The Church participates the Mediatorship of Christ by being socially and sacramentally His Body.
In petitionary prayer, we socially participate in God's beneficence.
Prayers may seem ephemeral but they are ever before the Lord.
We learn in the Old Testament, in its history corrected by prophecy, what God means by a 'priestly nation'.
"For since the doctrine of Our Lord's Mediation is funded upon His taking our flesh: since its primary law is the re-creation in His person of our common nature, the entrance of divine graces into humanity ni its Head and Chief;--therefore some medium is required, by which those things, which were stored up in Him, may be distributed to His brethren. To speak of the Head as the fountain of grace, is to assume teh existence of streams, by which it may be transmitted to His members. Now this function is so plainly assigned to Sacraments, that nothing else can be alleged to supply their place." R. I. Wilberforce
evidences as channels of intelligibility
On Van Leeuwen's acount of belief, almsot nothing we usually count as a belief turns out to be a belief -- only a few things directly connected to the evidence of empirical experience still get counted.
Anticipation is the soul of rhetoric.
'It war guid tym of wykkitnes to ces.'
expansion to Gentiles as Peter's use of the keys; Council of Jerusalem as apostles' use of the key
When a man is counting noses, the nose he is most likely to miss is the one he sees in the mirror. Soemtimes we forget to include the most obvious truth precisely because it's so obvious we treat it as if it were already included, even when it hasn't been.
"The mind is under the power of the demons of evil intellect and duality. / But when the mind surrenders, through the Guru, it becomes one." Sri Guru Granth Sahib 222
"Through the Word of the Shabad, merits are gathered in and demerits are burned away."
"To practice forgiveness is the true fast, good conduct and contentment." 223
"Union with God is not obtained by arguments and egotism, / but by offering your mind, the comfort of the Naam is obtained." 226
Words get their meanings within the context of personal connections.
A jack of all trades gets to enjoy many things.
"The only phenomenological access that we ahve to the gift is in the 'thank you' of gratitude." Jean-Louis Chretien
Human beings do not merely adapt to their environment but mirror it, both behaviorally and symbolically.
felicitas as a divine gift of good fortune given to boldness (fortune favors the brave)
pignora imperii: Palladium, Sacred Fire of Vesta, the Ancilia of Mars, are the commonly recognized ones. Servius the Grammarian in the fourth century identifies seven:
(1) Acus Matris Deum (in the Temple of Cybele)
(2) Quadriga Fictilis Veientanorus (on the roof the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus)
(3) Cineres Orestes (in the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus)
(4) Sceptrum Priami
(5) velum Ilionae
(6) Palladium (in the Temple of Vesta)
(7) Ancilia of Mars (in the Regia)
--- The Ashes, the Scepter, and the Veil are not attested anywhere else.
Role-playing games are constructed out of patterns of deciding factors, which may be choice, calculation, or chance process.
"The Rationalistic notion, that man's regeneration may be effected through the progress of society, and the development of his natural powers, is the delusion of a cultivated age." R.I. Wilberforce
"Coincidence, resemblance, and proportion, the three keys to our knowledge of creation, require it exist within us, in order to be called forth."
"Ingratitude and oppression, justice and truth -- the feelings of which these are the natural objects -- testify clearly to some close alliance, which binds together all the far-severed sciions of the family of mankind."
"A system of worship upon earth is the necessary correlative to a work of interession in heaven."
"The imported objective truth of the Word written, requires the engrafted subjective influence of the Living Word as its expositor."
Sex essentially has reference to other people.
Human society, like human life, is both natural and artificial.
marriage as a mutual consecration
Babel as the general template of societal corruption
In the calendar of saints, we celebrate the Church as prophetic.
Our choices, like us, eventually die.
civil functions of states
(1) mediation between citizens
(2) coordination of citizen projects
(3) protection of citizens as citizens
dominial functions of states
(1) giving laws to subjects
(2) enforcing laws on subjects
(3) adjudicating matters of law for subjects
All the sacraments express aspects of Christ's mediation.
People mistake their attraction to good for their own goodness.
"Only the individual who experiences himself as a person, as an integrated whole, is capable of understanding other persons." Edith Stein
"Whenever we come into contact with realms of value that we cannot enter, we become aware of our own deficient value and unworthiness."
'Religions' in general tend to be very good at articulating over time their phenomenological character as bounded idealities.
Phenomena are signs of both phenomena and noumena.
"Language is much more like a sort of being than a means, and that is why it can present something to us so well." Merleau-Ponty
"Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has to do only with language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by meaning."
"The whole course of nature that we are so familiar with has certain natural laws of its own, according to which both the spirit of life which is a creature has drives and urges that are somehow predetermined and which even a bad will cannot bypass, and also the elements of this material world have their distinct energies and qualities, which determine what each is or is not capable of, what can or cannot be made from each. It is from these baselines of things, so to say, that whatever comes to be takes in its own particular time span, its risings and continued progress, its ends and its settings, according to the kind of thing it is." Augustine (Lit Comm 9.17.3.2, cp. 6.13.23)
The divine inspiration of the Scriptural text implies the divine inspiration of its originary context, as originary, and of its appropriate interpretive context, as appropriate and interpretive.
