It Is Idle To Play

Who Would Have Believed That The Daughters Of That Mighty City Would One Day Be Wandering As Servants And Slaves On The Shores Of Egypt And Africa, Or That Bethlehem Would Daily Receive Noble Romans, Distinguished Ladies, Brought Up In Wealth And Now Reduced To Beggary? I Cannot Help Them All, But I Grieve And Weep With Them, And Am Completely Absorbed In The Duties Which Charity Imposes On Me. I Have Put Aside My Commentary On Ezekiel And Almost All Study. For Today We Must Translate The Precepts Of The Scriptures Into Deeds; Instead Of Speaking Saintly Words, We Must Act Them.

Let Your Daughter Have First Of All The Book Of Psalms For Holiness Of Heart, And Be Instructed In The Proverbs Of Solomon For Her Godly Life.

Begin Now What You Will Be Hereafter.

The Church Was Founded Upon Peter: Although Elsewhere The Same Is Attributed To All The Apostles, And They All Receive The Keys Of The Kingdom Of Heaven, The Strength Of The Church Depends Upon Them All Alike, Yet One Among The Twelve Is Chosen So That When A Head Has Been Appointed, There May Be No Occasion For Schism.

The Fact Is That My Native Land Is A Prey To Barbarism, That In It Men's Only God Is Their Belly, That They Live Only For The Present, And That The Richer A Man Is The Holier He Is Held To Be.