Raphael

"God has many names. God is one of them."

My approach to AI is to pretend it doesn’t exist. As far as I’m concerned it's Allen Iverson writing all your school essays

What’s left of Dasani when you put it through the filter

This guy

Quite the opposite imo, just goes to show there's not one thing (past positions on Trump, clear commands of Christ, wife, kids, "postliberal" Catholic Integralism) he won't throw to the dogs for the sake of advancing his political career

@Alfredovich65 lmaooo

Nightmare blunt rotation

@Adulisian Christ is risen

🇱🇧 ✝️☦️ In Dhour El Choueir, Lebanon, Catholics and Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter together every year. Beautiful tradition.

"Golgotha" traces back to ancient Egyptian funeral music once played for kings. The Egyptian Church preserved it and chants it only once a year on Good Friday mourning the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, with tones rooted in Egypt’s ancient sorrowful heritage.

"Settler colonialism" isn't just "𝑥 conquered, settled, and made a colony"; it's a cudgel of opprobrium used by academic historians, and ofc they're going to police how it's used outside their circles and adjust its definition to get the job done and keep the riff-raff out.

I sure hope they find a cobbler to mend them...

“Then he [Adam] came to that glorious tree of the Cross, put on glory from it, acquired radiance from it, heard from it the truth that he would return to Eden once more.” —St. Ephrem the Syrian, Hymns on Paradise XII.7

@Adulisian Blessings to you and your family brother

"Divine Love is ecstatic, not permitting any to be lovers of themselves, but of those beloved." —Pseudo-Dionysius, Divine Names 4.13

I’m afraid Jesus is a Francis version 2. Seems to have a critical bias of all things pedophilic and genocidal. We have a woke liberal God. Again. Tragic.

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.

@dionysiacum @sougabrielbr Beautiful icon

@sougabrielbr Perfeito. A doutrina cristã ensina que Maria foi consagrada ao serviço divino já na infância, e, portanto, fez voto perpétuo de castidade.

Por que passei a crer na virgindade perpétua de Maria? Na Bíblia, é comum Deus prometer um filho a quem está naturalmente impossibilitado e a pessoa questionar ou desconfiar. Deus prometeu um filho a Abraão, e ele riu por já ser velho (Gn 17:15-17). Sarah também questionou, devido à velhice (Gn 18:10-14). O profeta Elizeu prometeu que a mulher sunamita teria um filho, e ela ficou incrédula em razão de ser estéril e o marido já ser velho (2Rs 4:14–16) O anjo anunciou a Zacarias que ele teria um filho, e ele duvidou por já ser velho, tal como sua mulher Isabel (Lc 1:11–18). Quando o anjo anunciou a Maria que ela seria mãe, ela estranhamente questionou: “Como se fará isto, visto que não conheço homem algum?” (Lc 1:34). O questionamento é estranho porque ela já estava noiva, então, não haveria qualquer impossibilidade, já que em breve consumaria o casamento. A compreensão mais natural seria que ela teria um filho com seu marido, tal como a mulher estéril de Manoá, que recebeu a mesmo notícia do anjo (Jz 13:2-5). Porém, mesmo assim, a pergunta de Maria refere-se ao futuro, quando já poderia estar casada. Não há razão aparente para esse estranhamento de Maria. Se não havia impossibilidade de qualquer outra natureza, resta concluir que a impossibilidade era voluntária, devido a um voto de castidade. Aos moldes de Números 30:3-8, um voto dessa natureza era possível se o marido aceitasse. Isso explicaria o estranhamento de Maria, pois ela tinha como voto ser perpetuamente virgem. Sei que há argumentos textuais para defender o contrário, mas esse argumento é tão forte que acredito que qualquer outro texto deve ser lido à luz desse.

@parhypostates Whether it is intellection, sense-perception, or a “rising” to receive form, all things have intentionality. But this means the knowledge of the Good all things invariably have isn’t merely metaphor but precisely, in different degrees, a “wakefulness” for it

There's a similar argument that you can identify in the later platonists, cf. Ennead V.5.12 + Proclus' treatments of the unity of the soul. Compressing them all into one it'd be roughly something like:

@Adulisian Cooked me

Η Μονή των Φιλανθρωπινών στα Ιωάννινα. Από τους ομορφότερους εσωτερικούς διάκοσμους της υστεροβυζαντινής περιόδου.