Memia Christopher

INTJ, ex tote corde, omnes cum Petro ad Iesum per Mariam.

[Memia Christopher @Chrismemia]

Today more than ever, we need to practice the art of listening, which is more than simply hearing. #EG 171 #PopeFrancis

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. https://t.co/Ij21tkb3qT

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

In a recent interview, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, former grand chancellor of the John Paul II Institute on Marriage and Family Life, confirmed the worst suspicions that many of us had.

He admitted that the changes he made at the Institute during the Pope Francis years were designed to initiate a "very profound" reform of the idea of the natural law.

Instead of absolute moral norms grounded in a keen understanding of the basic goods, he and his colleagues were proposing a moral theory rooted in historical discernment of subjective and cultural experience--not an "armchair theology" but one operating "within history and within people's lives."

This, of course, is the language of trendy postmodernism, and it is dangerous indeed.

Allow me to illustrate the principle with one example. Is slavery wrong?

Intrinsically wrong? Wrong no matter what public opinion polls say about it, no matter what the current consensus on it might be? I imagine any decent person would say yes.

But that yes is predicated upon precisely what the tradition calls the natural law and the basic goods. There are some values so fundamental that acts repugnant to them are by their very nature wicked.

If you want a highly articulate presentation of this idea, go to St. John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor.

If we say that this is just "armchair theologizing" and that morality is a function of ever-shifting cultural and experiential data, then why couldn't slavery be justified?

One of the very smartest persons that ever lived, the philosopher Aristotle, thought it was; extremely bright and morally upright persons in our country, well into the 19th century, thought it was permissible.

Who is to say whether the consensus might shift back again? Who is to say that "lived experience" might come to justify it?

What any truly coherent moral program requires is the very thing that Archbishop Paglia and his colleagues were endeavoring to eliminate, namely, absolute moral norms.

Ridding ourselves of these in the name of freedom or pastoral sensitivity actually renders moral discourse dysfunctional, just as relativizing the basic principle of logic would render any rational conversation impossible.

The Archbishop's interview, frankly, reminded me of the discussions I had at the Synod on Synodality with some of my German colleagues. Under the rubric of the development of doctrine, they were eager to relativize or radically change the principles undergirding classical morality. If this was and is truly the game, we have ventured onto perilous seas.

Link to the article below.

[Memia Christopher @Chrismemia]

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[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

🚨: The RED line shows how far the Voyager 1 spacecraft will travel... in 1 million years

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Let us not waste our time and energies chasing after appearances. Rather, let us learn from John the Baptist to remain vigilant, to love simplicity, to be sincere in our words, to live soberly, and to cultivate a depth of mind and heart. #GospelOfToday (Jn 1:29-34)

[Memia Christopher @Chrismemia]

A valuable resource for those looking for a pocket prayer book on the go https://t.co/r0InIBxKdr

[Father Christopher @FChristopher77]

“Beware of the spirit of despondency (sorrow, sadness, dejection), for it gives birth to all evils.

A thousand temptations arise from it: agitation, anger, blame, dissatisfaction with one’s lot in life, lustful thoughts, constant changing of place.

Sometimes the evil spirit of despondency takes possession of the soul and deprives it of humility and kindness toward one’s brothers, and gives rise to aversion toward any conversation.

Then the soul avoids people, believing that they are the cause of its disturbance, and fails to understand that the cause of its disturbance lies within itself.

A soul filled with despondency and, as it were, beside itself, is incapable of calmly accepting good counsel offered to it or of answering humbly the questions put to it.”

Saint Seraphim of Sarov

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

We don’t know when but one day, we will wake up to our last morning.
It is imperative that we remember this so that we do not go about the day enslaved to the random movements of our heart.
Let God help you live today, not just exist: Pray, Forgive, Love, Laugh, Sacrifice.
The devil will bait you. He wants you to react instead of respond, to chase the shiny things, and to save all of your passion for earthly things that will pass.
Not today. Today you rise anew, embracing the truth that you were not made for the petty or the transitory; You were made for heaven.
Pray for the grace to live this truth well.

#talkedtotheboss

[Memia Christopher @Chrismemia]

Can Cousins Marry in the Church? https://t.co/5oJLAleMbr

[Catholic Frequency @CatholicFQ]

“The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person — every person — needs: namely, loving personal concern.”

- Pope Benedict XVI

[Archbishop Sheen @FultonSheen]

“The power of rejoicing is always a fair test of a man’s moral condition. No man can be happy on the outside who is already unhappy on the inside… As sorrow is attendant of sin, so joy is the companion of holiness.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

On the paths of the heart, the Risen One walks with us and for us. Jesus bears witness to the defeat of death and affirms the victory of life, despite the darkness of Calvary. Our lived history still has much goodness in which to hope. #GeneralAudience

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

I’m gonna try to do this as quick as possible in the knowledge that some people just need to be offended and indignant.
The Vatican library is a building within Vatican City.
In that library there are all kinds of texts, both ancient and more modern. You simply would not believe the incredible things in there.
The world’s smallest Quran and the world’s largest Quran are in there. One of the only books of Muslim poetry that survived the Mongol invasion are in there.
To get in is a very involved process, only between two and 3000 humans a year are allowed in.
Going in and out of the library, even after having been accepted is quite the process. They do this to protect the building and the things in it. Many parts of the Vatican library are sealed because even air can corrupt these texts.
Muslim scholars have gone there to study for a very long time.
Devout Muslims scholars are required to pray five times a day at fairly specific times.
Each time, they would need to leave & go through all of the process of departing the building to do the 5 to 7 minute prayer that they are required to do and then go through the process of re-entering.
The process for getting in and out is longer than the prayer time their faith requires them to have
At some point, someone opened a small room and told them they could pray in there.
It is basic good hospitality.
I’m going to be blunt here: many of you have absolutely no idea of what you’re talking about.
People have got you all fired up and jacked up over something because neither they nor you understand what the Vatican Library is or how it works.
Stop it.
Focus on your own sin; I can assure you you have plenty if you’re anything like me. You should fight that battle because at least in that case, you will have some sense of what you’re talking about.

[Catholic Frequency @CatholicFQ]

“Our world no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking, at a devastating speed and volume, in order to say nothing.”

- Cardinal Robert Sarah

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We live as if life were never enough. We rush to produce, to prove ourselves, to keep up. But the Gospel teaches us that knowing how to stop is an act of trust that we must learn to perform. Life does not always depend on what we do, but also in knowing how to let go of what we have been able to do. #GeneralAudience

[NASA @NASA]

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[Chloe Cole ⭐️ @ChloeCole]

I saw this video this morning on my feed and I think it so eloquently explains what Charlie Kirk was put on this earth to do.

“When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence, that is when civil war happens”

[Kenyan Facts 🇰🇪 @KResearcher]

Mr and Mrs Kamau. Tom,Mary and baby Peter.
This family was part of our lives in early 8-4-4 education.😊

[Memia Christopher @Chrismemia]

@ythera_ @Kanyoroh_ 😂

[Trad West @trad_west_]

He played video games, loved coding and dressed like any other teenager.

But his heart burned with love for the Eucharist.
In 7 September 2025 he will be Canonized a Saint

This is the story of Blessed Carlo Acutis, the Cyber Apostle – a 🧵✝️