Friday, August 19, 2022

The late medieval origin of the fairy tradition

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      "It may be argued, therefore, that the concept of fairies which prevailed in early modern Britain formed between the thirteenth a...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Make it possible for me to see them, live with them

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"Deus, qui nos patrem et matrem honorare praecepisti, miserere clementer animabus patris et matris meae, eorumque peccata dimitte, mequ...

"Not that hit nowe is full of woundes and plages, or nowe deede"

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John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln, as depicted in his Missal, British Library "Yonder it lyes, yonder is hys bodye, in yonder tombe, in ...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

"God does not command the impossible"

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"God . . . does not command what is impossible; rather, by his commandment, he warns you to do what you can and to ask for what you can...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

"faith . . . can save even without the sacrament"

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"Therefore let us open our eyes and learn to pay heed more to the word than to the sign, more to faith than to the work or use of the s...

Thank God for the Spanish and Italian Inquisitions (the Popes, too)

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      "Clearly, then, popular belief throughout Italy and Iberia, and their attendant islands [(i.e. 'the Western Mediterranean bas...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

Faith does not augment Baptism

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"Faith does not establish baptism nor enhance it, and unbelief does not diminish or reduce it.  God’s Word establishes it.  It is the f...