"In essence, the conservative person is simply one who finds the permanent things more pleasing than Chaos and Old Night. (Yet conservatives know, with Burke, that healthy 'change is the means of our preservation.')" -Russell Kirk
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
A Conversion that Shook the World
The feast of the conversion of St. Paul (January 25), one time persecutor of Christians, later Apostle to the Gentiles. How apt that this feast dedicated to the Apostle to the Gentiles should be celebrated exactly a month to the day after the feast of the Nativity of Our Lord! The one initiates our salvation, the other initiates the proclamation of this mystery beyond the the confines of the Jewish world.
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