Phillip Hadden

I started around June a journey into understanding more about Black Elk & Lakota Catholicism. It began with reading Michael F Steltenkamp’s page turning of a book on Servant of God Black Elk ⬇️ 🧵

@alcuin18 @MissioDei451 Let’s just make this simple, I reject your premise, am I heretic?

@MissioDei451 As Catholics, we don't read Scripture independently. The unanimous consensus of the Fathers, theologians and Doctors of the Church has always been that Judas is in Hell, so we are bound to hold this position.

Could Judas still be saved? Why asking the question could be important pastorally.

Theologian Michael J. Gorman explains, “Lectio Divina is an approach to reading the Bible that uses contemplation and meditation in the context of prayer to encounter God and to hear God’s word to the individual or community…Meditation on a text means “chewing on it” and requires asking questions of the text… many recent approaches to the Bible stress that, since the ultimate goal of biblical exegesis is not information but transformation, true exegesis is accomplished only when individuals and communities engage in the embodiment or actualization of the text. The reading community, we might say, is to become a living exegesis of the text.”

@Cath_SteelMan I guess my question is why is Matthew trying to articulate this thesis? Why is he trying to convince this particular audience in this particular way?

He paints him as the Son of Man: a fulfillment of the Messianic Prophecy. Starting of course with the lineage and jumping g into the escape into Egypt with his triumphant return (Abraham, the Jews, etc) and the quoting of Deuteronomy in Matthew 4 with the Tenptation of Satan, etc. just a beautiful Gospel and my personal favorite…. Rich in OT typology which is my area of high interest

Biblical Exegesis 101–Contextual Analysis: Who is audience of the Matthew’s gospel? What is its occasion? What is its purpose for the author?

@Cath_SteelMan So, why is Matthew telling this version to the Jewish audience? What is his goal?

@pmhadden A primarily Jewish audience (its most certainly to most “Jewish” of the Gospels…lots of fantastic Old Testament typology and motifs! I love Matthew’s Gospel.

@We_Adore_Thee @papadaddy96 @BibleInContext1 Are you talk about this— ? I still use them. If someone thinks it’s AI—oh well 🤷🏼‍♂️

@papadaddy96 @BibleInContext1 The em-dash is a dead giveaway. I used to use them before AI but stopped now.

Imagine a Roman Catholic who dies trusting in their church and its sacraments for salvation, only to find themselves in hell—yet believing it must somehow be purgatory, purging them before heaven. Now imagine that same catholic standing at the Great White Throne, realizing the fire they felt was never purgatory at all, but a place of judgment awaiting the lake of fire—because they never trusted fully in the sufficient and finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross to justify, sanctify, and ultimately glorify them. What a terrible realization that would be: waiting in what they thought was purgatory, expecting rescue, only to discover that their day of salvation had already passed. This is why we must stop the “feel-good” associations and pseudo-unity with Roman Catholicism. They do not need affirmation—they need the true saving gospel. When Christians convince themselves that Roman Catholicism is simply another form of Christianity, they stop sharing the gospel and the truth of God’s Word with people who are heading toward eternal judgment.

@JhWesten @BishopBarron That’s not even the context of his sermon—the sermon was particularly about the fate of Judas & the presumption of someone’s fate. Actually read or listen to his exegesis of the passion narrative.

So @BishopBarron are you suggesting Our Lady of Fatima lied to the children? After showing them hell, She told them: "You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go." Your suggestion that even Judas may not be in hell and the hope for a possibility of an empty hell also makes Our Lord Himself a liar. He told us of Judas "It would have been better for that one not to have been born.” Jesus let us know that the majority are in hell. Read Matthew 7:13-14

Have you ever been in a crisis? #PrayTogether

Does the current Catechism conflict with Trent’s? CCC 597

Honestly, for most of my work, I’ve agreed with Augustine to Aquinas—that being said, +Barron’s latest sermon on soteriology, his nuance was good. It was an exegesis more or less against the presumption of one’s fate, not a wishful hope of an empty hell youtu.be/lg95po4yAzs?si…

@JendersII Honestly, for most of my work in theology, I’ve agreed with Augustine to Aquinas—that being said, +Barron’s latest sermon on soteriology, he used the word “hope” once or twice, but his nuance was good. It was an exegesis more or less against the presumption of one’s fate—

I've yet to hear a compelling argument that Judas is not in hell.

Catholic apologists take the time to study 1 Cor. Chapter 10-11 & St. Paul’s use of the words partake/participate in the Greek & how contemporaries of Paul used those words. A single sacrifice by Christ, far deeper than any symbol, which every Catholic participates at Mass.

@jdflynn Nah as someone who enjoys fishing—I just found these from the Braves minor league team the Gwinnett Stripers.

The Albuquerque Isotopes are the Rockies’ AAA team. Their CityConnect jersey is green chile themed. And it has the best hat.

@RevivedThoughts @RonaldDPotts1 What in particular?

@RonaldDPotts1 Run church history podcasts over here. I definitely don't see how one could want to be catholic!

Church history is on the protestants side. But we have to actually teach it.

@jdflynn Okay. Well…from my days of taking Fundamentals of Moral Theology I…I would say it’s rooted by an interior movement of the will toward God (opposed to simply fearing damnation). How to teach that 🤷🏼‍♂️ Moral Theologians? You out there?

I think the confession discourse would be less charged if more people knew how to make a perfect act of contrition. But I never see anyone teach about this, ever. Catechists: teach this.

@CapturingChrist Read 1 Corinthians Chapters 10-11. And do some research on St. Paul’s use of the words “partake/participate” & what that means in the overall Hellenistic culture. I wrote a chapter on this topic in The Eucharistic Revival Project. I can send you digital copy, if interested.

In short, early Church gatherings were intimately Catholic. Gavin quotes Justin Martyr in his video saying the following: “For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh.” This is simply not compatible with Baptist theology.

@jonmsweeney Well If you want to have a discussion on Covenant Theology, The Davidic Covenant as a grant—not a treaty, & its fulfillment in Jesus Christ, I’d love to have it. There’s plenty I can point your direction, too.

@pmhadden let's not proof-text, because there are more on the other side of this one that I could point you toward

Well…take a look at Mt. 16:18 next to Is. 22:22 🤷🏼‍♂️.

Those who know me know that I am very Augustinian in my theology, that being said, I listened to +Barron’s treatment of this topic & it moved me. It’s worth taking a listen. +Barron gives the good news of Easter Sunday. It’s probably his best nuance on the topic of soteriology.