Friday, December 23, 2016

O Rex gentium

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Ultimate source unknown "O Rex gentium et desideratus earum, lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum:  veni et salva hominem, q...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

A somewhat counter-cultural take on "the attitude of the Pharisee" (Lk 18:9-14)

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"All people must take great care not to allow themselves to be tainted by the attitude of the Pharisee. . . . In our own day this attit...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

O Sapientia

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O Wisdom, who have proceeded out of the mouth of the Most High, reaching (always) from end (all the way) to end, powerfully and [yet per]su...
Friday, December 16, 2016

"the [deepest] desire of your heart is itself your [unceasing] prayer"

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"'All my desire is before you, Lord.   Not before human beings, who cannot see my heart, but before you is my desire.'  Let y...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

"An American will endure almost any insult except the charge that he is not progressive."

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      Walter Lippmann, Public opinion (New York:  Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922), 108 (chap. 8, "Blind spots and their value"...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

"Either that is true, or it is not."

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     "There is only one reason why the Evangelists' christological interpretation of the Old Testament is not a matter of stealing ...
Friday, December 9, 2016

Hate the sin but love the sinner

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"We can indeed say that God hates sin but does not cease to love the si nner [( Gott zwar die Sünde haßt, den Sünder zu lieben aber ni...