Saturday, December 22, 2012

Forever is not, after all, a "fluid span in the face of God's sensitive response to every human tremor"

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     "We could say that they have nothing to do with each other, this Jerusalem of rejecters and the other, the 'Jerusalem' t...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

"The whole world awaits Mary's reply"

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". . . The angel awaits an answer; it is time for him to return to God who sent him.  We too are waiting, O Lady, for your word of comp...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

A mind at home in the feelings

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According to Aquinas, the passions "'are not virtuous by a simple obediential subordination [(subordination obédientielle)] or by a...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

"By and large, that 'what' was never the treatment of Jews"

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"especially in an area with strong leadership, substantive resistance by clergy (and some laity) could be widespread; but still the iss...

Nazism was not anti-Christian

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"as the researches of someone like Richard Steigmann-Gall seem to have demonstrated (although with not a little push back from some), t...
Saturday, December 8, 2012

Prayer before Mass / Collect for Purity

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Deus, cui omne cor patet et omnis voluntas loquitur et nullum latet secretum, purifica per infusionem sancti spiritus cogitationes cordis no...
Monday, December 3, 2012

"A rocke: how call'd? The Rocke of Scandale, Peter!"

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     Robert Southwell, "Saint Peter's Complaint," stanza 118, as quoted by Ephraim Radner.  A brutal unity:  the spiritual pol...