Saturday, January 26, 2019

Almost another John the Baptist?

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As played by Michael Grennell "If a face-to-face meeting was meant to intimidate Throckmorton, Cromwell and the King had misjudged ...
Friday, January 25, 2019

"The intolerability of the thought that man is preserved in being"

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"There was . . . no place in the thought of antiquity for a [(for the post-Scholastic, modern)] concept of self preservation [(Selbster...
Monday, January 21, 2019

Pseudo-Thomas More: "Grant me, O Lord, good digestion, and also something to digest"

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"Grant me, O Lord, good digestion, and also something to digest. Grant me a healthy body, and the necessary good humour to maintain it....
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Saturday, January 12, 2019

Those "two exuberant fontinells"

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"why hath nature given to Women two exuberant fontinells, which, like two Roes that are twinnes, feed among the Lilies, and drop milk...

Faith of our fathers, Mary's prayers, and Erin's saints

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"Faith of our Fathers.  For England" Faith of our Fathers!  Mary's prayers Shall win our country back to thee; And through...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

From inchoation to perfection

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"O God, who in your kindness begin all good things and bring them to fulfillment, grant to us, who find joy in the Solemnity of the h...
Tuesday, January 1, 2019

"I have guarded them, and none of them is lost"

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"Much further north, east of Budapest, beyond the Danube frontier of Rome, a skeleton was found at Hács-Béndekpuszta that still clasped...