Tea at Trianon: Pray for Sudan

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

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Pray for Sudan

This post on Genevieve's excellent site disturbed me so much last night, I could not sleep. Let us pray for those women who have been through hell, especially tomorrow, on Divine Mercy Sunday. I wish somebody would do something to help them. Share

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Africa, alas, has such outrages galore. More than a few countries have civil wars fought largely by child soldiers. (Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone..)

Tragic as it is, it's not unless the country has natural resources of some sort or other that the hand-wringing and talk of "intervening" begins.

I think the humane thing to do would, by all means, be to do something for Africa, but I question whether it is concerns about humanity or $omething el$e that guides many or most of those who call for intervention.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army

But at least the evil European countries no longer colonize Africa and no longer send as many missionaries to subvert Africa's spiritual patrimony.; April 15, 2007 at 6:50:00 AM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Yes, sc. I think of this everytime I watch "Out of Africa."; April 15, 2007 at 4:15:00 PM EDT