“O God, whither hast Thou led me that I may perceive Thine Absolute Face to be the natural face of all nature, to be the face which is the Absolute Being of all being, to be art, and the knowledge of all that may be known? He, then, who meriteth to behold Thy Face seeth all things openly, and naught remaineth hidden from him: he who hath Thee, Lord, knoweth all things and hath all things: he hath all things who seeth Thee. For none seeth Thee except he have Thee. None can attain unto Thee, since Thou art unapproachable: none, therefore, can possess himself of Thee except Thou give Thyself to him.” - Nicholas of Cusa, The Vision of God

hans kung was like every other arch heretic in church history except in the fact that he was boring and they weren’t

“And so he too rejoices over your good feeling and welcomes your respect for the Lord's own institution as shown towards the partners of His honor, commending the well ordered love of the whole Church, which ever finds Peter in Peter's See, and from affection for so great a shepherd grows not lukewarm even over so inferior a successor as myself. In order therefore, dearly beloved, that this loyalty which you unanimously display towards my humbleness may obtain the fruit of its zeal, on bended knee entreat the merciful goodness of our God that in our days He will drive out those who assail us, strengthen faith, increase love, increase peace and deign to render me His poor slave, whom to show the riches of His grace He has willed to stand at the helm of the Church, sufficient for so great a work and useful in building you up, and to this end to lengthen our time for service that the years He may grant us may be used to His glory through Christ our Lord. Amen.” - Pope St Leo I on his ascension to the Papacy

(taken from Sermon III)

they talk so robotically https://twitter.com/jgreenblattadl/status/1380528052061544455?s=21

simplified version of the argument from change:

change implies the distinction between being in potency and being in actuality

potency does not possess act by virtue of itself but can only receive act by virtue of another given that potency is really distinct from act and is by definition not actual in and of itself

if all that is are beings that receive act by virtue of another, nothing could be in act

so there must be that which is actual by virtue of itself and does not in any respect receive act by virtue of another, such that there must be reality that just is pure actuality itself, to which is given the name “God”

“For it is by no means an uncommon occurrence for a flourishing technological development, even with regard to the amenities and comforts of life, to be accompanied by a pitiful lack of true internal and personal culture.” - Fr Bonaventura Hinwood

Memes and shitposting are great in the realm of political discourse because of the vulgar nature of politics but you should never ever let them dictate your theological discernment (eg, rad trads who meme/shitpost their way into rejecting Vatican II and even the mere liceity of the Novus Ordo wholesale)

That said, intuition has a place in maneuvering through theological confusion. not everything has to be nuanced to death, and nuance should never lend itself to implausible rationalizations. but when we’re talking about the living Magisterium itself, rashness is always a vice

New Video: Answering an Objection to Divine Simplicity youtu.be/N0Fc4iqOi5U

pretty good book

This is probably one of the most accessible yet also deeply profound and insightful treatises on Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell ever written within the last century, and you can read it in full here: https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/life-everlasting-12603

while man may be small in the order of corporeal quantity, he is a microcosm of the whole universe and through his unique composition of spirit and matter can by Divine elevation (the principal source of this elevation being the Incarnation of His own Son, or self-Image) deify the whole cosmos in a manner that escapes the capacity of even the highest angel

this is why God cares about the seemingly insignificant realm of each and every human act

New Video: Some Thoughts on Existential Inertia youtu.be/5Xh7sLTnqVc

Praying for guidance tonight. Need God’s direction and clarity. Learning two prayers for the Rosary. I obviously know Our Father, because I wasn’t raised by Pawnee Indians, and even my lesbo led episcopal church made us learn that. I don’t know Hail Mary and Glory Be. So that’s my homework tn. Then I will own a Rosary, but not knowing anything about the Pentecost other than the fact that Europe gets a 5 day weekend signals to me that I am still at the very beginning of this spiritual journey.

after an unforgivably long hiatus Night Errantry and I are back with In Taberna’s return https://t.co/QfFrWIWnUz

sometime this week I will be uploading a prelude to my metaphysics of gender series that I hope to complete by the end of the summer

I hope to make it as comprehensive as possible, so make sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel if you haven’t already https://youtube.com/c/ClassicalTheist

There is a certain kind of presumably well meaning Catholic that will misdirect their (usually female) compassion toward homosexuals and allow it to compromise the theological precision of Catholic anthropological principles about human sexuality

Even using the “LGBT” acronym unironically as if to imply that it corresponds to an affirmative identity with ontological positivity is deeply destructive to the Divine mandate to call such persons not only to chastity and holiness, but also to a theologically sound understanding of their own identity