Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us, who have recourse to thee.

May this photo of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro remind us that Jesus Christ is Our Lord and is in control of everything in our lives. Good evening and God bless you all.

what level of pathological gay narcissism do you have to be on to see systemic child sex abuse coverups and being told you can’t have gay sex anymore as somehow equally understandable reasons for leaving the Catholic Church

Men's Way of the Cross Tonight in Poland to honour St. Joseph

They clearly haven’t read Augustine. The Thomistic-Augustinian view affirms predestination and reprobation in its relation to the former only in the conditional and hypothetical sense. Calvinists believe in a sort of predestinationism which is totally antithetical to the Augustinian/Thomistic view.

Since they’re double predestinationists, they seem to think that God predestined a select part of mankind to hell by a positive, absolute, unconditional and divine decree from all eternity. This is evil, heretical and absolute nonsense.

Here is how Peter Lombard defines eternal reprobation (I. Sent., dist. 40): "Est præscientia iniquitatis quorundam et præparatio damnationis eorundem" (it is the foreknowledge of the wickedness of some men and the foreordaining of their damnation). Cf. Scheeben, "Mysterien des Christentums" (2nd ed., Freiburg, 1898), 98—103.

This can of course also be applied to the predestination of a certain person. That is to say, for example, God foreordaining someone to be a Saint.

Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Alphonsus Liguori and Blessed Fulgentius also share this perspective. To say that Augustine, Aquinas and the others listed were “Calvinists” because of their predestinationism is equivalent to saying that since the Reformed Scholastics adhere to the DDS (Doctrine of Divine Simplicity), that somehow means they’re Catholics.

https://t.me/OrientalOrthodoxy33/454

Don’t even bother with baptists, they’re agents of the devil.