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Brothers, love is a teacher, but a hard one to obtain: learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov)

Friday, October 9, 2009

Young Man with a Rosary

A wonderful post by Benedictine monk Father Mark.

Posted by Pentimento at 7:37 PM

Labels: art, rosary

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