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  • Solution: We [Catholics] say that this ‘like '[sicut] is not ‘just like' and has this meaning: Unless you become like little children, that is, with respect to [their] innocence and simplicity and humility, you will not enter [heaven].

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • [423] And as the holy Latin version, following the Septuagint, has it: facti semis "sicut" consolati: that is our wonder at the greatness of the good which came to us was so excessive, that it hindered us from properly feeling the consolation which we received, and it seemed to us that we were not truly comforted, nor had consolation in real truth, but only in a figure and a dream.

    Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884

  • Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui in electis prophetis mirabilis prædicaris: præsta, quæsumus; ut, sicut Eliæ spiritum in Propheta tuo Eliseo duplicasti, ita in nobis Spiritus Sancti gratiam, ad virtutum opera exercenda, multiplicare digneris.

    Ss Petri & Pauli John 2009

  • Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui in electis prophetis mirabilis prædicaris: præsta, quæsumus; ut, sicut Eliæ spiritum in Propheta tuo Eliseo duplicasti, ita in nobis Spiritus Sancti gratiam, ad virtutum opera exercenda, multiplicare digneris.

    In festo S Elisei, Prophetæ et Patri nostri John 2009

  • Plebs tibi, Domine, Virginique Matri dicata, beati Simonis, quem ei Rectorem et Patrem dedisti, solemnitate lætetur: et sicut per eum tantæ protectionis signum obtinuit; ita prædistinationis æternæ munera consequatur.

    Vocations John 2008

  • ‘Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius, et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius.’

    The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010

  • Intrans autem sacerdos infirmariam dicat pax huix domui. et cetera fiant sicut notatum est in ordinario: ita tamen quod abstersiones cum stupis fiant vel a priorissa. uel ab aliqua sorore. cui iniunxerit.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Nam sicut obstructo ore clibani calor intus fouetur, sic seruato silencio gracia Sancti Spiritus in corde retinetur.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Omnes quidem ad chorum preuenire satagens, summaque diligencia intendens, ut sorores omnes concorditer alte ac sollempniter Deo psallerent, sicut unicuique sollempnitati et tempori congruebat.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Pater noster, quis es in coelis; sanctificetur nomen tuum: ad veniat regnum tuum: fiat voluntas tua, sicut in coelo, et in terra.

    Excerpt: Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett 2007

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