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Cardinal Hume: A Spiritual Companion : Reflections Through the Year

This book presents a series of reflections and spiritual musings by Cardinal Hume, designed to provide spiritual companionship and inspiration for readers throughout the year. The content includes meditations and thoughts on various aspects of faith and life, offering a contemplative journey for those seeking spiritual growth and guidance. more

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Basil Hume
Basil Hume

Basil Hume, born on March 2, 1923, and died on June 17, 1999, was a public figure with a significant influence. His life, achievements, and impact are yet to be fully explored. more

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“We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.”

“Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little neutral ambiguities. Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent. Live fully, live passionately, live disastrously. Let's live, you and I, as none have ever lived before.”