Status Updates From A Cabana do Pai Tomás

“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?”

“Patience! Patience! Ye whose hearts swell indignant at wrongs like these. Not one throb of anguish, not one tear of the oppressed, is forgotten by the Man of Sorrows, the Lord of Glory. In his patient, generous bosom He bears the anguish of a world. Bear thou, like him, in patience, and labor in love; for sure as He is God, ‘the year of his redeemed shall come.’ “

“But what needs tell the story, told too often, every day told, —of heart-strings rent and broken, —the weak broken and torn for the profit and convenience of the strong! It needs not to be told; —every day is telling it, too, in the ear of the One who is not deaf, though he be long silent.”