"The Catholics, he said, allow the heretics to talk unchecked, confident that no heresy can overcome the truth: 'But,' said the Saint, 'they do not look far enough. For as the sea will never surround and overwhelm all the land, yet it has eaten it in many places, and swallowed whole countries up and made many places sea, which sometime were well-inhabited lands, and has lost part of its possession again in other places: so, though the faith of Christ shall never be overwhelmed with heresy, nor the gates of Hell prevail against Christ's Church, yet as in some places it winneth new peoples, so by negligence in some places the old may be lost'" (Thomas More, English Works, 921.
Saturday, 16 May 2009
S. Thomas More Still Speaks
"The Catholics, he said, allow the heretics to talk unchecked, confident that no heresy can overcome the truth: 'But,' said the Saint, 'they do not look far enough. For as the sea will never surround and overwhelm all the land, yet it has eaten it in many places, and swallowed whole countries up and made many places sea, which sometime were well-inhabited lands, and has lost part of its possession again in other places: so, though the faith of Christ shall never be overwhelmed with heresy, nor the gates of Hell prevail against Christ's Church, yet as in some places it winneth new peoples, so by negligence in some places the old may be lost'" (Thomas More, English Works, 921.
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This is my favorite Saint a Martyr of England. Pray for your Island and pray for us siners that his Church may again lead the people in to the fullness of the Truth which is Christ our Lord.
Amen.
"The Catholics, he said, allow the heretics to talk unchecked" - TM certainly did not believe in allowing heretics to talk unchecked.
St Thomas More only makes sense within a Roman Catholic setting. He would neither have tolerated nor understand the emergence of the Church of England and this is proved by the fidelity of his family through successive generations.
Cheder,
All very true. He was also a bloody murderer. Presumably, you think that better?
When was he convicted of murder, John?
Not all More's family was faithful. John Donne was a relative of his.
Not only that, but his wife and children all took the Henrician Supremacy oaths. "Son Roper," who lived until 1578, certainly resisted Protestantism covertly after 1559,as a lawyer and a senior member of whichever Inn of Court he was a member, but he doesn't appear to have been an outright recusant.
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