Saturday, September 14, 2024

"death over death did forever triumph"

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 391 (c. 990/1000), p. 64 "Thou alone excellest in stature all the cedars of Lebanon; for on th...
Sunday, September 8, 2024

Perfect vacuity

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Source      "As a Jew with the greatest respect for the Catholic Church, I had always to this point assumed that in the Vatican only ex...
Saturday, August 24, 2024

Seebach in defense of St. Augustine on women

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Persönliche Homepage Prof. Dr. Larissa Seelbach "Augustine distinguished with reference to every human being between the outer human be...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

"no one should . . . suppose that the creator of sex despised sex"

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      "To heal souls God adopts all kinds of means suitable to the times which are ordered by his marvellous wisdom. . . .  But in no w...

The preacher as adversary

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  "So who is the adversary? [(Mt 5:25)] The word of God. The word of God is your adversary. Why is it your adversary? Because it com...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

"God, who does not know sleep, . . . rouses us from sleep that we may ask"

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"By [the Parable of the Importunate Friend at Midnight (Lk 11:5-8/13)] we are to understand that if a man, roused from sleep, is forced...
Monday, August 19, 2024

A refusal to reduce one's morals to the measure of one's behavior

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     "For if a man lives with a woman for a time, until he finds another worthy either of his high station in life or his wealth, whom ...