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Robert Royal
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It does not matter how weak you are - how strong the enemy may seem, either in number or in power. Do not be discouraged. The help you have from heaven is more powerful than all that hell can send to ... |
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Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply... |
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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
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Prayer for the Saints (1968)
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By Philip M. Hannan, former archbishop of New Orleans
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God, we ask your blessing upon all who participate in this event, and all who have supported our Saints. Our heavenly father, who has instructed us that the “saints by faith conquered kingdoms..... |
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 |
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Real growth
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By E. F. Schumacher
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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our... |
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 |
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Jerusalem
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By William Blake
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AND did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth... |
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No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Nor dirges play nor toll the dismal bell,
For when in earth I’m laid at last to bed
My spirit will in a better country dwell,
Where then what is will be... |
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Monday, 01 February 2010 |
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Heaven
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By John Paul II
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In the context of Revelation, we know that the “heaven” or “happiness” in which we will find ourselves is neither an abstraction nor a physical place in the clouds, but a livin... |
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Artists have often portrayed the human body, clothed and unclothed, in various depictions and poses. While the danger of immodesty exists even with regard to works of art, the evil of pornography is g... |
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 |
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Priesthood
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By Father William Saunders
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The restriction of holy orders to men alone does not denigrate the role of women in the Church. Think of some of the great female saints like St. Clare, St. Teresa of Avila, and St. Catherine of Siena... |
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Marxism, as it was practiced in Eastern Europe, was a cult of progress. We are destroying the past in order to build the future, the communist leaders explained: We are razing the buildings, eradicati... |
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What use is it to pile task on task and prolong the days of labor, if at the close the chief object is left unattained? It is not the fault of the teachers—they work only too hard already. The c... |
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion ... |
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There isn't any reason why President Bush has to renounce a friendship with Ted Kennedy, just so long as he makes it clear to the American public that Mr. Kennedy is an utter ass when prescribing poli... |
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There is so much suffering in our world, and human selfishness continues in many ways to harm creation. For this reason, the yearning for salvation which affects all creation is that much more intense... |
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There is in Islam a paradox which is perhaps a permanent menace. The great creed born in the desert creates a kind of ecstasy out of the very emptiness of its own land, and even, one may say, out of t... |
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. . . [W]e hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, “that religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction,... |
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Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence. |
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We are not those rosy-cheeked saints with golden beards whom pious folk behold in pictures, whose eloquence and perfect health even philosophers would envy. Our task is not as the world imagines it. C... |
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A thing may be known in two ways: first, in itself; secondly, in its effect, wherein some likeness of that thing is found: thus someone not seeing the sun in its substance, may know it by its rays. So... |
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Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. |
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010 |
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Time
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By Peter Kreeft
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Time is like the setting of a play. The setting is really part of the play, contained by the play, determined by the play. But we often think the opposite: we think the play is contained by the settin... |
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Monday, 11 January 2010 |
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In no name
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By Isaiah 63: 17-20
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O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways,
and harden our heart, so that we fear you not?
Return for the sake of your servants,
the tribes of your heritage.
Your holy people held possession... |
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It makes nonsense to say that men have, on the one hand, rights, and on the other hand, obligations. Such words only express differences in point of view. The actual relationship between the two is as... |
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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign by whose command the war is to be waged. For it is not the business of a private individual to decl... |
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Wednesday, 06 January 2010 |
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Beware!
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By John of Salisbury
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Interdum sibi laesit nasum vel eruit oculum, qui salutifer signo faciem munire disponit.
(Sometimes a man who seeks to protect his face by making the sign of the cross injures his nose or puts out ... |
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We have conquered the world and found that your creation is complete,
And that the imperfect has no place among your perfected works, and
that our imaginations cannot add
A single term to t... |
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Poetic intuition makes things which it grasps diaphanous and alive, and populated with infinite horizons. As grasped by poetic knowledge, things abound in significance and swarm with meanings. T... |
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If God exists, then there is no meaningless time, no time devoid of significance. Every moment has its value, even if all I can do is to endure my illness in silence. If God exists, then there is alwa... |
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Christmas invites us into this silence of God, and his mystery remains hidden to so many people because they cannot find the silence in which God acts. How do we find it? Mere silence on its own doe... |
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The ox and the ass are not simply products of the pious imagination: the Church's faith in the unity of the Old and New Testaments has given them their role as an accompaniment of the Christmas event.... |
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There are a great many bishops in the Church, but would to God we were the zealous teachers and pastors that we promised to be at our consecration, and still make profession of being. The harvest is g... |
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The tree of life is not far from us, somewhere in a world we have lost. It has been established in our midst, not only as an image and sign, but as a reality. Jesus, who is himself the fruit of the ... |
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Our Gospel [today] closes with the words: "We have beheld his glory. . ." (John 1.14) These could be the words of the shepherds as they return from the stable and sum up what they have exper... |
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When the time is not filled with a meaningful presence, waiting becomes unbearable. When the present moment remains completely empty—when all we can do is look for something to come, amd there i... |
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Blessed Woman,
Excellent Man,
Redeem for the dull the
Average Way,
That common ungifted
Natures may
Believe that their normal
Vision can
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Faith is by its nature a commitment, and without firmness there is no commitment. The biblical idea of faith is clearly opposed to doubt, as appears from the story of Zachary (Luke 1: 18-20) and the w... |
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"A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The was deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter."
And the camels galled,... |
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The burden of Christmas-present giving has of late years been grievously increased by the growing sophistication of the modern child. In the good old days it was possible to give a child practically a... |
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Thursday, 17 December 2009 |
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En garde
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By St. Francis de Sales
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We must be on guard against deception in friendships, especially when they are contracted between persons of different sexes, no matter what the pretext may be. Satan often tricks those (who) begin wi... |
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 |
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Hail Mary
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By Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
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In dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary, call upon Mary. Let not her name depart from your lips, never suffer it to leave your heart. And that you may obtain the assistance of her prayer... |
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The fact that in the fullness of time the Eternal Word took on the condition of a creature gives a unique cosmic value to the event which took place in Bethlehem two thousand years ago. Thanks to th... |
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Hear T.S. Eliot read his great poem. |
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God’s sign is simplicity. God’s sign is the baby. God’s sign is that he makes himself small for us. This is how he reigns. He does not come with power and outward splendor. He comes ... |
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Thanks to his intuition as a brilliant physicist and by relying on different arguments, Galileo, who practically invented the experimental method, understood why only the sun could function as the cen... |
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The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste. |
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009 |
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Conceived Without Sin
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By Blessed John Henry Newman
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A Protestant is apt to say: “Oh, I really never, never can accept such a doctrine from the hands of the Church, and I had a thousand thousand times rather determine that the Church spoke falsely... |
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I think I am right in saying that the tradition of the Apostles, committed to the whole Church in its various constituents and functions per modum unius, manifests itself variously at various times: s... |
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look ar... |
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Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.... |
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Alone, alone, about a dreadful wood
Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind,
Dreading to find its Father lest it find
The Goodness it has dreaded is not good:
Alone, alone, about our dreadful wood.... |
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The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap,
His hair was like a light.
(O weary, weary were the world,
But here is all aright.)
The Christ-child lay on Mary's breast,
His hair was like a star.
(... |
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For fostering a true consciousness in liturgical matters, it is also important that the proscription against the form of liturgy in valid use up to 1970 should be lifted. Anyone who nowadays advocates... |
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By the bivouac's fitful flame,
A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow—but
first I note,
The tents of the sleeping army, the fields' and woods' dim outline,
The darkness ... |
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America has much for which to be thankful. The unequaled freedom enjoyed by our citizens has provided a harvest of plenty to this nation throughout its history. In keeping with America’s heritag... |
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I do not know whether an animal killed at Christmas has had a better or a worse time than it would have had if there had been no Christmas or no Christmas dinners. But I do know that the fighting and ... |
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In a special way, believers in Christ must defend and promote this right, aware as they are of the wonderful truth recalled by the Second Vatican Council: "By his incarnation the Son of ... |
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Christ is the Light of nations. Because this is so, this Sacred Synod gathered together in the Holy Spirit eagerly desires, by proclaiming the Gospel to every creature, to bring the light of Christ to... |
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I am aware of the ways in which charity has been and continues to be misconstrued and emptied of meaning, with the consequent risk of being misinterpreted, detached from ethical living and, in any eve... |
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(P. G. Wodehouse's) Bertie Wooster. . .not only knows that he is a person of no account, but also never expects to become anything else; till his dying day he will remain, he knows, a footler who requ... |
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Some people want to insult and abuse the army, because it’s a good line these days. . . . In fact, at all political demonstrations it is a required theme. If you don’t take that line you d... |
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People are losing the power to enjoy Christmas through identifying it with enjoyment. When once they lose sight of the old suggestion that it is all about something, they naturally fall into blank pau... |
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If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. |
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It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one's own. It is always easy to be a modernist; as it is easy to be a snob. To have fallen into any of those open traps... |
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Thursday, 12 November 2009 |
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Mary and mystagogy
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By John Paul II, Rosarium Virginis Mariae
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The Rosary is one of the traditional paths of Christian prayer directed to the contemplation of Christ's face. Pope Paul VI described it in these words: “As a Gospel prayer, centred on the myste... |
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009 |
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Benediction
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By Charles Baudelaire
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Blessèd be You, O God, who give us pain,
As cure for our impurity and wrong —
Essence that primes the stalwart to sustain
Seraphic raptures that were else too strong.
I know ... |
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009 |
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To the reader
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By Charles Baudelaire
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Folly and error, sin and avarice,
Labor our minds and bodies in their course,
Blithely we nourish pleasurable remorse
As beggars feed their parasitic lice.
Our sins are stubborn, our repent... |
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We cannot say: creation or evolution, inasmuch as these two things respond to two different realities. The story of the dust of the earth and the breath of God . . . does not in fact explain how human... |
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Friday, 06 November 2009 |
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A dangerous aversion
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By Benedict XVI, The Regensburg Address
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I am reminded of something Socrates said to Phaedo. In their earlier conversations, many false philosophical opinions had been raised, and so Socrates says: “It would be easily understandable ... |
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 |
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The one, true Church
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By Venerable John Henry Newman, A Grammar of Assent
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The “One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church” is an article of the Creed, and an article, which, inclusive of her infallibility, all men, high and low, can easily master and accept with a r... |
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Wednesday, 04 November 2009 |
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The acceptable time
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By Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ
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The present is very precious; these are the days of salvation; now is the acceptable time. How sad that you do not spend the time in which you might purchase everlasting life in a better way. The time... |
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I would go so far as to say that if there was no purgatory, then we would have to invent it, for who would dare say of himself that he was able to stand directly before God. |
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Speaking against the Magisterium of the Church is presented as courageous. In reality, however, it does not take courage for this, since you can always be sure of audience applause. . . .Rather it tak... |
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Friday, 30 October 2009 |
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War and peace
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By Cardinal Francis George
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For eighty years we were a slave republic, and it took a terrible war to end that. And now for forty years we're in an abortion regime, and I'm not sure how that's going to end. |
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Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, it's pleasures, and it's pains, to a dear friend. Tell him your troubles, that he may comfort you; tell him your joys, that he may sober... |
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 |
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The other China
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By Confucius, Analects, 2:4
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At fifteen, I set my heart on learning. At thirty, I was firmly established. At forty, I had no more doubts. At fifty, I knew the will of heaven. At sixty, I was ready to listen to it. At seventy, I c... |
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
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Dear Member of Congress
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By Bishop William F. Murphy, Cardinal Justin Rigali, Bishop John Wester
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On behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), we are writing to express our disappointment that progress has not been made on the three priority criteria for health care refor... |
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Vampires for me were always like feeling grief for my lost childhood faith, being cut off from that life. I reached the point where I didn’t have any more stories to tell from that point of view... |
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I can't feel that the Church of England is an ultimate solution: in fifty or a hundred years I believe we Romanizers will either have got the Church or been thrown out of it. |
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 |
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On the road
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By Archbishop Timothy Dolan, installation homily
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[A]re we not at times perhaps like those two dejected disciples on the road to Emmaus? They were so absorbed in their own woes, so forlorn in their mistaken conclusion that the one in whom they had pl... |
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The awareness of being saved by the love of Christ, which every Mass nourishes in the faithful and especially in priests, cannot but arouse within them a trusting self-abandonment to Christ who gave h... |
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Luther set up the highest spiritual principle: pure inwardness. It may become so dangerous that we can sink to the lowest of lowest paganism (however, the highet and the lowest are like one another) w... |
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Not merely learning about divine things but also experiencing them - that does not come from mere intellectual acquaintance with the terms of scientific theology, but from loving the things of God and... |
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The obvious truth is that the moment any matter has passed through the human mind it is finally and for ever spoilt for all purposes of science. It has become a thing incurably mysterious and infinite... |
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While Eucharistic symbolism is well suited to helping us understand the effect that is proper to this Sacrament – the unity of the Mystical Body – still it does not indicate or explain wha... |
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 |
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The Maine answer
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By StandforMarriageMaine.com
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Yes on Question 1- the People’s Veto - does not discriminate against gays; it simply restores the meaning of marriage and protects it as an essential institution that has benefited mankind since... |
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009 |
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All wolves
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By Thomas Jefferson
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We have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long as we remain honest—which will be as long as we can keep the attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive to p... |
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself. |
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Friday, 09 October 2009 |
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Gay marriage?
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By U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
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What are called 'homosexual unions,' because they do not express full human complementarity and because they are inherently non-procreative, cannot be given the status of marriage. |
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Thursday, 08 October 2009 |
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Tribulations
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By Saint Thomas More
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We may not look at our pleasures to go to heaven in featherbeds; it is not the way, for our Lord Himself went thither with great pain, and by many tribulations, which was the path wherein He walked th... |
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Wednesday, 07 October 2009 |
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The civil authority
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By Pius XII, Summi Pontificatus
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Once the authority of God and the sway of His law are denied in this way, the civil authority as an inevitable result tends to attribute to itself that absolute autonomy which belongs exclusively to t... |
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It is my practice to direct the graduating seniors each year to the prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas for after Holy Communion, since it contains great wisdom about the Christian life. St. Thomas prays, &l... |
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I have been in many churches, chapels, and halls where a confident pride in having got beyond creeds was coupled with quite a paralysed incapacity to get beyond catchwords. But wherever the falsity ap... |
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Friday, 02 October 2009 |
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The Book of nature
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By Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate
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In order to protect nature, it is not enough to intervene with economic incentives or deterrents; not even an apposite education is sufficient. These are important steps, but the decisive issue is the... |
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Thursday, 01 October 2009 |
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Confirmation prayer
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By Catechism of the Catholic Church
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All-powerful God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
by water and the Holy Spirit
you freed your sons and daughters from sin
and gave them new life.
Send your Holy Spirit upon them
to be their ... |
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BOSWELL: " So, Sir, you are no great enemy to the Roman Catholic religion."
JOHNSON: "No more, Sir, than to the Presbyterian religion."
BOSWELL: " You are joking."... |
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While the period of interference from political totalitarianism has passed, is it not the case that frequently, across the globe, the exercise of reason and academic research are – subtly and no... |
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When I reflect, as I often do, on the ardor with which the patriarchs longed for the incarnation of Christ, I am pierced with sorrow and shame. And now I can scarcely contain my tears, so ashamed am I... |
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Same-sex marriage is quite different from bans on interracial marriage in one powerful respect: It asks religious Americans to surrender a core belief – no, not Leviticus (disapproval of gay s... |
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War makes death real to us, and that would have been regarded as one of its blessings by most of the great Christians of the past. . . . All the animal life in us, all schemes of happiness that center... |
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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. |
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009 |
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The path to zero
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By Archbishop Edwin O'Brien
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Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but both the human knowledge and the technical capability to build weapons cannot be undone. A world with zero nuclear weapons will need robust measures to monitor, ... |
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. |
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Friday, 18 September 2009 |
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Marry young
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By Frederica Mathewes-Green
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A pattern of late marriage may actually increase the rate of divorce. During that initial decade of physical adulthood, young people may not be getting married, but they’re still falling in love... |
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Thursday, 17 September 2009 |
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Politics and religion
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By James Carroll of Carrollton
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Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happi... |
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When the battle is at hand, they arm themselves interiorly with faith and exteriorly with steel rather than decorate themselves with gold, since their business is to strike fear in the enemy rather th... |
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Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. |
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Monday, 14 September 2009 |
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Declaration on Euthanasia
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By Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
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It is necessary to state firmly once more that nothing and no one can in any way permit the killing of an innocent human being, whether a fetus or an embryo, an infant or an adult, an old person, or o... |
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Oh, how I love Humanity,
With love so pure and pringlish,
And how I hate the horrid French,
Who never will be English!
The International Idea,
The largest and the clearest,... |
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. . . .We forget - I kept saying - that we are all children of the King.
For where we come from there is no division
into Yes and No, into is, was, and will be.
We were miserable, we used no mo... |
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Wednesday, 09 September 2009 |
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Liberalism
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By John Henry Newman
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Ye cannot halve the Gospel of God's grace;
Men of presumptuous heart! I know you well.
Ye are of those who plan that we should dwell,
Each in his tranquil home and holy place;
Seeing the Word refi... |
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The year of grace 1654, Monday, 23 November, feast of St. Clement, pope and martyr, and others in the martyrology.
Vigil of St. Chrysogonus, martyr, and others.
From about half past ten at night u... |
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Monday, 07 September 2009 |
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On Human Work
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By John Paul II, Laborem Exercens
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THROUGH WORK man must earn his daily bread and contribute to the continual advance of science and technology and, above all, to elevating unceasingly the cultural and moral level of the society w... |
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And the second commandment of the Teaching; You shall not commit murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit pederasty, you shall not commit fornication, you shall not steal, you shall... |
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A university is a blessed place, a sacred space in which persons converse in the pursuit of universal knowledge. In universities, mind speaks to mind, and (over time) heart speaks to heart. For what w... |
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever... |
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73. Abortion and euthanasia are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose ... |
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Brothers! Spare reasoning; - men have settled long
That ye are out of date, and they are wise;
Use their own weapons; let your words be strong,
Your cry be loud, till each scared boaster flies.
Th... |
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Friday, 28 August 2009 |
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Moment of Truth
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By Archbishop Charles Chaput
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We're at a time for the Church in our country when some Catholics – too many – are discovering that they've gradually become non-Catholics who happen to go to Mass. That's sad and diff... |
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Thursday, 27 August 2009 |
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Prayer for life
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By John A. Hardon, S.J.
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Lord Jesus Christ, you are the Author of human life. You, with our God the Father and the Holy Spirit alone have the right to determine who should be conceived and how.
You are also the Destiny of ... |
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Through baptism a person is reborn to a spiritual life, one proper to Christ’s faithful, as the Apostle says (Gal 2:20), “the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God... |
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 |
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Get it right
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By St. Thomas Aquinas
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.... |
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Even revelation is a dialogical process. In revelation God addresses us and speaks to us as to his friends and moves among us in order to invite and receive us into his own company (Dei Verbum, 2). Th... |
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Thus says the LORD: In Ramah is heard the sound of moaning, of bitter weeping! Rachel mourns her children, she refuses to be consoled because her children are no more.
Jeremiah 31:15
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For the early Christians, there was no difference between what today is often distinguished as orthodoxy and orthopraxis, as right doctrine and right action. Indeed, when this distinction is made, the... |
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009 |
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Dominion
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By Book of Genesis
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Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the cre... |
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I’m quite encouraged by the antipathy of the media towards the Catholic Church. Christ said that it would be a sign of contradiction.
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Christians from the earliest times went from other countries to Jerusalem to see the holy places. And, when the time of persecution was over, they paid still more attention to the bodies of the Saints... |
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The Church is not something dead: it is the body of Christ endowed with supernatural life. As Christ, the Head and Exemplar, is not wholly in His visible human nature . . . nor wholly in the in... |
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Wednesday, 12 August 2009 |
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Ideology
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By Kenneth Minogue
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Ideology provides sham religion and sham philosophy, comforting in its way to those who have lost or never have known genuine religious faith, and to those not sufficiently intelligent to apprehend ... |
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"What is the world's religion now? It has taken the brighter side of the Gospel, its tidings of comfort, its precepts of love; all darker, deeper views of man's condition and prospects being comp... |
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[D]ecadence, relative to truth, has depths. The least serious is just ignorance of the truth. Second, and a deeper level, is exclusion of the truth. . . . [Y]ou not only don't know, but you accept and... |
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Thursday, 06 August 2009 |
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Erring Reason
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By Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae
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The will of those who slew the apostles was evil. And yet it was in accord with the erring reason, according to John 16:2: "The hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he do... |
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Wednesday, 05 August 2009 |
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The Collar
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By George Herbert
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I Struck the board, and cry’d, No more.
I will abroad.
What? shall I ever sigh and pine?
My lines and life are free; free as the rode,
Loose as the winde, as large as store.
Shall I be ... |
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You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift up the wage earner by pullin... |
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Monday, 03 August 2009 |
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God's Grandeur
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By Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Gener... |
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I proffer the thesis that, over the past generation . . . the amount of deviant behavior in American society has increased beyond the levels the community can “afford to recognize” and tha... |
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At the end of what is called the “sexual life” the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted e... |
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 |
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Imagine
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By Jane Susan Campbell
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Believe me, it is a terrifying experience to lie in a hospital bed and hear your doctors—the very people you should trust most—calmly decide that your life isn't worth living.
And the a... |
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And I too, when born, inhaled the common air, and fell upon the kindred earth; wailing, I uttered that first sound common to all.
In swaddling clothes and with constant care I was nurtured.
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