
Why the Liturgy of the Hours is Difficult for Modern Christians
“Be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment? Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they? And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature by one cubit? And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour … Continue
Intro. to Classical Arithmetic, Lesson 06. Proofs and Axioms II
There are three assignments for this lesson: Lesson In our last lesson, we learned about some of the ways of expressing quantities: by number and species. In this lesson, we will simply learn the next set of axioms in Arithmetic that applied to these. We are learning these for use LATER, so it is important simply to understand their language by reading through them carefully and memorizing them exactly. These are the tools with which we will solve problems later–we want as many tools in out toolbox as we can get. Review: Reason and Proofs In Arithmetic, reason allows us … Continue
