(Ephesians 5:8)
Parents, leaders, and educators, we have a mission, a duty to lead children's souls toward the Light which will be their guide and their happiness. In order to illuminate the way that lies before each one of us, once a week we invite you to discover some of the words of certain wisemen and witnesses, measuring their worth by the words of St. Thomas Aquinas: “Do not consider the one who speaks, but whatever good you hear from him, confide it to your memory.” (from The Sixteen Ways to Acquire the Treasure of Knowledge by St. Thomas). Happy reading!
I am a bishop, and so I will speak, I will raise my voice, I will hold the standard of truth high and firm; I will hold this standard of the truth, of true liberty, which is none other than the standard of the Faith, the standard of my God.
Cardinal Pie (1815-1880)
Bishop of Poitiers and Cardinal
“Such was the Bishop Pie towards God and towards his neighbor. Someone who was well acquainted with him since the time of his ordination considered FIDELITY to be his best and most distinguishing quality. He was faithful to his mother and to his family, to his home parish and to Chartres, to his aged bishop, to his first teachers and benefactors, to Saint-Sulpice, to his fellow students and confreres, to his students and his friends of the first and last hour, to the families under his care, and to the churches over which he presided. He was faithful to Poitiers and to his diocese which he did not want to leave, to his advisors and his auxiliaries, to his servants and his protégés, a fidelity which can be clearly attested to by the memories left of the bishop is so many people’s testaments. He was faithful to his studies, to his duties and his undertakings, to the foundations which he began. Moreover, he was equally faithful to his daily priestly ministry – a fidelity which is evidenced by six large volumes filled with thirty-one years of his pontifical writings, without interruption, right up until his final week on earth. He was faithful to the whole truth, faithful to his duty and to obedience, despite contradictions and persecutions, even to the point of sacrificing his reputation for that fidelity – and all this he did simply, without any affectation, without calling attention to it, without ever believing himself better than others because of it. He was faithful to Jesus Christ, to his Church, to his country, to the Holy See and the pope, to the royalty and to the king. He was faithful to Mary, whose name was the last word to pass his lips the night he was taken to his eternal reward. It was high time, then, that he should hear the voice of God, who is also faithful, calling him saying: Euge serve bone et fidelis! enter into the joy of your Master!”
Monsignor Baunard (1828-1919)
Rector of the Catholic University of Lille and historian
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