SlaveoftheImmaculate

Catholic Husband and Father, Theologian, Apologist, Member of the Legion of Mary.

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@vermiliongs The concept of womanhood is not technical. You are attempting to make it so because you’re trying to deconstruct it and rewrite its definition. Because you’re not honest and have an agenda to serve.

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@TECHdigression @DrShayPhD I think there’s some confusion here. I’m a Catholic.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

This is the priest who died on the Titanic to hear confessions and administer last rites.

Given the opportunity to board a lifeboat on two separate occasions, Father Thomas Byles firmly declined. He chose instead to stay behind, absolving sins and consoling the doomed passengers.

Following the vessel's collision with the iceberg, he assembled the remaining crowds on the aft deck.

Those who lived through the disaster recalled him standing bravely amid the panic, listening to confessions, granting collective absolution, and reciting the Rosary right up until the ocean claimed the stern.

This is the type of story we should elevate, heroic virtue. May the Lord bless us with more holy men possessing the courage of Father Thomas Byles.

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@MJKelleyII Are you denying the divinity of the Son?

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@DrShayPhD @TECHdigression Both Ignatius of Antioch and Irenaeus of Lyons indicate that Rome had a primacy over the other churches. Irenaeus explicitly says that Peter and Paul founded Rome and that all churches should agree with it.

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@DrShayPhD It always amazes me just how historically illiterate Protestants are. But then it again it doesn’t. To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@NateBornAgain The Trinity contradicts the Bible? The Eucharist? The Resurrection? The Salvation of the world on the Cross? Baptism? You’re joking, right?

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@5Solas Funny, because I read my Bible so often that the cover was falling off and I got it expensively rebound in leather because I couldn’t bear to lose all the notes I’d made in it. But yeah, we hate the Bible. Right.

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@adammocklerr Yeah, so much that we try to keep democrats from murdering them. But gosh. They don’t get a free book a month? Must mean we absolutely hate them.

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@SoliDeoGloria_X Matthew 27:56 and Mark 15:40 mention another Mary, who is the mother of James and Joseph. Oops. Guess that calls the other two, Simon and Judas, into question as well, considering they are listed after the other two who were clearly not children of Jesus’ mother.

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@SoliDeoGloria_X 9. The perpetual virginity was believed so firmly by the early Church that, of all the Marian Dogmas, it alone does not have a particular point that it was defined. It is the understanding that makes the most sense of all the data available to us.

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@SoliDeoGloria_X Mary asked the angel how the conception of Jesus would come about since “I know not man.” Either this is the dumbest argument ever asked, as Mary is betrothed, or it indicates a vow of virginity that she had taken. The angel doesn’t treat it as a stupid question. (Cont.)

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@SoliDeoGloria_X 8. Or that Jesus would reign until all his enemies were placed beneath his feet. It’s clear the passage is concerned with the status before and not describing after. Otherwise we have to believe a dead woman started giving birth to children or that Jesus will stop being king.

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@SoliDeoGloria_X 7. The passage in which Joseph “did not know her until she had given birth to her firstborn” does not indicate that he actually relations. The word “until” only intends to describe the actions before, not after. Consider that Michal did not have children until the day she died.

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@SoliDeoGloria_X 6. They would not have been able to do this if they had other children. Traveling alone was fraught with danger (think of the parable of the Good Samaritan). You don’t take kids with you on a journey like that. Notice also that siblings aren’t mentioned in Mary’s question.

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@SoliDeoGloria_X 5. He would not have entrusted the care of his mother to a disciple if he had younger siblings to care for him. When Jesus was left in the Temple, Mary and Joseph demonstrate a remarkable freedom to turn back and search for him.

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@SoliDeoGloria_X 4. Further, no other children of Mary are named in the New Testament. Those spoken of as “brothers of the Lord” are in other places described as the sons of different parents, meaning they are close relations. Jesus also gives the care of his mother to St John at the Cross

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@SoliDeoGloria_X 2. Num 30 gives the framework by which Mary could make a vow of virginity. If her husband hears of it and is silent, she is bound by it. If he hears of it and opposes it she is released by it. It seems plain by her question that she took this vow and that Joseph consented to it.

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@SoliDeoGloria_X 2. The angel answers her question carefully, explaining that it will be supernatural. Contrast that with Zechariah’s similar question in the preceding passage, where he is punished with being a mute for the duration of Elizabeth’s pregnancy. Mary is not punished.

[SlaveoftheImmaculate @GeistBrad]

@DrShayPhD Probably because you’re not actually bothering to look. Preaching the Gospel doesn’t make news. Controversial takes do. Look up homilies and audience addresses. That’s where you will hear the Gospel.