Saturday, October 19, 2024

"the whole life and substance of the Church is in the Word of God"

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"The gospel is, before bread and Baptism, the sole most certain and most noble mark [(symbolum)] of the Church, since [it is] by the go...
Friday, October 18, 2024

"There is but one single utterance of God amplified throughout all the scriptures"

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St. Augustine preaching, Morgan Library & Museum M.1175 (1525/30), fol. 192r (cropped)      "There is but one single utterance of G...
Monday, October 14, 2024

"no power of oureselues to helpe ourselues"

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"O God, Who seest that in our own weakness we do continually fall, make, in thy mercy, the examples of thy holy children a mean where...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

"How many years it would take to reveal, direct, and confirm the necessary line, until the defense would stand as one with the prosecution and the court, and the accused would be in agreement with them too, and all the resolutions of the workers as well!"

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     "This is an instructive example. Although 'revolutionary legality' won a partial victory, how enormous an effort it requir...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

The liturgy "composed on his own by, say, some Pentecostal pastor in Houston for next Sunday's service in his church"

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     ". . . the traditional liturgies have stood the test of time across many centuries by billions of Christians. For that reason, the...
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...