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Tag Archives: Piety
Thought For the Day: Experience Teaches Us the Huge Gap Between Piety and Goodness
“Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.” -Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (19 Jun 1623-1662)
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Blaise Pascal, Difference, Enormous, Experience, Goodness, Piety, See, Thought For the Day
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Here Am I
The Church is the people. There is nothing Biblical in the belief that approaching God requires the intercession of any other than Jesus and certainly not priests. If the Catholic church is going to rise from its present decline, it … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Bible, Church, Corruption, Decline, Dignity, Faith, Hierachy, Jesus, Luther, Moral Laxity, Pews, Photograph, Piety, Poem, Poetry, Power, Predator Priest, Priests, Rebel, Reform, Restoration, Rise, Sacred Heart, Simple, Sin, The People, True
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A Gurnsey Tale
Watched a movie that I think is bound to become a classic of our times. It was about a complicated and absolutely thought provoking movie that dealt with things as uncomplicated as love and war and what happens when the … Continue reading
In Remembrance of Notre Dame
In memory of the burning of Notre Dame 04/2019 and as originally posted on my Flickr account: In Remembrance of Notre Dame by Michael Romani Standing there in the center of the ancient cityGloriously symbolic in its early beloved pietyThe … Continue reading
First Principles: A Nation Taking the Bible As Their Only Law Would Be Obliged In Conscience To Temperance, Frugality, Industry, Justice, Kindness and Charity Toward Mankind and To Piety
“Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Charity, Conduct, Conscience, First Principles, Frugality, God, Industry, John Adams, Justice, Kindness, Law Book, Love, Mankind, Member, Nation, Paradise, Piety, Precepts, Reverance, Temperance, Utopia
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Seven Points of Beatitude (Sapientia)
Seven Points of Beatitude by Michael Romani As the ghosts of one year floated by to be received In a clarity of slumber of one refusing to be self-deceived I had turned on the television intending to rest a moment … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Awe, Beatitudes, Counsel, Courage, Endurance, Enlightenment, Family of God, Fortitude, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Humility, Kingdom, Knowledge, Photograph, Piety, Pleasures, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Reverence, Sacrament, Self Deception, Seven Swans A Swimming, Tolerance, Treasures, Understanding, Wisdom
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