Throwing the Last Stone

[OE. feith, fayth, fay, OF. feid, feit, fei, F. foi, fr. L. fides]

Sunday, April 28, 2013

“Love was our Lord’s Meaning”

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From Chapter 86 (the final chapter) of Revelations of Divine Love , St. Julian of Norwich (1393). “Love was our Lord’s Meaning” Sta...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

The Christmas Midnight Introit: Dominus Dixit Ad Me

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From Westminster Cathedral's 2009 Midnight Mass: The text is from Psalm 2 : The   Lord   said to me,   “You are my Son;  t...

"Advent Ember Days: the absurdity of grace"

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Via catholicity and covenant , quoting from a sermon that Austin Farrer preached in Holy Trinity, Norwich, one week before his death on 29t...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

Mountains and rivers

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“Before I had studied Chan [Zen] for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and rivers as rivers. When I arrived at a more intimate kno...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Discendi, amor santo

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Here's the full text, in Italian, of Bianco da Siena's XXXVth poem in his Laudi Spirituali ; the Laudi were written in the 14th or ...
Saturday, June 02, 2012

The Trinity

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Via Into the Expectation : “Suddenly the Trinity filled my heart full of the greatest joy, and I understood that it will be so in heaven ...
Friday, June 01, 2012

"Whitsunday"

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Whitsunday. Listen sweet Dove unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender hea...
Monday, May 28, 2012

"Come Down, O Love Divine"

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Listen to the best hymn ever written, sung by the King's College Choir. Text via Bianco da Siena (14th C.), music by R.V. Williams (2...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Jam sol recedit igneus

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The text of an anthem by Horatio Parker (1863-1919); the words, from a sixth century hymn, translated into English by Isabella G. Parker: ...

"It is I"

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The text from a motet by William Matthias, taken from various writings of Julian of Norwich (b. 1342): As truly as God is our Father, so jus...
Thursday, August 16, 2007

The Pearl of Great Price

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From What the Religious Life Is and Is Not , by Sr. Heléna Marie of The Community of the Holy Spirit: It is the ultimate form of surrender....
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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Trinity

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“When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gi...
Thursday, May 24, 2007

John the Dwarf and Moses the Black

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Who are two of the more colorful desert monastics quoted by Rowan Williams in his book, Where God Happens , which begins this way, in a chap...
Thursday, October 05, 2006

Cántico espiritual

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St. John of the Cross . Here , in Spanish. SONG OF THE SOUL AND THE BRIDEGROOM I THE BRIDE Where have You hidden Yourself, And abandoned me...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Tried by fever, taught by cold

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From Kathleen Norris' The Cloister Walk : Are monks wasting their time in seeking to convert themselves, and the world, from evil? Many...
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