Speech by Titus Brandsma on 22 September 1936 for the Catholic Radio Broadcasting Service
In this nationally broadcast talk, Titus Brandsma emphasizes the importance of having a separate Catholic press to make the Church’s opinion heard, for the Catholic perspective to be heard in the chorus of voices, assuring the Church a place in Dutch society.
Anno Brandsma was born to Tjitsje and Titus Brandsma on February 23rd 1881 at Wonseradeel in Friesland, a province in the very north of Holland.
Many of us experience God as hidden. There is nothing new in this. It is not something unique to our time. Already, two and a half thousand years ago, Isaiah sighed in exile: “Truly, You are a hidden God”. (Is 45:15).
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Titus was a good student who understood from early on the value of education. As a child he read widely and had a particular liking for literature and history.
‘In the Blessed Sacrament He gives us Himself again, and not only Himself as the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, no, He tells us that all three Persons will take up their residence in our hearts, if we are united with Him.’
Fr Titus Brandsma did his doctorate in philosophy in Rome in 1909. In addition, he used his “Roman years” to study sociology and make contact with the new currents of Christian social thought and with the social doctrine of the Church.
Throughout his life, Fr Titus Brandsma was a man of forgiveness and reconciliation, including in the most complicated situations and contexts.
