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- I dread it as it approaches and think of ways to avoid it. (36%, 9,555 Votes)
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Should the Bishops of the USA have us return to obligatory meatless Fridays during the whole year and not just during Lent?
- Yes, and I think this is very important. (81%, 15,546 Votes)
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Category Archives: Patristiblogging
Aggiornamento and ressourcement
An esteemed commenter noted in another entry that aggiornamento and ressourcement must go hand in hand in order to be faithful to both. For without ressourcement, aggiornamento loses its bearings, and with out aggiornamento, ressourcement fails to effectively fulfill any … Read More
Of thieves and Nancy Pelosi
While I tip my biretta to Dominic Bettinelli, I do so with irritated amusement. o{]:¬\ I am not irritated at Dominic, of course, but at Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). The Rep from CA did something truly dopey on the floor … Read More
A rant, the Centurion, and frequent Communion
Have you ever kept a ratty old pair of jeans, or maybe a threadbare robe, maybe a pair of shoes that should have long gone to the dump simply because they are familiar? "New and far more useful dish rags … Read More
Fellow patristicists UNITE: Opinion Journal (WSJ) on ICEL
Opinion Journal arrives in my inbox everyday and I look forward to it. Imagine my delight that a fellow patristicist wrote a piece on the recent vote of the USCCB to approve the English translation! Here it is. (Emphasis and … Read More
Augustine: Centurion’s heart was already Christ’s throne
We have been looking extensively at "dew". Another of the controverted proposed translations for the texts of Mass concerns the words before reception of Holy Communion: "I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof… Non sum dignus … Read More
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Paulinus on dew: “The drops of our darkness”
Today is the feast of St. Paulinus of Nola (+431). Could you go through this day without knowing what this great poet and letter writer (the ancient verison of a patristiblogger) said about "dew". Of course not!! In ep. 23,33 … Read More
Paul VI: Nourished by the dewing
Frequent WDTPRS contributor Andrew posted a gem, on dew, as a comment to another thread in this blog: Here it is (emphasis mine): Interesting how Latin uses the concept of dew in various forms. In addition to “Ros, Roris” (dew) … Read More
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Dew and the Holy Ghost
"Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this … Read More
“A pledge of eternal life”: Augustine on “dew”
I am sure you are really scratching your head about what “dew” could possibly mean in the Second Eucharistic Prayer: “Hæc ergo dona, quæsumus, Spiritus tui rore sanctifica, ut nobis Corpus et Sanguis fiant Domini nostri Iesu Christi… literally… Therefore, … Read More
Newman, hard words, and dew
I have been reading a wide circle and a narrow about the issue of "dew" and "precious chalice" and all these words which some people think are too hard for us dopes to grasp. My peregrinations brought me today to … Read More
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