“Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions” (Colossians 1:24)
Thus will we defy the Chinese imperialists with an original gesture that owes nothing to the American imperialists’ repudiation of the French imperialists.
“Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions” (Colossians 1:24)
Scriptorium is maintained by indignus, a Filipino Christian who claims to be a free-thinking fundamentalist (or was it reactionary radical? or maybe classicist romantic?), and is intended to be a blog about religion, politics, and everything in between (which is why its posts include poetry, a conservative defense of anime, and a Summa-style treatise on Jack Bauer). Comments and corrections are welcome, provided that they abstain from discourtesy, courteously.
Credo
"omnia subiecit sub pedibus eius et ipsum dedit caput supra omnia ecclesiae, quae est corpus ipsius plenitudo eius qui omnia in omnibus adimpletur." Epistola B. Pauli Apostoli ad Ephesios, i, 22, 23
"subesse Romano Pontifici omni humanae creaturae... omnino esse de necessitate salutis." Bonifacius PP VIII, Unam sanctam
"quod omne verum, a quocumque dicatur, est a spiritu sancto... Non autem sicut ab inhabitante per gratiam gratum facientem..." S. Thomas Aquinas, Summa, Iª-IIae q. 109 a. 1 ad 1
"ordo bonorum sensus que ipse altus laboris postulant ut opes « capitales » operi serviant neve opibus « capitalibus » labor." Johannes Paulus PP II, Laborem exercens, iv, 23