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Dowse your quill in honey, for the truth’s a bitter brew

Oh Ailred, is the past a sea old men can founder in before their time and drown?

How I rage at times to smite with these same fists I scarce can clench! How I long, when woods are green, to lark and leap on shanks grown dry as sticks!…so ever and again young Godric’s dreams well up to flood old Godric’s prayers, or prayers and dreams reach God in such a snarl he has to comb the tangle out, and who knows which he counts more dear.

Gentle Jesu, Mary’s son, be thine the wounds that heal our wounding. Press the bloody scars to ours that thy dear blood may flow in us Ave cleanse our sin.

“What’s friendship, when all’s done, but the giving and taking of wounds?”

In this intricate tapestry of parenting, homeschooling emerges not just as an educational choice but as a profound act of protection.…We provide a safe harbor—a nurturing ground where the seeds of self-worth, courage, and compassion are sown deep. Here, in the warm embrace of home, our children are not shielded from the world but are given the strength to meet it on their own terms…