Saturday, July 9, 2011

Barney the Friendly (or Purple) Dinosaur as French Revolutionary

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"Anyone today who would worship with mimes and balloons, with instant folk music composed by commercial interests, is capable of singin...

"J'avise le bon Dieu et le bon Dieu m'avise."

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     The farmer Louis Chaffangeon, as quoted by the Curé d'Ars, as quoted by Abbé Francis Trochu, in his The Curé d'Ars:  St Jean-M...

"When fashion inclines to silk underwear and denim outerwear, it is well to remember a man who had it the other way, his salute to an all-seeing God."

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George William Rutler, Saint John Vianney:  the Curé d'Ars today (San Francisco, CA:  Ignatius Press, 1988), 99.  Yeah, but this is now...

"But breathing is by rote, too, and no less vital for that."

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"A couple of extra prayers.  If we knew less, we would call it formalism, religion by rote.  But breathing is by rote, too, and no le...

"Each enslavement to sin calls itself a new form of liberation as it tightens its chains."

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George William Rutler, Saint John Vianney:  the Curé d'Ars today (San Francisco, CA:  Ignatius Press, 1988), 30-31.

"in admiring the virtues of the saints, we are only admiring the virtues of Jesus Christ."

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"In his apostles [Christ] gazes upon his zeal and his love for the salvation of souls; in the martyrs he gazes upon his patience, his ...

"God does not look like himself; as perfect Being, he is himself and is thus an analogous world's single incapacity for simile."

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George William Rutler, Saint John Vianney:  the Curé d'Ars today (San Francisco, CA:  Ignatius Press, 1988), 27.