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Daniel E. Flores, Obispo católico, Brownsville, Texas
https://amigodefrodo.wordpress.com/home/
Today at the Catholic Extension Mission Bishops Conference, Dr Mario Garcia from the Columbia School of Journalism spoke to us about AI. We had a test run on asking the machine a question. I deliberately asked a qualitative question: “Is St Leo the Great’s Latin rhetoric…
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Ez 37,9 Prophesy to the spirit, prophesy, son of man, and say to the spirit: Thus says the Lord God: From the four winds come, O spirit, and breathe into these slain that they may come to life.
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«… pues si realmente deseamos extender el conocimiento de la verdad, lo haremos con más eficacia y con más pureza manteniéndonos juntos que dando testimonio cada uno por su cuenta.» -JH Newman, Sermón 12, 1831
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Ps 10,17 Desidérium páuperum exaudísti, Dómine; confirmábis cor eórum, inténdes aurem tuam O LORD, you have heard the desire of the poor. You strengthen their hearts; you turn your ear Señor, tú escuchas los deseos de los humildes, les prestas oído y los animas;
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«Retirado en la paz de estos desiertos, con pocos pero doctos libros juntos, vivo en conversación con los difuntos y escucho con mis ojos a los muertos.» -Quevedo, cited by Juan Gabriel Vásquez in “La traducción del mundo”.
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Ps 9,11 Et sperent in te, qui novérunt nomen tuum, quóniam non dereliquísti quæréntes te, Dómine. Confiarán en ti los que conocen tu nombre, porque no abandonas a los que te buscan. Those who know your name will trust you; you will not forsake those who seek you, O LORD.
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Preces ad Vesperas Episcopórum collégio cum Papa nostro semper adésto, iísque unitátis, caritátis pacísque dona largíre. Through your presence, guide the college of bishops in union with the Pope, give them the gifts of unity, love and peace.
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Ora et labora, folks, ora et labora. It’s the best advice for our times, from one of our wisest fathers.
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XXV Sunday: Lk 16,1-13 On money, the priorities for its use in the Gospel and in the Diocese; on having someone to speak for us on judgment day. -El amor de la Iglesia debe de extenderse a los necesitados, y así reflejar el amor de Cristo en el mundo.
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Lc 16,1-13: «No hay criado que pueda servir a dos amos, pues odiará a uno y amará al otro,.. no pueden servir a Dios y al dinero.» El mundo trata a los pobres como si tuviesen un contagio más peligroso que la lepra. Esa actitud es el verdadero contagio, y mata al que lo tiene.
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Lk 16,1-13: «No servant can serve two masters. He will either hate one & love the other,.. You cannot serve both God and mammon» The world treats the poor as if they had a contagion more dangerous than leprosy. That attitude is the true contagion, and it kills those who have it.
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Ps 1,1 Beátus vir, qui non ábiit in consílio impiórum, et in via peccatórum non stetit, et in convéntu derisórum non sedit; Dichoso el hombre que no sigue el consejo de los impíos, ni entra por la senda de los pecadores, ni se sienta en la reunión de los cínicos;
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Ps 45,8 Dilexísti iustítiam et odísti iniquitátem, proptérea unxit te Deus, Deus tuus, óleo lætítiæ præ consórtibus tuis. has amado la justicia y odiado la impiedad: por eso el Señor, tu Dios, te ha ungido con aceite de júbilo entre todos tus compañeros.
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Comunicado de los obispos de la Frontera entre Texas y México/ agosto 31, 2025 (The English iteration follows the Spanish text)
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Comunicado de los obispos de la Frontera entre Texas y México / agosto 31, 2025
(The English iteration follows the Spanish text) Obra de un migrante anónimo pintada en la pared de la Casa del Migrante Frontera Digna, Piedras Negras, Coahuila Reunión de Obispos de la Frontera e…
https://wordsandthings.org/2025/09/20/comunicado-de-los-obispos-de-la-frontera-entre-texas-y-mexico-agosto-31-2025/
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Ps 50,15 et ínvoca me in die tribulatiónis: éruam te, et honorificábis me. e invócame el día del peligro: yo te libraré, y tú me darás gloria. Call on me in the day of distress. I will free you and you shall honour me.
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Bishop Varden was generous to have read the lecture on Nicaea, and gracious in his reflections upon it. I am grateful to him. Ecce quam bonum etc.
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Notebook - Coram Fratribus
https://coramfratribus.com/notebook/
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Ps 147,15 Qui emíttit elóquium suum terræ, velóciter currit verbum eius. Él envía su mensaje a la tierra, y su palabra corre veloz; He sends out his word to the earth and swiftly runs his command.
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Augustine, Sermon 46 atténdat Scriptúram dicéntem sibi: Flagéllat omnem fílium quem récipit. Aut paret se flagellári, aut non quærat récipi. que escuche la Escritura que le dice: El Señor castiga al hijo que recibe. Que se prepare a ser castigado, o que renuncie a ser recibido.
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Ez12,9 Fili hóminis, numquid non dixérunt ad te domus Israel, domus exásperans: “Quid tu facis?”.
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The age is of a mood that it is ready for a conversion experience, and this because conversion-less reason has exhausted itself. But then, not just any kind of conversion will do.
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Mass at the Basilica de Nuestra Señora to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Diocese of Brownsville. Nos dice el Señor, “Si Uds me conocen, también conocen el camino hacia el futuro”. “If you know me”, the Lord says to us, “than you also know the way into the future”
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Augustine, Tractatus 96,5 on John cognoscere etiam supereminentem scientiae caritatem Christi,… Isto enim modo vos docebit Spiritus sanctus omnem veritatem, cum magis magisque diffundet in cordibus vestris caritatem.
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Ez 11,25 Then the vision that I had seen went up from me. And I told the exiles all the things that the LORD had showed me. y la visión desapareció. Y yo les conté a los desterrados lo que el Señor me había revelado.
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Cuidado con la disipación de la mente, los elementos de la distracción ocultan la pérdida de cohesión. Beware the dissipation of the mind, the elements of our distractions hide the loss of our interior cohesion.
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Cyprian to Cornelius (c. 252) «ut non inveniámus quid prius prædicáre in vobis debeámus, utrúmne tuam promptam et stábilem fidem, an inseparábilem fratrum caritátem.» The witness of the Church is a firm faith in Christ, and the unbreakable bond of charity that holds us together.
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Ant. ad communionem cf. 1 Pet 4: 13 Rejoice when you share in the sufferings of Christ, that you may also rejoice exultantly when his glory is revealed. Grant, Lord, that I welcome the share granted, and thereby truly rejoice.
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Col 1,24 Nunc gáudeo in passiónibus pro vobis et adímpleo ea, quæ desunt passiónum Christi, in carne mea pro córpore eius, quod est ecclésia,.. Ahora me alegro de sufrir por vosotros: así completo en mi carne los dolores de Cristo, sufriendo por su cuerpo que es la Iglesia,..
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Feast of the Holy Cross -On looking to the Cross of Christ for light and direction in angry times. -Sobre mirar la Cruz de Cristo en busca de luz y dirección en tiempos de ira.
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Bishop Daniel E. Flores Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Homily
YouTube video by Catholic Diocese of Brownsville
https://youtu.be/iu4bTjNBh6k?feature=shared
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Dios justo, Cristo en la Cruz negándose a responder a los injustos con injusticia; Dios misericordioso, Cristo dando lo que él es, perdonando a los injustos; Dios es amor, Cristo ofreciéndonos de beber de su caridad, derramada sustancia de Dios mismo, haciéndonos así justos.
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Gal 6,14 But far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
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JH Newman, 1858: «… what the Catholic Church once has had, she never has lost. She has never wept over, or been angry with, time gone and over. Instead of passing from one stage of life to another, she has carried her youth and middle age along with her, on to her latest time.»
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Jn 3,13-17 So must the Son of Man be lifted up.. The Christ was suspended on an instrument of our own making, to tear away the veil that veils the nations (Is 25,7); But for the remedy to save us, we must repent of ever having thought that recourse to death can fix our problems.
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Lamentations 5,14 Senes defíciunt de portis, iúvenes de choro psalléntium. Los ancianos ya no se sientan a la puerta, los jóvenes ya no cantan. The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music.
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Ps 107,27 Turbáti sunt et moti sunt sicut ébrius, et omnis sapiéntia eórum devoráta est. rodaban, se tambaleaban como borrachos, y no les valía su pericia. They staggered, reeled like drunken men, for all their skill was gone.
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Borges decía que disfrutaba más leer el Quijote en Inglés que en Español. No obstante que el maestro argentino aún en sus más claras declaraciones mantiene su identidad de ilusionista, por mi parte lo entiendo, porque disfruto leer a Newman más en Castellano que en Inglés.
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Not everyone is a monk, but there is a monkish guide in everyone. More than Virgil, it was Bernard who accompanied Dante to where most he longed to go.
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Also Isaac of Stella today, Sermon 11. Here on the Church’s power of the keys: Nihil potest Ecclésia, nisi pæniténti, id est quem Christus tétigit, dimíttere; The Church can forgive none but the repentant – that is, one who has been touched by Christ.
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Isaac of Stella, Abbot. sermo 11 (Speaking of the Church) … quæ retro erat sub pédibus, assúmpsit ad latus. De látere enim eius éxiit,.. She who was behind him, at his feet, he raised up to his (wounded) side. From his side she came forth.. ~~~
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Ps 69,7 Non erubéscant in me, qui exspéctant te, Dómine, Dómine virtútum. Que por mi causa no queden defraudados los que esperan en ti, Señor de los ejércitos. Let those who hope in you not be put to shame through me, Lord of hosts
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María, Madre de gracia, Madre de misericordia, defíéndenos del enemigo. En la vida y en la muerte ampáranos gran señora. Amén.
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Lc 6,38 Porque con la misma medida con que midan, serán medidos. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you. eádem quippe mensúra, qua mensi fuéritis, remetiétur vobis.
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«In his enim duóbus tota spiritális conversatiónis summa versátur, ut in nostra consideratióne turbémur et contristémur ad salútem, in divína respirémus, ut de gáudio Spíritus Sancti habeámus consolatiónem, et hinc timórem et humilitátem, inde vero spem concipiámus et caritátem.»
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Ps 46,3 Proptérea non timébimus, dum turbábitur terra, et transferéntur montes in cor maris. Por eso no tememos aunque tiemble la tierra, y los montes se desplomen en el mar. so we shall not fear though the earth should rock, though the mountains fall into the depths of the sea.
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Rom 8,29 For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son,.. En efecto, a quienes conoce de antemano, los predestina para que reproduzcan en sí mismos la imagen de su propio Hijo,..
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San León Magno, sermo 95, 6-8 This is really nice: The human movement towards the more expressive divine image through participation in God’s justice and mercy is a deep current in the Tradition. «Misericórdem te misericórdia, iustum vult te esse iustítia, ut in creatúra sua..»
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San León Magno, sermo 95 quóniam nihil áliud est dilígere Deum quam amáre iustítiam. Dénique sicut illi dilectióni Dei próximi cura subiúngitur, ita et huic desidério iustítiæ virtus misericórdiæ copulátur.
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Ps 145,21 Laudatiónem Dómini loquétur os meum, et benedícat omnis caro nómini sancto eius in sǽculum et in sǽculum sǽculi. Pronuncie mi boca la alabanza del Señor, todo viviente bendiga su santo nombre por siempre jamás.
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As part of a larger conference in Milwaukee, entitled “Synods, Councils and Creeds”, celebrating the Council of Nicaea, I was invited to offer the keynote address. The text of my lecture is linked below, entitled “Inviting Nicaea to Speak”.
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Inviting Nicaea to Speak
I was invited to give The Pallium Lecture, in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, as part of a larger conference entitled “Synods, Councils and Creeds”. The Conference was designed to help celebrate the …
https://amigodefrodo.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/inviting-nicaea-to-speak/
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Leo the Great, Sermo 95 Tunc enim extérior homo interióris hóminis erit quiéta et intemeráta posséssio. Entonces el hombre exterior será la posesión pacífica y casta del hombre interior. Then the outer self will be the peaceful and unsullied possession of the inner self.
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Ps 136,23 Qui in humilitáte nostra memor fuit nostri, quóniam in ætérnum misericórdia eius; En nuestra humillación, se acordó de nosotros: porque es eterna su misericordia. He remembered us in our distress, for his love endures for ever.
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