Grant, we beseech thee, O almighty God, that the dignity of humanity, impaired by excessive indulgence, may be restored by the earnest practice of healing restraint.
Collect for Thursday in Passion Week (The New Roman Missal (Fr. Lasance), 1956).
Petty Armchair Popery
"You equate your understanding of your particular sectarian form of Catholic Christianity and its institutional expression with God's own truth primarily to justify your petty armchair popery…." Yep, that's what it's all about.
