On this day in 1914, Our Most Holy Father, Pope (later Saint) Pius X issued his exhortation Dum Europa to the Christian peoples of Europe appealing to them to hold back from the war that was about to engulf them.
Sancte Pie Decime, Gloriose Patrone, ora pro nobis!
Youth and Age
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Euripides, *Heracles* 637-654 (tr. William Attowsmith):
Youth I long for always.
But old age lies on my head,
a weight more heavy than Aetna's rocks;
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