Saturday, January 2, 2016

Christ represents us naturally, but Mary, personally

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"It is not by chance that it was precisely the male sex which was chosen for the highest elevation of nature, but the female sex for ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

"God deliver me from sour-faced saints".

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François Gérard (1827) "Dios me libre de santos encapotados".       Letters of Saint Teresa:  a complete edition  translated...
Monday, December 28, 2015

"Christ is really the Son of the Virgin Mother through the real relation of her motherhood to [Him]."

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Bouguereau, Virgin and child (1888) . "each opinion is true to a certain extent. For if we consider the adequate causes of filiati...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

"[Jesus] importunes for us by exhibiting before the Paternal conspection the humanity [he] assumed for us and the mysteries [he] celebrated in it."

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"interpellat pro nobis humanitatem pro nobis assumptam et mysteria in ea celebrata conspectui paterno repraesentando."       ...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

"Clear thinking about God purifies the soul!"

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     Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn, O.P., on the importance of a steady diet of Aquinas.  Note to me dated 15 December 2015.
Sunday, December 13, 2015

Rejoice!

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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Indeed, the Lord is near. Gaudete in Domino semper: iterum dico, gaudete. Dominus ...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

"Be strong for us in the flesh!"

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Streite, siege, starker Held! Sei vor uns sim Fleische kräftig! Sei geschäftig, Das Vermögen in uns Schwachen Stark zu machen! Contend...