"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
So last night I felt the need to express my inner graphic designer, so I produced some posters for “Wear The Veil Day” on December 8th:
If you’re like to know a little more about the tradition of head coverings in the Catholic Church, please check out my earlier blog post. If you’d like to use any of the above images, downloadable versions are available below…
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he ‘wants a woman.’ Strictly speaking, a woman is just what he does not want.
“He wants a pleasure for which a woman happens to be the necessary piece of apparatus. How much he cares about the woman as such may be gauged by his attitude to her five minutes after fruition (one does not keep the carton after one has smoked the cigarettes).
“Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.”
– C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves