Thursday, December 26, 2024

Civil valor

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      "After all, we have gotten use to regarding as valor only valor in war (or the kind that is needed for flying in outer space), th...
Monday, December 23, 2024

"the earth speaks to us of Heaven, or why would we want to go there?"

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      Jayber Crow, in Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow:  a novel, chap 32 ("Seen afar").  "This is a book about Heaven.  I know it ...

Gaudete Sunday didn't really start to become "Gaudete Sunday"-as-we-know-it-today until the modern period in general, and the nineteenth century in particular

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"we must examine more carefully those observances that are considered 'traditional.' . . .  It is not enough to assume that lit...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Yeo on Carlisle

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      Douglas Yeo, "A message of hope and good news—told with a trombone," The last trombone, 17 December 2024 .
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...