Thursday, September 8, 2011

worldly music

"...A fourth kind [of evil] consists in using immodest and amatory words in lascivious songs; to the lovers of this world, nothing is sweeter, although nothing be more dangerous than such words and songs. Lascivious songs are the songs of Sirens, who enchant men and then plunge them into the sea and devour them..."

St. Robert Bellarmine, The Art of Dying Well (extract)