Tea at Trianon: Father Fessio re-hired

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, March 23, 2007

Father Fessio re-hired

It just gets curiouser and curiouser, as Alice would say. (Via the NOR) Share

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: "..Fessio told the students he was leaving for a few days but would be back Sunday night. He is heading to Washington, D.C., today to be inducted in the Catholic Education Hall of Fame."

“The timing is ironic,” Fessio said.
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Indeed!
I'm happy for the students, and for the university. It may well be that the Supreme Pontiff laid his hands on the phone and asked a specific healing for Ave Maria, but for sure, the Lord works (all things to the Good) in mysterious ways.; March 23, 2007 at 10:19:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...: I have been reading the posts on the Angel Queen link you provided on the previous post on this. I was shocked at the lack of charity on the traditionalists vs charasmatic issues. None of us have all the answers but if we have not love and respect for each other we have nothing.
Mary; March 23, 2007 at 11:24:00 AM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: I agree, mary, they are terribly rude and nasty. It would turn anyone away from tradition.; March 23, 2007 at 11:49:00 AM EDT