Saturday, July 11, 2026

Is there more to this than a leyenda negra inglesa?

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"The last thing [King Philip of Spain] wanted was to go to war, particularly with the English, whose formidable spirit he knew from the...
Friday, July 10, 2026

Sign of the cross as a form of public confession

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St. Euplus, Dumbarton Oaks      "It was the twelfth day of August, in the ninth consulship of Diocletian and the eighth of Maximian, wh...
Thursday, July 9, 2026

"Stagger onward rejoicing"

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"Give thanks and lie down in peace, | Having seen your salvation." "may | Hermes, master of the roads | and the four dwarf Ka...
Wednesday, July 8, 2026

"after baptism the crossing of the desert, by a life . . . lived in hope"

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"There remains, you see, after baptism the crossing of the desert, by a life that is lived in hope, until we come to the promised land,...
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Sign of the cross

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"At every forward step and movement, at every going in and out, when we put on our clothes and shoes, when we bathe, when we sit at tab...
Sunday, July 5, 2026

"Whoever has gone astray in the faith may thereafter believe whatever he wants to, everything is equally valid."

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"Wer des glaubens gefeilet hat, der mag darnach glewben was er wil, gilt eben gleich."      Martin Luther, Sermon Von dem Sacramen...
Saturday, July 4, 2026

"forget not thou thy earth"

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"O Brother of ours, O natural son of the Father, whose sons thou makest us by adoption, O Head of our Body, we see that thou art king o...