Saturday, March 23, 2024

"If you neglect Martha, who will serve Jesus? And if you neglect Mary, of what use to you will Jesus' visit be?"

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"Do not neglect Mary for Martha, nor Martha for Mary.  If you neglect Martha, who will serve Jesus?  And if you neglect Mary, of what u...

"Worship him who was hung on the cross because of you, even if you are hanging there yourself"

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Source "If you are crucified beside him like one of the thieves, now, like the good thief, acknowledge your God. For your sake, and bec...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Ora et labora: No Benedictine motto

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In these pedagogical texts of the late 18th and the 19th centuries "no reference to monasticism can be detected.      "By contrast...
Friday, March 15, 2024

"The truth is the first of the mercies that Jesus offers to the sinner."

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Wikimedia Commons  "La verità è la prima delle misericordie che Gesù offre al peccatore."       Robert Cardinal Sarah, "Messa...
Monday, February 26, 2024

John Henry Newman on the truth at an extreme

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"I had got but a little way in my work, when my trouble returned upon me.  The ghost had come a second time.  In the Arian History I fo...
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...