Brother Augustine

This will be my last tweet until at least Pascha, so I want to end this post-Nativity run on a hopeful note. Millions of people have now become aware of what some of us have been writing and talking about for a long time. Having these things hit you in an undeniable way can be an earth-shaking, reality-shattering event. It can cause all manner of despair and hopelessness, so please take it from someone who’s been through it: You will probably go through the same stages of grief that occur for most people who are traumatized in some way, because “trauma” is what you are currently experiencing. It is confusing and painful and can make you question everything. It is almost ironic that trauma was always their goal for you, only for you to experience it by the indirect path of learning about it rather than the path of direct victimhood. You should probably thank God for this lesser of the two evils. In any case, with Jesus in your life, you will eventually get back to a place of psychological, emotional, and spiritual stability once the truth has all been processed and integrated. You won’t be the same again, but at least you will be OK. What this looks like, and how long it takes, will be different for everybody. The reason you must have Jesus in your life is because you are made in His image and likeness; as such, you are ontologically incomplete without Him. Without Him you are like a puzzle with one piece always missing, and nothing else you try to complete that puzzle with will work. The shape will always be wrong and you will always be searching for the one that actually fits, but the only one that fits is God and only then will you be complete. Even secular neuroscientists have arrived at the conclusion that the neurology of the human brain is made to experience ritual and mysticism. As much as I hate to give him credit, Albert Pike was right that “Man needs ritual and dogma.” He was just wrong about which rituals and dogma actually heal and save the human person. In a similar way, the secular neuroscientists are wrong about why this is so; but it is indeed so, regardless of who says it. Turn to God; He will help you. He will help you through this and everything else in your life. Hopefully by now you’ve realized that you’re a terrible guide to your own decisions and that you own will only leads you astray. No need to despair; you were never designed to follow your own path and it was never going to lead you in the right direction anyway. Give up your will to God and rejoice, for He will save you. Keep your foot on the pedal but let Him take the wheel. Let go of the need to understand where He is steering you or why; trust that He knows what He is doing. In the end, we win. Christ is King. God bless you.

@ShadowofEzra There’s a reason the Bible calls these people “the enemies of God and all mankind.”

Ben Shapiro says the new Epstein files contain no verifiable evidence that Epstein was “running global politics” through a child trafficking network. He says that while many powerful figures are named, being mentioned does not mean or imply they committed any wrongdoing. Shapiro concludes the evidence shows the girls were trafficked for Epstein’s personal use, with no proof they were trafficked to anyone else. What's your message to Ben Shapiro?

Fr. Seraphim Rose on people who say we are in latin captivity

@snaketrampler @Filipinofails @stpetermogila I understand his position, which is an incoherent blend of pretending not to understand some things while genuinely not understanding others.

@BrotherAugusti2 @Filipinofails @stpetermogila Or maybe you’ve just been misunderstanding Jays position, which rejects Neoplatonic archetypes being acted upon in the abstract and affirms the effects of universals being built into creation and only effecting persons.

Dyer tries to debate someone on Original sin, says the viewer does not know what Augustine's position is, then says "you're debating someone who has read thousands of pages of Augustine" and then ironically says "well i don't know what he means either," on punishment of infants.

@ZumLetsenMal @VoxVirtutis As an Orthodox Christian who understood the priority of faith and spiritual health, he should be more popular than all the rest combined.

The Day the Goyim Refused to Kneel.

@alon_mizrahi “Resignations” mean nothing.

They are sacrificing foot soldiers to save their high command

@TheOrthoEnsign @MateyYanakiev He’s moving the goalposts from “feeling pleasure” to “desiring pleasure,” attempting to collapse them into the same concept (which they are not).

@MateyYanakiev So are you withdrawing your initial claim that he viewed the *pleasure* as inherently sinful?

John Chrysostom at shocking divergence with Augustine: On Romans 7, Chrysostom taught when humanity became physically mortal (from Adam’s sin), the body necessarily began to feel concupiscence & other passions. But these were *NOT* inherently sinful. Only when overindulged!

Met. Panteleimon Lampadarios, The Catechism of the Orthodox Church, On the Guilt of Adam

@andrewilliamsus They invented the former to distract you from the latter.

White supremacy doesn't exist Jewish supremacy does The Epstein files prove this to be true 100%.

There is nothing in between.

There was a time when even keys were crafted like works of art.

Dr. Tikhon Pino on the rhetoric & exoticism of “energies” in pop-Orthodoxy and the twofold patristic sense of ἐνέργεια: ‘I have mixed feelings about the language of “energies” in a world after Leibniz, after Newton, in the context of modern physics in other words. The word “energy” is ambiguous at best, evoking physical processes—material force—in a way that was completely alien to Greek patristic usage, which inherited the word ἐνέργεια as we all do from Aristotle and Ancient Greek philosophy. In the context of modern Orthodox identity, the language of “energies,” like other exoticisms, has also been weaponised as part of an Orthodox spirituality and theology that is meant to be imbued with a certain mystique, and differentiated from “rationalist” forms of Christianity associated with the West. Which, are in turn, thought to be devoid of even the categories and language for talking about [the] mystical experience.’ [...] ‘The way they [the ἐνέργεια] are talked about at the popular level, one gets the impression that they are something like physical forces, powers or entities—a unique reality only known to Eastern Christians, who have special access to some kind of spiritual electricity. A reality that usually comes across as distinctly impersonal standing somewhere between God himself and created reality—this is why God is able to send his energies. That’s the popular connotation of this language. My research, which you can read more about in specifically in Ch. 2 of the book, led me to discover that the reason for this confusion is that the divine energies in Palamas are—as we understand them in English—are kind of caught between two concepts. On the one hand, the ἐνέργεια or operations of God are simply the divine attributes. So God’s goodness, holiness, Infinity, Justice, etc., we can call these the Divine Names. Traditionally they’re spoken of as the things around God or surrounding the divine essence. Greek patristic authors have spoken about the ἐνέργεια of God since at least the 4ᵗʰ century, when this becomes an important technical term of trinitarian theology since Father, Son and Holy spirit have a single ἐνέργεια or operation. Later on in the Christological controversy St. Maximus and others will defend the idea that Christ is fully human and divine [and] has two ἐνέργειες—two operations, human and divine. [...] ...in order to understand the modern confusion over the language of “energies,” it’s important to see that in addition to this general usage of the divine ἐνέργεια is often just another word for one specific divine attribute, what Palamas (following the hymnography of the Medieval Church) calls the natural or essential beauty of the divine nature—so, the beauty of the divine nature as a property of the divine nature. This is the uncreated light in which God is wrapped as the psalm says as with a garment. And it's this uncreated garment of God that he bestows on Adam in paradise which Adam loses but which can be given again in baptism. In other words, it's the uncreated light identified with uncreated grace or deifying grace—sanctifying grace—an attribute of God himself shared with human beings and constituting them as saints. And it’s this, I think, it’s these two intersecting denotations which have a commonality that cause a lot of the semantic confusion. Because if we say energies when we mean grace, and we think we mean something other than grace—and if we’re unaware of how the broader metaphysical category of ἐνέργεια works (no pun intended for the Greek students)—we can quickly slip into thinking that Eastern Christian idiom is working within a completely different paradigm than Western Christianity. More importantly, we can forget that grace in the Orthodox tradition is not a substantivized intermediary standing between God Himself and creatures. Palamas’ category for this, for something that’s not God and not a regular creature, is monster—a sort of super creature.’ –Dr. Tikhon Pino, Identity and Distinction in Byzantine Theology: Gregory Palamas on the Essence and Attributes of God

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St. Cyril on Original Sin and Concupiscence

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@AbanoubMaykel @BrotherAugusti2 @stpetermogila Absurd highlighting

@alifarhat79 The technical term for this is “anarcho-tyranny.”

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@Hieronymusukr @stpetermogila Yes, he mentions in his Notes From Prison that he has a devotional book by Anthony of Padua that is very important to him. He does not say where he got it from or who gave it to him, though.

@stpetermogila @BrotherAugusti2 Is it true that Codreanu venerated Saint Anthony of Padua?

Now you know what he tried to save Romania from.

If ultimate evil exists, then ultimate good must exist as well

Retro-futuristic mid-century faucet. (1950s-1960s)

@BankerWeimar Bitgoyn 🤣

GoyGold has now plunged below 75K on revelations that its mossad controlled. #BTC

I haven’t seen anything specific about that, no. If I had to guess, I would probably assume he was more interested in fighting communists and building up his community than the nuances of ecclesiastical and theological debates within the Church. The OC movement in Romania was (and still is) very large though, so it doesn’t surprise me at all that the Legion had many of them as members.

@BrotherAugusti2 @VoxVirtutis I’ve always wondered what Codreanu’s personal thoughts on the Old Calendarists were. I know they were accepted into the Legion and were over represented in it, but haven’t found or heard of any writings of his discussing them. Did you find any in your research of him?