Category: Lest we forget
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… By the nourishment on which you banquet. By that of which you share. By that of which you give. By these, and more, does God know you. • College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary in the University of Cambridge & Corpus Christi College Chapel, Cambridge, England, U.K. ~ 26 July 2023…
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… Or as puppet, by proxy, you seek all to fool Nor as King, nor as Queen, nor as Lord, nor as Duke, not even as Emperor, nor the Czar that hides thine own crook E’en worn of a crown that sum won by gain, or when born to the throne, to so lay the…
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… If you were given the choice, the chance, the opportunity, to choose… with whom you would supper with? Who would they be? If you could choose to supper with anyone, anyone in past, from before, of yesteryear, and anyone from now, from the present, of today. Who would you choose? With whom would you…
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… A King of castles? A King of armies? A King of riches? A King of possessions? Is that being a King to you? Is that being Kingly? Is that being Mighty? For many Kings there have been, and many Kings there are, and many Kings there will yet be. And they too will wear…
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… With what yoke, with what chains, with what servitude, is it that God commands upon you? If you would but look closely, then closer still, and closer again, you will find that in answer, in truth, there will be as none. For the only binds that you bear, that you carry, that you convey,…
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… That you own her? That God belongs to you, and to you alone? … That would be as like laying claim to the very clouds in the sky, Indeed, that would be as to preen above all and proclaim that you command the breeze itself, Verily, and further then boast that you are also…
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… Go with grace, on all roads, on all paths ; straight, true, diverse, or arduous. Go with grace, and you may know her still. • *Oculi omnium in te aspiciunt et in te sperant, Deus. Tu das illis escam tempore opportuno. Aperis tu manus, et imples omne animal benedictione tua. Benedic nobis, Domine, et…
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… In swirling winds she dances, by and by, through most of her days, A beauty, unmatched, in suitors the same,the sparrow, the hawk, the vole, now, even the rain She’s mine!, All mine!, She’s mine!, they each proclaim, be off now, begone, all her, all she, all golden, e’en thicket and pain But hold…
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… Just as the bee without the flower would be as gormless gnat. Just as the painter without beauty would be joyless, a husk. Just as beauty without the painter would be as withered of heart. Just as all without God would be as a wilderness, lost. Just as God without all would be as…
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… For lest you know it not, and one day you should awake from out of that darkest of slumbers, and be astonished, and be warmed by the light of her love, as you hear her say unto you: But did you not know of it? Did you not know of it already? That I…