Liber locorum communium
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
"command that these gifts be borne by the hands of your holy Angel to your altar on high" (the
Supplices te rogamus
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"we do not call Paul's tongue or his paper and ink the body and blood of Christ, nor the significant sounds made by his tongue, nor...
Monday, August 17, 2026
Four theses on St. Hildegard of Bingen
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If I am right about the importance of reading the visions of St. Hildegard of Bingen in the light of the early Vita of Gottfried of Disibode...
Saturday, August 15, 2026
"once, maybe twice. But. . . . not forever"
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"The conclusions I’ve drawn from reflecting on the question are simple. First, we never know what the effect of telling the truth ...
Friday, August 14, 2026
"In your light we see Light"
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" And sometimes, though not often, I see another light in that [shadow of the living] light, and this I have called 'the Livi...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Gastadelli on the letter of St. Bernard to St. Hildegard
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The legend of "The [enthusiastic] oral intervention of Bernard [of Clairvaux on Hildegard’s behalf to the effect that a luminary of tha...
Sunday, August 2, 2026
It takes a village to raze a child
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"It takes a village to raise a child," but it can take a smaller "village" (of meddlesome, know-it-all busybodies) to ra...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Faith AND life
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"These half-dozen questions effectively synthesized what the Tudor regime had been pursuing piecemeal, as the opportunity arose, ...
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