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et vita manifestáta est: 2010-09
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Et vita manifestáta est. Today we commemorate St Jerome, Doctor of the Church. He is known for translating the Bible into Latin, for which he had to learn Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. He grew up speaking Illyrian, whatever that is, maybe Albanian. Jerome, in Latin Hieronymus; Geronimo, happy name day. To be chaste is to be most on fire with love. Virginity is a way of life, of the heart. In looking at Jerome’s On Virginity. Links to this post. Links to this post. Links to this post. Lectio Divina: Lk 16:1-13.
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et vita manifestáta est: 2010-07
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Et vita manifestáta est. Today, in both forms of the Roman Rite, is the feast of St Ignatius of Loyola. The Spirituality Year I recently completed is based upon Ignatian spirituality, and was capped off with a 30 day retreat making the Exercises. In his honour I will post about the first day of his Spiritual Exercises. As given to the Spirituality Year). Christian prayer is above all dialogue: God initiates the dialogue, the human creature listens for God's Word and then is invited to respond, to give a ...
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et vita manifestáta est: Metaphysics, part two
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Et vita manifestáta est. Metaphysics, part two. Continuing on with the nuggets of what we learned in metaphysics:. Four implications we can draw from the relationship between essence and existence are as follows:. 1) Every being has a kinship with every other being, because they all share in existence, and are images of God, who is their source. 2) All beings have intrinsic value, because they exist. There has to be two distinct co-principles in the essence of every member of the human species. Why?
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et vita manifestáta est: 2010-06
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Et vita manifestáta est. Saint John Vianney Seminary photos. Downtown as seen from the tower. The Front Range from the tower. Stained glass in the centre of the apse at Christ the King Chapel. A typical room on third floor. Links to this post. Dominic's Nine Ways of Prayer. I wasn't too excited by this reading; it talks about the different postures in prayer that St Dominic used. Yes, we should be free to assume different postures, but I'm not that excited. Maybe I'm too much of an old fogey. I've finish...
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et vita manifestáta est: Metaphysics, part five
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Et vita manifestáta est. Metaphysics, part five. This class confirmed that reason can conceded the process of evolution all the way up to the appearance of humans. But the emergence of human beings requires an act of creation on God's part, because we have a spiritual soul which cannot arise from matter. The five properties that are characteristic of absolutely every being are that it 1) is one 2) acts 3) is intelligible 4) is good 5) is beautiful. Intelligibility, or truth, relates to our intellect;...
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et vita manifestáta est: 2010-12
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Et vita manifestáta est. Metaphysics, part one. Metaphysics was one of my favourite classes this semester. I'll provide highlights of what we learned:. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that thinks about what is common to every being, every thing that exists; it asks what are the universal properties of being as such. It looks at the deep underlying bond of unity among all beings, despite all their distinctions: that they are. We can know the world as it really is, though not completely. We can...
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et vita manifestáta est: 2009-11
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Et vita manifestáta est. Here's the first paragraph from the second reading at Matins yesterday. It's from a sermon by St Cyprian, and it is stinging. In a way it is also consoling, to see that Christians 1700 years ago were, well, just as pathetic of Christians as I am. When then do we pray for the kingdom of heaven to come if this earthly bondage pleases us? What is the point of praying so often for its early arrival if we would rather serve the devil here than reign with Christ. Links to this post.
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et vita manifestáta est: Metaphysics, part three
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Et vita manifestáta est. Metaphysics, part three. For angels, since they are pure spirit, the principle of individuation is form, rather than matter. So each angel is its own species: they aren't related to one another, as we are. Each angel is radically distinct from all the other angels. Since only matter individuates human persons, our bodies are, again, a very important part of us, and help form our identities. Every being composed of essence-existence or matter-form requires an efficient cause, beca...
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et vita manifestáta est: Metaphysics, part four
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Et vita manifestáta est. Metaphysics, part four. Arguments for the existence of God:. 1 Given any conditioned being, there must exist at least one self-sufficient being. (This is based on infinite regress. If you look for sufficient reason in conditioned beings, you won't find it. There has to be an unconditioned (self-sufficient, uncaused) being that can cause all other beings.). 2 No being can be self-sufficient unless it is qualitatively infinite in perfection. 2 A beings have existence. Characteristi...
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et vita manifestáta est: 2009-12
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Et vita manifestáta est. Well worth watching today if you haven't before. Only this year, after learning how to say the EF Office, have I figured it out. I had read GILH 239 multiple times before, but never understood what it meant. It reads:. During privileged seasons, if it is desired to celebrate the office of a saint on a day assigned to his or her memorial:. So, this is how you do the Office today:. Lauds is concluded in this way:. All-powerful and unseen God the coming of your light into the world ...
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