Well Said HAPPY CATHOLIC - November 12, 2009 ... those beautiful but mutable things we should love. With it, we can be moved to love, yet the loss teaches us that the final object of our love, the Selfsame, is not here. We learn to love, and we learn to give away what we love. We learn to die, and so learn to live. ... http://happycatholic.blogspot.com/2009/11/well-said_12.html
Thanks for the notes and messages! WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY? - October 28, 2009 ... my wish list to send me the three volumes of Dante's Divine Comedy in a new translation by Anthony Esolen. They are in affordable paperbacks and have the wonderful advantage of the facing original Italian . I have a couple wonderful Italian editions with facing modern Italian, but it ... http://wdtprs.com/blog/2009/10/thanks-for-the-notes-and-messages/
Burning cloister of love AETERNUS - October 27, 2009 I was alerted many months ago to a new translation of Dante's Purgatory by Anthony Esolen . http://aeternus.stblogs.com/2009/10/27/burning-cloister-of-love/
The Sound of Silence VIVIFICAT! - September 28, 2009 Folks, last September 9 Anthony Esolen wrote a piece called "A Lot of Sound, No Music," for InsideCatholic.com that was picked up by the Catholic Education Resource Center and I think you ought to read. Esolen wonders the following: Recently my family and I ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cybercatholics/jrWV/~3/qDgf1nceJbw/sound-of-silence.html
A vocabulary warning from the philosopher THE PARAGRAPH FARMER - September 24, 2009 Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? Vizzini ? Nope. It's Anthony Esolen : We should, I think, beware of using the language of the enemy; and the enemy has been bandying that word "choice" about, while political partisans clear across the field assume, without thinking too deeply about ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheParagraphFarmer/~3/Ek-zO3TGseA/vocabulary-warning-from-philosopher.html
The Sound of Civilization DYMPHNA'S WELL - September 18, 2009 I just read an excellent article by Anthony Esolen, on the movie, The Sound of Music . Basically, this article illustrates what has gone wrong with modern civilization and modern "entertainment media". Here are some snippets from the article (in italics--the rest is my summary.) ... http://dymphnaswell.blogspot.com/2009/09/sound-of-civilization.html
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross HAPPY CATHOLIC - September 14, 2009 Exaltation of the Cross, Russian icon This month I read Anthony Esolen's commentary in Magnificat about the elevation of the cross from the point of view of an English monk's meditation written in the Middle Ages from the point of view of the cross itself. It has haunted me, in a ... http://happycatholic.blogspot.com/2008/09/feast-of-exaltation-of-holy-cross.html
Babel CRIMSON CATHOLIC - September 9, 2009 ... example has scarcely been followed since. That is practically inevitable, for reasons that Anthony Esolen describes well . Indeed, it is the failure to recognize the inevitability that produces the error. People simply don't know the limits of their knowledge well, which causes them ... http://crimsoncatholic.blogspot.com/2008/02/babel-thinking-about-entropy.html
Dante Blogging - Inferno Canto XI THE CRANKY PROFESSOR - September 1, 2009 ... he has to populate the rings of Hell. Oh - a quick aside - I wonder why the Modern Library and Anthony Esolen titled the three books Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. He may well have explained that in some front matter I missed, but it seems a little odd to stick to the Italian in ... http://www.crankyprofessor.com/archives/002378.html
Certified TEN REASONS - August 26, 2009 Rochester's experiment with, in Anthony Esolen's memorable phrase, "curing the foot you have been shooting by cutting it clean off" continues tragicomically by way of this bulletin announcement from "Peggy": In my role as Pastoral Minister here at Holy Name (I have been told I can ... http://richleonardi.blogspot.com/2009/08/certified.html