Wednesday, April 17, 2024

McGuckin on the "axiom" hopou logos agei in Origen

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      Where does this (presumably something like ὅπου λόγος ἄγει ), or some semblance thereof, occur in Origen?  So far as I've been abl...
Sunday, April 14, 2024

Faith, baptism, AND LIFE

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"No one may share the eucharist with us unless he believes that what we teach is true, unless he is washed in the regenerating waters o...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

"What a wonder! A sun is fashioned, and no counsel precedes"

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 Ὤ τοῦ θαύματος·  ἥλιος κατασκευάζεται, καὶ οὐδεμία πρηγεῖται βουλή·      St. Gregory of Nyssa, De opificio hominis 3.2, trans. Behr ( Grego...
Monday, April 8, 2024

Peterson on song and dance

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"Song and dance are the result of an excess of energy.  When we are normal we talk, when we are dying we whisper, but when there is mor...
Sunday, April 7, 2024

"I am who I am, and my counsel is not with the wicked, but in the law of the Lord is my will"

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"Ego et sum qui sum, et consilium meum non est cum impiis, sed in lege Domini voluntas mea est, alleluja."      Currently antiphon...
Saturday, April 6, 2024

"where truth and wisdom and [reason] are, . . . this is where Jesus is"

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      "Now it is likely that, on the basis of our conjectures about the end, someone will focus on the statement, 'Where I go you c...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Ora et labora (Pray and work): that supposedly "ancient" and supposedly "Benedictine" formula "that . . . is scarcely more than a century old"

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Dom Marty; I can't find a picture of Dom Frieß N.B. :  Though that headline remains valid, Meeuws (below) has since been updated by Pau...