Saturday, November 20, 2021

"Oh my friend, my friend indeed, who at my need his life did spend."

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"Nor could he have commanded anything more lovable, for this sacrament produces love and union.  It is characteristic of the greatest l...

"a hope longer than time and stronger than misfortune"

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"I find no solution for the future except in Christianity and in Catholic Christianity in particular. . . .  If there is to be a future...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

"as if [heretics] could be kept in the city of God indifferently without any correction"

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     "But the devil, seeing the temples of the demons deserted, and the human race running to the name of the liberating Mediator, has ...

"We . . . who are called and are Christians"

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"Nos ergo qui sumus uocamurque Christiani. . . ."       St. Augustine, City of God 18.54 , trans. Dods. = CSEL 40.2, 362 l. 1.  N...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

"he alone gives them a place in us"

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"the Spirit of God, while he operates in our hearts, operates so that we feel [(sentiamus)] the virtue of Christ (Rom. 5:5).  For when...

The problem with the language of "values"

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      "Nietzsche explained it:  'what does nihilism mean?  T[hat t]he highest values become devalued' [( Nachgelassene Fragment...
Saturday, November 13, 2021

They love [the truth] when it shines, they hate it when it reproves.

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"Deep down, the issue is not reproach for its past history but the fact that as silent as it seems to remain, the Church reproves the c...