Saturday, June 24, 2023

St. Augustine on John, the voice, and the Word

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"The tongue is being released because a voice is being born—for when John was already heralding the Lord, he was asked, Who are you? an...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

"what does it profit if I should say that Jesus has come in that flesh alone which he received from Mary and I should not show also that he has come in this flesh of mine?"

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"Quid . . . prode est, si in illa tantum carne, quam de Maria suscepit, dicam venisse Iesum et non ostendam etiam in hac mea carne quod...
Thursday, June 8, 2023

"whether or not history repeats itself, historians repeat each other."

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     David Hackett Fischer, Historians' fallacies:  toward a logic of historical thought (London:  Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971), 2...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Earth as invited to become man

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"Thou speakest to the earth and callest it to human nature, and the earth heareth Thee and by this its hearing man is made." ...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

The resurrection of the flesh, a real human body composed of blood-filled veins, sinews, bones, and so forth

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"If our flesh [(caro)] is not saved, then the Lord has not redeemed us with his blood, the eucharistic chalice does not make us sharer...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Tack us on at the end of your triumphal processions

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Jesus, be the Paschal joy that remains in our hearts throughout the year, and attach us, reborn by grace, to your triumphs. Esto perenne men...

"where contemporary exegesis fails to accord with Christian doctrine, it tends instead to accord with something else".

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      Markus Bockmuehl, paraphrasing R. R. Reno, in his review of the latter's The end of interpretation:  reclaiming the priority of ec...