There Is Something About Sunday That Makes People Obnoxious

The Litany of Saint Dymphna

The rosary is such a good place to put all these feelings.

To redirect my sorrows through the sorrowful mysteries and release them along with the Last Words is somehow transformed into a profound joy. To cry to Mother, our blessed Advocate, is right and pleasing. My sin is great. But the mercy of God is greater.

“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.”

— Marie Curie (via onequoteperday)

Kościół w Górznie - Górzno Church

Bohemian Rhapsody. We Will Rock You. Somebody To Love. All hit singles, and all the direct product of a band that was formed when an astrophysicist and a dentistry major found a new friend in an art college, who then went on to recruit a fourth member from the electronics school. Based on this alliance I propose the rift in society between Arts and STEM students was fabricated to keep us separated so as to dilute our true power - and fabricated by who, you may ask? The business major, the only member of society who reaps no reward from art and science and thus must weaken us so as to stay ahead. In this essay I will

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“The doctrine of the Incarnation therefore is of the greatest importance for Christian prayer. It is the basis both of Christian mysticism and Christian social action.”

— Kenneth Leech, True Prayer

“Patristic literature associates the timing of the Circumcision on the eighth day with the Resurrection. Here the argument rests on the kind of mystical numerology which we no longer take seriously, but it did formerly engage so great minds. The reasoning runs somewhat as follows. Seven is the number of completion and fullness, for the world was created in seven days, and is due to pass through seven ages. But if seven is perfect, then seven-plus-one is pluperfect. Eight, therefore, stands for renewal, regeneration - whence the architectural tradition of eight-sided baptistries. And Christ rose from the dead on the day superseding the Sabbath, on the eight day; just as the world’s seven ages will be followed in the eighth age by the General Resurrection. These notions attach themselves almost from the beginning to all theological meditation on Christ’s circumcision. From St. Justin Martyr in the 2nd century to St. Thomas Aquinas, it is the sense of the mystery that the Circumcision on the eighth day prefigures Christ’s Resurrection, and thereby, implicitly, the resurrection of all.”

— Leo Steinberg (The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, page 52). On the next page he quotes Bede, “[It is] our true and complete circumcision, when, on the day of judgment, all souls having put off the corruption of the flesh … we will enter the forecourt of the heavenly kingdom to behold forever the face of the Creator. This is prefigured by the circumcision of the little ones in the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem.”