Saturday, September 30, 2023

"a living and tender love for Sacred Scripture"

"O God, who gave the Priest Saint Jerome a living and tender love for Sacred Scripture, grant that your people may be ever more fruitfully nourished by your Word and find in it the fount of life. Through".

     Oratio for the Feast of St. Jerome, 30 September, current Liturgy of the hours and Missal:

"Deus, qui beato Hieronymo, presbytero, suavem et vivum Scripturæ sacræ affectum tribuisti, da, ut populus tuus verbo tuo uberius alatur et in eo fontem vitæ inveniat.  Per". 

The phrase ("ille suavis et vivus sacrae scripturae affectus," that sweet and lively affection for Holy Scripture) comes from Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy/Sacrosanctum Concilium 24:

Sacred scripture is of the greatest importance in the celebration of the liturgy. For it is from scripture that lessons are read and explained in the homily, and psalms are sung; the prayers, collects, and liturgical songs are scriptural in their inspiration and their force, and it is from the scriptures that actions and signs derive their meaning. Thus to achieve the restoration, progress, and adaptation of the sacred liturgy, it is essential to promote that warm and living love for [sacred] scripture to which the venerable tradition of both eastern and western rites gives testimony.

Sunday, September 24, 2023

"Don't spare the rod"

Source
     "[B. F.] Skinner misread both historical experience and then-existing research.  Punishment cannot be dismissed by science.  Carrots and sticks have their advangages and disadvantages, but both are effective in appropriate contexts. . . .
     ". . . forms of remediation [other than corporal punishment]. . . . are demonstrably less effective and more costly.  Something like isolating the child (detention) or even expulsion are costly for the child and, as history shows, relatively ineffective in changing serious bad behavior.  They deprive the kid of education, send the wrong message to his classmates, and . . . don't work very well.
     "Occasional corporal punishment for young males is cheap, damaging them less than exclusion from school, and it strengthens the role of teachers as legitimate authority figures.  It needs to be reconsidered."


     John E. R. Staddon, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, First things no. 336 (October 2023):  6 (5-6).  Staddon was "writ[ing] to endorse Daniel Buck's 'Don't spare the rod' (July/July 2023)."