Monday, January 28, 2013

"rewarded with rigor"

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Edmund Campion. Line engraving after unknown artist. Published on 1 Dec 1819 by T & H. Rodd. National Portrait Gallery, London, D2158 ...
Monday, January 21, 2013

What I longed for, I now see; what I hoped for, I now possess; in heaven I am espoused to him whom on earth I loved with all my heart.

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Ecce quod concupivi, iam video; quod speravi, iam teneo: ipsi sum iuncta in cælo, quem in terris posita, tota devotione dilexi. Lo, what I...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Not all of the lovely ones are ancient

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3rd edition: Nourished with these sacred gifts, we humbly entreat your mercy, O Lord, that, faithfully listening to your Only Begotten...

The next time I'm tempted to correct someone who says "Revelations" instead of "Revelation,"...

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. . . I'll remember that John Henry Newman was among the many who used the plural .  Cf.       Oxford English dictionary, sv  revelat...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

"'God created Adam master and lord of (all) living creatures, but Eve spoilt all'".

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     Martin Luther, Table talk, as translated by William Hazlitt , who began with the 1566 Colloquia oder Tischreden of Johannes Aurifaber...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

Do not our hearts burn within us?

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"Describe your conversion to Christ. "One night the only food my wife and I had was a small portion of macaroni.  My wife prepare...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

"The theology of the Church is no random combination of various opinions, but a diligent, patient working out of one doctrine out of many materials."

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     John Henry Newman, An essay on the development of Christian doctrine: the edition of 1845,  ed. J. M. Cameron (Harmondsworth, Middlesex...