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Such a good summary of absolutely everything Rome and non-Rome, too 😂
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A substantially accurate description of a large part of the convo, tbh
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Kind of felt like Gavin and Pageau were mainly arguing over:
-whose tradition can more validly reject Augustinianism
-whose tradition’s criteria for who experiences eternal conscious torment is worse
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It’s kind of crazy how Origen convinced the valentinian gnostic guy who became his rich patron to leave Gnosticism for proto-orthodox Christianity and then the same thing happened to me when I got into his teachings
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Unironically what many women imagine will happen if they initiate.
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A girl asked me out after Mass. I reported her to the Archbishop.
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Jun 12
Do share any recordings of this conference. Would enjoy hearing you speak on a number of those topics
Prepared for the Breck Conference next week!
nashotah.edu/breck/
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They’ll TELL YOU they intended the anathema for “communicating with iconoclasts” to mean EUCHARISTIC communion.
…but can we really know for CERTAIN?!
Personally, I continue to warn them they excommunicate themselves every time they speak with me.
It's a little bit more than that. Here is the Synodal letter from the Bishops of Nicaea II explaining what they mean by the term to the Emperor and Empress
biblestudytools.com/history/…
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Matey is officially the most based human being on Twitter
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I’ve secretly been living in a British countryside monastery for 6 years now, venerating the relics of St. Pelagius and taking theology lessons in dreams and visions from the spirit of Origen.
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lul
In as a follower b4 Matey’s newfound wit yields extensive fortune and fame
Jun 12
And that Protestant happens to be your father, and it says sons must obey their father, and the Church is your mother, but your mother is supposed to obey your father, so you must now become Protestant.
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Jun 12
Lmao. Explaining time spent in religious life or seminary formation is always the most fun part of interviews for secular employment.
Always.
“You seem extremely gifted, but what were you doing during THESE particular years…?”
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Yes.
I have long ceded this one gleefully.
Read Origen, then Cassian, then De Molina. And all of De Auxiliis just explains itself.
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Witnessing Konrad attempt to persuade a seemingly sincere Christian of the truth of Unigenitus in real time 😂
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“He says: 'Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.' He did not say this because he was afraid of the suffering, but because he saw the cosmic consequences of what was about to happen. He was looking at the weight of the world's sins, and the sheer terror of what it looks like when humanity completely turns its back on the Light.”
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“Before taking sleep, it is fitting to listen to the Divine Oracles... The reading of the divine scriptures is a rational nourishment of the soul."
-Clement of Alexandria, Paedogogus 2.10
“If you only hear the word of God in church, and do not meditate upon it at home, nor occupy yourselves with the law of God day and night... then your heart is not a clean altar."
-Origen, in his 9th homily on Leviticus
This whole notion of "getting the Word of God" into the hands of the people is extremely revisionist. For one, "the people" were mostly illiterate and even if they could read, couldn't afford to buy a hand-written Bible.
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Give her an oscar for that?
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A level of sincerity among catholic discussion on this topic I did not expect.
Also overheard:
“Maybe the thomist popes werent so bad after all.”
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The first step to holiness is renouncing any possibility of salvation. It is known.
Fellow Protestants: Before you get worked up in a discussion with an online Orthodox Christian, remember that some of the same online Orthodox who say you can't comprehend their deep phronemic understanding of salvation will then turn around and unironically say stuff like this.
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"Marriage is the nursery of heaven; the virgin sends prayers to God, but she carries but one soul to him; but the state of marriage fills up the numbers of the elect ... [marriage] fills Cities, and Churches, and Heaven itself" - Jeremy Taylor.
Marriage does not exclude a person from the kingdom of God, but it offers a hindrance.
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Jun 11
Konrad’s on private, but this one’s too good not to share.
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Superb.
In general, the distinction that is always lost is death as remedial v death as retributive.
When people use the word “punishment” in English, they are virtually without exception thinking of it in terms of retribution instead of remediation.
Jun 11
‘In general, the tragic state of the world after the Fall is not the result of any act of God, but exclusively the result of Adam’s deed. In no way, therefore, is this state of suffering and death to be deemed a punishment imposed by God upon Adam. God as love is always acting with love, and love creates no evil whatsoever. Adam’s slavery is the natural consequence of his being vanquished; his suffering is the physiological result of the trauma he himself sustained when he turned aside from his path, and death follows upon alienation from God. To regard God as the cause of suffering and death is an essential error, a real affront offered to Him. Soteriologically, it is also genuinely heretical, for it strips the cross of Christ of its real historical and anthropological content – which is that of victory over Satan – and makes it a simple instrument of suffering and of the placating of God‘s “wrath.”’
- Saint Dumitru Staniloae the Confessor, The Experience of God, Volume 2, The World: Creation and Deification, p. 187
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