Thursday, June 29, 2017

"as before death Christ's flesh was united personally and hypostatically with the Word of God, it remained so after His death, so that the hypostasis of the Word of God was not different from that of Christ's flesh after death".

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"sicut ante mortem caro Christi unita fuit secundum personam et hypostasim verbo Dei, ita et remansit unita post mortem, ut scilicet...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

"a war fought without a good stock of money is only a wispy shadow of what a war should be."

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     The fearsome monk, in chap. 46 of François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, as trans. Burton Raffel.  The original French doesn...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

"we have beheld his glory"

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"Because the reality of the relation is only maintained on the created side, the Incarnation cannot be reduced to an episode in the l...
Monday, June 26, 2017

"Whenever the Church renounces . . . her native tongues"

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"progressive Catholicism (a category that for [Del Noce] would include both the Catholic left and elements of the Catholic right) has a...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Dennis Duncan in a wonderful article on "the weaponized index"

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William King, Times literary supplement "The fashion for satirical indexes had begun in 1698, when the poet and lawyer William King...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

"I have often been disgusted with myself when I came down from the pulpit."

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"Ich habe mich offte selbst angespeiet, wan ich vom predigstuel komen bin."      Martin Luther, WA TR 4, p. 446 line 22-p. 447...

"Leading or following, the human being who loves" is participating in an archetypical Trinitarian Life

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"The redemptive work of God in the world is the common fruit of the Father's power and the Son's pure gift of self ([the] impot...