“Man is ‘more especially’ the image of God, as minor mundus. It is his privilege to mirror the integrality of Creation, and hence of the divine Ideas that generated it. Only through man’s free co-operation can the total divine plan be effectuated, so that all other things are somehow saved in his restoration. Equal to the angel in the nobility of his spiritual destiny, yet on a level with the vilest of creatures through his body, man’s being, taken all in all, is without exception the most wonderful and worthy that exists.

His God-given dominion over all Creation can be extended to include even the angels, since they are ordered to his service and ‘he who sits at table is greater than him who ministers’.

The seal was set upon man’s uniquely privileged nature by the Incarnation, through which the Word redemptively assumed the entire universe as represented by human nature.” - James McEvoy, PhD, The Philosophy of Robert Grosseteste

"God never commands the impossible. But He warns us to do what we can, and to ask of Him the grace to accomplish what we of ourselves cannot do, and He aids us to fulfill what He commands.” -St. Augustine

nick adams’ content was always trash

you can live your life never committing any sexual sin while embracing a thoroughly traditional outlook on marriage and the family and STILL be separated from God for all eternity for culpably refusing to unite yourself to His Incarnate Word, Christ Jesus

“gay and straight” as sexual categories don’t even exist

there are people with rightly ordered sexual inclinations which exist in the proper sense, and there are people with disordered sexual inclinations, whose disordered inclinations don’t properly exist per se but are merely privations of what should exist and are best categorized on a case by case basis

a lot of people won’t like or relate to this, but as far as pastoral quality is concerned:

Novus Ordo/TLM hybrid parish priests > TLM exclusive priests > Novus Ordo exclusive parish priests

Reminder to tune in tonight at cozy.tv/ClassicalTheist around 7:30 PM EST where I’ll be doing my first of many streams where we will be exploring, defending, and expounding upon the fundamental teachings of the Catholic faith

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Going live in about ten minutes!

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A Walkthrough of the Mysteries of the Catholic Faith, Part 1: The Existence of God:

https://youtu.be/3skOD6d-33U

“Perfect God and perfect Man, subsisting with a rational soul and human flesh.

Equal to the Father according to His Divinity, less than the Father according to His humanity.

Who, although He is God and Man, yet is not two, but one Christ.

One, however, not by any change of Divinity into flesh, but by the taking up of humanity into Divinity.” - The Athanasian Creed

I am not so much a heliocentrist or a geocentrist but a Christocentrist insofar as Jesus Christ is the center of the whole universe of all being in His hypostatic union of Divinity and Humanity

denying the Filioque deprives the Son of the ability to give all that He is back to the Father in infinite, reciprocal Love

what more could the Son return to the Father than the very same Love given to the Son, and how could we deprive of this Love the same Personhood enjoyed by them both?

the metaphysically unbreakable indissolubility of marriage is one of those crowned jewels virtually unique to Catholicism

Catholic sacramental theology in a very unique way makes it not only canonically impossible but logically incoherent to allow for genuine divorce and remarriage

even if we wanted to allow it out of mercy, the sacramental bond is as unbreakable as “4” is from “2+2”. It simply cannot be done

if we were to reduce the fundamental error of the orthos to simplest terms I think it would be their inability to articulate when and how and under what conditions the Church on Earth can exercise the apostolic charism of infallibility, essential to Her divine mission

I’ll probably expand more on this in a future stream or video

while I recognize they’re fundamentally different in many key ways, I view baptists and other non-sacramental/non-sacerdotal denominations of Christianity in a manner not too dissimilar from how I view Mormons or even Muslims

Intelligent Design apologetics makes God both anthropomorphic and mechanistic and is therefore incompatible with Catholic, medieval Cosmology

Really good summary on the topic: https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2010/04/intelligent-design-theory-and-mechanism.html?m=1

Next stream in my Walkthrough of the Mysteries of the Catholic Faith will take place this Wednesday evening June 14th at 8 PM EST

We will be exploring how what we can know about God from reason can help lead us to Faith in one of the most foundational teachings of Christianity: God becoming Man in the Incarnation

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