Dominic George

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@Muxley14 Same story here it seems the job market is a lot worse than the government are letting on. Keep being persistent , but yes it's quite bleak at present

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@The_CryptoCrypt @ArthurRimbaud37 Try the UK. Everything is unaffordable and money in , money out on food and bills none for clothes or anything other than survival at this point. Others just taking more debt to survive. It's going to crash

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@hdjdj_m27279 @SkyBetLeagueTwo Really enjoyed it yes , a great game to watch , Leigh is quality and cavegn and others you were looking like a league one side . I have no idea what's going on but hope you pick up again ( just not at Rodney parade !)

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@hdjdj_m27279 @SkyBetLeagueTwo You looked very decent against us , not sure what happened after . Likewise somehow we managed to play alright recently which is mad

[Hughes de Payens 🇻🇦✝️📿 @hdpayens]

"Prayer changes things" is the popular slogan. Aquinas would correct you: prayer changes nothing in God, and everything in the plan.

Most people assume that if God is unchanging, petitionary prayer is incoherent. You are asking an eternal mind to change its mind. Either prayer works and God is mutable, or God is immutable and prayer is theater.

Aquinas rejects the dilemma entirely.

In the Summa Theologiae (II-II, q. 83), he argues that God's will is eternally fixed. No request alters it. But that is not a problem for prayer. It is the very reason prayer exists.

Providence does not merely decree ends. It ordains the means. And God has willed to give certain goods through the instrument of your petition. Not because He needs your input, but because He chose to accomplish His plan through secondary causes.

The farmer's irrigation is the ordained means of the harvest. He does not beg rain into existence against the order of nature. He cooperates with it.

So when you petition God, you are not informing Him of your needs. He knew them before you did. You are, in Aquinas's terms, meriting the reception of what He eternally intended to give through that very act of asking.

Prayer is also an act of the virtue of religion. It orders the soul toward God as the source of every good. The petition changes you before it changes anything else.

This is why " Thy will be done" is not resignation. It is the most precise description of what prayer actually does.

The modern assumption is that a fixed plan makes prayer pointless. Aquinas answers: a fixed plan is what makes prayer powerful.

Does this resolve the tension for you, or does petitionary prayer still feel like it requires God to genuinely reconsider?

[Memento Mori @TempusFugit4016]

Passive Purification - Fr. Gabriel

"In order not to resist the divine action, we should remember that God generally purifies souls through the ordinary circumstances of life. In the life of every Christian, every apostle, every religious, there is always a measure of suffering sufficient to effect the purification of the spirit. These are the sufferings which God Himself chooses and disposes in the way best suited to the different needs of souls; but, unfortunately, few profit by them because few know how to recognize in the sorrows of life the hand of God who wishes to purify them. Illness, bereavement, estrangement, separation from dear ones, misunderstandings, struggles, difficulties proceeding sometimes from the very ones who should have been able to give help and support, failure of works that were cherished and sustained at the price of great labor, abandonment by friends, physical and spiritual solitude - these are some of the sufferings which are met with more or less in the life of every man, and which, we will find in ours. We must understand that all such things are positively willed or at least permitted by God precisely to purify us even to the very inmost fibers of our being. In the face of these trials, we must never blame the malice of men, or stop to examine whether or not they are just; we must see only the blessed hand of God who offers us these bitter remedies to bring perfect health to our soul. St. John of the Cross writes: 'It greatly behooves the soul, then, to have patience and constancy in all the tribulations and trials which God sends it, whether they come from without or from within, and are spiritual or corporal, great or small. It must take them all as from His hand for its healing and its good, and not flee from them...'
Let us consider how great a spirit of faith is necessary to accept from the hand of God all the circumstances which afflict and humble, contradict and mortify us. It will sometimes be easier to accept heavy trials which come directly from Our Lord, such as illness and bereavement, than other lighter ones where creatures enter into play, and for which, perhaps, we experience greater repugnance. The immediate action of creatures, especially if their malice has a share in it, makes it more difficult for us to discover the divine hand. A greater spirit of faith is necessary here, that we may pass beyond the human side of circumstances, the faulty way of acting of such and such a person, and find, beyond all these human contingencies, the dispositions of divine Providence, which wills to use these particular creatures - their defects and errors, to file away our self-love and pride.
St. John of the Cross: '...God has placed [them] there only that they might work upon and chisel at thee by mortifying thee. And some will cut at thee through words … others in deed … others by their thoughts, neither esteeming nor feeling love for thee … and thou must be subject to them in all things, even as an image is subject to him that fashions it and to him that paints it and to him that gilds it.'

... the soul of faith sees in every person a messenger from our Lord, charged by Him to exercise it in virtue, particularly in that which it lacks most. Instead of rebelling and being indignant because of some want of consideration or even some really unjust treatment, it bows its head and accepts all humbly, as the most suitable treatment for curing its faults and imperfections. This must be our conduct, if we wish to draw profit from all the trials that God places in our path. In each instance we must keep ourselves from posing as a victim, from protesting, from complaining, or from retaliating

Whatever suffering may come to us from creatures has only one true explanation: Our Lord wishes to purify us, and is beginning to do it precisely through these exterior tribulations... it is necessary to be reduced to nothingness, that is, to be established in profoundest humility."

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@Natalie70115864 @JustNoahsdad Is it spiritual or just hatred of the faith ? I mean like a sort of demonic reaction. That's how it seems to me at the time

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@JustNoahsdad I had the same experience. They said " what's that " and appeared to have an eye twitching out of body experience .

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@NewportCounty Was there any fans there looks empty

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@NewportCounty Gwengwe and crole , some goals coming in methinks

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@UT_County Norman is quality . One of our better players this season

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@2thegreat166318 @riecker Ah I thought Wales , very beautiful

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@1912Exiles Been impressed with Norman tbh , some seemed to run him down from Tranmere when he came over but he s been great for us

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@BradRey17 @MathewLight17 Not always as easy as that. Some families just don't work - and you can't just call and smooth it over , often the issue is too hard wired

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@MathewLight17 Every year since 2020 has been rough. Prices are insane , here in the UK it's simply appalling the cost of living. Not sure many can take much more, few more increases and we go under

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@NewportCounty Short time he was on he got involved right away . Always dangerous hope he gets more game time

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@Bristoliang1en @Official_BRFC @SkyBetLeagueTwo Ha ha probably not to be fair!

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@Bristoliang1en @Official_BRFC @SkyBetLeagueTwo Thanks , yes we weren't expecting that. Chesterfield have very questionable defence , but good attack . Hopefully we ll give you a better game next time !

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@Bristoliang1en @Official_BRFC @SkyBetLeagueTwo He was very hot and cold for us seems the same issue here

[Dominic George @DominicGeo46283]

@Official_BRFC @SkyBetLeagueTwo Is Bobby kamwa on the bench ?