Forwarded from Virtuous Maiden
The Man behind the Saint, the Saint behind the Spirit.
There are times in which we feel thar our actions aren't enough. We feel lost, consumed in the mundane vices that always haunt our souls, and we fall slowly in what it seems a spiral of procrastination and bad decisions.
One indulges in holy material, holy noscripture, long meditating sessions that never seem to be enough for the hungry, sinful soul..."Why can't I be closer to God like the saints? Why is my soul still longing for a time I *should* be born in?" We ask, almost in frustration, because we are human, and so they were too and this humanity can only be attached to a greater good.
Saint Jerome in his Study by the Candlelight, Aertgen Van Leyden, 1520
There are times in which we feel thar our actions aren't enough. We feel lost, consumed in the mundane vices that always haunt our souls, and we fall slowly in what it seems a spiral of procrastination and bad decisions.
One indulges in holy material, holy noscripture, long meditating sessions that never seem to be enough for the hungry, sinful soul..."Why can't I be closer to God like the saints? Why is my soul still longing for a time I *should* be born in?" We ask, almost in frustration, because we are human, and so they were too and this humanity can only be attached to a greater good.
Saint Jerome in his Study by the Candlelight, Aertgen Van Leyden, 1520
Forwarded from 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 (Ella)
Eastern Catholicism
Forwarded from Between the Lines of Grift
On Religion & Struggle
In 1054, centuries of tensions between Rome and Constantinople came to a climax and the Great Schism occured, splitting Catholicism and Orthodoxy. This nearly 1000 year old scar on the face of Christendom serves as a painful reminder of our people's history.
Attempts have been made at reconciliation over the years - many Eastern Catholic churches were brought back over, some facing great adversity from communists seeking to annihilate them in the name of a bastardized modernist faith much like the bastardized modernist faith of the Novus Ordo back West. Online, Catholics and Orthodox are still locked in an autistic stalemate, trying to out-based one another to win Internet points.
Yet there were times when this wound was still fresh in living memory. Just 17 years after the Schism, the Orthodox Byzantine Empire suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of a non-White m*slim invading force, losing control over Asia Minor, just as they had lost control over the Levant and North Africa 400 years prior, letting once White, Roman, Christian lands fall under m*slim occupation.
The Catholic world watched this happen. What was their reaction? Did they point and laugh at the misfortune of the heretics? No. The Pope himself led the response and within 5 years, the Levant was once again under our control after a series of divinely assisted victories over the brown hordes.
While this took place in the East, back West the White Christians fought the brown m*slims who had taken control over the Iberian peninsula. Their struggle began centuries before the Crusades started and ended centuries after the Crusaders were driven out of their last foothold in the Levant - but it ended in VICTORY.
Did these men see any contradiction between fighting for their creed and fighting for their people? No, and neither do we. No amount of dishonest accusations of race treason can change this fact and these accusations should not make us waver in our struggle.
But how should we respond to calls from either side to engage in petty fratricidal slapfights on the Internet that serve no purpose other than to weaken us in the only struggle that matters?
The answer should be obvious enough.
In 1054, centuries of tensions between Rome and Constantinople came to a climax and the Great Schism occured, splitting Catholicism and Orthodoxy. This nearly 1000 year old scar on the face of Christendom serves as a painful reminder of our people's history.
Attempts have been made at reconciliation over the years - many Eastern Catholic churches were brought back over, some facing great adversity from communists seeking to annihilate them in the name of a bastardized modernist faith much like the bastardized modernist faith of the Novus Ordo back West. Online, Catholics and Orthodox are still locked in an autistic stalemate, trying to out-based one another to win Internet points.
Yet there were times when this wound was still fresh in living memory. Just 17 years after the Schism, the Orthodox Byzantine Empire suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of a non-White m*slim invading force, losing control over Asia Minor, just as they had lost control over the Levant and North Africa 400 years prior, letting once White, Roman, Christian lands fall under m*slim occupation.
The Catholic world watched this happen. What was their reaction? Did they point and laugh at the misfortune of the heretics? No. The Pope himself led the response and within 5 years, the Levant was once again under our control after a series of divinely assisted victories over the brown hordes.
While this took place in the East, back West the White Christians fought the brown m*slims who had taken control over the Iberian peninsula. Their struggle began centuries before the Crusades started and ended centuries after the Crusaders were driven out of their last foothold in the Levant - but it ended in VICTORY.
Did these men see any contradiction between fighting for their creed and fighting for their people? No, and neither do we. No amount of dishonest accusations of race treason can change this fact and these accusations should not make us waver in our struggle.
But how should we respond to calls from either side to engage in petty fratricidal slapfights on the Internet that serve no purpose other than to weaken us in the only struggle that matters?
The answer should be obvious enough.
Forwarded from Spookist
“Enslaving Jews is a moral sin!!!” Nope not according to Pope Gregory IX
“In the 1234 Decretals, he invested the doctrine of perpetua servitus iudaeorum – perpetual servitude of the Jews – with the force of canonical law. According to this, Jews would have to remain in a condition of political servitude and abject humiliation until Judgment Day.”
“In the 1234 Decretals, he invested the doctrine of perpetua servitus iudaeorum – perpetual servitude of the Jews – with the force of canonical law. According to this, Jews would have to remain in a condition of political servitude and abject humiliation until Judgment Day.”
What’s the most crucial/important issue relating to Orthodoxy in your view?
Anonymous Poll
17%
Divine Simplicity and Essence Energies
10%
Filioque
46%
Roman Primacy, Universal Jurisdiction and Papal Infallibility
23%
The Immaculate Conception and Original Sin
4%
Purgatory and Toll-Houses
↟ Modernists Go To Hell ↟
What’s the most crucial/important issue relating to Orthodoxy in your view?
Only 9% Filioque, interesting... I at least though the first option would get more than the IC and Original Sin