Saturday, December 3, 2022

"When the Law drives you to the point of despair, let it drive you a little farther, let it drive you straight into the arms of Jesus who says: 'Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.'"

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      Martin Luther, Lectures on Galatians 3:19, "The Law was added because of transgressions," as heavily paraphrased  from 1937 ...

"no longer . . . the cozy, comfortable middle-class world of the academy"

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"it is hopelessly inadequate to reduce the issue to the pitting of one scriptural interpretation against another.  Revelation, unlike S...
Monday, November 28, 2022

"The defining mark of irreligion is 'sociologism'"

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"To [agree with but then] invert Hegel [as Marx did] is to say that philosophy resolves itself not in understanding, but in action—in p...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

"it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich"

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"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life become...

Injustice

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"The law [of men] is unjust and inequitable.  Why have they chastised the woman and left the man unpunished?  The wife who has dishonor...

True freedom

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"There is no [necessary] conflict between nature and culture, but [only] . . . a subtle interaction.  There are only two sexual identit...
Monday, November 21, 2022

"the blessed, ever-virgin Mary, dwelling-place of the Holy Spirit"

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Barbara Brocato "O God, by whose will the blessed, ever-virgin Mary, dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, was on this day presented in th...