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Jan 9, 2013 · Below are links to valuable and timeless Catholic texts (including those written by great saints and Fathers and Doctors of the Church) that you can read and download for free. Take advantage of this – they have changed my life and will change yours, too.
Crispus (or Crispinus), Crispinianus and Benedicta were Roman Christian martyrs, venerated after their death as saints. According to hagiographical accounts, their death followed as a result of the martyrdom of Saints John and Paul .
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'In the midst of life there is death. 'How often did our village preach those words' Yet I have also heard that in the midst of death there is life,’ If this be a riddle, so was my life.’
THE DAY AFTER MY MOTHER died, the priest and I wrapped her body in a shroud and carried her to the village church. Our burden was not great In life she had been a small woman with little strength Death made her even less. Her name had been Asta. Since our cottage was at the village hinge, the priest and I bore her remains along the narrow, rutt...
LONG PAST THE HOUR OF Compline, the last prayers of the night a sound aroused me to a confused state of wakefulness. Because of the utter darkness and the painful throbbing in my head I knew not where I was. Though unable to see, I could smell the air and realised I wasn't at my home. Nor was I in the fields where I often slept with the ox. Only wh...
THAT LIFE OF MINE BEGAN on the Feast of St Giles in the Year of our Lord 1363, the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Edward III, England's great warrior king. We resided in Stromford Village, with its hundred and fifty souls. For as long as I could recall, my mother had simply called me 'Son', and since her name was Asta, 'Asta's son' became my c...
FOLLOWING MY ESCAPE FROM John Aycliffe and my night of forest hiding, it was the sound of a tolling bell that woke me. Drum had come and the Stromford church was announcing early morning payers, Prime. In haste, I made the sign of the cross over my heart, offered up my daily payer and listened closely. Ah I heard was the sound of the bell and mut...
AS I GAZED FROM THE HIGH rock all seemed calm and completely normal. Men, women and children were in the fields at their lawful labour, ploughing, weeding, sawing, where they would remain till dusk. But as I watched I saw two horses with riders emerge from the manor house. By the way one of the riders sat - not well - I was sure it was John Aycli...
IN TIME, PEOPLE EMERGED from the church Most went their several ways, some back to the fields, others to their cottages. Others remained in groups, gossiping, or so I supposed I'd have given much to hear their words. As for the steward and the stranger, they re-mounted their horses and retreated to the manor house. Some of the village men went al...
MY DAY WAS SPENT IN A hiding game. Even though I was hunted in many places, the merciful saints were kind I was not caught. The searchers did come dose. Once, twice, I could have touched their garments as they passed On one such occasion, I tuned enough to confirm my worst suspicions. If fell out this way. Late in the day I had climbed into a g...
FATHER QUINEL LIVED BEHIND our stone church in an attached room without windows. Though I saw no light beneath his door - one of the few doors our village boasted - I knocked softly. ‘Who’s there?’ It's me, Father Quinel. Asta's son,’ A slight sound came from within The door pulled open. The priest's small pale face peered out His once-white ...
IN THE EARLY MORNING, I climbed back on the rock to watch for any hunting party that might resume its search for me. Happily, I saw none. Not entirely trusting what I saw, I spent my day in anxious idleness, watching dozing, searching for acorns and berries for my food. Sometimes I prayed for guidance, as my mother had done, her small cross press...
DON’T GO SOUTH,’ CERDIC said as soon as we were outside and alone. 'Why not?' I said, trying to push away my disquiet. 'It's what I told you, the steward will be looking north. Why should he have said that if he wished to keep it secret! I think he wants you south. Go a different way' 'But which way!' I said. 'If the steward says he's looking ...
ASTA’S SON, CAME AYCLIFFE’S voice, 'in the name of Lord Furnival you're herewith charged with theft. Give way.’ I was too stunned to move. 'The boy's a wolf's head!' the steward shouted. 'Slay him if you can.’ From either side, men ran forward. I fled the only way open to me, towards the mill Reaching it, I felt about its outer walls. Finding...
SOMETIMES I RAN, SOMETIMES all I could do was walk. The only thing I knew for sure was that if the steward overtook me - and he with horse - I'd not survive long. With every step I took, and with every look back, I shed tears of grief. That the death of Father Quinel had to do with my mother and me, I didn't doubt. I wondered if it was because th...
NEXT MORNING I AWOKE TO the sound of galloping hooves. Greatly alarmed I pressed myself upon the ground and lifted my head just enough to see the road It was John Aycliffe, the steward, as well as the man I'd seen with him in the woods. The bailiff was there too. The three went racing by, sweeping quickly out of sight. 'Thank you, St. Giles,’ I w...
ON THE THIRD MORNING OF my escape I woke to a wool-like world of misty grey. Thick and clammy air embraced me like the fingers of some loathsome toad Sounds were stifled Solid shapes were soft as rotten hay. No sun jewelled the sky. My entire world had shrunk dawn to the frayed margins of the sadden road I walked as solitary as Adam before the crea...
ALL THAT DAY I CONTINUED walking. Nothing blocked my way. The mist lifted The air turned light, Still I saw no one, not even from afar. From time to time I found streams to -slake my thirst, but not so much as a crumb of food. Sometimes I travelled through woods. More oft I passed abandoned fields. While I saw birds aplenty, heard them too - wood...
STARTLED, I STOPPED. THEN I became afraid. After what I had witnessed in the village, I could not believe I was hearing a living voice. But when the voice sang out again - and I realised it was coming from the abandoned church - I told myself that a church was an unlikely place for evil spirits to abide. Besides, food was uppermost in my thoughts, ...
LET ME GO, I CRIED, TRYING to pull back. 'I only wanted bread.’ 'Bread is never free, boy,’ he roared He was still upon the ground, but his arms were long and hrs huge hand held me fast while the bells of his hat tinkled with the force of his exertion. 'Or is it treason to say that too!' No matter how I tried to prise away his fingers, I could ...
TOWERING ABOVE ME, HAT bells tinkling with mocking laughter, bushy red beard like flames from Hell, he seemed to me a true demon. 'You have a new lord now,’ he declared. 'Please, sir,’ I begged, trembling with panic and rubbing my wrist where he had squeezed it, ‘I dent know your meaning.’ 'By the putrid bowels of Lucifer, boy, the law affirm...
BREAD CLUTCHED IN MY trembling hand, I crept into a corner of the broken church as far from the monstrous man as I could go. As I swallowed the bread he'd given me, I knew I'd sworn a sacred oath to whid·1I was forever bound. Far better, I thought, to have died on the road Hearing him move about, I stole an anxious glance in his direction. He had ...
THE LIFELESS VILLAGE WAS soon behind us. Bear went first, moving over the road with the strides of a giant. And what a strange sight he was, with his black tunic, legs of two colours, split hat bobbing and bells jangling. As for me, with his heavy sack upon my back, I had to struggle to keep up. At first we didn’t speak. I was too down in my spir...
HE LED US TO A GROVE OF trees. There he flung himself down and told me to do the same. That done, he called for his sack. He rummaged in it, producing more bread, which he tore and gave me half. When we had been silent for a while - I, still brooding over my unhappy fate - he said, ‘I dent think you care for me.’ 'I have no choice,’ I said. 'Wo...
TOWARDS EARLY EVENING, BEAR found a secluded spot some paces off the road There he ordered me to stand against a tree. I hesitated. 'Do as I say,' he said. When I did, he pulled a twist of rope from his sack and, to my alarm, proceeded to tie my hands behind the tree. 'What are you doing!' I cried, seeing this as confirmation of his madness...
I HARDLY KNEW WHAT TO SAY. I felt a desire to speak about who I was and what had happened. Yet it did not seem proper. He was, after all, my master. I was his servant, We were not equal. But before I could think more on it he said, ‘When did your mother die!' 'A ... short time ago,’ I said. 'May the blessed St Margaret care for her in Heaven,...
BY THEN I HAD SLIPPED SO easily into talking I simply told him what had happened, as much as I could recall. When I had done he asked, ‘And they proclaimed you a wolf's head for that!' I nodded. 'To be a wolf's head is to say you’re no longer human. So anyone may kill you.’ He grinned. ‘Even me. But,’ he went on seriously, ‘your priest told you...
WHEN IWOKE IN THE MORNING, I had spent so much time with Bear's strange ideas I was in a cross mood, not wishing to deal with him. None the less, he informed me that it was time to begin teaching me some skills. He explained how upon entering a town he played and danced, heading straight for the village church.’ There I pray, hopefully at a Mass....
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
AS WE WENT ALONG, passers-by stopped and gawped at us in silence. Others followed in our wake. 'I have a dagger,’ I whispered to Bear as we approached the town gates. 'Give it to me,’ he said, and came dose against my side. When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. He took it in his great hand, concealing it in the fo...
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