Saturday, July 16, 2011

"'If you will, you can become all flame.'"

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"Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph and said to him, 'Abba, as far as I can I say my little office, I fast a little, I pray and medit...
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"'We have put the light burden on one side, that is to say, self-accusation, and we have loaded ourselves with a heavy one, that is to say, self-justification.'"

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Abba John the Dwarf 21 ( PG 65, col. 212 ).  This one doesn't appear in the Collection syst ématique (SC 387, 474, and 498), or, at leas...

"'God sells righteousness at a very low price to those who wish to buy it: a little piece of bread, a cloak of no value, a cup of cold water, a mite.'"

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Abba Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus 16 ( PG 65, col. 168 ).  This one doesn't appear in the Collection syst ématique (SC 387, 474, and 498...
Friday, July 15, 2011

General confession not necessarily a kind of poor-man's private confession

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"There are two consciences to be purged, the particular conscience that is purged in each in the secrecy of confession, and the public ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

A word to the wise

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     Notice pasted inside the front cover of a copy of the 23rd (i.e. 1957) edition of Novum Testamentum Graece [The New Testament in G...

"in a manner that follows upon the Incarnation"

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     "The Eucharist continues the Incarnation, but there are important differences between the two mysteries.  In the Incarnation, when...

Chesterton on the recurrent necessity of a repromulgation of the natural law, or We shall fight for the obvious as if it were risible, even contemptible

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"Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the scepticis...