Enea Arllai

As I wrote, and as I still write, time being a supplemental soothing to the principal medicine of God, I make it more and more of a point to become less as the Lord becomes great in my work. The series, Trials of Oma, will one day find its conclusion and upon its delivery to the reader, I hope with an unceasing fire, that he sees my littleness and God’s infinity. May the slivers of His Word and His Church shine brightly amongst all else therein. Ought the reader be delighted in the story, but his main takeaway not be the Truth to which I direct him, then I shall consider my labor to have been a catastrophic failure. By my own I suffer defeat, but by my consecrating these tales to Him, I prevail perfectly and perpetually unto no end. Forever lives the King.

You admire that which is wonderful, that is, that which is lofty and mysterious, and fear is a product of that which is unknown. But we ought distinguish between the two types of fears in relation to God. As St Augustine posits, there is a fear of punishment, and then the greater fear, the fear of losing God. He clarifies, “There is a servile fear, and there is a clean [chaste] fear: there is the fear of suffering punishment, there is another fear of losing righteousness. That fear of suffering punishment is slavish. What great thing is it to fear punishment? The vilest slave and the cruelest robber do so. It is no great thing to fear punishment, but great it is to love righteousness.”

Admiration is a kind of fear that arises from apprehending something that surpasses our faculties, and so admiration is an act that follows upon the contemplation of sublime truth.

The memory, though concerned with the past, is the reason for anxiety, which is concerned with the future. For pattern recognition, being a natural faculty, hinders us beyond its application which should be employed only in navigating the world as it is, not what what we think it will be. The constant strive for certainty is vain. But the clarity given by God that He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow is the only certainty we need, and the only one we may truly have. This alone does not burden the memory. Everything else is a stumbling block.

It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life. -St. Chrysostom

Pater noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.

Giving up social media for lent showed to me how truly vain and worthless all of this is. We’ve become a “look at me” culture. Going forward, I hope to minimize using it as much as possible considering only my needs as pertains to being an author (I don’t need be successful) and my research. May the Lord shower you with His infinite graces.

O Death, where is your sting? O Hell, where is your victory? Christ is risen, and you are overthrown. Christ is risen, and the demons are fallen. Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen, and life reigns. -St. Chrysostom

In case you haven’t heard, He is Risen.

Disclaimer: This is AI that references my artist’s style. Any image that makes it onto my IG or directly in the books, however, is 100% human art.

The Aül Sohn - Trials of Oma, the Book of Redemption (Book 4)

@arthur_ber84872 Thank you sir

@TrialsOfOma Great review btw

@arthur_ber84872 Well said

@TrialsOfOma Domes is a hazy dream of a lost mythic place. Seeming to be from both the past and the future.

It's every author's dream to have an analysis of their work like this. Thank you

@HariSel57511397 That’s precisely why I did it!

I expect great things from him.

@HariSel57511397 Uniformity to God’s Will by St. Alphonsus Liguori

I have to field this question to the internet because there's literally nobody I know prepped to handle this question that I can reach. Fren has been viciously stabbed in the back by events to the point where he thinks God has lied to and betrayed him. How do I fix this?

Right. God’s love is unconditional, but His Mercy is conditional upon penance and contrition. Mercy is of the same species as Justice. Justice universally demands equality, but in particular cases, especially when God (Who is not our equal) deals with us, Justice then looks to Equity. Equity, in the instance of a judge presiding over a case where one of lesser merit and status is accidentally wronged by his greater, seeks to balance the conclusion. Since the circumstance arose out of accidentals with no deliberation of harm, the judge does not look to lower the defendant, but to raise the victim who suffered the loss. He does this because the victim does not have the wherewithal and ability to make himself whole again. Being fallen humans, limited and incapable of meriting heaven, God’s Grace falls upon us as equity and mercy. Salvation is a free gift as is the love of a father to his infant son who likewise cannot merit this love. If the son grows up to be depraved, never honoring his father and rejecting this love, the father can do nothing for him on account of his free choice in being the way that he is and wishes to remain.

There becomes a point of no return, such as death, where that love can no longer be offered. God will never force it. He loves us “while we were yet sinners” and does not modulate His love for us based on performance. That doesn’t negate his abject hatred for and punishment of evil. It’s unconditional in a practical sense, but if someone leaves this life without willingly receiving it, there is no more chance to offer it.

If you believe in hell, wouldn’t that mean God’s love isn’t unconditional? 🤔

Much of what’s wrong with the world comes down to the fact that those who think they know something are much louder than those who actually know it.

@CristusVictor @McNarthius Amen!

Very thoughtful response and considerations. The guy I know who had this experience did describe, as many others have, a totally different concept of time as we knew. Moments into hours and hours into moments (a day as a thousand or a thousand as a day to the Lord). Whatever happens, we know the Lord will not leave any stones unturned.

I’m curious. Are there many accounts from near death experiences of people entering a purgatory-like state? I’ve only heard of accounts where people went to Jesus in heaven or were tormented and dragged into the outer darkness before coming back into their bodies.

Appreciate the kind discourse. I would only say, in response to encountering Jesus first, that this is what is taught by the Church. Purgatory is a sentencing both of punitive and restorative function AFTER encountering the Judge. So this objection alone wouldn’t disqualify the doctrine. And NDEs wouldn’t give one a glimpse of something intermediate (like Purgatory). Usually they give one a peek of what lies before the person in respect to eternity, Heaven (to encourage) or Hell (to discourage). As for instant purification. Purgatory is not taught as strictly being a “place” in the sense that we understand, but rather as a state. It could very well exist outside space and time, and therefore applying chronology to it is difficult. On Earth, it may seem that a particular person suffering the purification (for whom we pray) is there for a duration. But in reality, it could very well be instantaneous. Think, for comparison, of the stage where we are neither in Hell nor Heaven, but before the Judgement Seat. 2 Corinthians 5:10 (“We must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil”). To this effect, I quote again St. Thomas, “According to Romans 2:15,16, ‘In the day when God shall judge’ each one’s conscience will bear witness to him and his thoughts will accuse and defend him. And since in every judicial hearing, the witness, the accuser, and the defendant need to be acquainted with the matter on which judgment has to be pronounced, and since at the general judgment all the works of men will be submitted to judgment, it will behoove every man to be cognizant then of all his works. Wherefore each man’s conscience will be as a book containing his deeds on which judgment will be pronounced, even as in the human court of law we make use of records. Of these books it is written in the Apocalypse (20:12): ‘The books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books according to their works.’” Now such an undertaking would require time (as we know it), but by the Power of God, it could very well happen in the same manner as the infusion of knowledge in regard to God’s creating angels.

Thanks for sharing. I don’t find purgatory to be illogical and agree it has some support traditionally. This letter from Paul is a stretch, as life itself is a process of sanctification- the battles of Spirt and flesh and spiritual warfare. I’ve read about countless NDEs, and I know at least one man personally who recounts a vivid encounter with God (Father, Jesus, and Holy Spirit) he experiences before he returned to his body (Jesus gave him the option and his wife was busy praying for his resurrection). All of these encounters describe encountering Jesus first. So while I see the logic in purgatory as a concept, I also see logically that Christ could immediately deal with any remaining sin in that hospitable entry to heaven. I don’t share the post above to disprove purgatory, as the concept of it doesn’t bother me. But I’m genuinely curious if anyone has had such an experience in a NDE (death and resurrection). If so, it’s not commonplace and to me that begs the question.