Saturday, March 14, 2020

"God himself will set me free, from the hunter's snare. | —God himself will set me free, from the hunter's snare. | From those who would entrap me with lying words | —and from the hunter's snare."

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℟ . Ipse liberabit me * De laqueo venantium.  Ipse. ℣ .  Et a verbo maligno.  *De laqueo venatium.  Gloria Patri.  Ipse.      Responsoriu...

"As morning breaks we sing of your mercy, Lord, and night will find us proclaiming your praise."

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Mt. Angel Abbey "Annuntiamus mane misericordiam tuam, Domine, et veritatem tuam per noctem." We proclaim at dawn your mercy,...
Saturday, March 7, 2020

"None but the Schola Theologorum is competent to determine the force of Papal and Synodal utterances".

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"When the Church teaches with authority, theologians explain the exact meaning of these decrees 'in order to make [them] as tolerab...
Friday, March 6, 2020

"My youthful years were spent [in the slave trade] in Africa, and I ought to take my degrees (if I take any) from thence."

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Seattle Pacific University Archives      "I have been hurt by 2 or 3 by letters directed to D r. Newton.   I beg you to inform ...
Monday, March 2, 2020

"God's thought of lions is lionlike"

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     "It is a poor speaker of French who thinks in English and translates as he goes; the true master of tongues thinks as he talks.  H...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Jesus is He "who alone . . . walks on the sea as on dry ground" (Job 9:8 LXX NETS; cf. Ps 107:29-30), passing us by (9:11; Mk 6:48), and yet, when necessary, getting "into the boat with [us]", and calming the storm (6:51).

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"The Lord seeth them that are toiling in the sea, albeit He be Himself on the land. Although He seem for a moment to tarry in succouri...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Sad enough

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     "This book has been written out of a deep sorrow at witnessing the emergence of false prophets within the City of God.  It is sad ...