Saturday, March 21, 2020

"I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in order not to become contaminated and thus perchance infect and pollute others, and so cause their death as a result of my negligence."

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"This is said as an admonition and encouragement against fear and a disgraceful flight to which the devil would tempt us so that we wou...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Dr. Larry Chapp on Dorothy Day

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"many of [the many Catholic Worker houses and farms still in existence] really no longer identify as Catholic in any meaningful way. Th...
Monday, March 16, 2020

"at least spiritually": that other extra Catholicum ("Since I cannot now receive Thee sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart")

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"My Jesus, I believe that Thou art present in the Blessed Sacrament.  I love Thee above all things and I desire Thee in my soul.  Since...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Quarantine as cloister: "'experienced populations,' well-organized institutional responses, . . . [integrally] resourceful strategies for survival"

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Times of Israel "One of the chapters of [St. Charles Borromeo’s] Constitutiones [et decreta de cura pestilentiae] is devoted to spi...

The ancient and traditional Collect for the Second Sunday of Lent, just in time for a time of coronavirus

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Almighty God, you know that we have no power in ourselves to help ourselves:  Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our soul...
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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,...