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@4windsbar @cardseco1217 @AngineDPoitrine just taking a little break from x, cause it makes me sad when i do it too much, no worries.

@cardseco1217 @CAPtheLEGEND @AngineDPoitrine Where he go?

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all is well guys, just taking a breather from social media for health and wellness and all that, checking in here and there. fear not i still love you.

I'll leave you alone, I just took exception to some things you were saying, a lot of people read twitter. "God does not give these favors [infused contemplation] because the souls who receive them are holier than those who do not, but so that His greatness may be known... and to show that He distributes His gifts to whom He wills." — The Book of Her Life, Chapter 22 "Contemplative prayer is the poor and humble surrender to the loving will of the Father in ever deeper union with his beloved Son." — CCC §2712 "Contemplative prayer is a gift, a grace; it can be accepted only in humility and poverty." — CCC §2713

@CAPtheLEGEND One? A person in contemplation has perfected all of those. Not just one and not just practiced, but perfected. I bet an extremely tiny number of people on earth are in contemplation. St. Theresa of Avila was in meditation for 10 yrs while in a cloistered convent.

A tiny number of Catholics actually know about the levels of prayer, let alone are they advancing. Spiritual directors barely learn about the Catholic spiritual life, as the programs focus mostly on psychology like your inner child (my parents went through it) It's a scam.

@akathrosary "Very few actually do any of that." this is the part i was responding to. This is incorrect. You cannot earn contemplation. Prayer isn't a puzzle to solve or a game to win. Sorry.

You said not any of them. I was just noticing what you said was a wild overreach and pointed it out. To judge what others are doing or not, as if we could see into their heads and hearts, is hasty judgement. For all you and I know, we are the least spiritually developed people on earth and would have no way of knowing. Humility is important.

@akathrosary Teresa and John of the Cross both say that God can and does bestow contemplative prayer on anyone, regardless of methodological progress. There are illiterates without formal training now and in the past participating in contemplative prayer. You are mistaken.

@CAPtheLEGEND I do. Contemplation is the levels of prayer reached in the spiritual life when God and a person have built a deep intimate relationship. No one can just do that randomly or without first going through the regular steps of a relationship. Skipping steps means no relationship.

@akathrosary i think if the bar is any of that, then most people do at least one of these, if weakly.

@CAPtheLEGEND That first part is true. What is necessary is no longer committing mortal sin, detachment from all created things, advancing in virtue, mortifying the passions, etc. To do that we need the Sacraments daily and to do Adoration. Very few actually do any of that.

@akathrosary you have literally no way of knowing this and it can't possibly be based on anything but okay

@CAPtheLEGEND I would say the majority of people who think they are in contemplation are actually either practicing quietism or don't know what contemplation is and are doing something else.

@PeaceLoveDope1 @BTCMilk i was not the deployer

@BTCMilk Plz let @CAPtheLEGEND be the deployer.

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I fuckin hate twitter. Took a few days off and don't miss it at all. Wtf is this fuckin app fuck this thing.

@selentelechia That is the most direct and obvious reading. It's not clear if satan is working with God collaboratively in Job, or if he is just the adversary that God confines in control, but God is obviously working with / using satan towards a purpose, they have some form of relationship.

the existence of the book of Job makes so much more sense with this context

Once you have (usually been given) a framework for understanding life and something as complex as the Bible, it's extremely difficult and pretty rare to be able to break free of it and change it. We think with our framework, giving it up is leaping into confusion. I've spent years exploring different strains of Christianity in person. In my experience all the apostolic churches are the good place to be, and in protestantism I've met true followers in every denomination I've encountered, but they're a bit tough to break through in as a believer, because they have modernist thinking patterns baked in which gum things up.

Every Protestant comes pre-programmed to see exactly what they already believe in every verse.

@elonmusk Imagine humans in a half million hears sending up something to Mars and getting totalled in space by a rogue car from the age of stupid.

The car that used to be in my garage is currently in an Earth-Mars elliptical orbit and will be there for at least 10 million years

@RussNRoses Millions of people every week go out to eat without eating meat. I haven't seen a menu outside of BBQ joint that doesn't have a least a few good non-meat options. WIth love, you're making up a problem that isn't really there, you'll be fine.

If or when I officially become Catholic- would it be OK if I'd do my no meat day on another day but Friday? The thing is it - on Friday & Saturday - I often go out eating with friends... We're eating at restaurants... I just hate doing so & not being able to share the experience with friends & enjoy my time eating away from home... It totally do it on any day that's not Weekend.

Well it's not some official term with a definition obviously. What I mean to point to with that informal description is black and white rigid doctrinally focused judgemental and often combative thinking patterns. Example would be encountering some guy who isn't orthodox who says he worships in spirit and truth, and responding they because the guy is from XYZ protestant denomination it's impossible that he worships in spirit and truth, and XYZ believes this, that they can't understand worship, etc. When the truth is the ortho bro has literally no idea whether the guy is correct about his worship, they're just logic chopping nonsense in ignorance without humility. It usually comes with sneering and scoffing, like, look at these doctrinally confused impoverished idiots they're less than us, type of tone. With Stephen de Young you can hear it lately in his response to Catholics and such, no charity, no nuance, no brotherhood, just judgement and sneering. It's kinda rough to listen to.

@CAPtheLEGEND @EthanWayne2001 What is "Orthobro type thinking"?

I don’t know why Father Stephen de Young has decided to sell out to reactionary Orthobroism. Seems he had a good thing going as a normie AFR priest. But I guess that was too boring for him and he’d rather be part of the Orthobro blogosphere and apologetics world.

They can be obnoxious but its the modern mind and modern worldview thats the problem. They think a loaf of bread is the real thing, and the spiritual pattern of bread which manifests the loaf of bread in reality is imaginary. The spiritual pattern is reality, the loaf of bread is just a shadow. Its a kind of blindness. The true nature of Jesus, the Logos, is the organizing principle of reality. God made bread so that we would have a chance to understand when Jesus said this is my body. Thats the only purpose of bread in the universe, thats why it exists, to be the eucharist and help us unite with Christ. Everything else it does is to serve that fundamental core purpose which is the reason it exists at all. No modernist can understand this.

@muhyii4real 😂😂 very dumb people

Protestants be like: The bible says "You are saved by faith alone" you don't need to do any other thing. The Bible: 1 Corinthians 3:15

My dude hi. You have literally no idea how the apostles thought of communion of saints or whether they prayed for intercession. A couple of them watched Jesus have a conversation with a dead guy and a guy in heaven, so its definitely possible they believed it could be done. Without actually knowing probably its not good to make claims. Cmon my dude. Lol.

@Xtopher_Uzo Communion of saints was a desciption of relationship, not an instruction to pray to people who have died.

Dear Catholics, did you know that devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary already existed in Christianity before the Bible canon was officially fixed and recognized by the Church? This Marian intercessory prayers was very early - so early that we already have written manuscripts from the first few centuries of the Church? The prayer "Sub tuum praesidium" ("We fly to your protection") is preserved in a manuscript dated around 250–300 AD, and in it, early Christians are directly asking the Blessed Virgin Mary for protection and intercession. Now think about what that means. It means Marian intercession is not a new invention of the Catholic Church. It was already present in early Christianity, at least by the 3rd century. And to be clear, we should not say this practice "started" in 250 AD. What we can say is that by that time, it was already established enough to be written down and preserved in Christian prayer tradition. That strongly suggests it was already in use before then, because prayers don’t usually appear suddenly in written form without earlier usage. It is also safe to say that this prayer existed before the Bible canon was officially fixed and recognized by the whole Church in the 4th century. This does not mean the Bible did not exist. The New Testament books were already written and used from the 1st century. But the full, officially recognized list of biblical books was not yet universally agreed upon at that time. So the simple point is this: Marian intercession is not a late development. It is already visible in the earliest surviving Christian prayer tradition we have. Therefore Catholics, if some random Christian comes up to you and says early Christians never asked Mary for help or intercession, you can simply point them to this early prayer tradition that already existed by the 3rd century, and tell them that Marian intercession was already a thing before the Bible canon was officially fixed.

@floridajim611 @Xtopher_Uzo Do you think he made that infographic?

@Xtopher_Uzo And then there is how you actually view her. Having a double tongue is not a fruit of the faithful.

Dear Catholics, Let’s explain how we Catholics view Mary in a way Protestants can at least picture, even if they don’t accept it. Imagine Jesus as your boss - not just any boss, but the kind everyone loves. He’s your mentor, your protector at work, the one who guides you, defends your position, checks on you, and genuinely cares about your life even outside the office. Now imagine you’re so close to him that you can literally rest your head on his shoulder while he teaches you. That level of trust, love, and intimacy. Now ask yourself: if that’s your relationship with the Son… what would you think of His mother? Would she be just another random woman in the building? Of course not. You would naturally treat her with deep respect. Not because she outranks Him, but because she is that close to the one you love most. Her dignity comes from her unique relationship with Him. That is the Catholic understanding of Mary. Not worship. Not divinity. Not equality with God. But the highest honor a creature can receive - what Catholics call hyperdulia: a special veneration given to Mary above all other saints, because of who Christ is and who she is to Him. We don’t "force" ourselves to love Mary. It flows naturally from loving Jesus. The more you understand Christ, the more impossible it becomes to treat His mother casually. That’s why, among the saints, she holds a unique place in Catholic devotion - not because she replaces Christ, but because she is closest to Him. And yes, for most Catholics, if you ask them their most beloved saint, Mary will almost always be at the top - not out of obligation, but out of love. You cannot love Jesus without loving His mum and vice versa.

@Xtopher_Uzo For me, she is a helping window for my heart, as it learns to love jesus more and more. She knew him better and loved him more than anyone on earth. When I meditate on scripture I often try to see christ with her eyes and heart, over time its deepened my love a lot.