Friday, July 25, 2014

"from hosts consecrated at the same Mass"

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"It is most desirable that the faithful, just as the priest himself is bound to do, receive the Lord’s Body from hosts consecrated at t...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

"The old roman Canon Missae has a weak pneumatology not because it is defective but because it is old, so old that it was composed before the divine personhood of the Holy Spirit became a problem to be resolved."

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      Robert F. Taft, "'Communion' from the tabernacle — a liturgico-theological oxymoron,"  Worship  88, no 1 (January 20...

"from the hand of another"

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     "In this pristine vision of the Eucharist, Holy Communion is not just the sacrament of personal communion with the Risen Lord of e...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

"that persevering love with which Saint Mary Magdalene clung resolutely to Christ her master"

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Martin Schongauer, Noli me tangere,  c. 1470/80. "May the holy reception  of your mysteries, Lord,  instill in us that persevering...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

Hegel can be so (deceptively?) orthodox!

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"the instrumentality of philosophy in introducing these dogmas into the Christian religion, is no sufficient ground for asserting that ...

The Great Seal of the United States

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OBVERSE : E PLURIBUS UNUM (out of many, one): Was there in the proposal of the first committee, which consisted of John Adams, Benjamin F...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

"all time is lost, to which we will not have attached . . . something capable of passing on into . . . eternity."

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"from this important distinction between time considered in itself, and time [considered] in relation to eternity, I draw this infallib...