Monday, June 2, 2025

Into whose everlasting beatitude we are raised up

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William Bright translation of 1857 : "Almighty and merciful God, unto Whose everlasting blessedness we ascend, not by the frailty of th...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

"It is no dream that I died for you, and that you are saved by Me, any more than your eating and drinking is a dream"

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      The source (with thanks to the Rev. Dr. Kendall S. Harmon for the diversion):       So, when you take the Bread and the Wine, which th...
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...