Category Archives: LORD AND CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE

O, TRINITY! ETERNAL TRINITY! O, FIRE, ABYSS OF LOVE! ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT!

Posted on June 3, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! There is a curious study in an academic journal of psychology. The study — titled “Intelligence” — claims that we in the twenty-first century have an average IQ fourteen points lower than the Victorians, a calculation based on how … Continue reading →

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NO ONE REGARDS AS ACTS OF VIRTUE OUR NATURAL BIRTH AND DEATH

Posted on May 21, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Saint Gregory of Nyssa There is a time to be born, and a time to die There is a time to be born and a time to die. The fact that there is a natural link between birth and … Continue reading →

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COME HOLY SPIRIT ENLIGHTEN THE HEARTS OF THE FAITHFUL, KINDLE IN THEM THE FIRE OF THY LOVE

Posted on May 18, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! There is some sense to calling Pentecost the birthday of the Church, but it can be somewhat glib. You might say that the Church was born when Christ was born, or when water and blood, Baptism and Eucharist, flowed … Continue reading →

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AN INTERVIEW WITH GOD AS WE PREPARE FOR THE YEAR OF FAITH

Posted on September 16, 2012 by abyssum

!!!!   Discovering God. With Ruini As Guide And not just any sort of god, but the one of whom Jesus is the great sign. A book for those who already believe, but even more for those who are perplexed, … Continue reading →

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I AM PULLED BY GRAVITY

Posted on December 22, 2011 by abyssum

!!!! As readers of this blog know, I am obsessed with a desire to understand gravity.  Today I found an intelligent discussion of gravity that offered me some hope that some day, short of the parousia, I might penetrate a … Continue reading →

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THE SIXTY-FOUR DOLLAR QUESTION: WHAT IS GRAVITY?

Posted on December 16, 2011 by abyssum

!!!! All my life I have been confronted by gravity.  I do not just mean my tendency to fall to the ground if I lose my balance or to have to sweep up the fragments of a glass or a … Continue reading →

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GLORY BE TO GOD FOR DAPPLED THINGS

Posted on December 11, 2011 by abyssum

!!!!  Vermilion Fly Catcher I love all God’s creatures!  Well, possibly with the exception of spiders and feral hogs; although I must admit that the little piglets are cute. I love birds.  Every winter for the past five years it … Continue reading →

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GOD KNOWS THAT IT HAS BEEN HOT IN TEXAS THIS YEAR

Posted on September 25, 2011 by abyssum

!!!! Climate skeptics don’t ‘deny science’ by Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe September 25, 2011   http://www.jeffjacoby.com/10407/climate-skeptics-dont-deny-science BILL CLINTON DECLARED LAST WEEK that Americans “look like a joke” because leading Republican presidential contenders decline to embrace the agenda of the … Continue reading →

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WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT THE BIG BANG: WE SIMPLY WOULD NOT BE

Posted on September 21, 2011 by abyssum

!!!! “A Day Without Yesterday:”
 Father Georges Lemaitre and The Big Bang by Fr. Gordon J. MacRae on June 30, 2010 · http://www.thesestonewalls.com/gordon-macrae/a-day-without-yesterday%E2%80%9D%E2%80%A8-father-georges-lemaitre-and-the-big-bang/   The Catholic Church in Belgium can take pride in the story of Georges Lemaitre, the priest … Continue reading →

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WITH ALL THE GRAVITAS I CAN MUSTER, I WISH YOU A BLESSED AND MERRY CHRISTMAS

Posted on December 25, 2010 by abyssum

THE NATIVITY by Michaelangelo da Carravagio The peace and beauty of this Christmas morning prompts me to extend this greeting and blessing to you, faithful reader of my Blog. This Christmas I am contemplating the Christ Child in the manger … Continue reading →

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