being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you. But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience:[1 Pt 3:15-16]
Posted Friday, August 03, 2007 9:02 AM By Judith M.
I know how Ms. Via feels. I'm the Queen of England, and I can't figure out why I keep being excluded from state events. I was crowned by my pet terrier, fair and square! Why won't they recognize my authority?
The next meeting will be held at Saint Mark Catholic Church, 7960 Northview, Boise, Idaho, on Saturday, October 19 at 8:00AM.
There may be a retreat at St Benedict Lodge in Oregon during 2019. Further notice as plans are made.
St Benedict Lodge is a retreat facility in the Cascades that is owned and operated by the Dominican Friars of the Western Province.
It makes no sense that we grant the use of unrestricted lethal force to a citizen with no judicial oversight, and simultaneously claim that the state has no right to the use of restricted lethal force with full judicial oversight.
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It's wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
- John Adams, 2nd US president, Oct 11, 1798
The child, who does not think about so serious a thing as health, dreams of meals that are made up of desserts. Men and women, who do not think about so serious a thing as living, dream of a life that consists only of sweetness, soft music and rest to the echo of applause and gently sympathetic understanding. But meals are never like that; neither is life. In the same vein, our modern men and women dream of God as a being of whom no one could ever be afraid, a gentle, stupid god who would allow men and women to ruin themselves and then admire them for the work they had done in destroying his masterpiece. You see they never really think about God, for God is not like that.
Walter Farrell, O.P., A Companion to the Summa, Volume III CHAPTER I -- FREEDOM FOR THE MIND (Q. 1-9)
For there must be also heresies: that they also,
who are approved may be made manifest among you. [1 Cor 11:19]
"You seek me", St. Augustine comments, "for the flesh, not for the spirit. How many seek Jesus for no other purpose than that He may do them good in this present life! [...] Scarcely ever is Jesus sought for Jesus' sake" ("In Ioann. Evang.", 25, 10).
Man's whole salvation, which is in God, depends upon the knowledge of this (divinely revealed) truth. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part I, first question, first answer
This, and nothing else, is the purpose of the Church: the salvation of individual souls Benedict XVI – Sao Paolo, Brazil, May 11, 2007
I just loved the condescending tone of the letter that went out to the membership about this, admonishing the hoi polloi to receive this broad with charity, even though her appearance was certain to cause controversy. In other words, sit down, shut up, and eat your excrement sandwich.
ReplyDeleteTo give a heretic a forum at an event sponsored by an organization dedicated to a saint is itself uncharitable by definition: there is in such a situation no real distinction between tolerating and condoning. The apparent endorsement is bound to harden that person in error, to the considerable detriment of her immortal soul.
Well, at least they did the right thing in the end. I hope she does the right thing in the end and repents of all her heretical nonsense.
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ReplyDeleteWhen you ask, "why won't they recognize your authority?", do you mean the "they" as in your dogs?
ReplyDeleteThe reason might be that "they" don't recognize you, it 'ain't' a pleasant site seeing in you in your robes of priestly office, er...uh...er, I mean robes of state. [Look in the mirror, okay? And, don't break it].
.... After all, a guy (or a gal in this case) 'oughta' be what she wants to be...... right? I want to be a medical physician, how about a pope, no, I was think I want to be the king of France?
Gosh if a guy or gal is delirious enough, he so she can be anything. Oh what fun.