Saturday, April 18, 2020

"Though sense suggests the contrary"

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     "Do not then think of the elements as bare [(ψιλοῖς)] bread and wine; they are, according to the Lord’s declaration, the Body...
Friday, April 17, 2020

Our common plague

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Fragment 12, supposedly "the majority of people suffer from a common disease, as in a plague, with their false notions about things...

"whatever he suffered, we too suffered in him, and whatever we suffer, he too suffers in us."

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"whatever he suffered, we too suffered in him, and whatever we suffer, he too suffers in us [(quidquid passus est, in illo et nos passi...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

"This clothing, once ours and now lost and the object of our search in any earthly clothing that we wear"

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum This stripping (Entkleidung) of the body, "This 'uncovering [(Aufdeckung)]' of the ...
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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