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Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP Profile picture
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Jul 4, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
"Man becomes a debtor to other men in various ways, according to their various excellence and the various benefits received from them. On both counts God holds first place, for He is supremely excellent, and is for us the first principle of being and government." Image
"On the second place, the principles of our being and government are our parents and our country, that have given us birth and nourishment. Consequently man is debtor chiefly to his parents and his country, after God." Image
"Wherefore just as it belongs to religion to give worship to God, so does it belong to piety, in the second place, to give honor to one's parents and one's country." -St. Thomas Aquinas #FourthofJuly Image

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Garrigou on how, by revelation, man is conformed to God, not God to man. When revealing, God remains the origin, measure, and end of his revelation.

"God demands that we grow. When he reveals himself to us, he seeks, in a way, to divinize us and not to be annihilated within us."
"When he gives himself, he is not content with providing for our needs: with assuring our moral life, with satisfying our religious sentiment, with suggesting new results to our intellect, with aiding us in developing our own personality."
"He loves us above everything that we can conceive and desire, to the point of willing to associate us with his intimate life, to lead us, little by little, to see him as he sees himself and to love him as he loves himself."
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We don't often think of #StRoseofLima as a Counter-Reformation saint, but her life witnesses to Catholic truth against the errors of Protestantism--especially Calvinism--as much as do the lives of Sts. Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila, Pius V, and Charles Borromeo.
Rose knew that the quality of penance is not in its ugliness. To the contrary, austerity reveals its truth in beauty. The disciplined soul is elevated and reordered--recreated--by grace, and thus remade the soul cannot but radiate divine beauty even in its austerity.
As a complement to her austerity, Rose indulged in beauty. Like her Baroque contemporaries, she created beauty. Not on the scale of great artists, but in a way--anticipating the Little Way of St. Thérèse--that beautified the small and the ordinary in the homes of her neighbors.
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Aug 12, 2021
This paragraph from Garrigou-Lagrange's "Le sens commun" reads like a manifesto for the renewal of university philosophy faculties, Catholic and otherwise.
"The philosophy of being, like common sense itself, is at once clear and obscure: clear by the place that it gives to act, obscure by the place that it gives to potency: 'Each thing is known inasmuch as it is in act, however, not inasmuch as it is in potency.'"
"Should we be astonished at this obscurity? At bottom, this relative absence of determination and intelligibility is what enables us to make room for divine and human freedom, to conceive of the existence of the created next to the Uncreated, the finite next to the Infinite..."
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Jul 9, 2021
"The physical sciences are not truly fruitful in a society that loses its attachment to the moral order."
"Today's savants cannot excel except by sequestering themselves within a narrow specialty. Consequently, in the use of their faculties there follows a phenomenon analogous to that which results for artisans from the extreme division of the manufacturing art."
"The expert grows, but the man is diminished, especially if a preoccupation for moral truths does not preserve in him a certain breadth of mind."
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Jul 7, 2021
"The formidable vice that heralds the fall of empires is the antagonism that divides our society into different enemy camps."
"The struggle to which I refer is not the one that arises from personal questions or incidental quarrels between a few great persons disputing for influence and power. Rather, it exists in the smallest subdivisions of the social body, in the village, workshop, and family."
"The evil consists above all in this, that the superior classes, instead of acting together to lead society into a better path, mutually neutralize one another by attempting to make contrary political principles prevail by force at the risk of destroying the social order."
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“God is seen by those who have the capacity to see him, provided that they keep the eyes of their mind open. All have eyes, but some have eyes that are shrouded in darkness, unable to see the light of the sun.”
“Because the blind cannot see it, it does not follow that the sun does not shine. The blind must trace the cause back to themselves and their eyes. In the same way, you have eyes in your mind that are shrouded in darkness because of your sins and evil deeds.”
“A person’s soul should be clean, like a mirror reflecting light. If there is rust on the mirror his face cannot be seen in it. In the same way, no one who has sin within him can see God.”
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