Pearls

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13/11/2014

Evangelii gaudium

34. If we attempt to put all things in a missionary key, this will also affect the way we communicate the message. In today’s world of instant communication and occasionally biased media coverage, the message we preach runs a greater risk of being distorted or reduced to some of its [...]

05/11/2014

Unpublished: Hugo of St. Victor 5

Hugo de San Victor., De Unione corporis et spiritus. Jacques Paul Migne., P.L 177. (285-294) Cogitationes etiam compages vocantur, quia quodammodo ita desideria adinvicem copulant, sicut compages membrorum artus ligant. Compago enim vinculum est quod medium est, et extrema conjugit. Et [...]

01/11/2014

Review: Inner life

Joseph Tissot., La vida interior. Herder (2011) ISBN 9788425427367 Joseph Tissot., Inner life. His work aims to address the foundation of the Christian life. Show where they should be the basis of the inner life. Tissot underlines that the end of the inner life is none other than [...]

21/10/2014

Unpublished: Hugo of St. Victor 4

Hugo de San Victor., De Unione corporis et spiritus. Jacques Paul Migne., P.L 177. (285-294) Semel locutus est Deus (Psal LXI) quia unum Verbum genuit, per quod omnia fecit. Hoc Verbum est sermo eius. Unus est ergo sermo Dei, quia unum est Verbum Dei. Et ideo vere unus, quia unius unus, qui [...]

15/10/2014

Review: El criterio

Jaime Balmes., El criterio, Biblioteca de autores cristianos, Madrid (2011) ISBN 9788422015529 Balmes was born at Vic in Catalonia, Spain and baptized the same day in the cathedral of that city with the name of Jaime Luciano Antonio. He died in the same city. In 1817, Balmes began his [...]

05/10/2014

Unpublished: Hugo of St. Victor 3

Hugo de San Victor., De Unione corporis et spiritus. Jacques Paul Migne., P.L 177. (285-294) Est itaque imaginatio similitudo sensus, in summo corporalis spiritus, et in imo rationalis corporalem informans et rationalem contingens. Sensus namque sive per visum, sive per auditum, sive per [...]

03/10/2014

Review: Spiritual treasure

Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great (Greek: Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Μέγας; 329 or 330[5] – January 1 or 2, 379), was the Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in [...]

22/09/2014

Unpublished: Hugo of St. Victor 2

Hugo de San Victor., De Unione corporis et spiritus. Jacques Paul Migne., P.L 177. (285-294) In his ergo quatuor quaecunque magis sensui subiaceut, magis corpora dicuntur : quae vero a sensu plus longe sunt, magis a natura corporum recedunt, et ad naturam spirituum accedunt. Hinc est quod [...]

15/09/2014

Review: The Mysteries of Christianity

Jean Daniélou S.J. (1905–1974) was a theologian, historian, cardinal and a member of the Académie Française. Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, son of Charles and Madeleine (née Clamorgan). His father was an anticlerical [...]

05/09/2014

Unpublished: Hugo of St. Victor

DE UNIONE CORPORIS ET SPIRITUS Hugo de San Victor., De Unione corporis et spiritus. Jacques Paul Migne., P.L 177. (285-294) Quod natum est ex carne caro est, et quod natum est ex spiritu est (Jn 3). Si nihil inter spiritum et corpus medium esset, neque spiritus eum corpore, neque corpus cum [...]

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