Friday, July 28, 2023

The fasces a symbol of "popular revolution" and "liberal governance", among, of course, other things

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"But his analysis also shows just how crucial historical knowledge and social context are for the interpretation of such objects.  Ther...

for I am mindful of my price, worth, or value

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Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection "Let not the proud disparage me, for I am mindful of my ransom. I eat it, I drink it, I dispense it to ot...

"had he not become flesh and made his dwelling among us"

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"We might have despaired of ourselves, thinking your Word remote from any conjunction with mankind, had he not become flesh and made hi...
Monday, July 24, 2023

"do not suppose that because the righteous were in the midst of men it was among men that they had achieved their righteousness"

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"ever since the transgression came to pass [(facta prævaricatióne præcepti)], the soul cannot know [(non posse . . . cognoscere)] God u...

A "risk of indistinction" that must nevertheless be run, and a crucial "ecclesial or sacramental symbolization" that must nevertheless take only abstract forms

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Jesuits of Canada       " This profusion [(pluralization)] of relations " —i.e. "The profusion [(pluralization)] of lifestyle...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

"the entire Church, from the Pope down, exists to make lives of that kind possible"

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Divinity Library, Yale University "'You are completely right.  If you had seen that saint in his lifetime you would not have looked...

"but I know Who is there"

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Divinity Library, Yale University "For weeks in that autumn of 1925 I realized that I was at least an agnostic and perhaps an atheist. ...