Monday, December 16, 2013

Joseph "yields, rather than rejects. He releases (apolūsai) Mary, rather than casts her out (apolūsai)."

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Annunciation to Joseph "Joseph [was] 'just' [not in the spirit of Caiaphas, but] in the prophetic spirit of [John] the B...

"you first loved us so that we might love you—not because you needed our love, but because we could not be what you created us to be, except by loving you."

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     William of Saint Thierry, On the contemplation of God 9-11, as quoted in Liturgy of the hours, vol. 1, p. 271 (Office of readings for ...

"I shall make all your sons learned in the Lord"

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R/.  Misericordia mea non recedet a te, et fœdus pacis meæ non movebitur;  *  Universi filii tui erunt discipuli Domini, et magna erit pax ...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

"love is a union between two alone."

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     St. John of the Cross,  The spiritual canticle,  Stanza 36.1.   The collected works of St. John of the Cross,  trans. Kieran Kavanaugh,...

"And let us go forth to behold ourselves in Your beauty [(hermosura)],"

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     "This means:  Let us so act that by means of this loving activity we may attain to the vision of ourselves in Your beauty in ete...

theologia crucis

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     "Oh!  If we could but now fully understand how a soul cannot reach the thicket and wisdom of the riches of God, which are of man...
Friday, December 13, 2013

spectacula carnis

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"How many are there who return from the amphitheater — beaten because they have been beaten for whom they shout like madmen!  And they ...