“The blessed see the Divine perfections, concentrated and harmonized in their common source, in the divine essence which contains them all, eminently and formally, in a far higher way than white light contains the colors of the rainbow.

Thus, the blessed see how the mercy the most tender, and justice the most inflexible, proceed from one and the same Love, infinitely generous and infinitely holy. They see how this same Love identifies in itself attributes apparently the most opposed. They see how mercy and justice are united in every work of God. They see how uncreated Love, even in decisions the most free, is identified with wisdom. They see how this Love is identified with sovereign Good, loved from all eternity. They see how wisdom is identified with the first truth, always known. They see how all these perfections are one in the essence of He Who Is. They contemplate this pre-eminent Simplicity, this purity and absolute sanctity, this quintessence of all perfection.” - Garrigou-Lagrange, Life Everlasting

Nick won.

I would highly recommend praying the 54 day rosary novena for the overturning of Roe v Wade (including any of your personal intentions). It requires 27 days of petition for whatever request you make, plus 27 days of thanksgiving, regardless of whether or not the favor is obtained. Each mystery also carries with it a petition for a particular grace and virtue for the cultivation of your own interior life.

This obviously demands committing yourself rigorously for roughly two months, but it’s very worth it! Certainly one of the strongest rosary devotions the Church has to offer.

https://www.stpatricks.org/documents/54-day-novena-for-nation-2020

One of St Thomas’ most overlooked philosophical contributions was discovering what was in my view the previously unsolved mystery of what truly distinguishes angelic being from divine being, since both are said to exist in a state of pure spirituality. Saint Thomas’ answer to this question is incredibly profound and unlocks the key to understanding what about God makes Him most characteristically divine. His answer is that the key metaphysical distinction that irreducibly distinguishes angelic being from divine being is that in angelic being, there still remains a real composition of essence and existence, whereas in God there is no such composition, nor even a real distinction between them at all in God.

Thus, for St. Thomas, the most distinguishing difference between divine and created being is that in all things other than God, there is a real composition of a thing’s essence or nature and its act of existence (participated existence); whereas in God, His essence is simply none other than the subsistent act of Existence itself in its unrestricted, unmodified purity (unparticipated existence).

I never would have thought that “Nick Fuentes” and “Massimo Faggioli” would ever appear in the same article but here we are

I actually think it’s really significant though. In many ways they epitomize polar opposites of political Catholicism.

Faggioli is very influential in the Italian liberal Catholic intellectual world and represents the old guard, post-war optimism about the liberal world order that drove Catholic praxis throughout the immediate decades following the Second Vatican Council. It’s no surprise, then, that Faggioli advocates explicitly for the Church to capitulate itself to liberal regime puppets like Joe Biden. Liberalism for Faggioli is the vital principle that ought to animate the corporate body of the Church in the world.

Nick Fuentes on the other hand represents a vibrant revival of the same anti-liberal, counter-revolutionary sentiment that animated 19th century ultramontanes like de Maistre and ultimately Pius IX’s First Vatican Council.

Both want an integral union of Church and State. Faggioli wants to profane the sacred whereas Nick wants to sanctify the profane. Thankfully, the youth of the Church are increasingly on the side of the latter.

https://www.salon.com/2022/05/13/trad-catholics-and-nationalist-groypers-forge-a-new-far-right-youth-movement/

if you listen closely you’ll notice that even Protestants act like the Catholic Church is the main player character of religious denominations both now and throughout history

it doesn’t really make much sense to say that Gregory the Great radically changed the “Roman Rite”, so much as he simply contributed to a unified codification of what were already more or less non-codified collections of Leonine and Gelasian sacramentaries with Gallican modifications

the Blessed Trinity is definitive proof that God loves us in the purest sense of the term

Because God is already perfectly fulfilled and blessed within His own Trinitarian Life, His decision to draw us into partaking of His Divine Life could only be one of pure and utter gratuitous generosity

The EOs are right to say the Holy Spirit does not proceed from the Son. They are wrong however in denying that the Holy Spirit process from the “Father and the Son” as from one principle. The failure to recognize the difference between those two propositions is often what makes debating this issue so nauseating.

Additionally we readily admit that the Holy Spirit can be said to proceed from the Father alone if by that is meant immediate procession. What we insist however is that the mediate manner by which the Holy Spirit proceeds through the Son not be severed from that same paternal procession, as if there could be two principles of spiration. This simply follows from the revealed fact that the Son receives everything the Father has except what can be apportioned to His status as unoriginate fountainhead of the Godhead.

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also everyone please say a prayer for the repose of the soul of my confessor, Father Damien. He just passed away recently. I have great faith that he is with our Lord. He was a great shepherd of His flock and truly a martyr of the confessional. despite his health complications he would administer the sacrament of absolution for at least 4-6 hours every single sunday for years -Black Swan

it’s not so much that Peter alone was given the keys, but that Peter alone was given the keys to the kingdom of and by himself, per se as it were, whereas the rest of the apostolic college received the keys collectively, inasmuch as they remain in harmony with the whole college through union with its head

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theologically centrist, politically racist

jokes aside it’s an interesting ratio to consider

Please offer a prayer, or, if you can, a rosary, for my friend Speckzo. He and his wife have shared the news that their baby will not be making an appearance down here, and is waiting to meet them in Heaven.

Pray for skeckzo and his family!