Davos

Happy to live in this world, as long as God wants me to.
Praised be the Lord Jesus Christ forever!

[Davos @rovnost]

I do not know if I am meant to change the world, but I have learned this:

That I must be who I am, and learn how to wield the talents that God has given me, which also at times bring me such pain and separate me from other people.

[Davos @rovnost]

Phantom Blood

Battle Tendency

Stardust Crusaders

Diamond is Unbreakable

Golden Wind

Stone Ocean

And if you want to keep going with the manga:

Steel Ball Run

Jojolion

[𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘴 @_bonaventurian]

God is young and forever new in His eternal Godhead. He becomes young yet again as the child born of a Virgin. And becomes ever new, every day, in every soul that blooms with grace wherein the Son is born in the soul. New, in times past, and forever, and in this day!

[𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘴 @_bonaventurian]

"In no way can we arrive at the contemplation of the eternal Godhead unless our intellect be more fully elevated beyond the changes of time, beyond the fog of our phantasms, to the freedom of that supercelestial quiet."

- St. Bonaventure (De Mysterio, q. 5, a. 2, re. 11)

[sanstitre (commissions closed) @sanstitre2000]

Nessie

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Tom Holland says he’s proud of the message behind ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ about not isolating yourself & being sociable.

“It's so easy to sit at home of an evening and just scroll through your phone and just turn your mind to mush and to forget about how important socializing is.”

(Source: https://t.co/aIHDvAJhZV)

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

I just play it on repeat since yesterday:

"Hello Pope Leo XIV, I'm Renzo, I'm six years old.
I'd like to ask you a few questions."

Renzo, a little a boy from the poor neighborhood of Barcelona, stole the show yesterday at St. Augustine's parish, a place where Pope Leo admitted he "feels at home."

Renzo in the sweetest way ever asked those questions to the pope:
Do you like soccer?
When you were little, did you want to be Pope?
Why are my mom and dad worried?
Why does my dad have so many jobs?
Why do bad things happen to some people and not to others? Whose fault is it?
Why are there so many people living on the streets? Does no one see them? Does no one help them?
How can we help if the world is so big?
Does God want there to be poor and rich?
Why are there so many lonely grandparents, if they are so important?
And one last question ... Must we always forgive?

What pope Leo answered the boy was really moving.

"Regarding whether I like football, I confess that I play tennis and I enjoy it very much, but I also appreciate football; in fact, during my years as bishop in Peru, I liked to follow how some local teams were doing; and now, as Pope, I have also received football clubs and sports groups," the pope said, adding that "sport is important because it helps us grow up healthy in body and mind."

He said that as World Cup unfolds, "many will be watching the matches. Football reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off alone, but a path we learn to travel together."

"Whoever doesn't know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, hasn't yet understood the game. And whoever doesn't know how to live with others and for others hasn't yet understood life."

Answering whether he wanted to be Pope when he was little, the pope said: "Well, Renzo, I don't think so. I don't think I ever thought about it."

"But I can tell you something: from a young age, I felt the desire to dedicate my life to God. I didn't yet know exactly how or where the Lord would lead me. Over time, I discovered that Jesus was calling me to follow him as a priest, and that this path led through the Order of Saint Augustine."

"But this isn't just true for me," he said. "Every child is a dream of God. You are too. God desires the happiness of all and wants us, from childhood and throughout our lives, to have a heart like that of children (cf. Mt 18:3): capable of trusting, full of kindness; he wants us to be his friends and not turn away from him. Therefore, more important than asking oneself whether one will be a priest, doctor, teacher, parent, or anything else, is asking oneself whether one wants to be a friend of Jesus. Because friendship with Jesus gives us joy, sets us free, and helps us to see, step by step, the vocation and the path that God has planned for each of us."

Answering the point on injustices in the world, Pope Leo told the boy that "through the life of Jesus Christ, God shows us that, although there is suffering, he never abandons any of his children, because he has prepared for us an eternal joy where there will be no more sadness or pain. Let us have confidence, Jesus is with us, he helps us and accompanies us, and gives us strength to go through the difficult moments we may encounter in life."

Stressing that grandparents play a crucial role in families, the pope said: "Let us not allow loneliness and abandonment to become normalized in the lives of older adults. That is a very sad thing. Let's have our hearts open to all of them."

On forgiveness, he told Renzo and those gathered: "It does not mean forgetting by force, as if nothing had happened. Forgiveness means not letting hatred become the master of our hearts ... our willingness to forgive is a condition for the forgiveness we receive from God."
Video: Vatican Media

[Davos @rovnost]

The Heart of the Anomaly

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[Davos @rovnost]

@Beth70781826 @DoorDashThomist @ScholasticsFan Then allow me to rephrase myself in this way:

Avoid useless Twitter pseudo-intellectualism and its many teachings.

[Davos @rovnost]

@Beth70781826 @DoorDashThomist @ScholasticsFan “Jansen cooked”, indeed. He cooked and served a heresy.

It is not piety signaling to defend the Church’s understanding on the recommended frequency for receiving the Eucharist, against the understanding of an infamous heretic.

[Davos @rovnost]

https://t.co/uvkMa3Wyu3

[Davos @rovnost]

https://t.co/ZmwV5NSWuN

[Classical Theist ✠ @ClassicalTheis]

@DoorDashThomist And yet St. Thomas provides key principles which led to Pius X’s exhortations to receive often assuming a proper disposition

[Davos @rovnost]

@ClassicalTheis @DoorDashThomist This is the maximum teaching. Thank you for sharing.

[Josh Watson @JoshuaLWatson]

O my friend, why do you ... care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money & honor & reputation, & so little about wisdom & truth & the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this? ~Socrates (in "Apology")

[Thomas a Kempis @TomKempis]

If I God is the cause, you will be well content with whatever is ordained. If, on the other hand, any self-seeking lurk in you, it troubles you and weighs you down. Take care, then, that you do not rely too much on preconceived desire that has no reference to God.

[Davos @rovnost]

@DoorDashThomist @ScholasticsFan Does it make you feel smart posting this coal? Does it make you feel special among your peers? Stop larping, brother.

[Davos @rovnost]

@DoorDashThomist The Eucharist is not a prize for saints, it is a remedy for sinners. If you have received absolution of all mortal sins, you should absolutely conduct yourself to receive the Eucharist. Your train of thought is erroneous.

[Davos @rovnost]

@StayRight239 @tl072nerd @_bonaventurian @DoorDashThomist Both these extremes are wrong, brother.

[𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘴 @_bonaventurian]

Sincerity is a lightsome transparency of character, and so gently respects the truth in its habits. Be sincere and affable in all things.