"[S]trong doctrinal divisions remain among the Orthodox [on the issue of the filioque], which work against the claim to possess unity of faith."
—James Likoudis, The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy
—James Likoudis, The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy
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"[Vatican II's] texts, according to their literary form, have serious claims upon the conscience of Catholics; their pastoral dispositions are based on doctrine, and their doctrinal passages are suffused in concern for men and for Christianity of flesh and blood in the world of today."
—Joseph Ratzinger, Cited in Dr. Lawrence King's Dissertation on the Authoritative Weight of Non-Definitive Magisterial Teaching
—Joseph Ratzinger, Cited in Dr. Lawrence King's Dissertation on the Authoritative Weight of Non-Definitive Magisterial Teaching
"For the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23).
Whenever I gravely sin these words are always at the front of my mind. I truly believe that upon committing mortal sin everyone intuitively understands, deep in their heart, that they deserve to die. Having this explicit understanding myself, rather than a mere intuition, makes it all the more clear that distractions are the only way we can try to trick ourselves into thinking that we don't deserve hell for our failings. If not for a constant reorientation towards Christ, and a constant background of the truth about sin, it becomes much too easy to simply distract myself from the reality that when I sin I have essentially committed spiritual suicide. Reconciliation is the only medicine that can bring us back from the dead.
Whenever I gravely sin these words are always at the front of my mind. I truly believe that upon committing mortal sin everyone intuitively understands, deep in their heart, that they deserve to die. Having this explicit understanding myself, rather than a mere intuition, makes it all the more clear that distractions are the only way we can try to trick ourselves into thinking that we don't deserve hell for our failings. If not for a constant reorientation towards Christ, and a constant background of the truth about sin, it becomes much too easy to simply distract myself from the reality that when I sin I have essentially committed spiritual suicide. Reconciliation is the only medicine that can bring us back from the dead.
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"The seat they occupied, then, which was not theirs but Moses’, compelled them to say what was good, though they did what was evil. And so they followed their own course in their lives, but were prevented by the seat they occupied, which belonged to another, from preaching their own doctrines."
—St. Augustine of Hippo, On Christian Doctrine Book IV
—St. Augustine of Hippo, On Christian Doctrine Book IV
Reminder: Pope Francis has called for a day of prayer and fasting today.
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The Fruits and Advantages of Fasting According to St. Robert Bellarmine (The Art of Dying Well):
1. Preparing the soul for prayer and the contemplation of divine things.
2. Taming and crucifying the flesh with its vices and concupiscences.
3. Honoring God when we fast for His sake.
4. Making satisfaction for sin.
5. Obtaining divine favors.
1. Preparing the soul for prayer and the contemplation of divine things.
2. Taming and crucifying the flesh with its vices and concupiscences.
3. Honoring God when we fast for His sake.
4. Making satisfaction for sin.
5. Obtaining divine favors.
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