America! America! God mend thine every flaw,

confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law.

America the Beautiful

For us who are fallen and continue to fall, it is hard to want less the evil we want. We must then want more the good we also want. Lord, I want – help my unwanting!

Very few priests know how to speak to God at Mass. This is more evident in the vernacular.

We pray that heaven come to earth. Meaning in the Our Father

This means Good News ahead.

For me, it is dawn.

Which saves more souls – evangelizing or proselytizing?

Jesus says what we should do; he seldom says how we should feel.

#1393 The modern world will not be punished. It is the punishment. —Nicolás Gómez Dávila archive.org/details/N…

We ask God not to lead us into temptation because often enough it is where we want to go.

A university has a wealth of knowledge because students enter as freshman knowing everything and leave as seniors knowing nothing. —Columbia University professor, 1968

Hanukkah

The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. Wikipedia

The recent Supreme Court decisions seem to to be based more than previously on the written Constitution.

When we look into the apocryphal gospels, we find ourselves constantly saying of this or that logion, ‘No. It’s a fine saying, but not his. —C. S. Lewis, Fern-Seed and Elephants

Nobody talks like him. Sc. 56

There is no such thing as modern art; there is only one kind of art and it is everlasting! —Egon Schiele

You are not a category.

Banning racial preferences doesn’t ban consideration of an individual’s racial experiences.

As all parties agree, nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise. [Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College] (https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23864004/students-for-fair-admissions-inc-v-president-and-fellows-of-harvard-college.pdf)

Two cities have been formed by two loves. City of God, Book XIV, Chapter 28

For St. Augustine, love is not love.