Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Simone Weil on (capital) punishment

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      "Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.  There are two kinds of punishment, disciplinary and penal. . . . [T]he most indis...
Saturday, October 3, 2026

"one day they will be our co-heirs[,] just as here below they are our guardians and trustees"

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"O God, Who in thine unspeakable Providence hast been pleased to give thine holy Angels charge over us, to keep us, mercifully grant un...
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Pseudo C. S. Lewis

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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." "You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a n...
Monday, September 28, 2026

"every [(toute)] avoidable error"-in-"print" must be punished, with "prison or hard labor" if necessary

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     "The need of truth is more sacred than any other need. . . .  One feels afraid to read when once one has realized the quantity and...
Monday, September 21, 2026

Nos. two and three of Baumstark's "celebrated" "laws of liturgical development" ("criteria . . . of relative [liturgical] age")

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"a [liturgical] text is [1] the more ancient the less influenced by the Bible and [2] the more recent the more symmetrical.  What is mo...
Saturday, September 19, 2026

Oratio, Feast of St. Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church, 17 September

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"Deus, fons vitae, qui sanctam Hildegardem, virginem, prophetico spiritu imbuisti, fac nos, quaesumus, eius exemplo et intercessione, v...
Friday, September 18, 2026

"Changes of habit"

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     "In the summer of 1538 the order was put out for former regulars to remove habits or face the capital punishment of felons. Anecdo...