Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Faith of Our Fathers = "True Catholic Obedience"

 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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