Thursday, December 24, 2020

"Grant that as we joyfully receive him for our Redeemer, so we may with sure confidence behold him when he shall come to be our Judge"

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Rome, Vatic. Reg. Lat. 316 , fol. 169r "D[eu]s qui nos redempcionis nostrae annua expectacione laetificas praesta ut unigenitum filium ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Once the frightful wastelands and hiding places of beasts, [but] now the most delightful habitations of men

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     "We find something of this idea [that 'Settlement in a new, unknown, uncultivated country is equivalent to an act of Creation...
Monday, December 21, 2020

"Often, when it comes to protecting children, no good deed goes unpunished".

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      Andrew O'Hagan, "A deep dark place," a review of Mayhem (New York:  Knopf, 2017), by Sigrid Rausing, The New York review...
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 ...