We're back to Bossuet, starting another series of Elevations on the Mysteries, III, 1: Collecting my thoughts in myself, only seeing in me sin, imperfection and nothingness, I see in the same time, above me, a happy and perfect nature: and I say to him in myself with the Psalmist: You are my God, you …
Daniel-Rops on the One God
From his Sacred History:  Moses is, in the Hebrew religious history, the man who revealed the name of God. In the encounter of the burning bush, he had exclaimed, "Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they …
The Assault on Christians Wasn't Supposed to Happen This Fast
Back in 2006, before the accession of the current Occupant, I began to write a little novel entitled The Ten Weeks. It describes, among other things, the result of a democratically elected left-wing government and how it, using the sexual revolution as one of its weapons (and mob action as another), took progressive power in …
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Duck and Cover Catholicism? Maybe, Maybe Not.
R.R. Reno at First Things isn't happy: Some months ago, IÂ predicted that Catholicism in America would basically accommodate itself to whatever sexual regime dominates our society. The accommodation won't be explicit. The Church won't endorse homosexuality or gay marriage. Instead, the bishops will step aside, avoid controversy, and just stop talking about things that carry …
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What You're Supposed to Sing on Easter Sunday
Nothing Baptistic on this blog: (Don't ask me why, they don't allow embedding on this video, but you can click to go to it on YouTube anyway). The lyrics are very old, going back to the end of the Western Roman Empire. The tune is by Ralph Vaughan Williams. One of the advantages of this …
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To The Holy Trinity: The Blessedness of the Soul, Image of the Holy Trinity, in the Trinity of His Persons
Wrapping it up for this elevation in Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 2,9: When God made me in his image and likeness, he made me to be happy like him, as much as a creature can be; and, this is why he placed in me these three things, in me who was made to be …
To The Holy Trinity: Essential, Personal, Generating and Generated Wisdom
Again with Bossuet in Elevations on the Mysteries, 2,8: God has possessed me, said Wisdom (Proverbs 8): that is to say, God has generated me in conformance to that word of Eve, when she gave birth to Cain and said: I have possessed a man by the grace of God. He has generated me, before …
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To the Holy Trinity: Fruitfulness of the Arts
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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To the Holy Trinity: Trinity Created Image of the Uncreated and How It is Incomprehensible
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 …
To the Holy Trinity: The Holy Spirit: The Entire Trinity
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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