Friday, April 2, 2021

Beauty puts a legitimate thumb on the scales

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      "The encounter with beauty can become the wound of the arrow that strikes the soul and thus makes it see clearly, so that hencefo...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

"That's not how my Aana taught me to read the Bible."

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"the first epistle of John. . . .  was composed at a time when the emergence of a new group of intellectuals, the so-called Gnostics, r...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

A church in the heart of which heathenism is alive and well

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"The appearance of the church in the modern era is determined by this, that in a completely new way it has become a church of heathens,...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

"'This is why her God will be my God.'"

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"During this period, since Daphrose [Rugamba] was a Christian, she prayed and cared for her husband.  Cyprien told me:  'After ever...

"joint heirs of the grace of life"

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     1 Pet 3:7 RSV.  Photo is of Servants of God Cyprian and Daphrose Rugamba (m. 7 April 1994) .
Monday, March 22, 2021

Exorcism "is beginning to acquire again today that urgency which it had at the dawn of Christianity."

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      "What does this [first] standard signify for our question?  Anyone who applies it comes upon an amazing result.  Whereas just now...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

"Gradually we have stopped laughing"

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     "Did we not also have, in the ten years after Gaudium et spes, experiences that, despite the differences of level, were not entire...