Friday, April 10, 2020

"in their hour of need your mercy was at hand."

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Good Friday 2020: A very strange year indeed. "Almighty ever-living God, comfort of mourners, strength of all who toil, may the pra...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

"desire for the Eucharist, i.e. spiritual communion, is totally different from the union by faith in Christ [(alternatively, union by faith with Christ)] taught by [some] Protestants".

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 "le désir de l'eucharistie ou la communion spirituelle est totalement different de l'union par la foi au Christ, enseignée par...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

Pseudo-St. Richard of Chichester: "know thee more clearly, love thee more dearly and follow thee more nearly, day by day"

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NOT, I think, the author!      Here is one common version of this prayer, the version attributed to St. Richard of Chichester (c. 1197-1...
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Thursday, April 2, 2020

Zwingli's "Gebetslied in der Pest"

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A Christian song written by Huldrych Zwingli when he was attacked by the pestilence. I. At the Beginning of the Illness. He...

Edwards on the plague

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The witholding of the word or spirit of God from a people is a more terrible Judgment than to have the Pestilence Raging amongst or so...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

"The celebration of the Eucharist . . . cannot be the starting-point for communion; it presupposes that communion already exists, a communion which it seeks to consolidate and bring to perfection."

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"Eucharistiae celebratio . . . non potest esse principium communionis, quandoquidem illam iam veluti exsistentem praeponit, ut eam conf...

"to desire the end is to desire the means to the end"

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"Benoît-Dominique de La Soujeole offers a helpful distinction between a sacrament of desire and desiring a sacrament, though I modify ...