Tuesday, December 15, 2020

"I was obliged to be industrious; whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."

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Hat tip Elaine Butler. "Ich habe fleißig seyn müssen; wer eben so fleißig ist, der wird es eben so weit bringen können."      Jo...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Super oblata, Third Sunday of Advent

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Diocesi di Novara "May the sacrifice of our worship, Lord, we pray, be offered to you unceasingly, to complete what was begun in sacred...
Saturday, December 12, 2020

"Churches without people, people without priests, priests without the reverence due to them, and Christians without Christ."

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"Basilicae sine plebibus, plebes sine sacerdotibus, sacerdotes sine debita reverentia sunt, et sine Christo denique Christiani."  ...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

"the historicity of our contemporary options"

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 "God is still a reference point for even the most untroubled unbelievers, because he helps define the temptation you have to overcome ...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020

England the palimpset

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 "Can you make a new England? You can write a new story. You can write new texts and destroy the old ones, set the torn leaves of Duns ...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

"Go ye out to meet him and say"

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Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 390 (late 10th cent.), fol. 15 "Aspiciens a longe ecce video dei potentiam venientem et nebulam totam t...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

"a glittering cargo cult"

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emilyfoxgordon.com       "If [at 72] I were to take a religious turn, it would be toward Christianity.  But strait is the gate and narr...