Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Once more with Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 2,7: I am a painter, a sculptor, an architect: I have my art, I have my design or my idea, I have the choice and the preference which I give to this idea by a particular love. I have my art, I have my rules, my principles, …
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Once again in Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 2,6: Let us now return to ourselves. We are, we understand, we want. At first, to understand and to want, if it is something, it is not absolutely the same thing: if it is not something, it would not be anything, and there will be neither understanding …
Coming to the third person of the Trinity in Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 2,5: God is thus fertile, God has a Son: but where is the Holy Spirit here, and where is the holy and perfect Trinity which we serve from our baptism onwards? Does not God love this Son and is he not …
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Although it's been out there for a long time, these days the clash between religion and science has been especially heated. The simplest way to solve the problem would be to cancel elections and let the self-proclaimed know-it-alls run the show. In this way they could ignore the religious "masses" and insure the continuity of …
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Reasoning on in Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 2, 4: All of this is dead: the sun, its rays, its heat: a seal, its expression, an image either sculpted or painted. A mirror and the resemblances which object produce are dead things: God made an image most alive from his eternal and pure generation; and, …
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Moving along in Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 1,3: See this delicate vapour which the sea, sweetly touched by the sun, and as impregnated with its heat, sent day and night as of its own power to the heavens, without lessening of its vast womb. It is however the purest of its substance and something …
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Daystar DS 1001 (1975) Arizona was the birthplace of God Unlimited, probably the best college-based group of the "Jesus Music" era (although this group did the same kind of ministry). Â God Unlimited was an Episcopal group; this Arizona gathering was Roman Catholic, connected with the Spiritual Life Institute and Fr. William McNamara. This is a …
Continuing in Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 2,2: A God, can a God come from him? A God, can he bring into existence a being other than himself? Yes, if this God is son. It is repugnant to God to come from another creator who pulls him from nothing; but it is not repugnant to …
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Starting a new Elevations on the Mysteries by Bossuet, 2,1: Â Why should God not have had a Son? Why should this happy nature lack this perfect fecundity that she gives to her creatures? The name of Father, is it so dishonouring and so unworthy of the first being, that he cannot arrange according to his …
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(1968) It didn't take long after Vatican II for new forms of the Mass to emerge. This not only included the Novus Ordo Missae in 1970 (which is still in place, albeit with the Latinate English translation now in force) but also with new music. On this side of the Atlantic, we had Peter Scholtes …
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