Thursday, January 1, 2015

Quem terra pontus aethera . . . (attr. Venantius Fortunatus, c.530-c.610) / The God whom earth and sea and sky . . . (John Mason Neale, 1818-1866)

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Quem terra pontus aethera . . . The God whom earth and sea and sky . . .      Hymn, Office of readings, Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

"a remark addressed to the contemporary gay fight for marriage equality."

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"What you want is to live with a man in a happy home.  But you don't know how trivial it is.  Marriage is emblematic of modern life...

Honest Abe

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"'With him truth is out of the question, and as for getting a good bright passable lie out of him, you might as well try to strike ...

"let us not be at enmity with ourselves, but change our way of life without delay."

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"by taking a body from the Virgin he refashioned our fallen nature. . . . "he offered his own manhood as the firstfruits of our...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

"grant, we pray, that we may share in the divinity of Christ, who humbled himself to share in our humanity."

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"O God, who wonderfully created the dignity of human nature and still more wonderfully restored it, grant, we pray, that we may share i...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

HERE I FALL (Roland Bainton's Here I stand on “‘A Mighty Fortress [Ein feste Burg]’ in Luther’s Hand”)

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UPDATE, 29 October 2019 :  see now Steve Perisho, "Here I fall:  a blunder in Roland Bainton's Here I stand," Theological libr...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other".

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"We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition...