Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God, Who has called us to serve You, In the midst of the world's affairs, When we stumble, hold us; When we fall, lift us up; When we are hard pressed with evil, deliver us; When we turn from what is good, turn us back; And bring us at last to Your glory.


St. Alcuin

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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
ST. EVERMOND
Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmo...
ST. CYPRIAN
Just suppose members of our churches were voted on, like the members of certain civic clubs. Suppose...
ST. CYPRIAN
One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always co...
ST. VINCENT
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME
It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
ST. JEROME
It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you&#...
ST. LUCIA
I was really into Radiohead and Live.
ST. LUCIA
I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.
ST. LUCIA
The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the r...
ST. LUCIA
I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so...
ST. LUCIA
I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your ...
ST. LUCIA
I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a...
ST. VINCENT
We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most ...
ST. LUCIA
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive...
ST. BASIL
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
OLIVER ST. JOHN
If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
OLIVER ST. JOHN
And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time...
LARA ST. JOHN
Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to...
LARA ST. JOHN
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
LARA ST. JOHN
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing e...
LARA ST. JOHN
Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they...
LARA ST. JOHN
Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be som...
LARA ST. JOHN
I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in femal...
LARA ST. JOHN
There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
LARA ST. JOHN
Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get ...
LARA ST. JOHN
Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
LARA ST. JOHN
For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
LARA ST. JOHN
Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ...
LARA ST. JOHN
When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
LARA ST. JOHN
There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or ...
LARA ST. JOHN
The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the...
LARA ST. JOHN
Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, t...
LARA ST. JOHN
I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having mu...
LARA ST. JOHN
Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
LARA ST. JOHN
Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop o...
LARA ST. JOHN
I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
LARA ST. JOHN
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popu...
LARA ST. JOHN
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity o...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morall...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only h...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS