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The Venerable Bede
Blogged by James Preece on 20th February 2009
Pope Benedict turned his eye to England at his most recent wednesday audience where he spoke about the Venerable Bede.
His Ecclesiastical History recounts the Church's missionary expansion and growth among the English people. Bede's rich ecclesial, liturgical and historical vision enable his writings to serve as a guide for the Church's teachers, pastors and religious in living out their vocations in the service of the Church's mission.
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In his Ecclesiastical History Bede recounts St Wilfrid who said...
"But as for you and your companions, you certainly sin, if, having heard the decrees of the Apostolic See, and of the universal church, and that the same is confirmed by holy writ, you refuse to follow them; for, though your fathers were holy, do you think that their small number, in a corner of the remotest island, is to be preferred before the universal church of Christ throughout the world?"
Those words are as true today as they were when St Wilfrid himself spoke them at the Synod of Whitby.
They just don't make Bishop's like they used too...
