"God himself will set me free, from the hunter's snare. | —God himself will set me free, from the hunter's snare. | From those who would entrap me with lying words | —and from the hunter's snare."

℟. Ipse liberabit me * De laqueo venantium.  Ipse.
℣.  Et a verbo maligno.  *De laqueo venatium.  Gloria Patri.  Ipse.

     Responsorium breve, frequently in the Liturgia horarum.  malig* occurs with verb* (so as to constitute "malicious words" (Douay-Rheims)) in the Vulgate of 3 John 10 only.  But the responsorium as a whole comes from Ps 90:3:  "Quoniam ipse liberavit me de laqueo venantium, et a verbo aspero" ("sharp word" (Douay-Rheims), underscoring mine).

"As morning breaks we sing of your mercy, Lord, and night will find us proclaiming your praise."

Mt. Angel Abbey

"Annuntiamus mane misericordiam tuam, Domine, et veritatem tuam per noctem."

We proclaim at dawn your mercy, O Lord, and your truth throughout the night.

     Antiphon 1 for Morning prayer, Second Saturday of Lent.
     Though misericordia and veritas appear very often together in the Vulgate, this antiphon appears to have been been newly composed for the post-Vatican II Liturgia horarum, as I have not been able to get it to appear in CANTUS.

"None but the Schola Theologorum is competent to determine the force of Papal and Synodal utterances".

"When the Church teaches with authority, theologians explain the exact meaning of these decrees 'in order to make [them] as tolerable as possible.' Such an approach, Newman argues, is not minimalism but a doctrinal moderation consistent with sound faith. The decisions of councils and popes are authoritative for Newman. However, such statements also mark the beginning of sustained reflection wherein theologians determine precisely how and in which exact manner they are in continuity with the prior tradition. This is why Newman can say that [the prophetic power of] theology 'has restrained and corrected such extravagances as have been committed, through human infirmity, in the exercise of the regal [episcopal] and sacerdotal [pastors and the faithful] powers.' Even popes can be salutarily corrected. . . . In a private letter, Newman remarks that theological schools protect the church from the encroachments of popes and councils."

     Thomas G. Guarino, Vincent of Lérins and the development of Christian doctrine (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2013), . I was put onto this by Reinhard Hütter, “Authentic development of doctrine between Scylla and Charybdis,” Thomistic Institute Angelicum, 7 December 2019.  The header, also quoted by Hütter, following Guarino, is from the famous "Letter . . . to the Duke of Norfolk", where, however, it is directed against the Anglican Gladstone, not the regal and sacerdotal (as distinguished from the prophetic) powers/offices of the Church as understood by Newman in the important 1877 Preface to the third (Catholic) edition of The via media of the Anglican church.

"My youthful years were spent [in the slave trade] in Africa, and I ought to take my degrees (if I take any) from thence."

Seattle Pacific University Archives

     "I have been hurt by 2 or 3 by letters directed to D^r. Newton.  I beg you to inform my friends in Scotland as they come in your way, that after a little time, if any letters come to me, addressed to D^r. Newton I shall be obliged to send them back unopened.  I know no such person, I never shall, I never will, by the Grace of God.

     "Do not think I am displeased with you or any of my kind friends, who mean me kindness and honour by such an address.  I only beg for my peace sake, that it may not be repeated.

     "I have been informed that a College in America, I think in the New Jersey, has given me the Honory degree of Doctor.  So far as this mark of their favour, indicates a regard to the Gospel truths which I profess, I am much pleased with it.  But as to the title itself I renounce it heartily; nor would I willingly be known by it, if all the Universities in Europe can conferred it upon me.  My youthful years were spent in Africa, and I ought to take my degrees (if I take any) from thence.  Shall such a compound of misery & mischief as I then was, be called Doctor?  Surely not."

     Newton, John, Letter from John Newton to John Campbell, June 2, 1792. Newton/Campbell Letters 19.  https://digitalcommons.spu.edu/newton_campbell/19/.  See also Letters and conversational remarks, by the late Rev. John Newton, rector of St. Mary Woolnoth, Lombard-street, London: during the last eighteen years of his life, ed. John Campbell (New York:  S. Whiting & co., theological and classical booksellers, Paul & Thomas, printers, 1811), 5-6.  It would be fun to track documentation of this honorary Doctor of Divinity down from the side of Princeton University.

"God's thought of lions is lionlike"

     "It is a poor speaker of French who thinks in English and translates as he goes; the true master of tongues thinks as he talks.  He is a Frenchman in France and a German in Germany; why, he may find himself dreaming in German or in French.  The shape, the idiom of the Creator’s thought is the very shape and idiom of his creature’s existence.  God’s thought of man is human, for he thinks man as he is.  It is true that his thought of man stretches man, and reaches out into possibilities undreamt by us; but these possibilities are still  human.  God’s thought for us extends into the heaven he has prepared for us; but heaven itself is a human state; it is the state of man-in-glory.  God’s thought of lions is lionlike, and of sparrows sparrow-like; and elementary things that have neither life nor sense are thought and willed by him exactly as they are or as they go."

     Austin Farrer, God is not dead (New York:  Morehouse-Barlow Co., 1966), 74.  God is not dead was first published in Great Britain as A science of God?

Jesus is He "who alone . . . walks on the sea as on dry ground" (Job 9:8 LXX NETS; cf. Ps 107:29-30), passing us by (9:11; Mk 6:48), and yet, when necessary, getting "into the boat with [us]", and calming the storm (6:51).

"The Lord seeth them that are toiling in the sea, albeit He be Himself on the land. Although He seem for a moment to tarry in succouring the distressed, nevertheless the look of His love is strengthening them, all the while, lest they should faint and sometimes [(aliquando)] He setteth them free, even by an open deliverance [(manifesto adjutorio)], conquering all their adversaries for them, as when He walked upon the swelling of the waves, and stilled them."

     St. Bede, Homily on Mark 6:45 ff., as translated in the Tridentine Breviary at Matins on the Saturday after Ash Wednesday.  Latin from PL 93, col. 196C-D (I haven't checked the critical edition somewhere in CCSL 118-123 (1953 ff.)).  The two sentences immediately preceding:

Verily, He forgetteth not the prayer of the poor, neither turneth He His face away from any that putteth his trust in Him; yea, rather, to him whosoever is striving with the enemy, He giveth help to conquer, and, whosoever conquereth, to him He giveth an everlasting crown. For the which reason also it is here said plainly He saw them toiling in rowing.

Sad enough

     "This book has been written out of a deep sorrow at witnessing the emergence of false prophets within the City of God.  It is sad enough when people lose their faith and leave the Church.  But it is much worse when those who in reality have lost their faith remain within the Church and try—like termites—to undermine Christian faith with their claim that they are giving to Christian revelation the interpretation that suits 'modern man.'"

     Dietrich von Hildebrand, Trojan horse in the city of God (Chicago:  Franciscan Herald Press, 1967), Epilogue, p. 223.  Cf. C. S. Lewis.  From p. 265 of the editorially modified Sophia Institute Press edition of 1993:

This book has been written out of a deep sorrow at witnessing the emergence of false prophets within the City of God.  It is sad enough when people lose their faith and leave the Church; but it is much worse when those who in reality have lost their faith remain within the Church and try—like termites—to undermine Christian faith with their claim that they are giving to Christian revelation the interpretation that suits 'modern man.'

     I was put onto this passage by Kendall Harmon.