Sunday, February 4, 2024

"lost | In wonder, love, and praise"

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      Joseph Addison, "When all thy mercies, O my God," stanza 1, the poem with which he concludes an essay on gratitude; The spec...
Saturday, February 3, 2024

"unlike God, man is of two minds in the face of evil"

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Aletheia "unlike God, man is of two minds in the face of evil [(contrairement à Dieu, l’homme est partagé face au mal)]. . . .  There i...
Friday, February 2, 2024

Fr. Thomas Michelet on one of Pope Francis' favorite metaphors

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Angelicum "what to say of a field hospital in which those who are sick sit with those who are well to the point that [it] no longer off...

"a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river; true on this side of the Pyrenees, false on the other."

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"Plaisante justice qu’une rivière borne ! Vérité au‑deçà des Pyrénées, erreur au‑delà."       Blaise Pascal, Pensées  Brunschvicg ...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

The regulation of the flesh as proof of the resurrection of the flesh

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Theophanes the Cretan "if our physician Christ, God, having rescued us from our desires [( ἐπιθυμιῶν )] , regulates our flesh [( σάρκα ...

Gratia non tollit naturam

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Thorens-Glieres (1567-1622), Monastère de la Visitation, Paris "devotion must be practiced in different ways by the nobleman and by the...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

"And now the matchless deed's atchiev'd, | DETERMINED, DARED, AND DONE."

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National Portrait Gallery 3780       Christopher Smart (1722-1771), "A song to David" (1763) , stanza 86, and also the concluding ...