HOMILETIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

PART I (A – G)

AMBROSE OF MILAN

Ambrose of Milan, De Mysteriis, Chapt. IX, no. 50, NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS, eds. Philip Schaff, et al., vol. 10 (ca 1888; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 1997) 324. ( "Perhaps you will say, 'I see something else, how is it that you assert that I receive the Body of Christ?'....[The Eucharist] is not what nature made, but what the blessing consecrated, and the power of the blessing is greater than that of nature, because by blessing, nature itself is changed." )

Ambrose of Milan, THREE BOOKS CONCERNING VIRGINS, Book I, chapt. VI, no. 30, NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS, eds. Philip Schaff, et al., vol. 10 (ca 1888; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 1997) 368. ( "Let God alone be sought as the judge of loveliness, Who loves even in less beautiful bodies the more beautiful souls." )

Ambrose of Milan, THREE BOOKS ON THE DUTIES OF THE CLERGY, Book I, chapt. XVIII, no. 70, NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS, eds. Philip Schaff, et al., vol. 10 (ca 1888; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 1997) 13. ( "A noble thing, then, is modesty, which though giving up its rights, seizing on nothing for itself, laying claim to nothing, and in some ways somewhat retiring within the sphere of its own powers, yet is rich in the sight of God, in Whose sight no man is rich. Rich is modesty, for it is the portion of God." ) Cf ibid., no. 78, p. 14. ( "Is not nature herself then a teacher of modesty? Following her example, the modesty of men, which I suppose is so called from the mode of knowing what is seemly, has covered and veiled what it has found hid in the frame of our body....Thus the Make of our nature so thought of our modesty, and so guarded what was seemly and virtuous in our body, as to place what is unseemly behind, and to put it out of the sight of our eyes." )

Ambrose of Milan, La Verginità (Virginity), 99: SAEMO, XIV/2, Milan-Rome, 1989, p. 81.  (  "Christ is everything for us. If you wish to cure a wound, he is doctor; if you burn with fever, he is fountain; if you are oppressed by iniquity, he is justice; if you are in need of help, he is strength; if you fear death, he is life; if you desire heaven, he is the way; if you flee from darkness, he is light; if you seek food, he is nourishment."  )

AMERICAN BOY CHOIR

American Boy Choir, "Eternal Love", Hymn, compact disc, Angel Records, 1995.

( Eternal Love, all human thought transcending,
Humbly we bow to pray before your throne,
that ours may be the love which knows no ending,
Now and forevermore to join in one.
Eternal Life, be now our full assurance
Of tender charity and steadfast faith,
Of patient hope and quiet, brave endurance,
With childlike trust that fears no pain or death.
Grant us the joy which brightens earthly sorrow;
Grant us the peace which calms all earthly strife,
That we may walk as one beyond tomorrow
In hope and strength, fulfilled in love and life. )

AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

Augustine of Hippo, THE CONFESSIONS, Book III, chapt. 12, no. 21, NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS, vol. 1 (1886; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994) 67. Monica, lamenting the debased behavior of her son Augustine, went to a bishop in their native Africa renown for holiness. He attempted to console her by the experience of his own youth. ( “When Monica) would not be satisfied, but repeated more earnestly her entreaties, shedding copious tears…(the bishop), a little vexed at her importunity, exclaimed, ‘Go thy way, and God bless thee, for it is not possible that the son of these tears should perish.’ Which answer she accepted as though it were a voice from heaven.” )

Augustine of Hippo, THE CONFESSIONS, IX, quoted in "Augustine of Hippo", THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, 1907 ed. [ needs edit ]

Augustine of Hippo, "Sermons on New-Testament Lessons", On the Lord's Prayer, Sermon VII, no. 7, Mt. 6, NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS, vol. 6 (1888; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994) 282. ( "So then the Eucharist is our daily bread; but let us in such wise receive it, that we be not refreshed in our bodies only , but in our souls. For the virtue which is apprehended their, is unity, that gathered together into His body, and made His members, we be what we receive. Then will it be indeed our daily bread....and the lessons which ye hear in Church are daily bread, and the hymns ye hear and repeat are daily bread. For all these are necessary in our state of pilgrimage." ) [cited in CCC: Sermo, 57, 7: PL 38, 389 ]

**Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 136, no. 1. [better citation needed for this source; cf. Easter Wk 2, Yr A] ( "We ourselves are the house of God. In this life we are built up to be the house of God in order to be consecrated as the house of God at the end of life. It takes much effort to build the house, but its consecration brings joy and jubilation." )

Augustine of Hippo, In Ioannis Evangelium Tractatus, Tractate XXVI, Jn 6:41-59, NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS, vol. 7, no. 13 (1888; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994) 172. ( "Believers know the Body of Christ if they do not neglect to be the Body of Christ. Let them become the Body of Christ if they wish to live by the Spirit of Christ. None lives by the Spirit of Christ but the body of Christ....Tell me which lives of the other: Does thy spirit live of thy body, or thy body of thy spirit?....The body of Christ cannot live but by the Spirit of Christ." )

Augustine of Hippo, "On the Gospel of St. John", Tractate XXXIII, Jn 8:1-11, NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS, vol. 7 (1888; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994) 198. ( "This is the voice of Justice: Let her, the sinner, be punished, but not by sinners: let the law be fulfilled, but not by the transgressors of the law." )

Augustine of Hippo, In Ioannis Evangelium Tractatus, Tractate XLIII, Jn 8:48-59, NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS, vol. 7, no. 2 (1888; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994) 240. ( "He then is our Keeper who is our Creator. For did it belong to Him to redeem us, and would it not be His to preserve us?....A certain Samaritan came up--He who is our keeper. He went up to the wounded man. He exercised mercy, and did a neighbor's part to one whom He did not account an alien." )

Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 227, THE TEACHINGS OF THE CHURCH FATHERS, ed. John R. Willis SJ (Montreal: Palm Publishers 1966) 443. ( "You ought to know what you have received, what you are going to receive, and what you ought to receive daily. That Bread which you see on the altar, consecrated by the word of God, is the Body of Christ. That chalice, or rather, what the chalice holds, consecrated by the word of God, is the Blood of Christ. Through those accidents (elements), the Lord wished to entrust to us His Body and the Blood which he poured out for the remission of sins. If you have received worthily, you are what you have received, for the Apostle says, 'The bread is one; we though many, are one body.'" )

Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 340, excerpt. VATICAN COUNCIL II, Lumen Gentium, no. 32 (1964). ( “When I am frightened by what I am to you, then I am consoled by what I am with you. To you I am the bishop, with you I am a Christian. The first is an office, the second a grace; the first a danger, the second salvation.” )

BAKER, J. ROBERT

J. Robert Baker et al., eds., A BAPTISM SOURCEBOOK (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publ., 1993) 60.

"Nigerian Prayer", (A) LENT SOURCE BOOK: THE FORTY DAYS, eds. J. Robert Baker, et al., vol. 2 (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1990) 103. ( "God in heaven, you have helped my life to grow like a tree. Now something has happened. Satan, like a bird, has carried in one twig, of his own choosing, after another. Before I knew it, he had built a dwelling place and was living in it. Today, my Father, I am throwing out both the bird and the nest." )

BERNSTEIN, LEONARD

West Side Story, comp. Leonard Bernstein, lyrics Stephen Sondheim, Deutsche Grammophon, 1984. ( "We're gonna rock it tonight, We're gonna jazz it up and have us a ball! They're gonna get it tonight; The more they turn it on the harder they'll fall!" )

BLOOM, ANTHONY

Anthony Bloom, excerpted in A LENT SOURCE BOOK: THE FORTY DAYS, eds. J. Robert Baker, et al., vol. 2 (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1990) 138. ( "'Humility' comes from the Latin word humus which means fertile ground. The fertile ground is there, unnoticed, taken for granted, always there to be trodden upon. It is silent, inconspicuous, dark, and yet it is always ready to receive any seed, ready to give it substance and life....It is so low that nothing can soil it, abase it, humiliate it; it has accepted the last place and cannot go any lower." )

BRAGG, RICK

Rick Bragg, “Termites Haunt, and Topple, Mighty Oaks in Leafy New Orleans”, New York Times 30 June 1996: A10. Homily excerpt: "The city of New Orleans is well known for its lush, majestic oak trees, many of which are over 200 years old and legendary survivors of ferocious hurricanes. Whole sections of the city, such as the famous Garden District known for its antique trolleys, are canopied by these large, seemingly indestructible trees. In recent years, however, residents are not so sure about the oaks’ celebrated invincibility. Sidewalk strollers and drivers who park their cars at the curb hardly take the trees for granted any more. Blue skies and gentle breezes give no warning, when on calm days, massive oak limbs, garlanded in Spanish moss, snap off and crash to the ground. In fact, whole trees topple over dead, cleaving sidewalks and streets. The oaks appear to be perfectly healthy, but they are being hollowed out from within by the Formosan termite, a parasite which infested the cargoes of Louisiana bound freighters over fifty years ago. That it happens often now does not lessen the shock for bystanders and the owners of ruined autos. It is estimated that one in seven trees is bug-ridden." ( “We have some trees here 500-600 years old,” says a tree surgeon, “I’m not ready to admit that this little blind white thing has beaten us.” )

BROCKMAN SJ, JAMES R.

James R. Brockman SJ, comp. and trans., THE VIOLENCE OF LOVE, The Pastoral Wisdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988) 152. ( "I look at you, dear friends, and I know that my humble ministry is only that of Moses: to transmit the word --”Thus says the Lord.” And what pleasure it gives me when you say in your intimate hearts, or at times in words or in letters I receive, what the people replied to Moses: “We will do all that Yahweh has ordained.” )

BROWNE, LEWIS

Lewis Browne, ed., THE WISDOM OF ISRAEL, (New York: Random House, 1945) 256. ( "The potter does not test cracked vessels. It's useless to tap them even once, because they would break. He does, however, test the good ones, because no matter how many times he taps them they don't break. Even so God tests not the wicked but the righteous." )

BROWNSTONE, DOUGLAS L.

Douglas L. Brownstone, A FIELD GUIDE TO AMERICA’S HISTORY (New York: Facts on File Inc. Publishing, 1984) 240-246.

BYRNE, ROBERT

Robert Byrne, ed., 1,911 BEST THINGS ANYBODY EVER SAID (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1988) 30.

CAMERA, DOM HELDER PESSOA

Dom Helder Pessoa Camera, quoted in "A Prophets Vision and Grace" Sojourner Magazine (Dec. 1987). ( "I pray incessantly for the conversion of the prodigal sons brother. Ever in my ear rings the dread warning. 'The one has awoken from his life of sin. When will the other awaken from his virtue?" [written August 29, 1962] )

“CAMPUS COMEDY”

"Campus Comedy", Reader's Digest, Jan 1996: 121.

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 2nd ed., no. 1803 (1997). ( "A virtue is an habitual and firm disposition to do the good." )

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 2nd ed., no. 1818 (1997). ( "[The virtue of hope] keeps man from discouragement; it sustains him during times of abandonment; it opens up his heart in expectation of eternal beatitude. Buoyed up by hope, he is preserved from selfishness and led to the happiness that flows from charity." )

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 2nd ed., no. 1820 (1997). ( "Hope is expressed and nourished in prayer, especially in the Our Father, the summary of everything that hope leads us to desire." )

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, 2nd ed., no. 2841 (1997). ( "And forgive us our trespasses": "This petition is so important that it is the only one to which the Lord returns and which he develops explicitly in the Sermon on the Mount." )

CATHER, WILLA

Willa Cather, DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP (New York: Random House, 1990) 49. ( "Where there is great love, there are always miracles...One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you as you really are...I see you through my affection for you. The Miracles of the Church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always." )

CLARKE OCD, JOHN (ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX)

John Clarke OCD, ed. and trans., ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX: HER LAST CONVERSATIONS (Washington, DC: ICS Publications, 1977) 94-95. ( “Only one expectation makes my heart beat, and it is the love I shall receive and I shall be able to give (in heaven). And then I think of all the good I would like to do after my death: have little children baptized, help priests, missionaries, the whole Church.” )

John Clarke OCD, ed. and trans., ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX: HER LAST CONVERSATIONS (Washington, DC: ICS Publications, 1977) 99-100. ( “Very often, without our knowing it, the graces and lights that we receive are due to a hidden soul, for God wills that the saints communicate grace to each other through prayer with great love, with a love much greater than that of a family, and even the most perfect family on earth. How often have I thought that I may owe all the graces I’ve received to the prayers of a person who begged them from God for me, and whom I shall know only in heaven. Yes a very little spark will be capable of giving birth to great lights in the Church, like the Doctors and Martyrs, who will undoubtedly be higher in heaven than the spark; but how could anyone think that their glory will not become his? In heaven, we shall not meet with indifferent glances, because all the elect will discover that they owe to each other the graces that merited the crown for them." )

John Clarke OCD, ed. and trans., ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX: HER LAST CONVERSATIONS (Washington, DC: ICS Publications, 1977) 140. ( “I’m very sure that if St. Peter had said humbly to Jesus: ‘Give me the grace, I beg You, to follow You even to death,’ he would have received it immediately. I’m very certain that Our Lord didn’t say anymore to His Apostles through His instructions and His physical presence than He says to us through His good inspirations and His grace.”)

John Clarke OCD, ed. and trans., ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX: HER LAST CONVERSATIONS (Washington, DC: ICS Publications, 1977) 140. ( St. Thérèse of Lisieux: “Yes, it (death) frightens me very much when I see it represented in pictures as some huge specter, but death isn’t this. This idea is foolish, it’s not true, and all I have to do to chase it away is recall the answer in my catechism: death is the separation of the soul from the body. That’s what it is! Well, I haven’t any fear of a separation which will reunite me forever with God.” )

John Clarke OCD, ed. and trans., ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX: HER LAST CONVERSATIONS (Washington, DC: ICS Publications, 1977) 140-141. ( "I understand very well why St. Peter fell. Poor Peter, he was relying upon himself instead of relying only upon God's strength....Before Peter fell, Our Lord had said to him: 'And once you are converted, strengthen your brethren.' This means: Convince them of the weakness of human strength through your own experience." )

John Clarke OCD, ed. and trans., ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX: HER LAST CONVERSATIONS (Washington, DC: ICS Publications, 1977) 142. ( "Many souls say: 'I don't have the strength to accomplish this sacrifice.' Let them do, then, what I did: exert a great effort. God never refuses that first grace that gives one the courage to act; afterwards, the heart is strengthened and one advances from victory to victory." )

John Clarke OCD, ed. and trans., ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX: HER LAST CONVERSATIONS (Washington, DC: ICS Publications, 1977) 217. ( "The other day I was reading a passage on the happiness of heaven to my little patient, and she interrupted me, saying: 'That's not what attracts me...' 'What then?' I asked. 'Oh! It's Love! To love, to be loved, and to return to the earth to make love loved.'" )

John Clarke OCD, ed. and trans., ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX: HER LAST CONVERSATIONS (Washington, DC: ICS Publications, 1977) 262. Sr. Marie of the Sacred Heart recounted the following conversation with the Little Flower in May, 1897, four months before the her death from tuberculosis: ( "The infirmarian had told her to take a little walk for a quarter of an hour each day in the garden. I met her walking painfully and seemingly at the end of her strength. I said: 'You would do better to rest; this walking can do you no good under such conditions. You’re exhausting yourself.' (She replied,) 'It’s true, but do you know what gives me strength? Well, I am walking for a missionary. I think that over there, far away, one of them is perhaps exhausted in his apostolic endeavors, and, to lessen his fatigue, I offer mine to God.'" )

THE CODE OF CANON LAW

"The Penitent", THE CODE OF CANON LAW, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Can. 989 (London: Collins Liturgical Publ., 1983) 178. ( "All the faithful who have reached the age of discretion are bound faithfully to confess their grave sins at least once a year." )

"COVENTRY CAROL"

"Coventry Carol", OXFORD BOOK OF CAROLS, eds. Percy Dearmer, et al. (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1964) 44.

CRANE, BILL

Bill Crane, "Urban Politics", Government 402 (undergraduate course), North Texas State University, Spring 1970.

CRANE, STEPHEN

Stephen Crane, THE COLLECTED POEMS OF STEPHEN CRANE, "The Black Riders", XVIII, ed. Wilson Follett (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941) 20. ( "In heaven/Some little blades of grass")

Stephen Crane, THE COLLECTED POEMS OF STEPHEN CRANE, "The Black Riders", XXIV, ed. Wilson Follett (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941) 26. ( "I saw a man pursuing the horizon" )

Stephen Crane, THE COLLECTED POEMS OF STEPHEN CRANE, "The Black Riders", XLII, ed. Wilson Follett (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941) 45. ( "A voice said, 'It is no desert.'" )

Stephen Crane, THE COLLECTED POEMS OF STEPHEN CRANE, "The Black Riders and Other Lines", XL, ed. Wilson Follett (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941) 42. ( "No strange move can I make/ Without noise of tearing." )

DAWSON, CHRISTOPHER

Christopher Dawson, CHRISTIANITY AND THE NEW AGE, (1931) excerpted in Crisis Magazine, November 1997: 23.

“DAY SPRING CARDS”

"Day Spring Cards", Seasonal Selections (Siloam Springs: Outreach Publ., AR)

DIAMOND, DAVID

David Diamond, interview, Crisis Magazine June 1997: 41. Mr. Diamond speaks of the indispensability of the long melodic line in symphonic composition.  

DICKENS, CHARLES

Charles Dickens, OLIVER TWIST (1838; New York: Modern Library Edition, Random House, Inc. 2001) 15. Ensnared by Victorian England's harsh Poor Laws, Oliver Twist confronts Mr. Bumble in the refectory of the workhouse to which he has been consigned as an orphan: ( "Please, sir, I want some more." )

"THE DIDACHE"

"The Didache", trans. James A. Kleist SJ, no. 2. ANCIENT CHRISTIAN WRITERS, eds. Johannes Quasten, STD, et al., vol. 6 (New York: Newman Press, 1948) 16. ( “A further commandment of the Teaching: Do not kill a fetus by abortion, or commit infanticide.” )

"The Didache", trans. James A. Kleist SJ, no. 5. ANCIENT CHRISTIAN WRITERS, eds. Johannes Quasten, STD, et al., vol. 6 (New York: Newman Press, 1948) 18. ( "First of all, it is wicked and altogether accursed....It is the way of persecutors of the good, haters of the truth, lovers of falsehood; of men ignorant of the reward for right living, not devoted to what is good or to just judgment, intent not upon what is good but what is evil; of strangers to gentleness and patient endurance; of men who love vanities,...who do not know their maker; of murderers of children, destroyers of God’s image...in a word, of men steeped in sin. Children, may you be preserved from all this!" )

"The Didache", trans. James A. Kleist SJ, no. 9. ANCIENT CHRISTIAN WRITERS, eds. Johannes Quasten, STD, et al., vol. 6 (New York: Newman Press, 1948) 20. ( "As this broken bread was scattered over the hills and then, when gathered, became one mass, so may Thy Church be gathered from the ends of the earth into Thy Kingdom." )

DOM HELDER PESSOA CAMARA, ARCHBISHOP OF RECIFE AND OLINDA

Dom Helder Pessoa Camara ( Aug. 29, 1962), qtd. in "A Prophet's Vision and Grace - The Life of Dom Helder Camara" by Vicki Kemper with Larry Engel, Sojourners v. 16, no. 11, Dec 1987. ( "I pray incessantly for the conversion of the prodigal son’s brother. Ever in my ear rings the dread warning. 'The one has awoken from his life of sin. When will the other awaken from his virtue?'" )  

DONAHUE SJ, JOHN R.

John R. Donahue SJ, THE GOSPEL IN PARABLE (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988) 126. ( "The drama in Luke's parables arises less from the mystery of nature or the threat of judgment than from the mystery of human interaction.")

John R. Donahue SJ, THE GOSPEL IN PARABLE (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988) 129.

( "Whereas the lawyer asks, 'Who is my neighbor?' that parable says rather what it means to be a neighbor." [emphasis added] )

John R. Donahue SJ, THE GOSPEL IN PARABLE (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988) 133. ( "Since the injured man was robbed and stripped--deprived of all resources--he could have been at the mercy of the innkeeper, a profession that had a bad reputation in antiquity for dishonesty and violence. The Samaritan assures the injured man's freedom and independence." )

John R. Donahue SJ, THE GOSPEL IN PARABLE (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988) 162-169.

John R. Donahue SJ, THE GOSPEL IN PARABLE (Fortress: Philadelphia, 1988) 166. ( "By so upsetting this normal world the parable functions so that 'the reader in the world of the kingdom must establish new coordinates for power, vulnerability and justice.'" (Fr. Donahue quotes Bernard B. Scott, "A Master's Praise: Luke 16:1-8", Biblica 64 (1983): 173-188.)  

John R. Donahue SJ, THE GOSPEL IN PARABLE (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988) 177. ( Greed may be described as: ( metropolis of all evil deeds. )

EDWARDS, DOUGLAS R.

Douglas R. Edwards, "Dress and Ornamentation", ANCHOR BIBLE DICTIONARY, eds. David Noel Freedman, et al., vol. 2, (New York: Doubleday, 1992) 232-238.

ELIOT, T. S.

T. S. ELIOT, THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS, “Choruses from ‘The Rock’” X (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1980) 112-114. ( “And we must extinguish the candle, put out the light and relight it; Forever must quench, forever relight the flame. Therefore we thank Thee for our little light, that is dappled with shadow. We thank Thee who hast moved us to building, to finding, to forming at the ends of our fingers and beams of our eyes. And when we have built an altar to the Invisible Light, we may set thereon the little lights of which our bodily vision is made. And we thank Thee that darkness reminds us of light. Light Invisible, we give Thee thanks for Thy great glory!” )

T. S. Eliot, THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS, Little Gidding IV in FOUR QUARTETS (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1980) 144. ( "Who then devised the torment? Love. /Love is the unfamiliar Name /Behind the hands that wove /The intolerable shirt of flame /Which human power cannot remove. /We only live, only suspire /Consumed by either fire or fire." )

FADIMAN, CLIFTON

Clifton Fadiman, ed., THE LITTLE, BROWN BOOK OF ANECDOTES (Boston: Little, Brown, 1985) 100. ( A story told of Canute, the Danish king of England (1016-1035), who wearied of his retainers unceasing flattery. Having proved his point by being submerged in the tide, Canute hung his crown on a statue of the crucified Christ and never wore it again. )  

Clifton Fadiman, ed., THE LITTLE, BROWN BOOK OF ANECDOTES (Boston: Little, Brown, 1985) 117. G. K. Chesterton to Alexander Woollcott: ( “If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.”)  

Clifton Fadiman, ed., THE LITTLE, BROWN BOOK OF ANECDOTES (Boston: Little, Brown, 1985) 203. ( “One spring evening the novelist William Faulkner invited a woman to go with him to see a bride in her wedding dress. Driving over back roads, Faulkner finally turned off into a meadow, where he doused the headlights and drove cautiously forward in the darkness. At length he stopped the car and announced that the bride was in front of them. He switched on the lights, and there in their beam stood an apple tree in full blossom.” )

“THE FANTASTICKS”

The Fantasticks, comp. Harvey Schmidt, lyrics Tom Jones, Decca U.S., 2000. Premiere: 03 May 1960. ( "Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh, so mellow... when grass was green and grain was yellow./ Try to remember the kind of September when no one wept except the willow... when life was so tender that dreams were kept beside your pillow./ Deep in December it's nice to remember: without a hurt, the heart is hollow..." )

FIORENZA, BISHOP JOSEPH

Joseph Fiorenza, "Together in His Name", The Texas Catholic Herald (Houston) 24 Sept. 1993: 3.  

FRIEDMAN, ESTHER PAULINE

Esther Pauline Friedman, "Ann Landers", Lifestyle, Houston Chronicle 20 July 1993.

“GALLIPOLI”

"Gallipoli", dir. Peter Weir, perf. Mel Gibson and Mark Lee, Paramount, 28 Aug. 1981. 

GATHER COMPREHENSIVE

GATHER Comprehensive, "Jerusalem, My Destiny" (GIA: Chicago, 1994) 390. ( "I have fixed my eyes on your hills, Jerusalem my destiny! Though I cannot see the end for me, I cannot turn away. We have set our hearts for the way; This journey is our destiny, Let no one walk alone. The journey makes us one." )

GENERAL COUNCILS

The General Council of Florence, Decree for the Copts, THE CHRISTIAN FAITH in the Doctrinal Documents of the Catholic Church, "The Triune God", no. 326, ed. Jacques Dupuis SJ (1442; New York: Alba House, 2001) 156. ( "All that the Father is or has, he has not from another but from himself; he is the origin without origin. All that the Son is or has, he has from the Father; he is origin from origin. All that the Holy Spirit is or has, he has at once (simul) from the Father and the Son." )

The General Council of Vienne (1311-1312), excerpt. THE CHRISTIAN FAITH in the Doctrinal Documents of the Catholic Church, no. 405, Jacques Dupuis SJ, ed. (New York: Alba House, 2001) 169-170. ( "With the approval of the holy Council, we reject as erroneous and contrary to the truth of the Catholic Faith any doctrine or opinion which rashly asserts that the substance of the rational and intellectual soul is not truly and of itself (per se) the form of the human body, or which calls this into doubt." )

GIUSSANI, MSGR. LUIGI

Msgr. Luigi Giussani, "By Grace, Always", Thirty Days 3 (1993): 66-71. ( “For it is possible to be destroyed and wounded without suffering and, therefore, without embarking on the search for an answer...” )  

Msgr. Luigi Giussani, "By Grace, Always", Thirty Days 3 (1993): 66-71. ( “When I was a boy), I got lost in the great forest of Tradate and, seized with panic, I cried out for all of three hours as the sun went down. That experience showed me—afterwards—that man means ‘seeking’: man becomes ‘seeking’ if he cries out, but he only cries out if there is something other. His cry implies the existence of something other. If not, why would he cry out at all?”)

GRAY, DONALD

Donald Gray, "The Real Absence: A Note on the Eucharist", LIVING BREAD, SAVING CUP: Readings on the Eucharist, ed. R. Kevin Seasoltz (Chicago: The Liturgical Press, 1986) 195.

Donald Gray, "The Real Absence: A Note on the Eucharist", LIVING BREAD, SAVING CUP: Readings on the Eucharist, ed. R. Kevin Seasoltz (Chicago: The Liturgical Press, 1986) 194. ( "The eucharist is not then simply the re-presentation of the death and resurrection (however that is to be understood), but it is also and preeminently the pre-presentation of the parousia. It is the future of the rise Jesus which comes into the midst of the present. And because the future of Jesus is the future of every and all presents, it is omnipresent everywhere and at all times." ) 

Donald Gray, "The Real Absence: A Note on the Eucharist", LIVING BREAD, SAVING CUP: Readings on the Eucharist, ed. R. Kevin Seasoltz (Chicago: The Liturgical Press, 1986) 195.

GREGORY OF NAZIANZEN

Gregory of Nazianzen, "The Second Oration on Easter", Oration XLV, III, NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS, eds. Philip Schaff, et al., vol. 7, (1893; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 1996) 423. ( "God always was and always is, and always will be; or rather, God always Is, for Was and Will Be are fragments of our time and of changeable nature....For in Himself He sums up and contains all Being, having neither beginning in the past nor end in the future . . like some great Sea of Being, limitless and unbounded, transcending all conception of time and nature...one image being got from one source and another from another, and combined into some sort of presentation of the truth, which escapes us before we have caught it, and which takes to flight before we have conceived it...." )

GREGORY OF NYSSA

Gregory of Nyssa, "The Great Catechism", Chapt. 16, NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS, eds. Philip Schaff, et al., vol. 5, (1892; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 1994) 489. ( "For when, in that concrete humanity which He had taken to Himself, the soul after the dissolution returned to the body, then this uniting of the several portions passes, as by a new principle, in equal force upon the whole human race. This, then, is the mystery of God's plan with regard to His death and His resurrection from the dead; namely, instead of preventing the dissolution of His body by death and the necessary results of nature, to bring both back to each other in the resurrection; so that He might become in Himself the meeting-ground both of life and death, having re-established in Himself that nature which death had divided, and being Himself the originating principle of the uniting those separated portions." )

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