Thursday, November 29, 2012

God is not a "communion" of persons, but "one"

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"As with all human language applied to God, the use of the term communion [(κοινονία)] theologically has carried with it the dangers o...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

"Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery"

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"O God of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectua...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

"one hour of purgation here is more profitable than are many there."

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     St. John of the Cross, The dark night of the soul II.6, ed. & trans. E. Allison Peers .

"which are they that, when they were awake and alive, consented not to this."

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"it is not to be supposed that, because in this night and darkness [the soul] has passed through so many tempests of afflictions,...
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...