Adam

Tertii Ordinis Sancti Augustini, Aegidian School

Academia Augustiniana:

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

Some goals for the website right now:
- Finish the Synopsis of the Theological Disciplines from Fr. Buzius
- Add Augustinian theses tab (explaining key doctrine)
- Add Fr. Cosmas Schmalfus on assistance of grace
- Finish up Fr. Gibbon de Burgo

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

@IncredPapist_ Hope the attention was worth it

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

@ScholasticsFan Pooda Berti posting??

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

You can watch the life drain from his eyes the further he realizes he's speaking to a woman

[Brian Keith @Immaculata_City]

So I'm hearing a lot about this @JesusandWhatnot on the TL and I decided to catch a debate he was in tonight and scrolling through it's like 2 hours of this Addys emo chick doing this, while he's waiting to make a point 😭

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

@Moom1nka My friend went recently on that tour, I was jealous. Would love to hear HH and Silverstein

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

@palleoge It's last gasp was with Tycho, who no one remembers. Even the baroque scholastics well known provide shotty work to refute Galileo, I think Sungenius is the only one on it and he has a lot of problems as well

[Aldric 🇻🇦 @Aldr1cvs]

The conclusion is proved from Psalm 80: "He gave them up according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own devices." By these words it is signified that, with God withdrawing and not helping the sinner lest he fall, he will infallibly sin.
-Diego Alvarez O.P.

[Gregório. @HagiosGregorio]

"The man, in the present state, is not of himself more sufficient to have a good will than the devil."

— Blessed Gregory of Rimini, II Sent., D. 26-28, Q. 1, A. 1, Add. 47

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

@sincead33 @IFFFMEISTER Had the displeasure recently of reading him out of carnal curiosity, dude is the face of wishcasting

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

@augustiniser It seems at least in the Anglo world anything that is not Calvinist is permittable, especially insofar as it is anti-Calvinist

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

>WWI ends
>Impreccatory Psalms start fizzling out 20th century
>Apokatastasis massively more popular

Hmmm

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

@Yotler1 Lindsay Clancy was a redpill we were all already on but never wished to release on the public

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

This guy is very cool, I wish him well

[Catholic Answers @catholiccom]

Announcing our newest full-time apologist: Brayden Cook!

Brayden is a convert to Catholicism from Southern Baptist, and hosts the YouTube channel The Catechumen (which will continue under our banner).

We're excited to have him on board and be part of our mission: to explain and defend the Catholic faith to all.

Please keep Brayden and all of us in your prayers!

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

@augustiniser Too early to be laughing like this

[CTrefugees @CTrefugees]

Okay, we can do it biblically:

“The desire of the sluggard kills him for his hands refuse to labor.”

Proverbs 21:25

Christ presents the same distinction when the rich man desires eternal life:

“You lack one thing; go, sell what you have, and give to the poor”

but:

“At that saying his countenance fell, and he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions.”

Mark 10:21–22

His sorrow and desire for eternal life is real. Nevertheless, he refuses what Christ requires. That is velleity: willing the end under one consideration while refusing it concretely with its necessary means.

For repentance must reach the practical will:

“Have you sinned, my son? Do so no more, but pray about your former sins.”

Sirach 21:1

“He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.”

Proverbs 28:13

“Bear fruits that befit repentance.”

Luke 3:8

Repentance therefore includes more than sorrow, confession, fear, or wishing that one were different. It includes a present turning away from sin.

More, Christian is just right that Christ’s conversion of whores and usurers confirms this distinction rather than refuting it.

Christ says:

“the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.”

Why?

“the tax collectors and the harlots believed [John]”

Matthew 21:31–32

What did John, whom they believed, require? When the usurers asked:

“Teacher, what shall we do?”

he answered:

“Collect no more than is appointed you.”

Luke 3:12–13

Zacchaeus likewise proceeds from desire to concrete restitution:

“if I have defrauded any one of anything, I restore it fourfold.”

Christ then declares:

“Today salvation has come to this house”

Luke 19:8–9

And to the woman caught in adultery:

“Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again.”

John 8:11

Christ does not save whores and usurers by declaring amendment unnecessary. He saves them by bringing them to repentance. Mercy converts the sinner. Pangs of conscience, fear of punishment, disgust with one’s circumstances, or a wish to be free can recur for years without becoming a firm purpose to cease the sin and repair its consequences.

Because a firm purpose is not a guarantee of future sinlessness:

“I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.”

Romans 7:18

“Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Matthew 26:41

Consequently, repeated relapse does not by itself prove that every previous purpose of amendment was invalid. A firm purpose is a present determination, not an infallible prediction of future conduct.

Rather, the important distinction is between one who presently rejects the sin but later falls through weakness and one who wishes to be free from sin while presently intending to continue it or refusing the means necessary to abandon it.

The former can possess genuine purpose of amendment. The latter possesses only velleity. These risk damnation so long as they persist with no real repentance.

Moreover, our duty to forgive does not abolish the distinction between repentance and velleity.

Luke makes clear:

“Take heed to yourselves; if your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him; and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, and says, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

Luke 17:3–4

He sins, you rebuke, he repents, THEN you forgive and in any case this is merely the internal forgiveness of relinquishing hatred, vengeance, and ill will not the forgiveness of God himself.

Christ commands you to forgive the repentant personally, not to declare that someone merely wishing to change while intending to continue in sin is actually contrite. He wouldn't because thats impossible. Indeed:

“For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.”

2 Corinthians 7:10

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[Aldric 🇻🇦 @Aldr1cvs]

"We place this grace for natural acts in the Thomist predetermination, which Gregory of Rimini taught before M. Báñez, as the Salmanticense Fathers observed, and which Pelagius certainly abhorred." -Fr Petrus Manso OSA

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

The fewness of saved can be demonstrated by St. Peter hauling thousands of fish at the beginning of his ministry of which the bad ones tore his net, and at the end hauling 350 with the net maintained.

Such is at the end of the age more men will fall into unbelief of the Church.

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

@BessyNic The fact that Fr Arriaga is not even in the conversation when it comes to Nominalism just goes to show that no one knows what they are talking about and wish to believe in easier historical/philosophical justifications like it having no essences or whatever

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

@uabitodd47 Beatification NOW

[Adam @AegidiusRomanus]

@augustiniser These must be those "Dominicans" I'm always hearing about