Saturday, February 4, 2023

"And sometimes their soul is in a state just like everyone else's."

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Ἄλλοτε ὥσπερ εῖς τῶν ἀνθρώπων γίγνεται. Interdum ut quivis hominum fit.       Pseudo-Makarios/Macarius (late 4th/early 5th cent.) , spiritua...

"But behold again a Virgin, a tree, and a death"

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"The Cross is the Father’s will, the glory of the Only-begotten, the Spirit’s exultation, the beauty [( κόσμος )] of the angels, the g...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

in your concord and harmonious love Jesus Christ is sung

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"by your concord and harmonious love Jesus Christ is being sung." ἐν ὁμονοίᾳ ὑμῶν καὶ συμφώνῳ ἀγάπῃ Ἰσοῦς Χριστὸς ᾄδεται.      St....
Monday, January 2, 2023

"we can know the true and unchanging meaning of dogmas"

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". . . it must be stated that the dogmatic formulas of the Church's Magisterium were from the beginning suitable for communicating ...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

"Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?"

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"Sometimes it is necessary to drink a little more, play, jest, or even commit some sin in defiance and contempt of the devil [(atque ad...
Saturday, December 31, 2022

Useful idiots

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"the overthrow by means of revolutionary violence of structures which generate violence is not ipso facto the beginning of a just regim...

Creation does not wait with eager longing for the extinction of man

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"the hope of creation does not extend, for example, to the capacity of shaking off the human yoke one day.  It waits for man transfigur...