Smoking hot off the digital Theodosian presses comes “The Kindly Curmudgeon: All Kinds of Writings from an Ink-Stained Life”, a collection of Gerry Bowler’s Shortest and Greatest Hits. Grab your copy at https://www.amazon.ca/Kindly-Curmudgeon-Kinds-Writings-Ink-Stained-ebook/dp/B01KIC81DW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1475294046&sr=8-2&keywords=the+kindle+curmudgeon
St Theresa of Lisieux
There is nothing to say that saints have to live long and arduous lives; hagiographies are full of the tales of young people who have been canonized for flashes of sanctitude or a single action. Few saints of tender years can have had so great an influence as this French woman who died at the age of 24 after a long battle with tuberculosis.
Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin (1873-97) was born into a pious middle-class family in northwestern France and decided at an early age she wished to be a nun, a resolve that strengthened when she experienced a vision of the Virgin. At 15 she entered the Discalced (Shoeless or Barefoot) Carmelites, a contemplative order of cloistered women with a house at Lisieux, Normandy which her sisters had already joined. She took the religious name Theresa of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face. The rest of her short life she spent inside the walls of her convent, praying, serving and writing.
Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.
It is through her exposition of “the little way” that made Theresa famous, winning her sainthood after her death and the title Doctor of the Church. In her poetry and her autobiography, The Story of a Soul, Theresa advocated a life of child-like trust and small loving actions. She is the patroness of African missions, those suffering from AIDS or tuberculosis, air crews and florists.
Boys’ Day (Dzień Chłopaka)
On this day girls in Poland are encouraged to give presents to boys. This unofficial holiday seems to be popular among high school students; gifts such as chocolates, cards and trinkets are presented by girls to the young men they like. Though there is no Girls’ Day in the country, there is a Woman’s Day. Other countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil and Japan have similar celebrations on different days.
We have sunk to a depth in which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
— George Orwell
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all should learn to hear it.
–Samuel Johnson
The Theodosian Press is an e-publishing venture that will bring to the reading public new works of history, theology, and literature, as well as reintroducing forgotten classics. We aim to combine scholarly integrity with popular readability and to make our imprint synonymous with entertaining and educational digital books.
The press is named after two emperors of Late Antiquity: Theodosius I defeated the Arian heresy, ended the bloodthirsty gladiatorial games, and rescued enslaved children; Theodosius II invented the university and built the mighty land walls that protected Constantinople for a thousand years.