Sunday, September 15, 2019

Were all the kings on earth to show | their greatest pomp and power | the smallest leaf they could not grow, | nor graft it on a flower.

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Gik alle konger frem på rad i deres magt og vælde, de mægted ej det mindste blad at sætte på en nælde.       Hans Adolph Brorson, Salm...

The superficiality of the forgiveness of self

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"The 'pagans' know the examination of conscience, [which] consists in scrutinizing oneself in the light of norms, [an] exercise...
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...