Sunday, June 22, 2025

"When he took our flesh he dedicated the whole of its substance to our salvation”

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"quod de nostro assumpsit, totum nobis contulit ad salutem." What he assumed of ours, the whole [of it] he bestowed upon us for [o...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

How reliable was Mrs. Norman P. Judd, reminiscing approximately twenty six years after the event?

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"'Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day!  No, no, ....
Monday, June 9, 2025

Pseudo-St. Augustine

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Though I have done little more than search the English of the Past Masters version of the New City Press Works,  I would be very surprised t...
Monday, June 2, 2025

Into whose everlasting beatitude we are raised up

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William Bright translation of 1857 : "Almighty and merciful God, unto Whose everlasting blessedness we ascend, not by the frailty of th...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

"It is no dream that I died for you, and that you are saved by Me, any more than your eating and drinking is a dream"

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      The source (with thanks to the Rev. Dr. Kendall S. Harmon for the diversion):       So, when you take the Bread and the Wine, which th...
Friday, May 23, 2025

In necessariis unitas, in non necessariis libertas, in utrisque caritas

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"The fact that other customs and laws are kept by others, yet without violating the Faith or departing from common and universally-held...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

A cautionary note on 'image' and 'resemblance'

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     "The text of Genesis to which Maximus refers[here, namely Gen 1:26,] juxtaposes 'image' and 'resemblance'.  The Gn...