Siris

 * Mark K. Spencer, Habits, Potencies, and Obedience (PDF) * James Chastek, No choice is discovered , at "Just Thomism" * A  majo...

 In this instruction, I do not praise, because you do not convene so as to be stronger, but weaker.  For firstmost, as you convene in assemb...

Today is Holy Wednesday, also known as Spy Wednesday. So to mark the day, I give here again a poem based on medieval tales of Judas Iscariot...

 Just as the Author of nature is the universal cause of all motion found in matter, so is He also the general cause of all natural inclinati...

 The Blasted Fig-Tree by John Newton One aweful word which Jesus spoke, Against the tree which bore no fruit; More piercing than the lightni...

 The Orkneyinga Saga  is a complicated Icelandic saga. Parts of it seem to go back to the early twelfth century, but parts were probably wri...

 The Agony by George Herbert  Philosophers have measur'd the mountains, Fathom'd the depths of the seas, of states, and kings, Walk...