Saturday, January 1, 2022

The transhumanism of nature and grace

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      "Beatrice was standing with her eyes all fixed upon the eternal wheels, and I fixed mine upon her, withdrawn from there above.  G...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

"in our days many evils . . . have come to be openly and habitually practiced, so that we are afraid not only to excommunicate a lay person for them but even to degrade a cleric."

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"sic nostris temporibus ita multa mala, etsi non talia, in apertam consuetudinem iam uenerunt, ut pro his non solum excommunicare aliqu...

"To distinguish between trivial and serious sins is a matter for divine, not human, judgment."

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"quae sint autem leuia quae grauia peccata, non humano sed diuino sunt pensanda iudicio."       St. Augustine, Enchiridion on fait...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

"Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards."

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 "Le vérité, elle délivre d’abord, elle console après." The truth, it delivers first, it consoles afterwards.       Le Curé de Tor...
Friday, December 24, 2021

"the festive day on which he who is the great and eternal day came from the great and endless day of eternity into our own short day of time"

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"Let us . . . joyfully celebrate the coming of our salvation and redemption.  Let us celebrate the festive day on which he who is the g...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

"a gift so great, so unheard of"

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James Doyle Penrose "The Lord has exalted me by a gift so great, so unheard of, that language is useless to describe it, and the depths...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

The Lowly Most High

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Geertgen tot Sint Jans, c. 1490 The Most High is coming in lowliness | to save what had been amounting to nothing. "excelsus venit humi...