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What's the Catholic position or teaching on Predestination?

God, in his infinite wisdom and foreknowledge, has eternally chosen certain individuals for salvation, this is what we call ‘predestination’, while also allowing for human free will and cooperation with grace. God’s choice is not based on foreseen merit or actions of individuals but is an act of divine grace and mercy. The Church distinguishes between predestination to glory, which is the ultimate salvation of the elect, and predestination to reprobation, which refers to those who reject God’s grace. While the elect are assured of salvation, individuals cannot have absolute certainty of their predestined status, thus underscoring the necessity of living a life of faith and obedience to God’s will. And as such, we reject the Calvinist doctrine of ‘double predestination’, the idea that while some are predestined to heaven, others are predestined to hell.

When 88 year old men are in hospital beds and get pneumonia it’s not good. Pneumonia is still - in a macabrely affectionate way - called “Old man’s friend” because it’s usually what kills you. Brace for impact and pray for papa.

>be me
>clueless Roman pagan
>consecrate the 25th of December as the day of celebration of the light of the world, the son, I mean sun, whoopsie

What did the gentiles mean by this?

22 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.
23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'To the unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
Acts 17:22-23: ESV

It is better to be punished and cleansed now than to be sent to the torment to come, when it will be time for punishing only, and not for cleansing.
Gregory Nazianzen

Nobody:
Me after reading Jeremiah (I met somebody who believes in manifesting ✨ ✨ 💖):

“Babe just manifest what you want and the universe will grant it”

Hear me, ye faithless generation; if the universe is not just all that exists and is a sentient entity which cares about its children and grants wishes at your behest, would it not create rules? What parent rules without rules? How would they keep their children - whom they love - safe? The rules would be written and widely spoken out of the same love which - to use your own word - manifested itself to write them; this is the Gospel of the LORD.

You claim that energy moves throughout the world; you have merely reinstated the HOLY spirit and robbed Him of the dignity of His title and exalted yourselves as gods in your pride to make yourself rule over the universe and command instead of petition. You do not know your right hand from your left and you are trying to serve two masters.

You have recreated the true and living God, and with your own hands made an idol of bronze and stone in its place which have ears that do not hear and eyes that do not see. You crafted for yourself a sentient universe which cares enough to grant your desires and whims but not enough to keep you from that which is evil. You have attempted to reconstruct God but taken out of Him the love which says “Do not do evil”, you have recreated God but cherry picked the parts you like and have taken out “There are things which you are not allowed to do, because I love you”. You have enthroned your idol in place of God and the wishful thinking in place of prayer. Repent of your folly and your foolish ways, o’ Israel, or suffer her fate likewise and be scattered among the nations to be erased and desolated beyond repair.

The Kingdom of God is at hand; Repent and believe the Gospel.

British boy interviewed by Sky News hopes the Pope recovers because “he trusts in Jesus and he’s a really kind guy.”

"By this our decree, to be valid IN PERPETUITY, we determine and order that NEVER shall anything be added to, omitted from, or changed in this Missal. . .At no time in the future can a priest, whether secular or order priest, ever be forced to use any other way of saying Mass. And so as to preclude once and for all any scruples of conscience and fear of ecclesiastical penalties and censures, we herewith declare that it is in virtue of our Apostolic Authority that we decree and determine that this our present order and decree is to last in PERPETUITY and can never be legally revoked or amended at a future date. . . And if anyone would nevertheless ever dare to attempt any action contrary to this order of ours, given for all times, let him know that he has incurred the wrath of Almighty God and of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul."
St Pope Pius V July 19 1570