''The Lord created all mortals in the light, offering the supreme joys of heaven according to their merits.
Blessed is the one who without straying directs his soul toward those heights and is vigilant to preserve himself from all evil.
Blessed again is the one who repents after sinning and often weeps because of his fault.
Alas! People live as though death did not follow life, as if hell were only an unfounded fable, though burning embrace.
Mortals, have a care that you live, all of you, in such a way that you do not have to fear the lake of hell.''
St. Bruno #saint #quote
Blessed is the one who without straying directs his soul toward those heights and is vigilant to preserve himself from all evil.
Blessed again is the one who repents after sinning and often weeps because of his fault.
Alas! People live as though death did not follow life, as if hell were only an unfounded fable, though burning embrace.
Mortals, have a care that you live, all of you, in such a way that you do not have to fear the lake of hell.''
St. Bruno #saint #quote
The Saints on Spiritual Warfare:
...do you want to outwit the devil? Never let him catch you idle. Work, study, pray, and you will be surely overcome your spiritual enemy. - St. John Bosco
Those engaged in spiritual warfare practice self-control in everything, and do not desist until the Lord destroys all seed from Babylon (Jer. 27:16. LXX). - St. Mark the Ascetic
The vigour with which you resist the enemy will be the measure of the reward which will follow the combat. - St. Ignatius of Loyola
Shun evil and do good (Ps. 34:14), that is to say, fight the enemy in order to diminish the passions, and then be vigilant lest they increase once more. Again, fight to acquire the virtues and then be vigilant in order to keep them. This is the meaning of "cultivating" and 'keeping" (cf. Gen. 2:15). - St. Maximos the Confessor
...do you want to outwit the devil? Never let him catch you idle. Work, study, pray, and you will be surely overcome your spiritual enemy. - St. John Bosco
Those engaged in spiritual warfare practice self-control in everything, and do not desist until the Lord destroys all seed from Babylon (Jer. 27:16. LXX). - St. Mark the Ascetic
The vigour with which you resist the enemy will be the measure of the reward which will follow the combat. - St. Ignatius of Loyola
Shun evil and do good (Ps. 34:14), that is to say, fight the enemy in order to diminish the passions, and then be vigilant lest they increase once more. Again, fight to acquire the virtues and then be vigilant in order to keep them. This is the meaning of "cultivating" and 'keeping" (cf. Gen. 2:15). - St. Maximos the Confessor
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Our Lady of Victory Basilica (Source)
Forwarded from Aristotelian-Thomist
Some recommended reading to grow spiritually and intellectually
An Introduction to the Devout Life - St Francis de Sales
Why the Cross? - Fr Edward Leen
The Imitation of Christ
The Glories of Mary - St Alphonsus
Make sure to have read the entire New Testament & the Wisdom Books of the OT
How to read a book - Mortimer Adler
The Trivium - Sr Miriam Joseph
The Holy Ghost - Fr Edward Leen
Introduction to Philosophy - Maritain
The Odyssey
The Republic
Nicomachean Ethics Book I
The Iliad
Meno
The Spiritual Combat - Scupoli
Knowing the Love of God - Garrigou-Lagrange
The Four Loves - CS Lewis
Mere Christianity - CS Lewis
The Abolition of Man - CS Lewis
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Sermons of St Alphonsus Liguori
The Aeneid
Phoenix from the Ashes - Sire
Aquinas biography - Chesterton
Aquinas introduction - Feser
Aristotle for Everybody - Mortimer Adler
Theology for beginners - Sheed
Reality - Garrigou-Lagrange
Selections of Aquinas - Oxford World Classics
Selections of the Summa
Companion to the Summa - Farrell
Man’s Knowledge of Reality - Wilhelmsen
Greece and Rome - Copleston
Formal Logic - Maritain
General Science of Nature - V.E Smith
Ethica Thomistica - McInerny
Nicomachean Ethics
Scholastic Metaphysics - Feser
Ontology - Peter Coffey
Euthyphro
Theaetetus
The Sophist
Gorgias
Hippias Major
Life Everlasting - Garrigou-Lagrange
Integralism
Parts of Summa Theologiae
Philosophising in Faith - Garrigou-Lagrange
Founding of Christendom - Warren Carroll
Summa Contra Gentiles
Mediaeval Philosophy - Copleston
Aquinas - Opuscula
Building of Christendom - Carroll
Aristotle’s Organon with Aquinas/Cajetan commentaries
Glory of Christendom - Carroll
Aristotle’s Physics + Aquinas commentary
De Anima + Aquinas commentary
The Last Crusade - Warren Carroll
Aquinas commentary of Nicomachean Ethics
Late Mediaeval Philosophy - Copleston
Cleaving of Christendom
The Rationalists - Copleston
Primacy of the Common Good - De Koninck
Liberalism is a Sin
Some thoughts about language - Mortimer Adler
British Philosophy - Copleston
The principles of Liberalism - Billot
Revolution against Christendom
The Enlightenment - Copleston
Aristotle - Politics - with Aquinas commentary
The Crisis of Christendom
Parts of Summa Theologiae
God, his existence, and his nature - Garrigou-Lagrange
Joseph Owens’s essays on the existence of God
Three Stages of the Interior Life
Parts of Summa Theologiae
Cognition - Joseph Owens
Pre-Modern Philosophy Defended
Aristotle’s Metaphysics with Aquinas’s Commentary
Complete Summa Theologiae if not already
Rest of Copleston
An Introduction to the Devout Life - St Francis de Sales
Why the Cross? - Fr Edward Leen
The Imitation of Christ
The Glories of Mary - St Alphonsus
Make sure to have read the entire New Testament & the Wisdom Books of the OT
How to read a book - Mortimer Adler
The Trivium - Sr Miriam Joseph
The Holy Ghost - Fr Edward Leen
Introduction to Philosophy - Maritain
The Odyssey
The Republic
Nicomachean Ethics Book I
The Iliad
Meno
The Spiritual Combat - Scupoli
Knowing the Love of God - Garrigou-Lagrange
The Four Loves - CS Lewis
Mere Christianity - CS Lewis
The Abolition of Man - CS Lewis
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Sermons of St Alphonsus Liguori
The Aeneid
Phoenix from the Ashes - Sire
Aquinas biography - Chesterton
Aquinas introduction - Feser
Aristotle for Everybody - Mortimer Adler
Theology for beginners - Sheed
Reality - Garrigou-Lagrange
Selections of Aquinas - Oxford World Classics
Selections of the Summa
Companion to the Summa - Farrell
Man’s Knowledge of Reality - Wilhelmsen
Greece and Rome - Copleston
Formal Logic - Maritain
General Science of Nature - V.E Smith
Ethica Thomistica - McInerny
Nicomachean Ethics
Scholastic Metaphysics - Feser
Ontology - Peter Coffey
Euthyphro
Theaetetus
The Sophist
Gorgias
Hippias Major
Life Everlasting - Garrigou-Lagrange
Integralism
Parts of Summa Theologiae
Philosophising in Faith - Garrigou-Lagrange
Founding of Christendom - Warren Carroll
Summa Contra Gentiles
Mediaeval Philosophy - Copleston
Aquinas - Opuscula
Building of Christendom - Carroll
Aristotle’s Organon with Aquinas/Cajetan commentaries
Glory of Christendom - Carroll
Aristotle’s Physics + Aquinas commentary
De Anima + Aquinas commentary
The Last Crusade - Warren Carroll
Aquinas commentary of Nicomachean Ethics
Late Mediaeval Philosophy - Copleston
Cleaving of Christendom
The Rationalists - Copleston
Primacy of the Common Good - De Koninck
Liberalism is a Sin
Some thoughts about language - Mortimer Adler
British Philosophy - Copleston
The principles of Liberalism - Billot
Revolution against Christendom
The Enlightenment - Copleston
Aristotle - Politics - with Aquinas commentary
The Crisis of Christendom
Parts of Summa Theologiae
God, his existence, and his nature - Garrigou-Lagrange
Joseph Owens’s essays on the existence of God
Three Stages of the Interior Life
Parts of Summa Theologiae
Cognition - Joseph Owens
Pre-Modern Philosophy Defended
Aristotle’s Metaphysics with Aquinas’s Commentary
Complete Summa Theologiae if not already
Rest of Copleston
Prayer of St Thomas Aquinas which he said everyday before a Crucifix.
http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Varia/Concede.html
http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Varia/Concede.html
Forwarded from Aristotelian-Thomist
Fr Ripperger, Magisterial Authority.
Section about de fide non definita (the ordinary and universal magisterium) and modes of receiving it, including Patristics, the great Theologians, & Sensus Fidelium.
Section about de fide non definita (the ordinary and universal magisterium) and modes of receiving it, including Patristics, the great Theologians, & Sensus Fidelium.
“The predominant virtue of the Saviour is zeal, the ardour of charity, as He Himself says: “I am come to cast fire [of charity] on the earth: and what will I, but that it be kindled?”
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This thirst for the glory of God and the salvation of souls was the great cause of the sorrow which the Saviour experienced at the sight of the sins of men. It was also the cause of Mary’s suffering at the foot of the cross.
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Such are the qualities of zeal, which is the ardour of charity, an enlightened, patient, meek, disinterested, and truly fruitful ardour that glorifies God, imitates our Lord, snatches souls from evil, and saves them.
It is clear that this zeal should exist, that too often it is lacking, and that it is in the normal way of sanctity. But to subsist, it should be kept up by profound prayer, by prayer that is continual and like an almost uninterrupted conversation of the soul with God in perfect docility.”
- Fr Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
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This thirst for the glory of God and the salvation of souls was the great cause of the sorrow which the Saviour experienced at the sight of the sins of men. It was also the cause of Mary’s suffering at the foot of the cross.
...
Such are the qualities of zeal, which is the ardour of charity, an enlightened, patient, meek, disinterested, and truly fruitful ardour that glorifies God, imitates our Lord, snatches souls from evil, and saves them.
It is clear that this zeal should exist, that too often it is lacking, and that it is in the normal way of sanctity. But to subsist, it should be kept up by profound prayer, by prayer that is continual and like an almost uninterrupted conversation of the soul with God in perfect docility.”
- Fr Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Important book worth reading to grow in intellectual virtue.