One doubts that the synod is the work of the Holy Spirit, since the Holy Spirit daily whispers inspirations that Church leaders appear not to hear.
Let us use inaccurate words, if necessary, in exchange for understanding each other quickly. —Eugenio d’Ors
“Everything that is not tradition is plagiarism,” according to Salvador Dali. —Frederick Wilhelmsen
Wilhelmsen: The Great Books: Enemies of Wisdom?
Great Books fanaticism ignores the audience and in so doing reveals its parochialism, its innocence towards history. We no longer live in a book-dominated culture; to treat our students as though we did is to violate their very psychic structure. Today we enter a new kind of Middle Ages, but Great Books people still absent-mindedly behave as though they were living in the eighteenth or nineteenth century. —Frederick Wilhelmsen
I never read a book when I am away, and seldom when I’m at home.
I suspect that there are few bureaucratic institutions which employ and place into a position of responsibility even one unfettered individual who understands so well the best purpose of that institution and whose total energies are devoted to furthering that purpose. —Helen B. Ryan
Helen B. Ryan, Frank S. Hanlin: A Memorial Statement (1982)
He tells you why these manuscripts were created and explains to you the complications, expense, and huge undertaking involved in their manufacture and how they were thus special objects owned only by the very rich, very royal, and very devout. —Helen Hazen, “Antiquarian Dreams: Sometimes it’s okay to judge history by its cover”, reviewing Christopher de Hamel, Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
Helen Hazen, “Endless Rewriting”
The Helen B. Ryan Papers “contains numerous letters from Ryan’s editor, Jacques Barzun of Scribner’s Sons. His letters include critiques of her writing and ideas for research.”
We own this painting. www.instagram.com/reel/CtJn…
Dear Priests: The Gospel reading is not a warm-up act for you.
In the NO Mass, the altar server serves comparatively little and is hardly ever at the altar, certainly not at the most important moment of the Mass.
Eternity is bigger than time.
Life is more important than looks, faith than followers.
Desserts on the deck.
No mutton yesterday at Cafe Mutton.
To not forgive is human. To say one will not forgive is unchristian.
He retired after 21 years as Archbishop in 1970, and then served as a parish priest at St. Basil’s Church in Downtown Los Angeles, where he privately celebrated the Tridentine Mass on the side altars. Wikipedia:Cardinal McIntyre
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