Damian

Holy Angelic Doctor, please pray for us!

Ever since @WalmartThomist posted this video against the Lutherans, I've seen nothing but cope from the Protestants. No adequate responses after all of these years. youtube.com/watch?v=fzxzSD…

@sincead33 This view so clearly leads to two absolute subsistences. I’m willing to dialogue with any Protestant on this.

Lutherans as approaching Arianism was not on my Bingo card youtu.be/fzxzSDIYXj8?is…

@dumboxrisen No argument? I figured

@DeThomist You are gay.

To reject the Filioque is to deny the Trinity.

@ASanctoThoma Amazing, keep up the good work

Happy to announce the entirety of Billuart's Summa Summae is available in the Latin original at scholathomistica.com/works/summa-su… The English translation is around 50% complete but now that we have the full original Latin text the full translation will be there soon.

Viva España! 🇪🇸

@ChanceWilsonJMJ @inconnu0connu Yes, however there’s good arguments to be made that the Syriac tradition didn’t actually deny the Filioque—and simply utilized ‘non-filioquist’ language to avoid eunomianism. The same could be said with St. Damascene, who uses analogies that are in affirmation to the Filioque

@DeThomist @inconnu0connu He seems to attribute Damascene’s view to Nestorian influence, while pointing out the technicality that the cited passage did not explicitly deny the Filioque

If you think and read the Fathers you become Catholic. So true, so true.

@ChanceWilsonJMJ @inconnu0connu No, if anything St. Thomas says the opposite. He says “neither do those words of his express a denial thereof”.

@inconnu0connu Doesn’t St Thomas concede error in St John Damascene wrt the Filioque?

"Those who say that the Catholic Church employs violence against consciences in order to spread the faith of Christ truly slander her. Certainly violence existed and still exists, but the Church has suffered and continues to suffer it; she has not inflicted it."

@Thomisticae All of the “learned” men who were Protestant, Orthodox, Jewish, and Muslim were either absolutely mediocre or a poor mimicry of the things already produced by the Catholic schoolmen. Infidels can’t properly emulate the works produced by the theologians of God.

@DeThomist I wonder why almost all pious and all learned men of history have been exclusively Catholic, and not Jew, Muslim, Protestant, Eastern or Oriental "Orthodox".

Catholicism has St. Thomas and St. Bonaventure. Therefore, it is true.

@lovinqthelord Embrace the monotony and boredom.

I don’t smoke I don’t drink I just self destruct in silence. This is boring.

@AugustinEnjoyer @JengaJay10

So the Holy Mother is a "quasi-incarnation of the Holy Spirit"? Oh yeah, we Kolbe-maxxing on here

@ClassicalTheis @ChudThomist Consensus of the theologians is that the number of reprobates surpass the elect amongst Catholics.

@ChudThomist wow so edgy and based meanwhile, Garrugou-Lagrange (of course, I imagine he presumes that such Catholics haven’t deliberately and willingly severed themselves from the Church through heresy or schism):

I’d raise you even: there is a good chance most of my Catholic ancestors are in hell.

Fr Garrigou-Lagrange, while holding firm to the traditional doctrine extra ecclesiam nulla salus, explains how non-Catholics can attain justification and the beatific vision: "All persons, even those who have not had the Gospel preached to them, receive graces sufficient for them to save their souls. Certainly, they are helped far less than those born in the Catholic Church, but they receive help sufficient for salvation. If they correspond to the graces received, if they act according to the dictates of conscience, as they are prompted to do by actual grace, then by a series of graces and by constant fidelity to inspirations, they finally receive the light of faith and acquire that life of charity, by means known to God, even if He has to send an angel or a preacher of the faith to them, as He sent the Apostle St. Peter to Cornelius the centurion."

This is exactly why nobody takes internet EO polemics seriously. If you haven't realized how ridiculous their antics are at this point, you're living under a rock. x.com/Eugenikos3/sta…

@Eugenikos3 Because according to you, the Father would communicate the will to the Son as infecund... The lengths internet EO's will go to cope their way out of the Father's clearly teaching the Filioque is ridiculous.

@Eugenikos3 This is such a coal post. Not only is this interpretation retarded, but it reduces the Son as having an imperfection that the Father doesn't have. If the Son does not have the productive power in virtue of being communicated the will, then you reduce God as composite.

A brief 🧵on "receiving essence" from the Son in St Augustine, kick starting a series of threads that I will be doing on this topic.

Matt kinda walked into this one. St. Augustine: "In fact I would not believe the gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me... If you say, ‘Do not believe the Catholics,’ you will not succeed in forcing me into the Manichean faith by means of the gospel, since I believed the gospel because the Catholics preached it.” Against the Epistle of Manichaeus, 5 (6) (PL 42, 176). For an analysis of the text with an overall coverage of St. Augustine's epistemology, plus a review of how Protestants have bastardized St. Augustine's saying since the Reformation, watch this: youtu.be/OeKNrNgCVy0?si…

@Thomisticae So true, Gonet.

“Little children departing with original sin will indeed lack the beatific vision, but will suffer no punishment of sense; indeed, not even any sadness from the punishment of loss; they will not however, be blessed with natural beatitude.” - Jean-Baptiste Gonet, O.P. (1616-1681)