Pile Of Prep

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of Prep Veritatis et Sapientiae "Well, 2023 is almost in the books, and things couldn’t be going better for the New Normal Reich. It’s been a long, strange seven years, but we’re finally back to the Global War on Terror, which, as you may recall, was abruptly preempted in 2016 by the War on Populism, which, as you may recall, was abruptly preempted in 2020 by […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of Prep Veritatis et Sapientiae "The Protestant revolutionaries were not enthusiastic about saints, but the celebrations around St. Nicholas’ Day were so popular that they had trouble stamping them out completely. Northern Europeans—especially the Dutch— continued to celebrate with a man on horseback dressed as an Eastern bishop in red vestments and flowing white beard processing through the streets. Remembering Nicholas’ gifts of gold to redeem […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of Prep Veritatis et Sapientiae "The Protestant revolutionaries were not enthusiastic about saints, but the celebrations around St. Nicholas’ Day were so popular that they had trouble stamping them out completely. Northern Europeans—especially the Dutch— continued to celebrate with a man on horseback dressed as an Eastern bishop in red vestments and flowing white beard processing through the streets. Remembering Nicholas’ gifts of gold to redeem […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of Prep Veritatis et Sapientiae "St. Andrew is an apostle for our age. While his fisherman brother, Peter, was dangled on a cross upside down, Andrew, meaning “manly and brave,” was stretched out to die on an x-shaped cross. St. Andrew’s cross is a further variation of the gibbet the Son of God made sacred, teaching us all to find our own perhaps crooked, perhaps crazy […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of Prep Veritatis et Sapientiae "The Bill of Rights—462 words that represent the most potent and powerful rights ever guaranteed to a group of people officially—became part of the U.S. Constitution on December 15, 1791, because early Americans such as James Madison and Thomas Jefferson understood the need to guard against the government’s inclination to abuse its power. Yet the reality we must come to terms […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of Prep Veritatis et Sapientiae "As soon as we reject the reality of Original Sin, we begin to believe that man is immaculate in his nature, spotless at birth, and that it is only his environment that corrupts him. If this is the case, we can make people perfect by making their environment perfect. Furthermore, if the “constructs” of human civilization, such as religion and the […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of Prep Veritatis et Sapientiae "The global horror at Hamas’s barbarism against children, women and the elderly, followed by the harrowing images of death and destruction from the Israeli military’s pummeling of Gaza, have obscured an ugly truth: Israel aided the birth of the Frankenstein monster it is now seeking to crush. In the 1980s, influenced by the CIA’s training and arming of mujahideen (Islamic holy […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of Prep Veritatis et Sapientiae "But though (like the man without memory in the novel) we walk the streets with a sort of half-witted admiration, still it is admiration. It is admiration in English and not only admiration in Latin. The wonder has a positive element of praise. This is the next milestone to be definitely marked on our road through fairyland. And the strongest emotion […]

Hodierna Verba Thursday Pile of Prep Veritatis et Sapientiae "Now theology—which we might define as the attempt to interpret the documents of revelation and the sacred tradition founded upon them—Christian theology has, remarkably enough, always maintained that the truths of faith for all that they have been revealed, “nevertheless remain hidden”; that the divine speech cannot be totally translated into the linear intelligibility of human language. - The Great Banquet, […]