She was truly blessed, for she was greater than the heaven, stronger than the earth, wider than the world; she by herself alone contained God, whom the world contains not; she bore Him who bears the world
-St. Chrysologus
There is no “Sola Scriptura” in Scriptura.
Sola Scriptura is a man-made heresy articulated well over a Millenia after Christ’s Apostles went out to spread the Ekklesia Kata Holos as Our Lord instructed upon His Ascension.
Not only is (1) “Sola Scriptura” not supported in Scripture but it is (2) historically anachronistic.
(1) Sola Scriptura isn’t in Scriptura
⁃2 Peter 1:20 “no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation.”
⁃2 Peter 3:16 “some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.”
⁃2 Thessalonians 2:15 “hold to the traditions you were taught . . . by word of mouth or by letter.”
⁃2 Thessalonians 3:6 (Shun those who do not follow the Tradition you received).
⁃Matthew 28:20 “teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you”
⁃John 21:25 “other things . . . Jesus did . . . the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.”
⁃John 20:30 “Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of [his] disciples that are not written in this book.”
(2) The Church preexisted the Authorship of NT Scripture and predated the Canonization of the whole of inspired writings:
⁃B.C. 15 = Immaculata Born
⁃B.C./A.D. = Christ is Born
⁃A.D. 33 = Christ is Crucified
⁃A.D. 33 = Christ Is Risen
⁃A.D. 33 = Christ Is Ascended
⁃A.D. 33 = The Catholic Church forms at Pentecost
⁃A.D. 42/68 = Gospel of Matthew
⁃A.D. 42 = Saint James the Elder Martyred
⁃A.D. 45/65 = Gospel of Mark
⁃A.D. 47 = Epistle of James
⁃A.D. 48/50= Council of Jerusalem
⁃A.D. 51/52 = 1 & 2 Thessalonians
⁃A.D. 54/A.D. 66 = Gospel of Luke
⁃A.D. 55 = Epistle to the Galatians
⁃A.D. 55 = Epistle to Philemon
⁃A.D. 57 = 1 & 2 Corinthians
⁃A.D. 57 = Epistle to the Romans
⁃A.D. 61 = Saint Andrew Martyred
⁃A.D. 62 = Saint Philip Martyred
⁃A.D. 62 = Saint James the Just Martyred
⁃A.D. 62 = Epistle to the Philippians
⁃A.D. 62 = Epistle to the Colossians
⁃A.D. 62 = Epistle to the Ephesians
⁃A.D. 63 = Acts of the Apostles
⁃A.D. 64 = 1 & 2 Peter (First Encyclicals)
⁃A.D. 65 = Saint Matthias Martyred
⁃A.D. 65 = First Epistle to Timothy
⁃A.D. 65 = Epistle to Titus
⁃A.D. 65 = Epistle to Hebrews
⁃A.D. 65 = Epistle of Jude
⁃A.D. 66 = Second Epistle to Timothy
⁃A.D. 67 = Saint Jude Martyred
⁃A.D. 67 = Saint Paul Martyred
⁃A.D. 67 = Pope Saint Peter Martyred
⁃A.D. 67 = Saint Simon the Zealot Martyred
⁃A.D. 68 = Saint Matthew Martyred
⁃A.D. 72 = Saint Bartholomew Martyred
⁃A.D. 74 = Saint Thomas Martyred
⁃A.D. 95 = Apocalypse of Saint John
⁃A.D. 97 = 1, 2, & 3 John
⁃A.D. 98 = Gospel of John
⁃A.D. 100 Saint John of Patmos Dies (approximately)
⁃A.D. 382 Council of Rome under Pope Damasus proposes the Definitive Canon
(3) The Ekklesia Kata Holos of Acts 9:31 is the Church of the Living God and the Pillar and Bulwark of Truth.
Acts 9:31
“Now the church had peace throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria; and was edified, walking in the fear of the Lord, and was filled with the consolation of the Holy Ghost.”
1 Timothy 3:15
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
This video is a masterclass in shitlibbery.
They know their policies lead to negative consequences. They just don’t think they’ll ever be a victim of those consequences themselves. In fact, they believe loudly supporting the policies can even act like a magic incantation of protection from the harm the policies cause.
“Black lives matter!” Or “Trans women are women!” Or “Defund the police!” Or “Abolish prisons!” — if you’ve ever wondered why so many shitlib slogans seem to entrance them it’s because they’re literally using them like spells of defence against the imminent riots, rapes, and criminality they know comes next.
And you can see the woman in the video becoming increasingly upset and confused as she realizes the incantation she was promised would save her doesn’t actually work.
Happy Thanksgiving. I'm thankful to God for His infinite mercy. For the many times I could have died and should have gone to Hell. Lord, grant me the grace to not offend Thee anymore and to end up with Thee in Heaven forever. Amen
I’m pretty much supportive of injecting a healthy dose of skepticism about marriage and family life to young men who naively think a wife is all they need to solve all their issues, but my problem is when those who choose to promote that kind of rhetoric (eg, the Tates or Pearl Davis) ALSO lack any willingness to sacrifice their own sexual desires in the process and thereby *actually* transcend in a spiritually healthy way whatever they think would hold them back in the bond of marriage
If marriage is too limiting for your personal pursuit of excellence, great, then you must also be willing to put to death in your mind, heart, soul, speech, and body your sexual appetite and live a life of perpetual chastity, purity, and virginity.
But if your idea of enjoying that kind of freedom outside of the duties of married life involves feeding your sexual appetite outside the confines of marriage in any way shape or form, then you are just giving up the bondage of marriage and in its place receiving a new kind of bondage with the devil, and you can look forward to domestic life under *his* household for the rest of eternity
the fact that Donald Trump prefers to live in glowing-from-within, golden-light spaces, is so insanely interesting to me. Most of the "elites" live in like cold light minimalist grey dungeons and that's their status symbol. He is from another world and has King Solomon taste.
There is no political solution. More precisely, there is no secularist political solution. In the long run, liberalism and its “dust and powder of individuality” (as Burke called it) cannot compete with the power of religion. Only a return to Christian orthodoxy can save the West