"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
My mum sent me this lovely quotation the other day from the late Cardinal Basil Hume:
Once, while preaching in a parish, I suddenly caught sight of a young mother with her child, and you could see the love between them. I was terribly tempted to say to the Congregation: ‘Forget what I am saying and look over there, and you will see what we mean to God’” – Cardinal Basil Hume.
This week was the feast day of St. Dominic, so I thought I would share a rather religiously nerdy joke I came across recently…
A Dominican and a Jesuit were arguing about whether the Dominicans or the Jesuits were more favored by God. Finally, they decided that the only one who could settle the matter was God. So they prayed, the heavens opened up, and a piece of paper came fluttering down. When they picked it up, this is what it said:
My children,
Please stop quarreling about such absurd and trivial matters.
Sincerely,
God, O.P.
(You’re welcome Jenna…)