AKTR
@AKTR33
Catholic, interested in Catholic stuff, philosophy, politics, etc. Usually chill my takes overnight before serving. Retweets often, but not always, endorsements
The Holy Spirit when I’m doing my Examination of Conscience:
“And yet, because of the Fiat, the hypostatic union itself, the principle of our sanctification, is also a fruit of Mary’s sanctification.” - from Katherine Gardner’s commentary on De Koninck’s Ego Sapientia
Please pray for my friend, who lost his job at a particularly bad time.
"I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucidydes, for Newton and Euclid, and I find myself much the happier." -Jefferson writing to Adams
St. Mary Magdelene went through a deep moral conversion to become one of Jesus’ most favored disciples. This is so typical of how God acts: He always picks the most surprising collaborators in His plan of salvation, the ones who in human eyes would seem the most unsuitable and…
Thanks be to God, Fr. Alphonsus has been freed. catholicnewsagency.com/news/265485/ni…
Lavrans in Kristin Lavransdatter, to some extent the bride’s father (can’t remember his name) in Monsoon Wedding.
It’s said that “Our Father who is in heaven” communicates both intimacy and authority. What depictions of fathers in movies, books, stories, best illustrate the possession of both of these attributes together?
My solution to the trolley problem is that we should stop tying people to the tracks
A friend’s mother passed away last night. Please pray for them both.
This isn't true on a mere technicality, as if God were the thing that you're supposed to have (and then you're lacking everything else). When you have God, you have all things because God is the very being and perfection of all things (and infinitely more).
"Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices." - St. Teresa of Avila
Woke up to news that our brother Trent Horns wife Laura Horn has cancer. Please continually add them into your prayers and put them on the prayer list for Mass.
The feast of St. Mary Magdalene is July 22. "What heart, even if it were of stone, would not be moved by the example of penance that the tears of this sinner give us?" -Pope St. Gregory the Great on Mary Magdalene
Guy who supports a Shrimp Welfare State only under the condition it has means testing and work requirements
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
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I think a major motivation for the anti-eudaimonist view is a thought that eudaimonism is incompatible w/robust concern for the other as other. But imo the Thomistic view that the common good, precisely as common, is better for the individual than the private good resolves this.
There’s a view of morality that seems primarily focused on what you “must” do in certain circumstances that doesn’t speak to me at all. I’m really only concerned with how I can live well, i.e. be happy. On many constructions this makes me basically amoral which I’m fine with.