Friday, November 26, 2021

"there are many people who reach God as Christians without being in charge of anything"

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Vivarini & D'Alemagna, 1446 "we whom the Lord has deigned, thanks to no merits of ours, to set in this high station (about whic...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

"I rather experience than understand it"

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      "Now, if anyone should ask me how this [presence of the flesh of Christ in the Supper] takes place, I shall not be ashamed to con...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

"They exchanged the truth . . . for a lie"

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"In sum, what is new here is the turning of what really is a construct—the abstract 'individual'—into a new natural, so as to t...
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...