December 2011
“So, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, rooted in him and built...”
“Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to...”
– Luke, chapter 2
“Where the humanity of God appears, his kindness can no longer be hidden.”
– St. Bernard of Clairvaux
“Never again will weeping and crying be heard among them.”
– @innocentsmith
“The gospel of Christmas too has been deprived of its link to its historical...”
– Lorenzo Albacete, Christmas and Hanukkah: rooted in historical events, not sentimental dreams
“God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.”
– 1 John, chapter 1
“Amor ipse notitia est (Love itself is a knowledge) -Gregory the Great”
– Twitter / @millinerd
“Today, a particularly insidious obstacle to the task of educating is the massive...”
– Pope Benedict XVI
“The first condition to be able to educate a human being - children, the...”
– Luigi Giussani, Il miracolo dell’ospitalità
“The Lord has removed the judgment against you,” that is, your evil is no longer...”
– Fr. Julian Carron, “An Inexorable Positivity Dominates Life”
“What was from the beginning,
what we have heard,
what we have seen with our...”
– 1 John, chapter 1
“Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. —Acts 7:59”
“He who is beyond all place is laid in a manger; he whose position cannot be...”
– Twitter / @millinerd
“It was really terrible,” said a priest. “Some [wounded] people ran...”
– millinerd.com: Greater works than these
“Anyone wishing to enter the place of Jesus’ birth has to bend down.
It seems to...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, Homily for Christmas Eve
“It is only the Almighty who has created and upheld the universe who can afford...”
– Vitus Speaks: Christmas and Twelfth Night by Sigrid Undset
“For the LORD comforts his people,
he redeems Jerusalem.”
– Is 52:9
“Dearly beloved, today our Saviour is born; let us rejoice. Sadness should have...”
– St. Leo the Great
“They do no hurt, no harm,
on all my holy mountain,
for the country is filled...”
– Is 11:9
“Listen! Your watchmen raise their voices,
they shout for joy together,
for...”
– Is 52:8
“He will purify the sons of Levi…
that they may offer due sacrifice to the...”
Numberless, Lord are your mercies;
with your decrees give me life. —Ps 119
“I haven’t yet begun to be converted!” -St. Anthony of Egypt (at age...”
– Twitter / @millinerd
“When I met Hitchens and observed him making the rounds of the invited guests...”
– HITCHENS/ A man with a wounded heart, Lorenzo Albacete
“Answer quickly, O Virgin…. Answer with a word, receive the Word of God. ...”
“Yet I was always in your presence;
you were holding me by my right hand. ...”
“Surely the wrath of men shall praise you;
the residue of wrarth you will bind...”
“I bring my victory near, already it is close, my salvation will not be late. ...”
“The fear of the Lord is his delight. —Is 11:3”
“Only if we accept to follow this road, we can see, first of all, what happens in...”
“They cried to the Lord in their trouble
and he rescued them from their distress....”
“The Conqueror’s victory would have profited us nothing if the battle had...”
