HOMILETIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

PART II (H – N) 

HACKWOOD, FREDERIK

Frederik W. Hackwood, CHRIST LORE (London: Elliot Stock, 1902) 55-59.

HAMMAN, ADALBERT

Adalbert Hamman, "Eucharist", ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE EARLY CHURCH, ed. Angelo Di Berardino, trans. Adrian Walford, vol. 1 (New York: Oxford UP, 1992) 293. ("...one valid sacrifice and it ...is not divisible as if it could be offered by divided and opposed Christian groups erecting one altar against another" and In the Eucharist, there is a salutaris presence of Jesus Christ in real terms of body and blood. This reality becomes an argument for defending the reality of the Incarnation of the Word. There is no exception to the liturgical evidence on this point." )

HAMMARSKJOLD, DAG

Dag Hammarskjöld, MARKINGS, trans. Leif Sjöberg et al. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972) 56. ( "God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason." )  

HEANEY, SEAMUS

Seamus Heaney, OPENED GROUND, Selected Poems 1966-1996, Lightenings viii (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998) 338.

(“The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise
Were all at prayers inside the oratory
A ship appeared above them in the air.
The anchor dragged along behind so deep
It hooked itself into the altar rails
And then, as the big hull rocked to a standstill,
A crewman shinned and grappled down a rope
And struggled to release it. But in vain.
“This man can’t bear our life here and will drown,”
The abbot said, “Unless we help him.” So
They did, the freed ship sailed and the
man climbed back.
Out of the marvelous as he had known it.”)

HENDRICKX, HERMAN

Herman Hendrickx, THE PARABLES OF JESUS (Harper & Row: San Francisco, 1983) 84. ( "The commandment speaks of loving one's neighbor, but where are the limits to be set? The lawyer's question implies that there is also a non-neighbor, and that therefore one should ask where the line should be drawn between neighbor and non-neighbor. 'What can be demanded of me?' is the unspoken question which lies behind the lawyer's words. The lawyer's question is basically individualistic and egocentric; the questioner places himself and the center..." )

Herman Hendrickx, THE PARABLES OF JESUS (Harper & Row: San Francisco, 1983) 88. ( “...he bound up his wounds, poured oil and wine...set him on his own beast, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. Five verbs to describe his love in action!” )  

Herman Hendrickx, THE PARABLES OF JESUS (Harper & Row: San Francisco, 1983) 90. ( “'Who is nearest to the one in need of help?'” )  

Herman Hendrickx, THE PARABLES OF JESUS (Harper & Row: San Francisco, 1983) 92. ( "Like the lawyer, we need to learn that in order to understand and fulfill the will of God, we must transcend the point of view of our legalistic establishment. Objective standards of behavior, with the rules as narrowly defined as possible, enable anyone to feel and look like a model of virtue." )  

Herman Hendrickx, THE PARABLES OF JESUS (Harper & Row: San Francisco, 1983) 94. ( “Instead of leading to the Holy Of Holies, the story brings us to the anonymous person lying half-dead along the road. And against the background of the Bible as a whole, it should be forcefully stated that passing by the half-dead man on the other side is the same as passing by the God who is on the side of the victims of injustice and oppression." )

HERBERT, GEORGE

George Herbert, "Trinity Sunday", reprinted in DAILY PRAYER FROM THE DIVINE OFFICE (London: Wm. Collins Sons & Co, 1974) 590:

(“Lord, who hast form’d me out of mud,
And hast redeem’d me through thy blood,
And sanctified me to do good;
Purge all my sins done heretofore:
For I confess my heavy score,
And I will strive to sin no more.
Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me
With faith, with hope, with charity;
That I may run, rise, rest with thee.”)

HERBERT, VICTOR

Naughty Marietta, comp. Victor Herbert. ( "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", lyrics Rida Johnson Young, perf. New York City: 7 Nov. 1910. The lyrics of "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", the centerpiece of this well-known American operetta, accurately reflect love's primacy and restorative powers: "For 'tis love, and love alone, the world is seeking. And 'tis love, and love alone, that can repay!" "Naughty Marietta" opened in New York City November 07, 1910. )

HIMES, FATHER MICHAEL

Fr. Michael Himes, address, Texas Catholic Conference Scripture Seminar, Red Lion Hotel, Austin, TX Oct. 1992. Fr. Himes, Professor of Theology at Boston College, argues that to speak of the convergence of the Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith is to ponder the meaning of Our Lord’s humanity and divinity. The cross itself reveals convergence: the vertical stipes points to heaven and God as Sovereign, whereas the horizontal patibulum, on which Christ stretched out his arms, encompasses humanity and the earth. The point at which the patibulum and stipes meet is the A-N-D of the great shema: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” [Mt 22:37-39]

“HOUSTON CHRONICLE”

Houston Chronicle, 8 June 1996.

HBO Special Examines Dr. Death, Houston Chronicle, 04 Nov. 1997. ( Dr. J. Kerkvorkian: "Jesus Christ was crucified on a hilltop with people jabbing spears into him and jeering him. You think that is dignified? Not by a long shot. Had Christ died in my rusty van, with people around him he loved, it would have been far more dignified....Every case is emotional, but you become inured to it. There's always a feeling of anxiety." Kerkvorkian's lawyer Geoffrey Fieger: "Perhaps liver and kidneys will be available through my office." ) "Houston Chronicle" 17 Nov. 1994. 

Rex W. Huppke, “I Just Had to Try Something” (AP) Houston Chronicle 17 May 1998, 14a. This modern miracle of the baby, the train and the conductor occurred in Lafayette, Indiana. In the cab of the locomotive pulling Norfolk Southern's 146, 100 cars long, was conductor Robert Mohr and engineer Rod Lindley. The child was Emily Marshall.

Ann Richards, address to Planned Parenthood of Houston, excerpt. in Houston Chronicle 18A 20 Jan. 1994. ( "Freedom of choice is the most fundamental right that a human being has." )

IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

Ignatius of Antioch, "The Epistle to the Ephesians", no. 4, EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITINGS, trans. Maxwell Staniforth (New York: Dorsett Press, 1968) 76. ( "That is why it is proper for your conduct and your practices to correspond closely with the mind of the bishop. And this, indeed, they are doing; your justly respected clergy, who are a credit to God, are attuned to their bishop like the strings of a harp, and the result is a hymn of praise to Jesus Christ from minds that are in unison, and affections that are in harmony." )  

INTERNET SOURCES

"The Dred Scott Case", online, http://library.wustl.edu/ulib/dredscott/ , St. Louis: Washington University Libraries, 2000.

"Ghost Ship Packed with Rotten Fish Found at Sea", online, http://www.reuters.com/ , Canberra, Australia: Reuters, 14 Jan 2003.

Christopher Kilroy, ed., "Special Report: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961", online, http://www.airdisaster.com/ , Accident Database: 1997-2004.

"Roe, et al. v Wade, District Attorney of Dallas County", 410 U.S. 113, No. 70-18, online, http://members.aol.com/abtrbng/410us113.htm , Washington DC: Supreme Court of the United States, 22 Jan 1973.  

JAMART OCD, FRANCOIS (ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX)

Francois Jamart OCD, COMPLETE SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX (New York: Alba House, 1961) 20. ( "...Believe me when I tell you that we never have too much confidence in the good Lord who is so powerful and merciful. We obtain from Him as much as we hope for." )  

Francois Jamart OCD, COMPLETE SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX (New York: Alba House, 1961) 21. ( "I feel that my mission is about to begin, my mission of making souls love the good Lord as I love Him, of giving my Little Way to souls! If my wishes are granted, my heaven will be spent on earth until the end of the world. Yes, I want to spend my heaven in doing good on earth. I shall not be able to rest until the end of the world, and as long as there are still souls to be saved; but, when the Angel shall have said 'time is no more' then will I rest. I shall then be able to rejoice because the number of the elect will be complete and all shall have entered into joy and repose. My heart leaps with gladness at this thought." )  

Francois Jamart OCD, COMPLETE SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX (New York: Alba House, 1961) 51. ( "It is confidence, and confidence alone that should lead us to Love....I cannot lean on anything, nor can I count on anything I have done to build up my confidence in God. But the consciousness of my poverty has served as a true light for me. I knew that I had never been able, during my life, to pay any of the debts I owed to God but that I could make of that very knowledge a source of spiritual wealth and power." )  

Francois Jamart OCD, COMPLETE SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX (New York: Alba House, 1961) 53-54. ( "I feel always the same audacious confidence that I will become a great saint, for I do not count on my own merits since I have none, but I hope in Him who is virtue and sanctity itself. It is He and He alone who, being satisfied with my feeble efforts, will raise me to Himself and, covering me with his infinite merits, will make me a saint." )  

Francois Jamart OCD, COMPLETE SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX (New York: Alba House, 1961) 69. ( “Be like a little child. Practice all the virtues and so always lift up your little foot to mount the ladder of holiness; but do not imagine that you will be able to ascend even the first step. No! The Good Lord does not demand more from you than good will. From the top of the stairs, He looks at you with love. Very soon, won over by your useless efforts, He will come down and take you in His arms. He will carry you up. But if you stop lifting your little foot, He will leave you a long time on the ground.” )  

Francois Jamart OCD, COMPLETE SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX (New York: Alba House, 1961) 70-71. ( “Sanctity does not consist in this or that practice. It consists in a disposition of the heart which makes us humble and little in God’s arms, conscious of our weakness and confident even to audacity in the goodness of our Father.”)  

Francois Jamart OCD, COMPLETE SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX (New York: Alba House, 1961) 101. To Mother Agnes in the Lisieux convent: ( "My dear Mother, fraternal charity is everything on this earth. We love God in the measure in which we practice charity.” )  

Francois Jamart OCD, COMPLETE SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX (New York: Alba House, 1961) 104-105. ( "Listen to the words of Jesus: ‘Lift up your eyes and see: see how in heaven there are empty places. It is your task to fill them. Become like another Moses praying on the mountain; ask for laborers and I will send them. I await but a prayer, a sigh of your heart.’ Is not the apostolate of prayer, as it were, more sublime than the work of actually preaching?" )

Francois Jamart OCD, COMPLETE SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX (New York: Alba House, 1961) 106. ( "...during the short moments that still remain to us on earth, let us not waste our time....Let us save souls; let us be apostles, and especially let us save the souls of priests. Their souls should be more transparent than crystal....Alas! how many are bad priests, priests who are not saints...who give to others their hearts that belong so absolutely to Jesus....Let us pray and suffer for them....May our life be consecrated to them!" )  

Francois Jamart OCD, COMPLETE SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX (New York: Alba House, 1961) 138. ( "God has no need for brilliant deeds, for beautiful thoughts....It is neither intelligence nor talent He is looking for on earth. He loves simplicity. We would indeed deserve pity if we were required to do great things. I don't despise profound thoughts which nourish the soul and unite us to God, but I have understood for a long time that we do not need to build on such foundations, nor does perfection consist in receiving many lights. The most sublime thoughts are valueless without works....God made me realize that in order to attain true glory we do not have to accomplish brilliant works, but we must hide ourselves and practice virtue in such a way that our left hand does not know what our right hand does." )  

Francois Jamart OCD, COMPLETE SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX (New York: Alba House, 1961) 244. ( "I understand and know by experience that the kingdom of heaven is within us. Jesus does not need books nor doctors to teach souls. He, the Doctor of doctors, teaches without the noise of words. I have never heard him speak, and yet I know He is in me. At every moment, He guides me and inspires me with what He wants me to say or do. I find, just at the time when I need them, lights which I had not seen before. It is not most frequently during my meditation that they are given to me in greater abundance, but rather during the occupations of my daily life." )  

Francois Jamart OCD, COMPLETE SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX (New York: Alba House, 1961) 245. ( "I feel that if you could find a soul that is more feeble, more insignificant than mine, You (my God) would desire to shower it with even greater favors, if that soul abandoned itself to your infinite mercy with entire confidence. If all souls that are weak and imperfect could feel what your little Thérèse, the most insignificant of souls, feels, not one would despair of reaching the top of the mountain of love." )  

Francois Jamart OCD, COMPLETE SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX (New York: Alba House, 1961) 281. ( "All He has given to me, Jesus may take back again. O tell Him not be shy with me. Let Him hide if He wishes; I am willing to wait until the day which has no setting sun, and when my darksome faith will vanish at His sight." )  

Francois Jamart OCD, COMPLETE SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX (New York: Alba House, 1961) 267. ( "I understand better than ever what true glory is. He whose kingdom is not of this world shows me that there is only one kind of royalty that we should envy and desire: our royalty should consist of a willingness to be forgotten, to be considered as nothing and to find our joy in despising ourselves. Oh! How I wish that my face, like that of Jesus, were hidden from all eyes, and that, on this earth, no one would recognize me." )  

CHRYSOSTOM, JOHN

John Chrysostom, "Homilies on the Gospel of St. Matthew", Homily XIX, Mt 6:1ff, NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS, vol. 10 (1888; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994) 135. ( "For ye must long, saith He, for heaven, and the things in heaven; however, even before heaven, He hath bidden us make the earth a heaven and do and say all things, even while we are continuing in it, as having our conversation there...so that error may be destroyed, and truth implanted, and all wickedness cast out, and virtue return, and no difference in this respect be henceforth between heaven and earth." )

JOHN PAUL II, POPE

John Paul II, Address, 18 July 1982, excerpted in The Navarre Bible series, THE BOOK OF REVELATION (Four Courts Press: Dublin, 1992) 134.  

John Paul II, CROSSING THE THRESHOLD OF HOPE, "'The Pope': A Scandal and a Mystery" (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995) 12. ( "Do not be afraid of being witnesses to the dignity of every human being from the moment of conception until death." )  

John Paul II, CROSSING THE THRESHOLD OF HOPE (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995) 64-68.  

John Paul II, CROSSING THE THRESHOLD OF HOPE, "Is There Really Hope in the Young?" (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995) 122-123. ( "Love is not something that is learned, and yet there is nothing else as important to learn! As a young priest, I learned how to love human love. This has been one of the fundamental themes of my priesthood--my ministry in the pulpit, in the confessional, and also in my writing. If one loves human love, there naturally arises the need to commit oneself completely to the service of fair love, because love is fair, it is beautiful." )  

John Paul II, CROSSING THE THRESHOLD OF HOPE (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995) 206-207. ( "Therefore, in firmly rejecting 'pro-choice', it is necessary to become courageously 'pro woman', promoting a choice that is truly in favor of women. It is precisely the woman, in fact, who pays the highest price, not only for her motherhood, but even more for its destruction, for the suppression of the life of the child who has been conceived." )  

John Paul II, CROSSING THE THRESHOLD OF HOPE (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995) 218-219. ( "When, on October 22, 1978, I said the words 'Be not afraid!' in St. Peters Square, I could not fully know how far they would take me and the entire Church. Their meaning came more from the Holy Spirit, the Consoler promised by the Lord Jesus to His disciples, than from the man who spoke them. Nevertheless, with the passing of the years, I have recalled these words on many occasions." )  

John Paul II, Dominicae Cenae, no. 5 (1980).  

John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, no. 20 (1995). ( "Everyone else is considered an enemy from whom one has to defend oneself. Thus society becomes a mass of individuals placed side by side, but without any mutual bonds. Each one wishes to assert himself independently of the other and in fact intends to make his own interests prevail....In this way, any reference to common values and to a truth absolutely binding on everyone is lost, and social life ventures on to the shifting sands of complete relativism. At that point, everything is negotiable, everything is open to bargaining: even the first of the fundamental rights, the right to life." )

John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, no. 20 (1995). ( “How is it still possible to speak of the dignity of every human person when the killing of the weakest and most innocent is permitted? In the name of what justice is the most unjust of discriminations practiced: some individuals are held to be deserving of defense and other are denied that dignity?” )  

John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, no. 22 (1995). ( "...it is no less true that we are confronted by an even larger reality, which can be described as a veritable structure of sin. This reality is characterized by the emergence of a culture which denies solidarity and in many cases takes the form of a veritable 'culture of death.'" )  

John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, no. 57 (1995). ( The deliberate decision to deprive an innocent human being of his life is always morally evil and can never be licit either as an end in itself or as a means to a good end. It is in fact a grave act of disobedience to the moral law, and indeed to God himself, the author and guarantor of that law; it contradicts the fundamental virtues of justice and charity. Nothing and no one can in any way permit the killing of an innocent human being, whether a fetus or an embryo, an infant or an adult, an old person, or one suffering from an incurable disease or a person who is dying. Furthermore, no one is permitted to ask for this act of killing, either for himself or herself or for another person entrusted to his or her care, nor can he or she consent to it, either explicitly or implicitly. Nor can any authority legitimately recommend or permit such an action. As far as the right to life is concerned, every innocent human being is absolutely equal to all others. This equality is the basis of all authentic social relationships which, to be truly such, can only be founded on truth and justice, recognizing and protecting every man and woman as a person and not as an object to be used. Before the moral norm which prohibits the direct taking of the life of an innocent human being “there are no privileges or exceptions for anyone. It makes no difference whether one is the master of the world or the ‘poorest of the poor’ on the face of the earth. Before the demands of morality we are all absolutely equal." )  

John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, no. 105 (1995). ( "Mary, bright dawn of the new world, Mother of the living, to you do we entrust the cause of life: Look down, O Mother, upon the vast numbers of babies not allowed to be born, of the poor whose lives are made difficult, of men and women who are victims of brutal violence, of the elderly and the sick killed by indifference or out of misguided mercy. Grant that all who believe in your Son may proclaim the Gospel of life with honesty and love to the people of our time. Obtain for them the grace to accept that Gospel as a gift ever new, the joy of celebrating it with gratitude throughout their lives and the courage to bear witness to it resolutely, in order to build, together with all people of good will, the civilization of truth and love, to the praise and glory of God, the Creator and lover of life." )  

John Paul II, Fides et Ratio, no. 13 (1998). ( "This is why the Church has always considered the act of entrusting oneself to God to be a moment of fundamental decision which engages the whole person. In that act, the intellect and the will display their spiritual nature, enabling the subject to act in a way which realizes personal freedom to the full." )

John Paul II, Fides et Ratio, no. 33 (1998). ( "From all that I have said to this point it emerges that men and women are on a journey of discovery which is humanly unstoppable--a search for the truth and a search for a person to whom they might entrust themselves. Christian faith comes to meet them, offering the concrete possibility of reaching the goal which they seek. Moving beyond the stage of simple believing, Christian faith immerses human beings in the order of grace, which enables them to share in the mystery of Christ, which in turn offers them a true and coherent knowledge of the Triune God. In Jesus Christ, who is the Truth, faith recognizes the ultimate appeal to humanity, an appeal made in order that what we experience as desire and nostalgia may come to its fulfillment." )  

John Paul II, Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, no. 13 (1984). ( “...to recognize (himself) as being a sinner, capable of sin and inclined to commit sin, is the essential first step in returning to God." ) 

John Paul II, Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, no. 16 (1984). ( "Consequently, one can speak of a communion of sin, whereby a soul that lowers itself through sin drags down with itself the Church and, in some way, the whole world. In other words, there is no sin, not even the most intimate and secret one, the most strictly individual one, that exclusively concerns the person committing it." )  

John Paul II, Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, no. 22 (1984). ( "(DIVINE MERCY) is a love more powerful than sin, stronger than death. When we realize that God's love for us does not cease in the face of our sin or recoil before our offenses, but becomes even more attentive and generous; when we realize that this love went so far as to cause the Passion and Death of the Word made flesh who consented to redeem us at the price of his own blood, then we exclaim in gratitude: 'Yes the Lord is rich in mercy,' and even: 'The Lord is mercy.'" )  

John Paul II, Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, no. 25 (1984). ( “The Catholic Church is aware that, by her nature, she is the sacrament of the universal communion of charity." )  

John Paul II, Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, no. 26 (1984). ( "Allow (your) spirit to be overturned in order to make it turn towards God." )  

John Paul II, Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, no. 26 (1984). ( “To do penance means, above all, to re-establish the balance and harmony broken by sin, to change direction even at the cost of sacrifice.” )  

John Paul II, Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, no. 29 (1984). ( “In the Psalms and in the preaching of the Prophets, the name merciful is perhaps the one most often given to the Lord, in contrast to the persistent cliché whereby the God of the Old Testament is presented above all as severe and vengeful.” )  

John Paul II, Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, no. 31 (1984). ( “’I wish to heal, not accuse’, Saint Augustine said, referring to the exercise of the pastoral activity regarding Penance, "and it is thanks to the medicine of Confession that the experience of sin does not degenerate into despair.”)  

John Paul II, Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, no. 31 (1984). ( “...contrition and conversion are even more a drawing near to the holiness of God, a rediscovery of one’s true identity which has been upset and disturbed by sin, a liberation in the very depth of self and thus a regaining of lost joy, the joy of being saved....” )  

John Paul II, Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, no. 31 (1984). ( “Only faith can give us the certainty that at (the) moment (of absolution) every sin is forgiven and blotted out by the mysterious intervention of the Saviour.” )  

John Paul II, Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, no. 32 (1984). ( "The frequent use of the Sacrament--to which some categories of the faithful are in fact held--strengthens the awareness that even minor sins offend God and harm the Church, the Body of Christ. Its celebration then becomes for the faithful 'the occasion and the incentive to conform themselves more closely to Christ and to make themselves more docile to the voice of the Spirit'. Above all, it should be emphasized that the grace proper to the sacramental celebration has a great remedial power and helps to remove the very roots of sin." )  

John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis, no. 30 (1979). ( "...full awareness of (man's) dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence" )

John Paul II, Rio de Janeiro, address excerpt. in “Shame of Humanity” Houston Chronicle 05 Oct. 1997.

"John Paul II on the American Experiment", First Things 82 (Apr. 1998): 36-37. ( "The credibility of the United States will depend more and more on its promotion of a genuine culture of life, and on a renewed commitment to building a world in which the weakest and most vulnerable are welcomed and protected." )  

John Paul II, Texas Catholic Herald, 23 Oct. 1992. ( "No prayer can make up for the shortcomings of an improper moral life," he said. Prayer before a just and loving God, observed the Holy Father, “cannot help but commit the believer to worthy conduct. I invite you to pray constantly, raising your hearts and minds to God in a spirit of adoration and openness to his word.”)  

JOHNSON, E. J.

E. J. Johnson, "Liturgical Use of Ashes", NEW CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, 2nd ed, vol. 1 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967) 948-949.

JOHNSON, JAMES WELDON

James Weldon Johnson, "The Creation", AMERICAN POETRY: The Twentieth Century, eds. Robert Hass et al., 2 vol. (New York: Library of America, Penguin Putnam, 2000) 80-82.  

JONES, QUINCY

Quincy Jones, "Everything Must Change", Body Heat, A & M Records, SP3617, 1974. Words and music by Bernard Ighner. (Album re-released as Audio CD, 25 Oct. 1990)  

KASEMANN, ERNST

Ernst Kasemann, RIP, First Things Aug.-Sept. 1998: 82-83.  

KAVANAUGH, KIERAN

Kieran Kavanaugh et al., eds., THE COLLECTED WORKS OF SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS (Washington, DC: ICS Publications, 1991) 52. ( "O living flame of love, that tenderly wounds my soul in its deepest center!... tear through the veil of this sweet encounter!...O lamps of fire! in whose splendors the deep caverns of feeling, once obscure and blind, now give forth, so rarely, so exquisitely, both warmth and light to their Beloved.")  

KINCAID, JAMES R.

James R. Kincaid, rev. of YOUNG MEN AND FIRE, by Norman Maclean, New York Times, Sunday Book Review 16 Aug. 1992.  

KOWALSKA, ST. FAUSTINA

St. Faustina Kowalska, "The Chaplet of Divine Mercy", The Divine Mercy Message and Devotion, eds. Fr. Seraphim Michalenko, MIC et al. (Stockbridge, MA: Marian Helpers, 1995) 32-35.  

St. Faustina Kowalska, DIARY of Blessed Sister M. Faustina Kowalska, 3rd ed., nos. 475, 476 (Stockbridge, MA: Marians of the Immaculate Conception, 1987) 207-208. 

LATHEM, EDWARD CONNERY

Edward Connery Lathem, ed., THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST, "The Road Not Taken" (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969) 105. ( "Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.")

LEO XIII, POPE

Leo XIII, Libertas Praestantissimum, no. 7 (1888) ( "In other words, the reason prescribes to the will what it should seek after or shun, in order to the eventual attainment of man's last end, for the sake of which all his actions ought to be performed. This ordination of reason is called law. In man's free will, therefore, or in the moral necessity of our voluntary acts being in accordance with reason, lies the very root of the necessity of law. Nothing more foolish can be uttered or conceived than the notion that, because man is free by nature, he is therefore exempt from law." )  

LEON-DUFOUR, XAVIER

Xavier Leon-Dufour, DICTIONARY OF BIBLICAL THEOLOGY (New York: Seabury Press, 1973) 110.  

LINKLETTER, ART

Art Linkletter, KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1957) 77-78.  

LIFTON, ROBERT J.

Robert J. Lifton, THE NAZI DOCTORS (New York: Basic Books, 1986) 13.  

Robert J. Lifton, THE NAZI DOCTORS (New York: Basic Books, 1986) 134.

( Physician and Nobel Prize winner Konrad Lorenz: "It must be the duty of racial hygiene to be attentive to a more severe elimination of morally inferior human beings than is the case today....This role must be assumed by a human organization; otherwise, humanity will, for lack of selective factors, be annihilated by the degenerative phenomena that accompany domestication." [1940] ) 

LITTLE, JOYCE

Joyce Little, THE CHURCH AND THE CULTURE WAR, Secular Anarchy or Sacred Order (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1995) 29. ( “Authority, on the one hand, is rooted in and derives all of its legitimacy from the givenness of a reality uncreated by those who exercise authority. Authority bears witness to that reality and seeks to evoke our acceptance of and obedience to it. Power, on the other hand, seeks to master or control any reality it encounters. Therefore, while authority employs neither force nor coercion, power is always to one degree or another coercive.” )  

Joyce Little, THE CHURCH AND THE CULTURE WAR, Secular Anarchy or Sacred Order (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1995) 30.  

Joyce Little, THE CHURCH AND THE CULTURE WAR, Secular Anarchy or Sacred Order (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1995) 71. ( "The knowledge of good and evil might therefore be rendered as the ability to name things good and evil, an ability which presupposes a sufficient understanding of reality to make such naming possible...In other words, the command God gives (Adam and Eve) can be translated thus: Do not claim the ability to name or to define what is good and evil for yourselves, because you do not know enough about me to know what you are supposed to do to be my image in the world. Only I know how I can properly be imaged, and therefore only I can tell you what is good and evil for you." )  

Joyce Little, THE CHURCH AND THE CULTURE WAR, Secular Anarchy or Sacred Order (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1995) 88-91. ( "imperial self")

LITURGY OF THE HOURS

Bernardine of Siena, "De Glorioso Nomine Iesu Christi", Sermon 49, LITURGY OF THE HOURS, Office of Readings for May 20, vol. IV (New York: Catholic Book Publ., 1975) 1829. ( "In this chosen vessel there was to be a drink more pleasing than earth ever knew, offered to all humankind for a price they could pay, so that they would be drawn to the taste of it. Poured into other chosen vessels, it would grow and radiate splendor. For our Lord said, He is to carry my name." )  

LITURGY OF THE HOURS, "Feast of the Triumph of the Cross", Evening Prayer II, Antiphon for the Canticle of Mary, vol. 4 (New York: Catholic Book Publ., 1975) 1396. ( “What a great work of charity! Death itself died when life was slain on the tree.” )  

DAILY PRAYER FROM THE DIVINE OFFICE, "Holy Saturday", Ant 1 of Evening Prayer I (1974: London: Wm Collins Sons & Co.; Sydney: E. J. Dwyer Pty.; Dublin: Talbot Press Ltd.) 324. ( "O Death, I will be your death. Sheol, I will be your destruction." )  

MACLEAN, NORMAN

Norman Maclean, YOUNG MEN AND FIRE (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) p. 43. ( Norman Maclean (1902-1990), William Rainey Harper Professor of English at the University of Chicago, also wrote A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT AND OTHER STORIES. )  

MARTIMORT, AIME GEORGES

Aime Georges Martimort et al., eds., THE SACRAMENTS, vol. 3 of the THE CHURCH AT PRAYER, trans. Matthew J. O'Connell (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1988) 47. ( "Lord, creator of all creatures visible and invisible, you made the heavens and the earth and all that is in them; you gathered the waters into a single mass and made the earth to appear; you locked up the abyss and keep it imprisoned; you divided the waters that are above the firmament; by your power you set bounds to the sea and crushed the heads of the dragons. . . .Look upon this water, which is your creature. Grant it the grace of your salvation, the blessing of the Jordan, the consecration of the Holy Spirit. . . .Grant that this water may become a water of rest, joy, and gladness, a water that symbolizes the death and resurrection of your only Son; may it bring cleansing from the stains of body and soul, the casting off of bonds, the forgiveness of sins, the enlightenment of souls. May it be a bath of rebirth, bestowing the grace of adoption, the garment of immortality, and renewal by your Holy Spirit...” )  

MASSYS, QUENTIN

Quentin Massys, The Body of Christ, Oil on panel, 61 x 63 inches, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston, 1978.  

MERTON, THOMAS

Thomas Merton, THE ASCENT TO TRUTH (New York: Viking Press, 1951) 24. ( "...mankind's highest activity is its rest." )  

Thomas Merton, NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1961) 32. ( "Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....by choosing the truth.")  

Thomas Merton, NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1961) 75. ( "The beginning of the fight against hatred, the basic Christian answer to hatred, is not the commandment to love, but what must necessarily come before in order to make the commandment bearable and comprehensible. It is a prior commandment, to believe." )  

Thomas Merton, NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1961) 107. ( "That which is oldest is most young and most new. There is nothing so ancient and so dead as human novelty. The 'latest' is always stillborn. I never even manages to arrive. What is really new is what was there all the time." )  

Thomas Merton, NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1961) 144. ( "This is the most complete revolution that has ever been preached; in fact, it is the only true revolution, because all the others demand the extermination of somebody else, but this one means the death of the man who, for all practical purposes, you have come to think of as your own self." )  

Thomas Merton, NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1961) 258. ( "It is in this darkness when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when we seem to be useless and worthy of all contempt, when we seem to have failed, when we seem to be destroyed and devoured, it is then that the deep and secret selfishness that is too close to us to identify is stripped away from our souls. It is in this darkness that we find liberty. It is in this abandonment that we are made strong. This is the night which empties us and makes us pure." )  

Thomas Merton, THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976) 170. ( “The soul of a man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature, but it lacks something that it can only receive from outside and above itself. But when the light shines in it, it becomes in a manner transformed into light, and seems to lose its nature in the splendor of a higher nature, the nature of the light that is in it.” )  

MIKLOSHAZY DD, BISHOP ATTILA

Attila Mikloshazy DD, "Creation, Anthropology and Sin" SAT2321F notes, St. Augustine Seminary, Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto, Fall 1989. Most Reverend Mikloshazy SJ, is titular bishop of Castel Minore and Bishop for Hungarian Emigrants throughout the world; in addition to these duties, he is a professor at St. Augustine Seminary in the Toronto School of Theology. ( "O God, you created me. I did not create you. You see everything, I see nothing. Therefore, I do the only thing I can do. I kneel before you." )  

MORROW, LANCE

Lance Morrow, "Time Essay", Time Magazine, 7 July 1986. ( "...everyone, anywhere who escapes to freedom has to come alone" )  

MOTHER TERESA

Mother Teresa, Time Magazine, 04 Dec. 1989. ( When asked, “What did you do this morning?” she answered, “Pray”. “When did you start?” “Half past four.” “And after prayer?” “We try to pray through our work by doing it with Jesus, for Jesus, to Jesus. That helps us put our whole heart and soul into doing it. The dying, the crippled, the mentally ill, the unwanted, the unloved--they are Jesus in disguise.” )  

MUGGERIDGE, MACOLM

Malcolm Muggeridge, "The Humane Holocaust”, Time Magazine, 19 March 1990: 56. ( “The haunting precedent, of course, is the Nazi Holocaust, during which the chronically ill, then the socially unacceptable, and finally all non-Germans were viewed as expendable. In his stark essay 'The Humane Holocaust,' Christian author Malcolm Muggeridge notes that ‘it took no more than three decades to transform a war crime into an act of compassion. (The right-to-life-movement is) based on a theology that places the entire debate in a different context, that of a family of faith that tends most lovingly to its weakest members. The sanctity of a human existence, they argue, does not depend on its quality or its cost. What God gives only he can take away, and to usurp that right is an act of grave hubris. ‘Our Lord healed the sick, raised Lazarus from the dead, gave back sanity to the deranged,’ writes Muggeridge, ‘but never did He practice or envisage killing as part of the mercy that held possession of His heart.’” )  

MURRAY, DAVID AARON

David Aaron Murray, reply to "Correspondence", First Things, Oct. 1997: 4.  

MYERS, ALLEN C.

Allen C. Myers, et al., eds., "Tent", EERDMANS DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987) 993. 

NEW CATHOLIC TREASURY

Paul Bussard ed., THE NEW CATHOLIC TREASURY OF WIT AND HUMOR (New York: Meredith Press, 1968) 154. ("Smells are things to know about. When people do good things they smell sweet. When they do bad things, they don't smell sweet at all. Dogs know about this.")

"NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE"

“Mandela the Pol”, New York Times Magazine 23 Mar. 1997: 43.

“NEWSWEEK”

Newsweek, 04 May 1992. ( "We were desperate," the mother said, “our electricity was being turned off. We were lighting the house with candles. We were on what we called the ‘white diet’—a lot of rice and cereal. No medical coverage, no dental. I knew he didn't want the kids so I gave our two teenage sons overnight back-packs and dropped them off in front of their father's Highland Park house in subzero weather. I'm not proud of it, but I was desperate.” The oldest son still looks upon his father's cruel behavior with incomprehension. “We were his children,” he says. “Why would he want to hurt us? That's what was so confusing about the whole deal--why would a father turn his back on a child?” )

 

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