Monday, November 12, 2012

St. John of the Cross on the reception of the Eucharist

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"the sensory benefits are the least among those that this Most Blessed Sacrament bestows, for the invisible grace it gives is a greater...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

Personal knowledge

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     "inference simply cannot substitute for experience [as I have defined it].  One will not long believe in a personal God with whom ...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

"What appears at first sight as a rare or highly specialized experience of mystical development 'writes large' the outline by which the surrender that is faith evolves into its own fullness in many lives."

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     "It is in this deeply mysterious assimilation to Christ, this gradual movement from the initial stages of purification from expect...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

"Apart from a rather dense and elaborate nexus of liturgical and congregational gestures, words, practices, and so on, how do Christian people show that they believe in [something like the] real presence?"

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     "The observable differences in Catholic and Lutheran practice raise the question whether the Lutheran lex orandi, their liturgica...
Saturday, September 8, 2012

The 17th-century Jesuit Leonard "Lessius argued as if Christianity had not significantly affected the grammar of 'God.'"

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     Michael J. Buckley, S.J., Denying and disclosing God: the ambiguous progress of modern atheism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2...

Cambridge historian Eamon Duffy on the enduring value of his pre-Conciliar Irish-Catholic upbringing

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Faculty of History, Cambridge University "But if we believe in the reality of revelation, and if we believe that the Church is ent...
Monday, September 3, 2012

Flowers for Algernon

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"[von Neumann] spent the last year of his life in Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he surprised and dismayed friends and...