Saturday, August 13, 2011

For better

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     "Your first wife married you for better or for worse.  Your second wife, particularly if you were sixty and she was a twenty-eight...

Morning prayer the morning after seeing Werner Herzog's "Cave of forgotten dreams"

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 Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, End chamber, West wall , c. 30,000 BCE.  When I look at the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the m...
Monday, August 8, 2011

"although he takes back his word, although he breaks his promise, although he takes back what he gave, although he envelops his goodness in the hidden, in contradiction"

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"Abraham is not [just] anyone who must give [up] his child; [it is] not something, albeit the most beloved [of things], [that] Abraham ...
Thursday, August 4, 2011

Cur Deus homo

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"This is the sort of teaching we derive from the mighty revelation of God's becoming man.  By his intimate union with humanity, . ....
Friday, July 29, 2011

The Confession of St. Martha

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Martha: Jn 11:27:   ἐγὼ πεπίστευκα ὅτι σὺ εἶ ὁ χριστὸς ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ ὁ εἰς τὸν κόσμον ἐρχόμενος. Peter: Mk 8:29:   σὺ εἶ ὁ χριστός. M...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The rising generation can get it wrong

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"By rights it is you, who are in the prime of all your inner powers, who ought to continue the war against the enemies of truth and not...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Stoom/Blephen, Stephen

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"Was the knowledge possessed by both of each of these languages, the extinct and the revived, theoretical or practical? "Theoret...