Saturday, May 30, 2020

Kenosis Thomistica (i.e. Patristica, Calvinistica, etc.), that Extra Thomisticum (Patristicum, Calvinisticum, etc.)

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"the Lord, i.e., God the Father, 'will execute his brief word' [Rom 9:28:   verbum breviatum faciet Dominus ], i.e., [his] inca...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

"the only prayers never denied are moderate ones."

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     "And I believe that God will hear our prayers, since we make them with such firm faith, and will grant us our wish, it being so mo...
Sunday, May 24, 2020

The Son united the substance of our fragility with himself and "collocated" it with the Father

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"the most sacred day on which your Only Begotten Son, our Lord, placed at the right hand of your glory our weak human nature, which he ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Raymond Saint-Jean on perseverance

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"constancy is linked to space, to the obstacles that rear up [along the way]. Perseverance is linked to the point-of-accomplishment-in-...
Sunday, May 10, 2020

Probably St. Thomas Aquinas

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O God, who in this wondrous sacrament hast left unto us a memorial of thy passion; grant us so to venerate the sacred mysteries of thy body ...
Friday, May 8, 2020

Pseudo-St. Teresa of Ávila

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"Govern everything by your wisdom, O Lord, so that my soul may always be serving you in the way you will and not as I choose. Let me d...
Thursday, May 7, 2020

Fake newsies

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"But let me ask you this.   A guy shoots 1 for 23 from the field." "McDeere?" "Yeah.   But he goes 8 for 8 fro...