We have a consoler, our Lord Jesus Christ. Although we cannot see him with bodily eyes, we keep in written form in the Gospels the things he did and taught while he was bodily among us. If we take care to hear, read, and confer with each other about these things, which need to be preserved in our hearts and bodies, we will certainly conquer the obstacles of this age as surely as if the Lord were always standing by us and consoling us.
- Venerable St. BedeQuoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom, by Hugh Feiss
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St. Bede (672-735) is best remembered for his Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation and his work on chronology, De temporum ratione, which began the practice of dating time from the birth of Christ.
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