Wednesday, December 8, 2021

A worthy little habitation for the Verbum abbreviatum

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Monasteriaka "O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin prepared a worthy [little] dwelling [(dignum . . . habitacu...

"Truly the Lord is with you, to whom the Lord granted that all nature should owe as much to you as to himself."

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van der Weyden "God begot the the Son, through whom all things were made, and Mary gave birth to him as the Savior of the world.  Witho...
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...