13 Wednesday Mar 2019
Posted in Aquinas, Article, Mathematics, Medieval, Philosophy, Reason, Religion, Science
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Retroactively posted on March 14 at 1:59 a.m. for Pi (π) Day and the anniversary of the birth of Albert Einstein. For other online texts and more legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).
16 Friday Nov 2018
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On the feast of Saint Edmund of Abingdon; and on the anniversary of the publication of the 2nd edition of the Corpus Iuris Civilis. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).
“If there is an expression of the unity of the human race and of equality between all human beings, this expression is rightly given by the law, which can exclude no one from its horizon under pain of altering its specific identity. In this perspective, the international community’s efforts in recent decades to proclaim, defend and promote basic human rights are the best way that law can fulfil its profound vocation. Therefore jurists must always feel they are in the front line in the defence of human rights, for through them it is the human person’s very identity that is defended…
“What Catholic jurists and those who share the same faith possess is the awareness that their work, passionately supporting justice, equity and the common good, belongs to the plan of God, who asks all human beings to recognize one another as brothers and sisters, as children of one merciful Father, and who gives them the mission of defending every individual, especially the weakest, and of building a society on earth that conforms to the requirements of the Gospel. The establishment of universal brotherhood certainly cannot be the result of jurists’ efforts alone, but their contribution to accomplishing this task is specific and indispensable.”
(John Paul II, Address to the International Union of Catholic Jurists, 24 November 2000. Paragraph breaks modified)
08 Thursday Nov 2018
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On the Feast of Blessed John Duns Scotus. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).
“Concerning the teaching on the Immaculate Conception, important theologians like Duns Scotus enriched what the People of God already spontaneously believed about the Blessed Virgin and expressed in acts of devotion, in the arts and in Christian life in general with the specific contribution of their thought. Thus faith both in the Immaculate Conception and in the bodily Assumption of the Virgin was already present in the People of God, while theology had not yet found the key to interpreting it in the totality of the doctrine of the faith.
“The People of God therefore precede theologians and this is all thanks to that supernatural sensus fidei, namely, that capacity infused by the Holy Spirit that qualifies us to embrace the reality of the faith with humility of heart and mind. In this sense, the People of God is the “teacher that goes first” and must then be more deeply examined and intellectually accepted by theology. May theologians always be ready to listen to this source of faith and retain the humility and simplicity of children!” (Pope Benedict XVI, General Audience of 7 July 2010)
29 Wednesday Aug 2018
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On the Memorial of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist in the Roman Rite.
30 Wednesday Nov 2016
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On the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle in the one true Church. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).
O God, our refuge and our strength, look down with mercy upon the people who cry to Thee; and by the intercession of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Saint Joseph her spouse, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of the Holy Mother the Church. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. (From Sancta Missa)
13 Wednesday Apr 2016
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas, Article, Catholic, Christian, Eastern Christian, EBooks, God, Jesus Christ, Medieval, Orthodoxy, Religion, Theology
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On the Memorial of Pope St. Martin I in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject). Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man!
21 Monday Mar 2016
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On Holy Monday in the Roman Rite; and on the Feast of Saint Benedict of Nursia in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).
O God, our refuge and our strength, look down with mercy upon the people who cry to Thee; and by the intercession of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Saint Joseph her spouse, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of the Holy Mother the Church. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. (From Sancta Missa)
17 Thursday Mar 2016
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On the Memorial of Saint Patrick in the Roman Rite. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).
“Moreover, you have endurance and have suffered for my name, and you have not grown weary. Yet I hold this against you: you have lost the love you had at first. Realize how far you have fallen. Repent, and do the works you did at first. Otherwise, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.” (Revelation 2:2-5, NAB, from the USCCB)
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Divine Lord Jesus Christ, grant that the Irish people may renew their Catholic Faith, so that, having voted against the enemies of children in the womb, they may also reject married sodomy and remarried adultery, and regain their world-conquering zeal for truth. From the serpents of secularism, oh, Lord, deliver them!
07 Monday Mar 2016
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On the Feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. See also our list of Free eBooks by (and about) Saint Thomas Aquinas. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).
O God, our refuge and our strength, look down with mercy upon the people who cry to Thee; and by the intercession of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Saint Joseph her spouse, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of the Holy Mother the Church. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. (From Sancta Missa)
05 Saturday Mar 2016
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On the Memorial of Saint Kieran (Ciaran) of Saigir in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite (calendar of Ireland).For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject). Oremus:
Divine Lord Jesus Christ, Whose kingship is acknowledged in Ireland’s Constitution, grant that the Irish people may renew their Catholic Faith, so that, having voted against the enemies of children in the womb, they may also reject married sodomy and remarried adultery, and regain their world-conquering zeal for truth. From the serpents of secularism, oh, Lord, deliver them!
“Moreover, you have endurance and have suffered for my name, and you have not grown weary. Yet I hold this against you: you have lost the love you had at first. Realize how far you have fallen. Repent, and do the works you did at first. Otherwise, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.” (Revelation 2:2-5, NAB, from the USCCB)
