Friday, May 23, 2025

In necessariis unitas, in non necessariis libertas, in utrisque caritas

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"The fact that other customs and laws are kept by others, yet without violating the Faith or departing from common and universally-held...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

A cautionary note on 'image' and 'resemblance'

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     "The text of Genesis to which Maximus refers[here, namely Gen 1:26,] juxtaposes 'image' and 'resemblance'.  The Gn...
Friday, May 16, 2025

"do right and let nothing terrify you"

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you are [Sarah's] children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening (ESV) you are . . . [Sarah's] children if yo...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Spoken like a true Francophone

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Felix Heinzer's Gottes Sohn als Mensch:  die Struktur des Menschseins Christi bei Maximus Confessor (1980), "departing happily from...

Leo XIV

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"nobody fears the Lord without being among the members of this one man. He is many people yet one individual, many Christians but one C...
Friday, May 9, 2025

"Savior! Save me!"

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Σῶτερ σῶσόν με. Healer!  Heal me!      St. Romanos the Melodist (fl. 536–556), Kontakion 23 (sometimes 12) on Mk 5:25-34 (the woman with a h...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

John the Baptist, twice Precursor, the second time to the Psalm-praying righteous (and unrighteous?) dead in Hades

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     "The prophets and all the righteous [dead] prayed (constantly) to God from [Hades] with unceasing prayers, asking for deliverance ...