Saturday, March 20, 2021

Forgive the sin that we have wrought; | Increase the good that we have sought

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Laxa malum, quod fecimus, Auge bonum, quod poscimus. . . . Forgive the sin that we have wrought; Increase the good that we have sought. . . ...

Prayer renders one objective

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"If you were still to ask me now before I go, and finally go, whether I know of a magic key to open the final door to wisdom, I would a...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

"Sensibility to the truth"

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"The danger for the western world—to speak only of this—is that today, precisely because of the greatness of his knowledge and power, m...
Monday, March 15, 2021

God's Rotweiler

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"He kept the teddy from the small [Marktl] shop opposite, which he had wanted so much.  Ultimately, it came to Rome and sat on a chair ...
Sunday, March 14, 2021

"But what shall men do who cannot find anything wise to say, because they are interpreting foolish things?"

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     "Sed quid faciant homines, qui, cum res stultas interpretantur, non inueniunt quid sapienter dicatur?"      St. Augustine, Ci...

"here a man is so mutilated that he is neither changed into a woman nor remains a man."

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"hic ita amputatur uirilitas, ut nec conuertatur in feminam nec uir relinquatur."       St. Augustine on "the famous mysterie...
Saturday, March 6, 2021

Quaker-Catholic relations

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Legacy.com  "Johnny Schaeffer, in 1975 the president of the Northwest Alaska Native Association, recalls having been beaten up by Quake...