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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

IN HONOR OF SAINT THOMAS BECKET ON HIS FEAST DAY: A MANLY ACT OF LOVE FOR AN ERRANT SINNER

This is a manly act of love, a great excommunication scene. The purpose of this manly act of love was to save the soul of King Henry II. It is a call to repentance and a return to the Full Communion of the Church:

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Anonymous said...

“The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”

- Thomas Becket, in T S Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral”.