Michael Merimee

Building Pipelines & Pondering the Divine. Catholic father chasing beauty in my work (DevOps engineer) history, poetry, and liturgy

[Michael Merimee @MichaelMerimee]

Authoritative in a pastoral suggestive sense yes but not dogmatically authoritative. It isn't binding on the conscience of Catholics in the same way the teachings of Trent are.

The effects of Vatican 2 seem absolute which is probably why the sspx seem so staunch in their opposition as we are further removed in generations from the council that effect will be lessened and already we are seeing younger generations returning to traditions which seemed by the actions of those post counsel to be condemned by the council but which were in fact not actually condemned. Like many other movements of the mid-20th century the enactment on a social practical level of non-binding teachings seemed to convey a condemnation of past traditions in this case Liturgical. But that's only an illusion. Prior dogmatic teachings and liturgical practices were not condemned by the council, nor can they be the fact that many council members were caught off guard by the post-vatican. Two changes speaks to that strange effect which the council seemed to have. The sspx frustratingly stubborn hopefully will have the benefit of time. Not in our day but in future generations as long as they can remain fast to the official position that they are not in opposition to Rome, which is their current official position. If they can maintain this posture, there is a high likelihood that many of those liturgical practices will be adopted by the novus ordo eventually and many of the barriers which seem to be placed upon the coming together of these two communities will be reduced or fully eliminated.

[Michael Merimee @MichaelMerimee]

@TertiusIII @MrCasey62 Vatican II never claimed to speak on any matter dogmatically. The Pope nor the council ever taught in such a way as to bind the consciences of the faithful. Ex Cathedra is not at issue with Vatican II.

[Michael Merimee @MichaelMerimee]

@AnnCoulter I dug into it because I wanted to know the answer. Wasn't what I was expecting but it's absolutely a picture of the forces at play that led to the first cracks in American greatness that have been broken wide open today.

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[Michael Merimee @MichaelMerimee]

@RorateCaeli That reads nothing like anything else he has ever written. It also reads like something someone wished he would say so they could win a debate. I am highly suspicious of that letter.

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

BREAKING:
Speaking to reporters aboard the papal plane to Algeria on Monday, Pope Leo XIV said:
“I think that the people who read will be able to draw their own conclusions: I am not a politician, I have no intention of entering into a debate with him. Rather, let us always seek peace and put an end to wars. I am not afraid of the Trump administration. I speak about the Gospel, I am not a politician. I do not think the message of the Gospel should be abused in the way some people are doing. I will continue to speak out loudly against war, to try to promote peace, multilateral dialogue between states in order to seek the right solution to problems. The message of the Church is the message of the Gospel, blessed are the peacemakers; I do not see my role as that of a politician, I do not want to enter into a debate with him. Too many people are suffering in the world.”

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.

[Eomar - Diligent News @write_diligent]

People think that @Pontifex is getting political because they idolize the state. They think it’s a ‘political issue’ to denounce the slaughter of innocents. It’s a ‘political issue’ whether to enter into wars of choice. It’s a ‘political issue’ to ask help the needy.
Before this ever hits politics it’s a moral issue. You’ve been brainwashed. Open your eyes! Is what you do good???

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Construction of Medieval Castles still blows my mind.

For example, here’s Bamburgh Castle in England from the 11th century!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Even today there are tombs to be opened, and often the stones sealing them are so heavy and so closely guarded that they seem to be immovable. Some weigh heavily on the human heart, such as mistrust, fear, selfishness and resentment; others, stemming from these inner struggles, sever the bonds between us through war, injustice and the isolation of peoples and nations. Let us not allow ourselves to be paralyzed by them! #Easter

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Aristotle: “The tyrant is also very ready to make war; for this keeps his subjects occupied and in continued need of a leader…[It is] characteristic of a tyrant’s policy…[that] the flatterer too is held in honor…those who keep him company in an obsequious spirit, which is the function of flattery. This makes tyranny favor the baser sort, in the sense that a tyrant loves to be flattered, and no man of free spirit will oblige him. Respectable men…refrain from flattery, and base men are useful for base deeds…Anyone who shows a rival pride and a spirit of freedom destroys the master-like character of the tyranny. Thus the tyrant hates such people as destroyers of his rule…All these and their like are marks of tyranny and ways of maintaining it; and they are utterly depraved” (The Politics, Book V, Chapter XI)

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The wars that stain the present moment with blood are the fruit of the idolatry of power and money. Let us not grow accustomed to the clamor of weapons and images of war! #Peace is not merely a balance of power. It is the work of purified hearts, of those who see others as brothers and sisters to be protected, not enemies to be defeated. #ApostolicJourney https://t.co/WeRUclJHqq

[Michael Merimee @MichaelMerimee]

@FeserEdward Basic logic has not been taught to children for many years and have grown up to be the adults in the room with nothing to build on but an emotional choice.

[Martyr Made @martyrmade]

Enemy: The Germans' War, pt. 2 - The Work of the Men

As the starving, exhausted people of Germany process their defeat in the Great War, they face a new enemy more terrible than any they faced in the trenches. (Link below)

[Michael Merimee @MichaelMerimee]

@Deaf__Smith @buckrebel @martyrmade @scotthortonshow @DissidentMedia I always suspected, I just couldn't figure out if he was Orthodox or tlm Catholic. It was a great show last night and I'm looking forward to the counterflow conversation.

[Michael Merimee @MichaelMerimee]

WAR

Eye for an eye
While both sides lie,
Blood on the field
Where both sides die.

War on the mind
While rich men grind,
Hands of the poor
In the chains they bind.

Greed in the heart
Of those who start,
Calls for the young
To play their part.

War in the throats
of the bleating goats,
sung from their pride
and the siren notes.

"Enemy Enemy"
Both sides cry,
While noble men
For nothing die.

"Come to our side"
the war man lies
"We fight for your good
and the poor man rights."

Blood on the hands
of waring clans,
Peace in the heart
Of a common man,

Death takes his son
And the father breaks,
Hate fills his heart
As revenge bakes.

"Join us join us"
The recruiter calls,
And the father turns
To the blood stained halls.

Through the town
The soldiers tear,
The father finds
A Family scared.

He takes his knife
And hate he slakes,
A son is dead
Revenge is fed.

He rapes the mother
While her child looks on,
"Blood for blood"
Will become his song.

This child grows up
Till a son he kills,
A mother he rapes
And the pit he fills.

Inside that pit
A demon waits,
Is slaked until
He wants for hate.

He'll kill this child
But bids his time,
Drinking of blood
And boiling the brine.

The father and child
Will someday fall,
Will someday come
To hells hall.

There they wait
The demons of hate,
Born in the heart
Of men they create.

So round we go
All over the earth,
War is the sound
Of broken man's mirth.

For land and a grand
The soul is sold,
The knife is fed
With the innocent dead.

All the while
On Golgotha hill,
God looks down
With thorny crown.

"Forgive them father"
He prays again,
As a child of ten
Kills his friend.

"Why have you"
Goes the refrain,
"Abandoned us"
In scouring pain.

No land is worth
The price you pay,
When a slave to death
Your children stay.

Eye for an eye
While both sides cry,
Death in the field
Where both sides lie

[pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism]

never forget what you’re fighting for

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy the more certain we are about the value of education. That is, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to children.

[Michael Merimee @MichaelMerimee]

@EdgeCrusher14 @ExurbanAnarchy @IanCopeland5 @quesadaaa_ @grok @grok research the topic at hand

[Michael Merimee @MichaelMerimee]

@AuronMacintyre They can't, they are enslaved by worship of the 'free market'. Can't do anything to hurt international trade even if it means in the long run the destruction of your country and people. But what do they care. They only think of themselves and not their descendants.

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

Dr. John Bergsma—one of the great Catholic converts biblical theologians of our day—has a son with deadly brain cancer. The medical expenses have become overwhelming, exceeding what is covered by insurance.

Please support them in their hour of need.

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