January 2012
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December 2011
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“Perhaps the most memorable of the moments Mumford describes is the story of the...”
– Langdon Winner in his forward to Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford. It was the desire to be faithful at prayer, at the horæ canonicæ, that compelled the creation of accurate timepieces. Remember that when you check the time.
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Holy Orders
Ah, so big a question! That is the whole question of theology, you see! I should say, I hope that during your studies you have visited yourself earnestly with the message of the Old Testament and of the New Testament. And not only of this message but also of the Object and the Subject of this message. And I would ask you, are you trained to visit not only yourself now, but a congregation with what...
Christopher Hitchens at Heaven's Gate
Saint Peter: Next! Man [defiant]: Christopher Hitchens. Saint Peter [a half-beat late]: Personal account? Hitchens: Do you know who I am? Of course you do, it’s one of the drawbacks of omniscience. And this place… It’s obvious where this is. I haven’t seen taste this bad on such a scale since I last liberated one of Saddam’s palaces. No, no, let me finish. I suppose I...
Doug Wilson on Christopher Hitchens
So we got on well with each other, because each of us knew where the other one stood. Eugene Genovese, before he became a believer, once commented on the tendency that some have to try to garner respect by giving away portions, big or small, of what they profess to believe. “If other religions offer equally valid ways to salvation and if Christianity itself may be understood solely as a code...
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“Here’s a thing I will say now without hesitation, unqualified and important. The...”
– Peter Hitchens on his brother Christopher
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Christopher Hitchens, 1949 – 2011
Christopher Hitchens is dead. I’ll miss his fiercely vital voice. As for his book *God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything*, I wish he’d mounted a more formidable argument. I’ll say this for *God Is Not Great*: I’m sympathetic with its title (if not its subtitle). Philosophically speaking, it’s not illuminating to say God is great. My son will tell you,...
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“Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD,...”
– Zechariah 3
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Samuel Hsu, 1947 – Dec 1, 2011 →
Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei.
Since I am coming to that Holy room,
Where, with Thy choir of saints for evermore,
I shall be made Thy music ; as I come
I tune the instrument here at the door,
And what I must do then, think here before ; — John Donne
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On the Feast of St. Ambrose of Milan, Veni,...
“To whom could you liken me
and who would be my equal?” says the Holy One....”
– Isaiah 40: 25 -31
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Handel's Messiah at Ascension and Saint Agnes →
gabrielellsworth:
I can’t believe it has taken me this long to make it to this milestone, but this year I will, for the first time in my life, be performing in a production of Messiah. Click above for event details and tickets. For more info on what your supporting this event would mean to the parish, check out the church’s homepage at http://www.ascensionandsaintagnes.org/.
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“Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost...”
– J. R. R. Tolkien, writing to his son Michael