Saturday, April 12, 2014

"A piece of bread, a simple gesture, a few well-chosen words"

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      " From the ethological point of view, 'ritual' actions (in J. Huxley's sense of the word) are adaptive formalizations...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

"The cross of Christ is the only instruction in the Word of God there is, the purest theology."

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"Crux Christi unica est eruditio verborum dei, theologia sincerissima" ( AWA 2, below). "Crux Christi unica est eruditio ve...

"No priestly pride has ever exceeded that of sacerdotal females."

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"'it is safer to run no such risk.  No priestly pride has ever exceeded that of sacerdotal females.  A very lowly curate I might, p...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

"it was never heard that an angel showed reverence to a man until he saluted the blessed virgin, saying reverently, 'Hail'."

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" Quod autem Angelus faceret homini reverentiam, nunquam fuit auditum, nisi postquam salutavit beatam virginem, reverenter dicens, av...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

"'No, no, smile, frown. . . . Yes, yes, no, Cancun, deep-sea diving, upscale resort, breakaway weekend, January, January, meh, three, two, smile, smile, meh, yes, Prada, Converse, no, frown, frown, smile, Paris.'"

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          A Circle newbie, "typing furiously, fluidly, almost silently," in Dave Eggers' The circle:  a novel (New York:  ...

"that new creature borne without her dew, / Full of the makers guile"

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    Edmund Spenser, Faerie queene I.i.46, ll. 6-7 .      What an image of contemporary pornography and sexploitation!  The Lord, her M...
Monday, March 31, 2014

sufficient unto the day

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     . . . for what so strong,      But wanting rest will also want of might?      The Sunne that measures heauen all day long, At nig...