Friday, September 17, 2021

He "who does not resolve the doubt" he "instills" is a false prophet

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     "We find some people who study philosophy and say some things that are not true according to the faith.  And when someone tells th...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Trust the saints on what you haven't yourself experienced

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"Although the tri-hypostatic nature of the Godhead—that is in no way destroyed by the principle of unity—was in later times revealed to...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

"the twofold perfection which is required of the student of [the science of mystical theology]"

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     "The sort of people to whom this kind of teaching ['which is entitled Mystical Theology' ] is meant to be addressed is all...
Saturday, September 11, 2021

Cause us so always by our lives to confess openly your glory, that in heaven, too, we may never cease from your praise.

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attr. Fra Angelico "Deus, nostrae fons et origo salutis, ita nos fac semper vita nostra tuam gloriam profiteri, ut et in caelis a tua n...
Sunday, September 5, 2021

"But I must not try to dispense with the example of the words"

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"the theology of the Middle Ages proposed that the aim of prayer (and the movement of being in which it consists) was that, through it,...

"every theology which no longer facilitates petitionary prayer, and hence thanksgiving, is a fraud."

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     Nikolaus Prinz von Lobkowicz, Am Ende aller Religion?  Ein StreitgesprÃĪch (Zurich:  Edition Interfrom, 1976), 17, as translated and quo...
Saturday, September 4, 2021

The unfortunate excesses of early Protestant opposition to the religious life?

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"all those who live outside of marriage, although God has not—on account of their nature by a special command—called them to a life wit...