16 Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. 18 And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Matthew 16: 16-18
The continual reminder traversing the vale…
Seems like a good time to (re)post one of my favorite paragraphs from Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man. (I’m paraphrasing.) “At the end of the eighteenth century, the enemies of the Church were planning her funeral. But during the course of that funeral, the corpse did something very surprising: it cam back to life.”
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I like to remind people of the triumphant declaration of the New South Wales Premier Henry Parkes when introducing his Education Act to Parliament in 1871, providing for the setting up of free secular government schools designed to undercut the (very low fee) Catholic schools: “This legislation is the death knell of the Roman Church!” (i.e. Catholic Church).