October 2011
1 post
September 2011
8 posts
“WHEN THE SPIRITS ARE LOW, WHEN THE DAY APPEARS DARK, WHEN WORK BECOMES...”
– A.C. Doyle
August 2011
9 posts
When I look in the mirror and push my hair back, I see my granddad looking back at me. And it terrifies me to think that one day I will be in a hospital bed. Slipping in and out of delirium, unable to eat, phlegm accumulating in my throat, gasping, wheezing. Everything in me shutting down.
I am terrified.
Here Endeth the Lesson
Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich. And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! For...
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July 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
6 posts
“Et iam nox umida caelo praecipitat, suadentque cadentia sidera somnos.”
– Vergilius, Aeneidos, Liber Secundus
March 2011
18 posts
Me: Don't you think we Classics students can be very snobby at times?
J. Cobanov: What? You only realised that now?!
For Seminarians Past and Present
“When bishops ordain men to the diaconate and priesthood, someone stands up and attests that they are properly trained. But the Code of Canon Law specifically says that seminarians must be very well-trained in Latin (c. 249). So, if they aren’t, why are the formators telling bishops that they are well-trained? These are seminarians and deacons and priests of the LATIN CHURCH and there is...
“…ne tu fortunarum lubricas ambages et instabiles incursiones et reciprocas...”
– Apuleius, Metaporphoses or The Golden Ass
“Do not seek Christ without the Cross.”
– St John of the Cross, 1542 - 1591
February 2011
3 posts
January 2011
8 posts
