Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
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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This is the last in this series from Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 1,10: 1. God is the Holy One of Israel God particularly delights in the name of holy. Very often he calls himself the holy one of Israel: he wants that his holiness be his motif, and the principle of ours: be holy …
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The next part of Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 1,9: Because you have not wanted to serve the Lord your God with pleasure and in the joy of your heart, in the abundance of all of his good things, you will be subjected to an implacable enemy which the Lord will send over you, in …
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Again we have Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 1,8: It is said by a common proverb (Jeremiah 3) : If a husband leaves his wife and she, going away from him, marries another husband, will the first take her back? This woman, will she not be soiled and abominable? And you, sinning soul, you are …
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Another post from Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, I, 7: It's a father, it's a mother, it's a nurturer. A mother, can she forget the child which she carried in her womb? And when she does forget it, I will never forget you, (Isaiah 49,15), says the Lord. The Lord your God has carried you …
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Moving on, this from Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, 1,6: (Isaiah 40, 41:14 and onward) Climb up to the top of a high mountain, you who evangelise, you who announce to Zion the good news of her salvation: raise up a powerful voice, you who announce to Jerusalem her happiness: raise your voice, do not …
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