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next ur gonna get on all fours and arch ur back.
Remember, guys. No hope. :)
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im gonna go to confession tomorrow night 
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had a dream last night where i opened a vault and there was a stack of books and i pulled out the one on top and it said "Mary: The secret door" and it had a picture of Mary on the cover.
later on in the dream i was playing baseball and i was at the plate and the pitcher threw these super high lobs. after the count was 3 balls no strikes, a different guy stepped in to pitch and he threw it normally and i knocked it over the fence for a homerun. and then Mary appeared, and I woke up.
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later on in the dream i was playing baseball and i was at the plate and the pitcher threw these super high lobs. after the count was 3 balls no strikes, a different guy stepped in to pitch and he threw it normally and i knocked it over the fence for a homerun. and then Mary appeared, and I woke up.
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highly recommend for anyone serious about contemplation/mystical prayer and allat.
very comprehensive and more accessible than say cloud of unknowing, interior castle, or john of the cross
also recommend’d by the thomist goat fr. garrigou lagrange
very comprehensive and more accessible than say cloud of unknowing, interior castle, or john of the cross
also recommend’d by the thomist goat fr. garrigou lagrange
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saw this in my peripherals in the recent media tab and my brain registered it as an abstract happy merchant
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contact ur local exorcist immediately
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How can the powerless exercise virtue?
Would Jesus's example of humility be the same, if instead of the all powerful creator, he was a weak and impotent man, lead to the cross by violence and treachery?
His example would have been an enforced humility, his will ceasing to exist, atrophied from the inability to exert it. Instead of choosing humility, he would have been forced into it by circumstance, this "humility" thrust upon him by a power and an authority higher than his own, the virtue being deprived of the ability to exercise his will.
In truth our Lord is all powerful. His humility is the ultimate example of this virtue, because He could have stopped the path to the cross at any moment. This is humility, having power, but not exercising it. The impotent man cannot be proud or arrogant, he would quickly be humbled. It is easy for the slave to be humble, he has no other choice. The king however, in every second is tempted to use his power in selfish ways.
Our Master willed the world into being, how are we, wanderers on the dark and lonely path of spiritual enlightenment, supposed to destroy our own will, the thing that started us on our journey? The will is a fundamental part of our nature given to us by God, when He created us in His image. Adam sinned in exercising his will against the command of God, not in the use of the will itself.
Willing to be united to Christ is the only way to salvation, willing to emulate his life, willing to do good and not evil, all this requires us to have a will of our own that is unwavering. How can we ever develop this will if the teachers say the exertion of the will is evil? Teaching instead that the random course of events that happen to us in our life are the will of God. Deifying the natural occurrences in life and despising any forceful use of the will by man.
Where is the oasis on our journey to be like Christ? Who is most like Him? Is a homeless beggar more like our Lord, than the king who speaks, and all obey him? Who was more like God, Francis of Assisi or Constantine?
"Job answered the Lord, and said, Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will no further." - Job 40:4
Would Jesus's example of humility be the same, if instead of the all powerful creator, he was a weak and impotent man, lead to the cross by violence and treachery?
His example would have been an enforced humility, his will ceasing to exist, atrophied from the inability to exert it. Instead of choosing humility, he would have been forced into it by circumstance, this "humility" thrust upon him by a power and an authority higher than his own, the virtue being deprived of the ability to exercise his will.
In truth our Lord is all powerful. His humility is the ultimate example of this virtue, because He could have stopped the path to the cross at any moment. This is humility, having power, but not exercising it. The impotent man cannot be proud or arrogant, he would quickly be humbled. It is easy for the slave to be humble, he has no other choice. The king however, in every second is tempted to use his power in selfish ways.
Our Master willed the world into being, how are we, wanderers on the dark and lonely path of spiritual enlightenment, supposed to destroy our own will, the thing that started us on our journey? The will is a fundamental part of our nature given to us by God, when He created us in His image. Adam sinned in exercising his will against the command of God, not in the use of the will itself.
Willing to be united to Christ is the only way to salvation, willing to emulate his life, willing to do good and not evil, all this requires us to have a will of our own that is unwavering. How can we ever develop this will if the teachers say the exertion of the will is evil? Teaching instead that the random course of events that happen to us in our life are the will of God. Deifying the natural occurrences in life and despising any forceful use of the will by man.
Where is the oasis on our journey to be like Christ? Who is most like Him? Is a homeless beggar more like our Lord, than the king who speaks, and all obey him? Who was more like God, Francis of Assisi or Constantine?
"Job answered the Lord, and said, Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will no further." - Job 40:4
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