Saturday, October 12, 2013

"blood draws you"

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"A brother asked an elder:  'My sister is poor; if I give her alms, is it not like giving to the poor?'  'No', says the...

Gone to meddlin'

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"An elder said:  'The prophets made [( ἐποίησαν )] the books; our fathers came and practised [( ἠργάσαντο )] them.  Those who [ca...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Calvin's "Prayer on preparing to go to school [(Oraison pour dire devant qu'estudier sa leçon a l'eschole | CUM or QUUM ADEUNDA EST SCHOLA)]"

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"Ps. cxix. 9.  Wherein shall a young man establish his way? If he wisely conduct himself according to thy word. With my heart have I s...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

"pardon what conscience dreads and . . . give what prayer does not dare ask" (c. 700 at the very latest)

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2010 ICEL : Almighty ever-living God, who in the abundance of your kindness surpass the merits and the desires of those who entreat you, ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Not by bread alone

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"Another elder visited one of the fathers; he cooked a few lentils and said to the visitor:  'Let us offer a short synaxis.'  ...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

The "aims and objectives" of some "core curricula"

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"adults seem often to want to suppress such childish thoughts, seeing that they energetically set about systematically destroying a chi...

Remaining an atheist "requires much hard work, not a little training, and a powerful mental asceticism."

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     "So, 'how to be an atheist?'  It is not easy; you need to work at it.  Be intellectually adult, get an education, get your...