Sunday, March 29, 2026

Faith is enigmatic knowledge

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FEDP (i.e. Shapcote): "faith is knowledge in a dark manner." "est . . . fides cognitio aenigmatica."      St. Thomas Aqu...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Richard Rohr, Andreas Ebert, and the Enneagram

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For what it's worth: Huggins, Ronald V. "The Enneagram’s False History and Occult Roots." Bibliotheca sacra 179, no. 714 (2022...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

The Blessed, "who have the glory of the soul[,] are not, properly speaking, said to hope for the glory of the body, but only to desire it."

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Source "illi qui habent gloriam animae, non proprie dicuntur sperare gloriam corporis; sed solum desiderare."      St. Thomas Aqui...
Saturday, March 21, 2026

"without thee we are not able to please thee"

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Vat. Reg. lat. 316 , fol. 178v "May the working of your mercy, O Lord, we pray, direct our hearts aright, for without your grace we can...
Sunday, March 8, 2026

"the [twentieth-century] narrative concerning the medieval [Christian] reaction to [Hindu-Arabic numerals] and the number zero" constitutes "a bizarre funhouse mirror image of the Middle Ages"

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Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 3 (1905), 155–19 5 "the way the introduction of the number zero as well as the whole system of Hindu-Arabic...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

Friendship with God is unavailable to those who find the idea incredible and/or despair of it

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"just as friendship with a person would be impossible if one disbelieved in, or despaired of, the possibility of his fellowship or fami...
Friday, March 6, 2026

Faith and works

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"Deus, innocentiae restitutor et amator, dirige ad te tuorum corda servorum:  ut, spiritus tui fervore concepto, et in fide inveniantur...