Sunday, December 8, 2024

May the instruction of Heavenly Wisdom transform us into members of His wedding party (eius . . . consortes)

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T'oros Roslin, Wise and foolish virgins, Gospel book, Walters Art Gallery W.539 (1262), fol. 106v "Almighty and merciful God, may n...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

Short shrift

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      "Had Michel been spared the mutilation which was the cause of his dismissal, Paul would have had no difficulty in confessing his ...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Dialogue is all the rage

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     "The word 'dialogue' is in fashion; I regret this, not having myself any of the virtues of the dialoguist, which are not t...

"This sacrament is the fruit of the tree of life"

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 "Est . . . hoc sacramentum ligni vitae fructus".      St. Albert the Great, Commentary on Luke 22.19 as trans. Liturgy of the hou...
Saturday, November 2, 2024

Make it possible for me to see them, live with them II

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"Deus, qui nos patrem et matrem honorare praecepisti, miserere clementer animabus patris et matris meae, eorumque peccata dimitte, me...
Friday, November 1, 2024

"make us love what you command"

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"Almighty ever-living God, increase our faith, hope and charity, and make us love what you command, so that we may merit what you promi...
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...