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- David on WDTPRS – 20th Sunday after Pentecost: What a grace it is to live with mind and conscience quiet: “Father, your fine remarks about heaven’s perfect accord versus hell and sin being discordant seem to echo John Milton’s “At…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 5: Savoring life and loveliness: “Father, it brings me joy that you are in Rome and to read your daily posts. Thank you for the…”
- on WDTPRS – 20th Sunday after Pentecost: What a grace it is to live with mind and conscience quiet: “The heading at your post on 1P5 on the Gospel reminded me also of this prayer before communion in the…”
- on 4 October – St. Francis of Assisi – A saint for times of weak doctrine and weak heirarchy: “Yes, BeatifyStickler, In the 70’s the put out a movie about St. Francis. All the Friars were flitting around like…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 5: Savoring life and loveliness: “NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. The PBG Alaskan…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 4: BLACK VESTMENT PROJECT!: “EAW rightly pray for Fr Horan. He may choose to be laicized but I thought the changes wrought in the…”
- on 4 October – St. Francis of Assisi – A saint for times of weak doctrine and weak heirarchy: “Where did the hippie image come from? It always kind of pissed me off. I just sense gays from the…”
- on 4 October – St. Francis of Assisi – A saint for times of weak doctrine and weak heirarchy: “Most likely it was referring to the heresy of Catharism, which led to the Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229). To know more…”
- on 4 October – St. Francis of Assisi – A saint for times of weak doctrine and weak heirarchy: “Interesting. Is there an attribution for this text or does the author prefer anonymity? Thanks.”
- on 4 October – St. Francis of Assisi – A saint for times of weak doctrine and weak heirarchy: “@ Joannes_Picus – Heretics at the time were the Cathars and Waldensians who rejected teachings of the Church and promoted…”
- on 4 October – St. Francis of Assisi – A saint for times of weak doctrine and weak heirarchy: “What were the Church’s sins at the time, and which heresy specifically was dominating Europe?”
- on 4 October – St. Francis of Assisi – A saint for times of weak doctrine and weak heirarchy: “Toward the end of St. Francis’s “Hymn to the Sun” is the line “Woe to those who die in mortal…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 2: Lights (video): “@monstrance: Or selling off Casa Santa Marta to a hotel chain? ;)”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 4: BLACK VESTMENT PROJECT!: “Those vestments are beautiful! In charity, let’s pray for Mr. Horan. He is obviously a troubled man in need of…”
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Tag Archives: Divine Comedy
25 March is Dantedì… Dante Day.
I would be remiss were I not to mention that Italy – and the whole world – is celebrating a Year of Dante. 2021 is the 700th anniversary of the death of arguably the greatest of all poets. The English … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Dante Alighieri, Dantedì, Divine Comedy
14 Comments
14 Comments
Lunch with Dante in Florence. The Poet comments on consistories.
Dante can provide wisdom on most of the troubles of our lives. His wisdom pops up just about anywhere and in timely fashion. Thus, a wise and respected friend was lunching in Florence in the shadow of the Duomo today … Read More
The Negative Power of Silence
Perhaps you have the same reaction that I have. One of the things that provokes in me the worst sort of anxiety is being told that something is up, but not being told what it is. For example, you are … Read More
Posted in Francis, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged dante, Divine Comedy, Ugolino
13 Comments
13 Comments
ESOLEN: The prelates of sodom – #sodoclericalism
A The Catholic Thing the scholar and translator of Dante’s Divine Comedy uses this most important of works to unpack a central issue in The Present Crisis. There are those today, such as highly tattooed gang of Team Francis, who work … Read More
Posted in Sin That Cries To Heaven
Tagged Anthony Esolen, dante, Divine Comedy, homosexuality, sodoclericalism
7 Comments
7 Comments
“O you who come to this abode of pain…”, thoughts on ‘Amoris laetitia’
Today at The Catholic Thing Robert Royal has a short and suggestive piece about sex and deception. Dante – Il Poeta – gives him a lift. Royal recounts teaching Dante’s Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy, to students. One of the … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, One Man & One Woman
Tagged dante, Divine Comedy, Robert Royal
24 Comments
24 Comments
WDTPRS 2nd Ordinary Sunday: the position of a beggar
In the reformed calendar, we have moved into the Time called “Ordinary”, by which we mean “ordered”, not “unexceptional”. In the traditional calendar of the Extraordinary Form, this is the “Time through the year”, divided into time after Epiphany and after … Read More
WDTPRS – 13th Sunday after Pentecost: “E ‘n la sua volontade è nostra pace!”
Today’s prayer survived the redactors to live on in the Novus Ordo as the Collect for the 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time. It is an ancient prayer, found in the Veronese and the Gelasian Sacramentary. COLLECT (1962MR): Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, da … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged dante, Divine Comedy, eternity, Josef Pieper, Piccarda, sempiternity
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6 Comments
CDF and LCWR: A “Dialogue” by Prof. Esolen. Fun and sad.
At The Catholic Thing, Anthony Esolen has a great dialogue, I use the word a little loosely, which typifies much of what the LCWR is doing in the face of the CDF’s guidance. Let’s have a look at a little … Read More
Posted in HONORED GUESTS, Liberals, Lighter fare, Magisterium of Nuns, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, Women Religious
Tagged Anthony Esolen, CDF, dante, Divine Comedy, LCWR
13 Comments
13 Comments
What sort of Dantesque contrapasso does this uber-PC group deserve?
You think you’ve heard nearly every stupid thing there is to hear and then someone even stupider comes along and lowers the bar again. From the Daily Telegraph: Dante’s Divine Comedy ‘offensive and should be banned’ The classic work should … Read More
Posted in Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Gherush 92, political correctness
51 Comments
51 Comments
Anthony Esolen on new, corrected translation. Some of the best comments I have seen.
On ZENIT there is an interesting interview with Anthony Esolen, about whom I have written before. For example, Prof. Esolen has translated the whole of Dante’s Divine Comedy. When it comes to translation, this guy’s got game. My emphases. The … Read More
PODCAzT 104: A glimpse of heaven, “the Love that moves the sun and other stars”
No eye has seen and no ear has heard what God has prepared for those who attain the bliss of heaven. Christ has won for us the most precious gift of all: membership in the Kingdom of God. It is … Read More
Posted in PODCAzT
Tagged dante, Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, heaven, Paradise, Paradiso
15 Comments
15 Comments
David on WDTPRS – 20th Sunday after Pentecost: What a grace it is to live with mind and conscience quiet: “Father, your fine remarks about heaven’s perfect accord versus hell and sin being discordant seem to echo John Milton’s “At…”
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