Saturday, January 11, 2014

Waugh on relics false and true

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     “‘What happened to the cross?’ asked Helena.      “‘Oh they threw those away, all three of them.  They had to, you know, by law.’ ...

“‘a solid chunk of wood . . . to have their silly heads knocked against.’”

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     “‘And some of them don’t seem to believe anything at all,’ said Helena.  ‘It’s all a game of words.’      “‘I know,’ said [Pope] Syl...
Friday, January 10, 2014

“‘For His sake who did not reject your curious gifts, pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the Throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.’”

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      “ But by Twelfth Night she rallied and on the eve set out by litter along the five rough miles to the shrine of the Nativity.  There w...

The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

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Verbum Domini. Deo gratias.      Surprisingly, this, taken together,  is a recent innovation.  "Verbum Domini" considered as th...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

All metaphysical thinking is done "from within and at the interior of a founding tradition, of an initial given, of a revelation."

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"the very difficulty one experiences in tying [(rattacher)] Saint Thomas to a[ny given] philosophical school is in fact the sign that t...

plenitudo esse > plenitudo essendi

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"The Christian correction of Neoplatonism by Denys is therefore inseparable from [the] new and original ontology to which it gave rise:...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

"The intimate logic of the New Testament . . . imposes" the whole of that familial analogy of the Trinity according to which Adam stands for the Father; Eve for the Son; and Seth or Abel for the Holy Spirit

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     “The familial analogy of the Trinity can be broken down into two aspects:  the paternity-filiation aspect, and the conjugal aspect.  I...