Pascal

It's all the same song Plato’s Republic: Eight Sirens seated on nested cosmic whorls, each singing a unique tone...together forming the perfect Music of the Spheres. Tolkien heard the same song ... the Ainur’s Music birthing the world in The Silmarillion.

God created us without us: but he did not will to save us without us. -St. Augustine

@ImpCommodus We should still ask because God will make our efforts fruitful when we seek His grace.

@KnowsPascal So what’s the point of asking if you have to actually do it yourself anyway.

Ask, seek, knock; you will receive and find, and it will be opened to you. However, do not ask, seek, and knock with your voice alone but with your life as well. -St. Augustine

Joy does not reside in the things about us, but in the very depths of the soul, one can have it in the gloom of a dungeon as well as in the palace of a king. -St. Thérèse

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@TradBob26 @catholic_comedy @KnowsPascal When I came back after living in Italy, I refused to eat American pizza. Unfortunately, pizza is one of my favorite foods, so I had to let go of my snobbery. On the other hand, there are some Italian style places that are local, and as close as I will get outside Italy.

I just did a Chicago pizza tour. It's mid.

Among all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is more perfect, more noble, more useful, and more full of joy. -Aquinas

He who prays with desire sings in his heart even though his tongue be silent, but if he prays without desire, he is dumb before God even though his voice sounds in the ears of men. -St. Augustine

@GitGodlyGud Lmk where😂

@KnowsPascal I'll open a "Your Preferred Bible Translation On a Grain of Rice" kiosk at the mall.

I can’t believe there’s still no proper pocket-sized Douay-Rheims Bible—something compact and well-bound like the Confraternity of the Precious Blood editions. Publishers of good will, take note! I’d promote it like crazy.

@SkippyPetro Lucky 13 has the best burgers, though.

Weller’s Bistro might be the best restaurant in the SLC metro area.

@clintcarlos @Easthill4978 @holysmoke Weird way to say yes.

To be clear they didn’t use the word rock… In the Old Testament they used tsur or sela and in the New Testament they used petra to refer to Jesus…and these have much more layered symbolism meaning something closer to bedrock, or immovable foundation. There’s also relatively few of these references compared to the countless anthropomorphisms used to describe God’s physical being which was unquestionably, corporeal and humanesque. He himself said that we were made in His image. Or if you take the earliest translations at face value as I do, the phrasing was plural - the gods made man in their image, emphasizing distinct beings in the father and the son…but again their image was like ours.

The LDS believe in many gods and also teach that the Lord Jesus is a separate being from God the Father. So perhaps you could clarify whether you were all worshipping the same Lord.

If 'right hand of God' is consistent proof that the Father has a literal physical body (not an idiom), do you also believe God is literally a rock? 'The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer' and 'He is the Rock, his works are perfect' . Or are some anthropomorphisms metaphors after all?

@KnowsPascal @Easthill4978 @holysmoke Right hand is not an idiom. It’s anthropomorphism and it is present throughout the bible, with consistent reference to God the Father’s body.

If you wish to reach high, then begin at the lowest level. If you are trying to construct some mighty edifice in height, you will begin with the lowest foundation. This is humility. -St. Augustine

After the Storm (1855), by Johann Wilhelm Cordes

Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. -St. Francis De Sales

Christianity has died many times and risen again for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave. -G.K Chesterton It's not the first time the Church has looked defeated, and it won't be the last. But the Rock is firm.

@GaryMoloney7 Prayer is a good place to start.

@KnowsPascal How do you do it

Promises of Jesus to those who honor His Sacred Heart.

Stephen saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God...not two separate physical beings. “Right hand” is biblical idiom for shared divine authority/power. This reveals personal distinction (Father & Son) within the one God (Trinity), not separate essences or gods. Jesus is fully divine & exalted.

@holysmoke Please explain in Acts 7:54-60, when Stephen was being stoned, why did he see the Father and the Son as two separate Beings?

His will for your salvation is stronger than the will of your enemies for your destruction. -Scupoli

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@PascalWife @StephenWohltman Don’t let @StephenWohltman influence you. Chili con Carne is chili peppers with meat. Beans were added in by poor people from Jersey that couldn’t afford meat. 😄

Smoked Mexican pulled pork for some killer tacos 🌮