Saturday, September 14, 2019

Give me [not] thine hand?

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"a catholic spirit is not speculative latitudinarianism.  It is not indifference to all opinions.  This is the spawn of hell, not the ...
Thursday, September 5, 2019

"a metaphysics of conjoined attention"

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"the man who strives to attend [(s’efforce à l’attention)] rejoins the harmonious whole of th[ose] other created minds for whom atten...
Monday, August 26, 2019

The most precious goods must not be sought, but awaited

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     "We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.  Man cannot discover them by his o...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

"And Thou hast freely given | what earth could never buy, | The bread of life from heaven, | That now I shall not die"

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      Johann Rist, "Wie wohl hast du gelabet," stanza 2, as trans. Catherine Winkworth, in "O Living Bread from Heaven, in Ly...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

"no unmediated divine actions, no unmediated divine gifts, no unmediated sources of sanctification"

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"The sacraments are little Christs.   Just as the Incarnation of the Eternal Word establishes the framework of the Christian religion...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

"Marriage" in heaven

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"It’s hard for me to think that I could be me and have a relation to everybody else that’s the same as the relation to my wife.   I jus...

"As time goes on, the acceptance, the appreciation, even the understanding of nature, will be less and less needed. In its place will come the need to determine the desirable form of the humanly-controlled universe"

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Communist Party of Ireland "The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command...