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Julian of Norwich, “The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.” We
Brennan Manning • The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
That heresy seems to have died down almost completely in the second half of the eleventh century is possibly related to the fact that the Church was starting a programme of reform that had been initiated by Pope Leo IX (1049–54). The greatest of the reforming pontiffs of this period – and indeed one of the most significant of all mediaeval popes –
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Joan Carroll Cruz • Mysteries, Marvels and Miracles: In the Lives of the Saints
In other words, Cranmer’s convictions were both evangelical and “catholic”: “[C. S.] Lewis notes that Cranmer and the other makers of the prayer book ‘wished their book to be praised not for original genius but for catholicity and antiquity’” (Alan Jacobs, The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013], 66).
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
How to Live: What the rule of St. Benedict Teaches Us About Happiness, Meaning, and Community
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