Ben Op-timist

Crunchy con, traddish Catholic, a little bit Anglicanorum Coetibus, a little bit Summorum Pontificum, Benedict Option curious, Canadian, eh?

[Ben Op-timist @bedecuthbert]

On Twitter break, but loved this quote from today's saint, Francis de Sales: "Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."

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@exjon @EWErickson “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”

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@DPGBehler So you’re saying to the Church fathers, “this is a hard saying, who can listen to it?”

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@aelfred_D Put more theologically, Irish Catholicism tends towards the error of Jansenism while Italian Catholicism tends towards probabilism.

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@NoContextHumans This is actually the mythical land of Lyonesse

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@SeanTrende @EWErickson @burackbobby_ True, but in 1 Cor. 15:3-7 Paul is passing down an early credal statement from the early Jerusalem church from with a few years of Jesus’ death. And it clearly states that he “was buried.”

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@GenericSnarky @DrLoupis__ More engagement posting a pic with the hot female cheater.

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@magaman28 @BrentScher Only the accidents of wine, there is no wine served at Mass.

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@bdomenech @EWErickson Okay, but the scripture being referenced here is the Old Testament (and not clear what is counted in the canon as “all”). What is the Biblical warrant for the New Testament?

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@JhWesten It’s pretty clear that they have left the door open to, at most, a non-ordained female ministry which might be called “deaconesses”

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@NJBeisner You were also receiving Holy Communion for 18 years and never ate bread.

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@RorateCaeli Maybe it will come out for co-monogamy?

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@tabletmag @AcrossTheBay It means that the resurrection was *prophesied* in the Old Testament Scriptures, as Jesus’ himself taught (Luke 18:31-33; Luke 24:44-47)

[Ben Op-timist @bedecuthbert]

@tabletmag @AcrossTheBay “according to the Scriptures” in the Nicene Creed comes from 1 Corinthians 15:4 - it doesn’t mean that the resurrection was recorded in the New Testament Scriptures, which were not determined when Paul wrote Corinthians and not settled by the time of the creeds

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@TaylorRMarshall Go to Fontgombault and you can see this tomorrow

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@holysmoke @brianknotts Movie actors too

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@WASPmexicano I think it’s more because of the intra-Catholic debate about the morality of using the atomic bomb. The fact that the second place that it was used was the historic Catholic centre of Nagasaki just adds poignancy to that debate.

[Ben Op-timist @bedecuthbert]

@FrMatthewLC I think we could drop the “filioque” from Papal masses etc. that are for the universal church. All the Orthodox should have to affirm is that the filioque, properly understood in the context of Western theology, is not heretical.

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@Saint_4K Personal divine inspiration then, you are blessed. You get to be your own Pope.

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@Saint_4K @GodlyAction What is your basis for believing that the New Testament is divinely inspired?

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@Saint_4K @GodlyAction If the Word was “a god” or “divine,” and you are monotheist, not polytheist, then that implies that it is one and the same God. Indeed, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30 “the Father is in me and I am in the Father” (John 10:38)