It was also the Church that founded the Universities. I was watching the saddest thing the other day. The ruins of the Great Abbey of Reilvaux.
What a marvelous, rich, inspiring testimony! It makes so much of modern day spirituality, what shall I say, shallow. It challenges me, who may have but 10 years left on earth, what changes, if any, must I still undertake?
I am reading a book by Monsignor Hugh Benson on the Protestant Rebellion in England and was surprised how kind he was in talking of Protestants at the time. For instance he talks of one Puritan family as being very religious, pious and good living. But then I remembered that he himself had been an Anglican Minister himself and so knew what he was talking about. The thing is that Protestants once led very good Christian lives. Many still do. But Crisis the Apostacy amongst Protestants and Catholics at the moment does not lead to good lives. It leads to hell. A very different , horrible, darker world than way back then.
