Saturday, February 24, 2024

"I have sinned—I sin continually—but Christ has died, and for ever lives, as my Redeemer, Priest, Advocate, and King."

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     John Newton, letter to Mr. Robert Jones dated 17 March 1757, as reproduced on p. 20 (17-22) of Twenty-five letters, hitherto unpublishe...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

"be willing that Self shall suffer for the Truth, and not the Truth for Self . . . and so own the Cross, and despise the Shame"

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      James Parnell, "A few words to all my dear Friends in and about the county of Essex," in A collection of the several writing...
Saturday, February 17, 2024

Such "men . . . you must not only not receive, but if it is possible not even meet"

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Index of Medieval Art ( Vat. gr. 1613 , p. 258) "he truly suffered even as he also truly raised himself [( ἀληθῶς ἀνέστησεν ἑαυτόν )],...
Monday, February 12, 2024

Gregory of Nyssa on the imago Dei

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Anim Shrest "'Have a care to yourself, for this is the sure safeguard of <your> good things.  Know how much you have been hon...
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...