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The Albigensian Attack (conclusion)
All the sacraments were abandoned. In their place a strange ritual was adopted, mixed up with fire worship, called “The Consolation,” in which it was professed that the soul was purified.
The Albigensian Attack (continued)
So it was with the great Albigensian Fury of 800 and 900 years ago. Its origins are therefore obscure, but we can trace them.
The Albigensian Attack (continued)
Anyone who will read the details of the Albigensian story will be struck over and over again by the singularly modern attitude of these ancient heretics, because they had the same root as the Puritans who still, unhappily, survive among us.
The Albigensian Attack
In the heart of the Middle Ages, just when they were working up to their most splendid phase, the great thirteenth century, there arose a singular and powerful attack upon the Catholic Church and all the culture for which it stood.
Dear Sussex
Therefore it is that I have put down in writing what happened to me now so many years ago, when I met first one man and then another, and we four bound ourselves together and walked through all your land, Sussex, from end to end.
Rome
So too with the Roman Empire….we cannot but imagine that which was a destiny planned by Heaven to have been a scheme planned by men.
The Morning Mass
In the first village I came to I found that Mass was over, and this justly annoyed me; for what is a pilgrimage in which a man cannot hear Mass every morning?
On the essence of a vow
When upon a point of ritual or of dedication or special worship a man talks to you of the Spirit and Intention, and complains of the dryness of the Word, look at him askance.
September
I, from a window where the Meuse is wide,
Looked eastward out to the September night;
The men that in the hopeless battle died
A Letter to G.K. Chesterton
If you say “I want this” as in your case to know one way or the other—She will give it you: as She will give health or necessary money or success in a pure love. She is our Blessed Mother.
The Great and Enduring Heresy of Mohammed
We are about to follow the fortunes of this extraordinary thing which still calls itself Islam, that is, “The Acceptation” of the morals and simple doctrines which Mohammed had preached.