Tuesday, October 25, 2016

The only good preacher is a dead preacher

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"The preacher is like an ass.  So long as he lives, he produces a repulsive bray.  [But once] he is dead one can make out of what is le...
Monday, October 24, 2016

"The word is something which 'batters the air [(aerem verberat)]; hence it is also called a word [(verbum)]'."

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     Bernard of Clairvaux, In sollemnitate apostolorum Petri et Pauli sermo 2 , as quoted by Otto Hermann Pesch, "Theologie des Wortes ...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

Wootton on the 15th-century (i.e. post-1492) reevaluation of the theory of "'the terraqueous globe'"

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"In the nineteenth century it was claimed, in all seriousness, that Columbus's contemporaries thought the world was flat and expe...

Mere nostalgia for the Good as "the root of despair"

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Source "It is the desire for Good that evil little by little destroys in us, but it is prevented from destroying with it the nostal...

"one reforms nothing in the Church by ordinary means."

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Pharisaic "Indignation has never redeemed anyone, but it has probably lost many souls.  All the simoniacal bacchanals of sixteenth cent...

Suffering at the hands of the Church

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Source "Something rather more than the courage of optimists is necessary to suffer through  [( par,  by or at the hands of)] the C...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

'If our bodies are temples, we should not fear to fill them with smoke."

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New Liturgical Movement      Matthew Schmitz, response to Curt R. Craton in "Blowing smoke," "Letters," First things...