The Vigil of Ss Peter and Paul https://t.co/zXHLQUct3P pic.twitter.com/D3NNcyo5RW
— NLM (@NLMblog) June 28, 2022
Showing posts with label St. Paul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Paul. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
The Vigil of Saints Peter and Paul
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Julia Bridget Hayes Painting the Holy Apostle Paul
Painting Apostle Paul Step-by-Step https://t.co/8lfbArpQKA via @YouTube
— Julia Bridget Hayes (@ikonographics) March 29, 2021
Monday, February 22, 2021
Western Views of Christ as Mediator
A birfucation of the Divine Person of Christ, resulting in semi-Arianism?
“seeking, and yielding to, the protection of Christ who is God and the creative fellowship with Christ who is man. The recollection, that is, of Christ the conquerer and Christ the carpenter.”
— Nᴀᴛᴇ (@oblatenate) February 22, 2021
(CHRISTIAN PROFICIENCY, Thornton, Ch. 6)
Friday, January 22, 2021
Holy Timothy and Anastasius, Pray for Us!
Today, we honour St. Timothy the Apostle. An early Christian evangelist and the first bishop of Ephesus, he was a disciple of St. Paul. St. Timothy's father was Greek, which meant he was one of the uncircumsized, but that didn't stop St. Paul from trusting and mentoring him. pic.twitter.com/CD4hAz8qqM
— Pontifical Oriental Institute (@theorientale) January 22, 2021
“For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.” -St. Paul pic.twitter.com/O7FNPGFCJ8
— Timothy Honeycutt (@AudioScribeOW) January 22, 2021
🕊 ORTHODOX CALENDAR
— Basilica.ro (EN) (@BasilicaNews) January 22, 2021
ℹ️The Holy Apostle Timothy was converted to Christ in the year 52 by the holy Apostle Paul.
ℹ️The Monk Martyr Anastasius the Persian was the son of a Persian sorcerer named Bavi.
👉https://t.co/dOGUbgtDNK pic.twitter.com/HWAcFGtWmW
The Church commemorates Saint Timothy the Apostle #orthodox_times https://t.co/YqR58tO17z
— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) January 22, 2021
Let us the faithful praise the Holy Apostle Timothy, the companion of Paul in his travels and together with him let us honor the wise Anastasius, who came as a star from Persia for the healing of the passions of our souls and the diseases of our bodies. pic.twitter.com/qdxxUB9CLD
— Trisagionfilms (@TrisagionFilms) January 22, 2021
The Church commemorates Saint Anastasius the Persian#orthodox_times https://t.co/fE8Y3ViXWf
— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) January 22, 2021
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
The Wages of Sin
"The literary canon of Hebrew-speaking ancients does not distinguish between philosophical & religious principles [as] Athenian Greeks did, yet a conviction that human miscreance corrupts the ecosystem & personal health alike is everywhere apparent."https://t.co/dOxD8JiLbP
— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) May 13, 2020
"To determine whether and to what extent the wages of sin are indeed an 'etiologic' antecedent of death we apply the concepts and methods of epidemiology, the science of the distribution and determinants of disease across populations."
— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) May 13, 2020
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Friday, February 21, 2020
Monday, January 06, 2020
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Body, Soul, and Spirit?
1 Thessalonians 5:23
Hebrews 4:12
David Clayton poses a question:
NLM
Someone points to Rosmini as having some things to say.
NLM
Does Scheeben discuss this as well?
What is the correlation between the spirit of man and the Holy Spirit?
OCA: Orthodox Spirituality
Forming the Soul -- Spirit, Soul, and Body
"The unity of the human person: The body-soul relationship in Orthodox Theology? by Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia
A Thomist perspective: Do we have spirit, soul, and body or just soul and body? by Dr Taylor Marshall
Hebrews 4:12
David Clayton poses a question:
NLM
Someone points to Rosmini as having some things to say.
NLM
Does Scheeben discuss this as well?
What is the correlation between the spirit of man and the Holy Spirit?
OCA: Orthodox Spirituality
Forming the Soul -- Spirit, Soul, and Body
"The unity of the human person: The body-soul relationship in Orthodox Theology? by Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia
A Thomist perspective: Do we have spirit, soul, and body or just soul and body? by Dr Taylor Marshall
Friday, August 30, 2019
Monday, May 06, 2019
Ephesians 6:12 and Spiritual Warfare
Ephesians 6:12
Put into context:
With respect to our ultimate end, and the first object of our love, God, who is our enemy? What can other men do to prevent us from loving God? Nothing directly. They can only try to lead us away through temptation and persecution and torture. But who is the murderer from the beginning (John 8:44)? Doesn't the devil try to get us to reject God through temptation only? The devil cannot do anything to us directly. But the devil is much more subtle and clever than any human being, and he is our ultimate enemy.
If we are to become righteous in God, we must first deal with ourselves first, and the snares that the devil has set for us.
But this is not to deny that we do not have human enemies, especially with respect to secondary goods, like the good of the family or the good of the political community. And while the devil too operates in this sphere as part of his larger rebellion against God, still our human enemies are real, and they really are our enemies. Even if we are enjoined by our Lord to love them that does not mean that we do not need to respond to them and their attacks appropriately. The Gospel is not an pacifist humanistic religion.
Our human enemies have agency, and a proper response, including the use of violence if necessary, should be understood as a form of correction or retributive justice.
Similarly, Matthew 10:28 -- is this another example of hyperbole? Can we ever get rid of the emotion of fear, instead of submitting it to reason? I don't think so. So perhaps what our Lord is really saying if you are to fear, you should really fear the devil and his cohort, who are trying to lead you away from God and to perdition. That is our first concern. But He is not denying that there are secondary goods--while secondary goods are not as important as the first good, God Himself, we may love them for the sake of loving God (and neighbor), and in grave circumstances it may be necessary to take extraordinary measures to secure those goods.
For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Put into context:
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the equipment of the gospel of peace; 16 above all taking the shield of faith, with which you can quench all the flaming darts of the evil one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18 Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, 19 and also for me, that utterance may be given me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.
With respect to our ultimate end, and the first object of our love, God, who is our enemy? What can other men do to prevent us from loving God? Nothing directly. They can only try to lead us away through temptation and persecution and torture. But who is the murderer from the beginning (John 8:44)? Doesn't the devil try to get us to reject God through temptation only? The devil cannot do anything to us directly. But the devil is much more subtle and clever than any human being, and he is our ultimate enemy.
If we are to become righteous in God, we must first deal with ourselves first, and the snares that the devil has set for us.
But this is not to deny that we do not have human enemies, especially with respect to secondary goods, like the good of the family or the good of the political community. And while the devil too operates in this sphere as part of his larger rebellion against God, still our human enemies are real, and they really are our enemies. Even if we are enjoined by our Lord to love them that does not mean that we do not need to respond to them and their attacks appropriately. The Gospel is not an pacifist humanistic religion.
Our human enemies have agency, and a proper response, including the use of violence if necessary, should be understood as a form of correction or retributive justice.
Similarly, Matthew 10:28 -- is this another example of hyperbole? Can we ever get rid of the emotion of fear, instead of submitting it to reason? I don't think so. So perhaps what our Lord is really saying if you are to fear, you should really fear the devil and his cohort, who are trying to lead you away from God and to perdition. That is our first concern. But He is not denying that there are secondary goods--while secondary goods are not as important as the first good, God Himself, we may love them for the sake of loving God (and neighbor), and in grave circumstances it may be necessary to take extraordinary measures to secure those goods.
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Cupich's Proposal
Some info here and America Magazine. Where is the accountability of the metropolitan to his "suffragan" bishops? If bishops are unfamiliar to one another, then maybe the election of bishops should be reformed, so that the bishops are accountable first to the local synod of presbyters, who are not just co-laborers (co-workers) or co-operators in the harvest - if the canonical and theological distinction in orders between presbyter and bishop is one made through subsequent positive law (and the development of the monoepiscopate) and not by the Apostles, perhaps a return to the Apostolic practice is even more warranted now.
What we need perhaps is less pushing of responsibility "up" but "out."
What we need perhaps is less pushing of responsibility "up" but "out."
Beauty of the Liturgy...
When the young Church recognized the cross of Christ as the moment of salvation, Christ himself as the sacrifice of atonement and the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world, then it was clear for her that all the bloody cult of sacrifice had been abrogated once and for all. Christianity was a cult-revolution in antiquity. The bloodletting of Golgotha makes all man-made victims obsolete. There is now just the “leiturgia logike,” the spiritual, rational liturgy. It is telling that the Epistle to the Hebrews signifies the Christian religious service as “the sacrifice of praise” and “fruit of the lips.” And in the fact, inexplicable in itself, that early Christians refused to express their civic loyalty by sacrificing before images of the emperor, we can see a clear result of this spiritualization. There is no longer any other sacrifice efficacious before God, save the one of Golgotha. There are also no longer any priests in the plural, but only the one Jesus Christ.
Friday, February 08, 2019
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Friday, June 29, 2018
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