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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. - Gilbert K. Chesterton We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well. - Peter Kreeft, Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics Only the educated are free. - Epictetus Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. - G.K. Chesterton Beware the man of a single book. - Saint Thomas Aquinas My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. - Mark Twain Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - Mark Twain Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. - Proverbs 17:28 Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt The final word is love. - Dorothy Day

Altar cards by Katherine Quan To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. ― Albert Einstein Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. ― Saint Thomas Aquinas Venite (1) Psalm 95 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; let the whole earth stand in awe of him. Catholics in the Ordinariates of the English Patrimony are blessed to worship God in a manner many consider to be similar to the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM). Many prayers and ways of doing things are brought over from the English Patrimony, conserved from pre-Reformation English Catholicism and preserved in Anglicanism for centuries, giving something back to the C...

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone. - Epictetus Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. - Ovid Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it. - Epictetus Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies. - Ovid, Metamorphoses Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren...

Scientists create the simplest cell with only bare essentials for life and reproduction https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/coyotes-doing-well-in-the-city-asteroid-impact-created-rainforests-the-minimal-organism-and-more-1.5980412/scientists-create-the-simplest-cell-with-only-bare-essentials-for-life-and-reproduction-1.5980420 (What could possibly go wrong?) Biologists have created a synthetic cell with only the bare minimum number of genes it needs to live and reproduce in a lab. "What we have is an organism that is right now as simple as anything that can live on the planet," said John Glass, a professor of synthetic biology at the J. Craig Venter Institute in California. Glass led the study, which was published in the journal Cell. [...] These cells contain only 480 genes, a very small number compared to the approximately 4,000 genes in an E. coli bacteria cell or 30,000 genes in our own cells. The discovery will help scientists tease out what some genes do and also has practi...

Take him earth for cherishing Herbert Howells (1892-1983) Take him, earth, for cherishing, To thy tender breast receive him. Body of a man I bring thee, Noble even in its ruin. Once was this a spirit's dwelling, By the breath of God created. High the heart that here was beating, Christ the prince of all its living. Guard him well, the dead I give thee, Not unmindful of His creature Shall he ask it, He who made it Symbol of His mystery. Comes the hour God hath appointed To fulfil the hope of men: Then must thou, in very fashion, What I give return again. Not though ancient time decaying Wear away these bones to sand, Ashes that a man might measure In the hollow of his hand; Not, though wandering winds and idle Drifting through the empty sky, Scatter dust was nerve and sinew, Is it given to man to die. Once again the shining road Leads to ample Paradise; Open are the woods again That the Serpent lost for men. Take, O take him, mighty Leader, Take again thy servant's soul. Grave h...

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