Forwarded from Spiritual Warriors
Consider these things, my soul, and close the door of your senses, so that you can hear what the Lord your God speaks within you. "I am your salvation," says your Beloved. "I am your peace and your life. Remain with Me and you will find peace. Dismiss all passing things and seek the eternal. What are all temporal things but snares? And what help will all creatures be able to give you if you are deserted by the Creator?" Leave all these things, therefore, and make yourself pleasing and faithful to your Creator so that you may attain to true happiness.
—Imitation of Christ: The Inward Conversation of Christ with the Faithful Soul
—Imitation of Christ: The Inward Conversation of Christ with the Faithful Soul
Forwarded from Catholic Daily Reading [Eng]
ASH WEDNESDAY
Q. What do you mean by fast-days?
A. By fast-days I mean days on which we are allowed but one full meal.
According to the traditional Catholic method of fasting, one may eat "one full meal" each day with meat included, plus two smaller meatless
meals, both of which together do not equal the one full meal. No eating between meals is allowed, although drinking beverages such as coffee and tea are allowed and are not considered to break the fast. (Milk, juice, and soft drinks are also considered not to break the fast, although they are in fact foods and mitigate the effects of the fast and work contrary to its intent because they satisfy one's hunger to some extent, since they have food value.) They, therefore, who follow the above regulations obey the Catholic method of fasting. Today the prescribed days of fast for the whole Church are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (these are also days of abstinence). However the Church today says that the meaning of the law of fasting during Lent remains, although the extent of the obligation has been changed. In other words, Lent remains as a season of penance in the Church, but how it is to be observed is greatly up to the individual, though no one may think himself excused from all penance whatsoever, and those who are in the fasting age group should still practice the Church's form of fasting, since fasting is a primary and very efficacious form of penance.
Q. What do you mean by fast-days?
A. By fast-days I mean days on which we are allowed but one full meal.
According to the traditional Catholic method of fasting, one may eat "one full meal" each day with meat included, plus two smaller meatless
meals, both of which together do not equal the one full meal. No eating between meals is allowed, although drinking beverages such as coffee and tea are allowed and are not considered to break the fast. (Milk, juice, and soft drinks are also considered not to break the fast, although they are in fact foods and mitigate the effects of the fast and work contrary to its intent because they satisfy one's hunger to some extent, since they have food value.) They, therefore, who follow the above regulations obey the Catholic method of fasting. Today the prescribed days of fast for the whole Church are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (these are also days of abstinence). However the Church today says that the meaning of the law of fasting during Lent remains, although the extent of the obligation has been changed. In other words, Lent remains as a season of penance in the Church, but how it is to be observed is greatly up to the individual, though no one may think himself excused from all penance whatsoever, and those who are in the fasting age group should still practice the Church's form of fasting, since fasting is a primary and very efficacious form of penance.
Forwarded from Classical Theist
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Forwarded from Classical Theist
a thomistic articulation of an e/e distinction would probably go something like this:
God, as the pure act of existence, serves as the perfective end of creatures by virtue of the unique role existence has as a created essence’s principle of actuality, and therefore His energetic procession toward creatures will always be self-manifesting yet proportionate to the creature’s reception
as a result of this, no divine self-manifestation toward creatures can in and of itself be said to communicate the divine essence (considered as divine being in its supre-essential transcendence), but only signify it
God, as the pure act of existence, serves as the perfective end of creatures by virtue of the unique role existence has as a created essence’s principle of actuality, and therefore His energetic procession toward creatures will always be self-manifesting yet proportionate to the creature’s reception
as a result of this, no divine self-manifestation toward creatures can in and of itself be said to communicate the divine essence (considered as divine being in its supre-essential transcendence), but only signify it
e/e stands for essence energies for all u niggas who don't know
Forwarded from ↟ Modernists Go To Hell ↟ (Racist Catholic)
Stop getting involved in useless, bad-faith, bad-intent quarrels that only make you angry and cause you to sin. It’s not good for your soul and accomplishes absolutely nothing. Do not get into arguments with people who don’t want to do the opposite of the former and are actually willing to have a fruitful discussion without it turning into an uncharitable game of semantics and ad-homonyms.
↟ Modernists Go To Hell ↟
Stop getting involved in useless, bad-faith, bad-intent quarrels that only make you angry and cause you to sin. It’s not good for your soul and accomplishes absolutely nothing. Do not get into arguments with people who don’t want to do the opposite of the…
Do this for Lent, and of course, for Christ.
Forwarded from The Daily Knight
Happy Ash Wednesday!
"Grant, O Lord, to Thy faithful people, that they may undertake with fitting piety this period of fasting, and complete it with steadfast devotion." ~ Collects, Roman Catholic Daily Missal, 1962
"Grant, O Lord, to Thy faithful people, that they may undertake with fitting piety this period of fasting, and complete it with steadfast devotion." ~ Collects, Roman Catholic Daily Missal, 1962
The Daily Knight
Happy Ash Wednesday! "Grant, O Lord, to Thy faithful people, that they may undertake with fitting piety this period of fasting, and complete it with steadfast devotion." ~ Collects, Roman Catholic Daily Missal, 1962
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Forwarded from BattleForTruth ☩
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Holy Land: Archaeological Finds at Gethsemane
In recent months, archaeological finds dating in part to the time of Jesus have been made in Gethsemane. They were presented on December 21, 2020 in Jerusalem, in the presence of the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, and Israeli archaeologists…
MEMENTO, HOMO, QUIA PULVIS ES.
It is most useful for our salvation to say often to ourselves: I must one day die! The Church every year on Ash Wednesday brings this remembrance to the faithful: Memento, homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris! Remember, man, that thou art dust and into dust shalt thou return!
O my God, give me light, give me strength to spend the rest of my life in serving and loving Thee.
Let us, then, animate our faith. Our pilgrimage on earth will not be of long duration: our home is eternity, where he who has practised the greatest mortifications during life shall enjoy the greatest glory. St. Peter says the Saints are the living stones of which the celestial Jerusalem is built. But before they are translated to the city which is above, they must be polished by the salutary chisel of penance.
St. Alphonsus Liguori
It is most useful for our salvation to say often to ourselves: I must one day die! The Church every year on Ash Wednesday brings this remembrance to the faithful: Memento, homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris! Remember, man, that thou art dust and into dust shalt thou return!
O my God, give me light, give me strength to spend the rest of my life in serving and loving Thee.
Let us, then, animate our faith. Our pilgrimage on earth will not be of long duration: our home is eternity, where he who has practised the greatest mortifications during life shall enjoy the greatest glory. St. Peter says the Saints are the living stones of which the celestial Jerusalem is built. But before they are translated to the city which is above, they must be polished by the salutary chisel of penance.
St. Alphonsus Liguori