Monday, July 4, 2016

caelestis vitae actio

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Cod. Vat. Reg. lat. 316, fol. 88r "May this oblation dedicated to your name, purify us, O Lord, and day by day bring our conduct closer...

"what help is there in Greek, what in Hebrew, what in the Latin language?"

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Historic England "Here lies tongueless a man who used many languages, and was the official reader of Hebrew [at Christ Church, Oxfo...
Friday, July 1, 2016

What Eberhard Arnold would have said to Hitler

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"'My dear Adolf Hitler, this can’t go on much longer; you yourself can’t possibly take any more pleasure in all this killing, that...

"Before 428, theotokos is not in fact encountered in the literary œuvre of Cyril, though it is found in at least one homily of Nestorius".

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Hagia Sophia "The appellation θεοτόκος was not at all universal.  After the Council of Ephesus, it still had to be explained to t...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

“It is necessary to pass through the Church, not necessarily to enter it.”

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"Il faut passer par l’Église, pas nécessairement y entrer."       Yves Labbé, "Théologie ecclésiale, théologie universita...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

N. P. Williams in 1937 or 1938

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"If, on the other hand, it is permissible for the Church of England to disregard the authority of St Paul and the universal custom of...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

Repletion with the everlasting enjoyment of Christ's Divinity, as foreshadowed for the time being by the sacramental reception of his glorified Humanity

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Sassetta, Thomas Aquinas in Prayer (1423/5), Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest . "Grant, O Lord, we pray, that we may delight for ...