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“When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.” — Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family,” Heretics

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Today in the Roman Martyrology

3 April

AT Taormina, in Sicily, the bishop St. Pancratius, who sealed, with a martyr’s blood, the gospel of Christ which the apostle St. Peter had sent him thither to preach.—At Tomis, in Scythia, the birthday of the holy martyrs Evagrius and Benignus. … read more