

Be reconciled! ...

 Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits  - 

 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion. 
 Psalm 103: 2-4

“The two sacraments of the Eucharist and Penance

are very closely connected. 
Because the Eucharist makes present the redeeming sacrifice 
of the cross, perpetuating it sacramentally,

it naturally gives rise to a continuous need for conversion,

for a personal response to the appeal made by Saint Paul

to the Christians of Corinth  (2 Cor 5:20):

‘We beseech you on behalf of Christ,

be reconciled to God’.”

       

Pope St John Paul II

Painting: The Prodigal Son - Liz Lemon Swindle