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  • So in Æneid xii.l. 168, after having mentioned Pater Æneas, who was the _present_ spes, the _reigning_ spes, as my German friends would say, the _spes prima_, the poet adds,

    Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767

  • Now I consider the present Earl of Bute to be '_Excelsæ familiæ de Bute_ spes prima;' and my Lord Mountstuart, as his eldest son, to be '_spes altera_.'

    Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767

  • Time for us, I think, to offer a little gaudium et spes.

    Ideology and the destruction of body and soul 2009

  • In me gratia omnis viæ et veritatis: in me omnis spes vitæ et virtutis.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Surrexit Christus spes mea: praecedet suos in Galilaeam.

    Archive 2009-04-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • You will also read that Joseph Ratzinger explicitly writes that such things as the Syllabus of Pope Pius IX and the anti-Modernist condemnations and decisions of the Biblical Commission under Pope Pius X have been superseded, that Gaudium et spes actually represents a “counter-Syllabus,” and an attempt by the Church to come to some accommodation with the principles of the French Revolution.

    Bohemian thoughts... 2009

  • Surrexit Christus spes mea: praecedet suos in Galilaeam.

    Christ is Risen! Alleluia, Alleluia! elena maria vidal 2009

  • Reposted in honor of the Most Blessed Virgin vita, dulcedo et spes nostra, on the Fifth Sunday after Easter, 2009: Notre Dame, conçue sans péché, priez pour nous qui avons recours à vous. posted by New Catholic at 12:01 AM

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • In me gratia omnis viæ et veritatis: in me omnis spes vitæ et virtutis.

    In me gratia omnis viæ et veritatis 2009

  • One of its greatest documents, Gaudium et spes, [ "Church in the Modern World"] was among the first to herald a Christian communitarianism.

    Balkinization 2006

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