Thursday, April 16, 2015

"If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find him in the chalice."

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     Widely attributed to St. John Chrysostom, but sounds to me more like somebody's crisp paraphrase of Homily 50 .4 on Matthew ( ed. F...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

"The certainties of physics might establish an intellectual foundation, and philosophical ambiguities may delight, but not much compares to the roar of a bike."

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      Matthew B.Crawford, as quoted in The chronicle of higher education, 8 April 2015 .

Sachphilologie

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"If Turner had spent a bit more time with [August] Boeckh, ['who lectured on "Classical Studies" . . . at the University ...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

"What has passed our lips as food, O Lord, may we possess in purity of heart, that what has been given to us in time may be our healing for eternity."

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Quod ore sumpsimus, Domine, pura mente capiamus, et de munere temporali fiat nobis remedium sempiternum. What we have taken in/consumed ...
Friday, April 10, 2015

"a present experienced as passing so swiftly that one can no longer set over against it . . . a past qualitatively different [in character], but only eternity".

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“First possible significance of ‘modern’:  ‘current’ [(gegenwärtig)] as distinguished from former [(vorherig)]. . . . “Second possible si...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

We adore the cross (as, of course, an image of Christ himself) with the adoration of latria

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Blackfriars, Oxfo rd "there is a twofold movement of the mind towards an image:  one indeed towards the image itself as a certain t...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

The humility of the eternal Son

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Cod. Vat. Reg. lat. 316 , fol. 85v "O God, who by the lowliness of thy Son hast raised a fallen world: Grant to thy faithful people per...