One of my favorite lines in A Man for All Seasons was one I didn't really notice the first or second time I viewed the film. But the third time it got me: when St. Thomas More said he would miss his somewhat vulgar manservant. The manservant at first shrugged him off in a "you've got to be kidding manner", much as one of us might say to a saint who said that to us, and yet St. Thomas meant it. We can share in the incredulity of that manservant when we see that Christ and his saints care about us. Love is a miracle more shocking than the raising the dead.
Somehow it seems that in the past I missed the Requiem Press book about Cardinal John Fisher and Sir Thomas More and other English martyrs. It's a steal these days:
(Image via Jim Curley)
Starting tonight and through the 4th of July, Requiem Press is offering "Witnesses to the Holy Mass and other sermons" (see short reviews below) at an unprecedented discount of $4.00 plus $1.50 S&H (which by the way, doesn't cover the S&H). This book is about Cardinal John Fisher and Sir Thomas More and other martyrs for the Mass, for Papal supremacy, and the Faith of our fathers.
Ending of one of St. Thomas More's books:
"And in the meane tyme, I besech our lord to breth of his holy spirite into the readers brest, which inwardly may tech hym in hart, without whome {259} litle availeth all that all the mowthes of the world were able to tech in mens eares / And thus good Cosyn fare well, till god bryng vs together agayne, eyther here or in hevyn / Amen."(CW 12, 320/23--28)
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