The following quote is from a sermon by Fr. Frederick William Faber, author and composer of
the famous hymn "Faith of Our Fathers," and a convert to the Catholic
Faith from Anglicanism in the 19th Century:
"To enthrone a past age in our affections above the one which God has
given us in His Church is, implicitly at least, to adopt the formula of
heresy and schism. To do so explicitly is incompatible with an orthodox
belief, as well as with true Catholic obedience. The past has a
thousand uses to us; it loses every one of them as soon as we begin to
idolize it."
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