Friday, January 8, 2016

Presumption

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The Pharisee and the Publican (5th/6th century), Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna.      "As a matter of fact, several of the part...
Monday, January 4, 2016

"I live in a hole here, but God has a beautiful mansion for me elsewhere."

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The Blake Archive      "It has to be remembered that Blake was almost completely forgotten at the time of his death in a tiny two-r...

Extra Calvinisticum, Extra Patristicum, Extra Catholicum

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St. Gallen,Stiftsbibliothek (Cod. Sang.) 390, fol. 54 (detail) . "Helpless, he lay in a manger; glorious, he shone in the heavens. ...

"To defend the truth, to articulate it with humility and conviction, and to bear witness to it in life are . . . exacting and indispensable forms of charity. Charity, in fact, 'rejoices in the truth' (1 Cor 13:6)."

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" Cum quis veritatem tuetur eandemque humiliter certeque in vita testatur, caritatis rationes impellentes praebet, quae substitui non ...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

"The obedience of the star calls us to imitate its humble service: to be servants, as best we can, of the grace that invites all men to find Christ."

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Trier, Stadtbibliothek 24 (Codex Egberti), 17r.      Leo the Great, Sermo 33 =3 in Epiphania Domini, Recension A (6 January 443), as t...
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...