Sunday, December 31, 2023
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Thursday, December 28, 2023
Recent Study: Gut Microbiome Formula Can Alleviate Long COVID Symptoms
SIM01 is a micro-encapsulated freeze-dried powder containing three strains (Bifidobacterium adolescentis, Bifidobacterium bifidum, and Bifidobacterium longum) forming 20 billion colony-forming units, along with three prebiotic compounds (xylo-oligosaccharides, galacto-oligosaccharides, and resistant dextrin) that promote the growth of these strains.
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Sunday, December 24, 2023
Aquinas definition of principle Question 33. The person of the Father
I answer that, The word "principle" signifies only that whence another proceeds: since anything whence something proceeds in any way we call a principle; and conversely.
Saturday, December 23, 2023
Septuagint
we know for certain that Christ Himself referenced the Septuagint because he either quotes or alludes to them directly within the New Testament. These include the following cross-references:
Monday, December 18, 2023
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Plato public as greatest sophist
When they meet together, and the world sits down at an assembly, or in a court of law, or a theatre, or a camp, or in any other popular resort, and there is a great uproar, and they praise some things which are being said or done, and blame other things, equally exaggerating both, shouting and clapping their hands, and the echo of the rocks and the place in which they are assembled redoubles the sound of the praise or blame -- at such a time will not a young man's heart, as they say, leap within him? Will any private training enable him to
stand firm against the overwhelming flood of popular opinion? or will he be carried away by the stream? Will he not have the notions of good and evil which the public in general have -- he will do as they do, and as they are, such will he be?Thursday, November 30, 2023
The mystery of Thomas Aquinas: Why did he leave his ‘Summa’ unfinished?
In the Commentary on Boethius’s De Trinitate, written soon after becoming a master of theology, Thomas says that the theological master cannot and must not openly speak about all that he knows lest others fall into error or fail to seek the truth for themselves. He quotes an anonymous source as an authority: “Hidden things are sought more avidly, and the concealed seems more venerable, and things long sought are cherished the more.”
Utstein Killed the Sons of Ulf
Utstein said:
“I'd take on all
of Eystein's band,
with my sword slash them
same way as these,
if I saw a need
such work to do,
should enmity fall
first among us.
No one's too keen
to cross me now,
for long ago
my life was shaped.
Hard is the heart
I have in my breast.
As a child I found
favour with Odin.”
Nietzsche and Scandinavian saga
It's a paraphrase from Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka (The Saga of Half and His Heroes):
Ek hefi hjarta
hart í brjósti,
síz mér í æsku
Óðinn framdi.
English translation by Peter Tunstall:
Hard is the heart
I have in my breast.
As a child I found
favour with Odin.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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Thursday, November 23, 2023
Reading the Summa
SUPPORTING THE YORK AQUINAS READING GROUP (AND ANYONE ELSE!) AS IT WENDS ITS WEARY WAY THROUGH THE SUMMA THEOLOGIAE OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
https://readingthesumma.blogspot.com/2014/02/question-97-mans-physical-state-in.html
What does Aquinas mean by perfection?
A thing is said to be perfect in so far as it attains its proper end, which is the ultimate perfection thereof.
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
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Sunday, November 19, 2023
Aquinas on communion
Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274) said: “Out of reverence towards this Sacrament [the Holy Eucharist], nothing touches it, but what is consecrated; hence the corporal and the chalice are consecrated, and likewise the priest’s hands, for touching this Sacrament.” (Summa Theologica, Part III, Question 82)
Saturday, November 18, 2023
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Thursday, November 16, 2023
What is thinking? Heidegger
It is advisable, therefore, that you postpone reading Nietzsche for the time being, and first study Aristotle for ten to fifteen years.
https://www.beyng.com/pages/en/WhatIsCalledThinking/WhatIsCalledThinking.073.html
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Carnivore pancakes!
Sometimes it’s just a pancake kind of night. I have these when I really need comfort!
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Monday, November 13, 2023
LUMEN GENTIUM
22. Just as, in accordance with the Lord's decree, St Peter and the rest of the apostles constitute a unique apostolic college, so in like fashion the Roman Pontiff, Peter's successor, and the bishops, the successors of the apostles, are related with and united to one another. Indeed, the very ancient discipline whereby the bishops installed throughout the whole world lived in communion with one another and with the Roman Pontiff in a bond of unity, charity and peace;[23] likewise the holding of councils[24] in order to settle conjointly,[25] in a decision rendered balanced and equitable by the advice of many, all questions of major importance;[26] all this points clearly to the collegiate character and structure of the episcopal order, and the holding of ecumenical councils in the course of the centuries bears this out unmistakably. Indeed, pointing to it also quite clearly is the custom, dating from very early times, of summoning a number of bishops to take part in the elevation of one newly chosen to the highest sacerdotal office. One is constituted a member of the episcopal body in virtue of the sacramental consecration and by the hierarchical communion with the head and members of the college.
The college or body of bishops has for all that no authority unless united with the Roman Pontiff, Peter's successor, as its head, whose primatial authority, let it be added, over all, whether pastors or faithful, remains in its integrity. For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, namely, and as pastor of the entire Church, has full, supreme and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered. The order of bishops is the successor to the college of the apostles in their role as teachers and pastors, and in it the apostolic college is perpetuated. Together with their head, the Supreme Pontiff, and never apart from him, they have supreme and full authority over the universal Church;[27] but this power cannot be exercised without the agreement of the Roman Pontiff. The Lord made Peter alone the rock-foundation and the holder of the keys of the Church (cf. Mt. 16:18-19), and constituted him shepherd of his whole flock (cf. Jn. 21:15 ff.). It is clear, however, that the office of binding and loosing which was given to Peter (Mt. 16:19), was also assigned to the college of the apostles united to its head (Mt. 18:18; 28:16-20).[28] This college, in so far as it is composed of many members, is the expression of the multifariousness and universality of the People of God; and of the unity of the flock of Christ, in so far as it is assembled under one head. In it the bishops, whilst loyally respecting the primacy and pre-eminence of their head, exercise their own proper authority for the good of their faithful, indeed even for the good of the whole Church, the organic structure and harmony of which are strengthened by the continued influence of the Holy Spirit. The supreme authority over the whole Church, which this college possesses, is exercised in a solemn way in an ecumenical council. There never is an ecumenical council which is not confirmed or at least recognized as such by Peter's successor.
How Much Could COVID-19 Vaccines Cost the U.S. After Commercialization?
The federal government has spent more than $30 billion1 on COVID-19 vaccines, including the new bivalent boosters, incentivizing their development, guaranteeing a market, and ensuring that these vaccines would be provided free of charge to the U.S. population.
Sunday, November 12, 2023
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can educators make political statement in texas?
Texas law prohibits school districts from electioneering “for or against any candidate, measure, or political party,” so the law requires that any electioneering activity you engage in is on your own personal time, and not on school time or using school resources.
Monday, November 6, 2023
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Rearranging the Synod Table Chairs
“The real problem at this moment of our history,” he writes, “is that God is disappearing from the human horizon, and, with the dimming of the light which comes from God, humanity is losing its bearings, with increasingly evident destructive effects.”
Monday, October 30, 2023
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
Why a new book may be key to understanding the faith of Bob Dylan
As for what Dylan has said about his own faith, he opened up to The Wall Street Journal in 2022.
“I’m a religious person,” he said. “I read the scriptures a lot, meditate and pray, light candles in church. I believe in damnation and salvation, as well as predestination. The Five Books of Moses, Pauline Epistles, Invocation of the Saints, all of it.”
https://www.deseret.com/2023/10/26/23933620/is-bob-dylan-religious
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Henry Adams sometimes used a summary of Aquinas
https://www.ultramontes.pl/summae_th_concl_1ae_118.htm
https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~ST.I.Q118.A3
cf. p. 337 of Mont Saint Michel in Penguin Classics.
https://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/etext/pnt14.htm
Authors/Thomas Aquinas/physics/L8
the universal production of being by God is neither motion nor change, but a certain simple coming forth
https://www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/Authors/Thomas_Aquinas/physics/L8
Monday, October 23, 2023
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Jacob Klein: European Scholar and American Teacher
Mr. Klein was a master of the somewhat mysterious art of leading from behind—by solicitous listening, by intimating questions, even by expectant silence.
https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/items/show/1748
Friday, October 20, 2023
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Monday, October 9, 2023
Flannery O’Connor’s Lasting Impact Explored in New Book and Film
In the film, the O’Connor character is constantly beset by relatives who implore her to write stories “that people might actually want to read.”
Saturday, October 7, 2023
Friday, October 6, 2023
Natural law. An essay in ethics by Simcox, E. J. (Edith Jemima)
IF truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, 'tis certain it must lie very deep and abstruse ; and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous. I pretend to no such advantage in the philosophy I am going to unfold, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it were it so very easy and obvious.
HUME'S Treatise of Human Nature
https://archive.org/details/naturallawessayi00simcrich/page/n9/mode/2up