Discord: sayyidhasan
Latin catholic (Menevia diocese)
MSc anthropology student, primary interest in religio-ethical authenticity and its relation to ritual.
Oct 27, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
From the same book, same chapter and article, section 4 on the clothing of women, note 8. Note that when the Doctors say a custom is so evil as for it to be a sin to introduce it, there is an underlying societal obligation for it to be eventually overturned.
"To bare the breasts or to cover them with a garment so thin that they show through is a mortal sin because the incentive of lust is grave, says Sylvius, t. 3, p. 872. But to bare the breast to a small extent, according to the custom that has already been introduced -
Oct 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Regarding public breastfeeding (keep in mind that this does not hold if concealment is not an option and a child needs to eat):
J-B Bouvier, bishop of Mans - Dissertation on the 6th commandment; Ch. 5: Sins of unconsummated lust, article 2, section 3 on impudicitous looks:
It is a mortal sin, because of the danger attached to such a sight, to gaze fixedly upon the naked breasts of a beautiful woman. It is not true that those who, in seclusion from special danger, see mothers or nurses nursing infants, do not commit such a sin;
Oct 25, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
got a question. moral doctors refer commonly to matters of custom and often distinguish between good and bad custom of different degrees, allowing for persons to act in ignorance according to moderately bad customs in venial or no sin at all where usually it would be mortal;
the problem is that when they establish some kind of societal obligation to improve bad customs (often with with dance, dress especially the showing of cleavage, and custom-imposed necessities of embraces or kisses) they will barely ever explain how that actually works out.
Oct 24, 2022 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
J-B Bouvier, bishop of Mans - Dissertation on the 6th commandment; Ch. 3: DIFFERENT SPECIES OF UNNATURAL CONSUMMATED LUST; A1: MASTURBATION, Remedies for Masturbation
Positively recognized masturbation must be opposed by suitable remedies: some are physical and others moral.
Physical remedies may serve for the cure of voluntary or involuntary ejaculation: they consist in great sobriety, a well-regulated way of life, abstinence from hot foods, spirituous liquors, the use of water and milk [...] a not very soft bed, cold baths. […]
Oct 24, 2022 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
J-B Bouvier, bishop of Mans - Dissertation on the 6th commandment, Ch 5: CAUSES, EFFECTS AND REMEDIES FOR LUST academia.edu/10844115/Sexe_…
§ 1. Of the causes of lust
The main and most frequent causes of the sins of lust are:
1°) Intemperance in eating and especially in drinking
Wine is a source of lust and drunkenness is tumultuous: whoever takes pleasure in it will not be wise (Prov 20:1);
Apr 23, 2022 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
“The whole Church must work vigorously in order that men may become capable of rectifying the distortion of the temporal order and directing it to God through Christ. Pastors must clearly state the principles concerning the purpose of creation and the use of temporal things and
must offer the moral and spiritual aids by which the temporal order may be renewed in Christ. The laity must take up the renewal of the temporal order as their own special obligation.”
- Apostolicam actuositatem 7
Apr 23, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Does the Word become composite by the incarnation? Aquinas' answer in super sententiam iii d6 q2 a3:
Damascene says that the two natures have been united to each other in the one composite hypostasis of the Son of God.
On Leviticus 5:11, which speaks of the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering, the Gloss says, this is Christ’s humanity, for taking the three measures of an ephah signifies the Trinity. Therefore Christ’s humanity is a part of a certain person in the Trinity.
Apr 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"For Sabellius, who himself had fallen from the correct faith, did not accurately know either God or his holy Word. For whoever does not know the Word also does not know the Father. For he says, “No one knows the Father except the Son” (Mt 11:27),
that is, the Word, since the Word brings about knowledge of the Father through himself. Such is the case also for those Jews at that time who thought they knew God but rejected his Word through whom alone God is known.
Apr 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
For each soul, I think this is a bad thing. Overall, I think this is a good thing. It means a certain kind of person is losing control of parish life.
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Spadaro: Holy Father, the reality of the Church today is changing. It is becoming smaller and smaller in a secular, materialist Europe. At the same time, the Church is developing in Asia and Africa. What will the Church of the future be like? (...)
Apr 21, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
In carnal marriage, any standing grave wrongdoing towards one's spouse falsifies the deepening of nuptial union in acts of marital love, until reconciliation is achieved; this is despite the persistence of the material union achieved in marriage.
But reconciliation is most assuredly achieved once wrongdoings are spoken between spouses and the offending party forgiven, and their willingness to make restitution expressed; this even if the spouses are both aware of the offense while it has remained unspoken.
Nov 7, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Compilation of early Fathers on the authority, even coercive, over the baptised - and Gregory of Nyssa on the authority of the ecclesiastic over the ruler who lives within his jurisdiction:
From @neorreacionario;
THE PRIMACY OF APOSTLE PETER AND HIS SUCCESSORS IN THE ROMAN SEE, ACCORDING TO THE EARLY CHURCH AND THE CHRISTIANS FROM THE FIRST MILLENIA
This thread will be divided in two parts: the first one, aimed to prove that Petrine primacy, as taught by scripture,
has always being a doctrine accepted by the Church; the second one, aimed to prove that this primacy is united with the Roman Church and its Bishop, according to uninterrupted Christian tradition.
Regarding Peter, the Catholic Church has always based his primacy on the Lord’s
Oct 24, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
"Cano gives three precepts for how this is to be done. The first precept—the head of all the others—is that the theologian will consider and treat all of the loci of theology. The theologian is to be familiar with Scripture and tradition, the pronouncement of councils and popes,
the teachings of the Fathers, and the like. He is also supposed to have a reasonable familiarity with the human sciences, so that he can illustrate his ideas.
The second rule is that the theologian is to examine the work of older theologians, and consider which of the loci this
Oct 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
From the same paper - this is just awesome. Really neat.
"Cano finds a threefold order of principles held by faith. On the first level, there are the two principles given by St. Paul in Hebrews 11:6: God exists and is a rewarder of them that seek Him. All the articles of the
faith are implicitly contained in these two. At the second level, there are particular, immediate principles, more narrow in scope, which are proposed to the faithful for belief primo et per se. These are the chief articles of faith, which either concern God as He is in Himself,
Oct 2, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Why the clergy are not very good at teaching the concrete positions of the tradition on dress: vatican.va/content/paul-v…
"We repeat, venerable and beloved brothers: we must be careful. This desire to insert the priest into the social complex in which his life and ministry unfolds
is good, but as a generous intention to come out of the shell of a crystallized and privileged condition, can translate into a very serious erroneous suggestion, the which can paralyze the priestly vocation in what is most intimate, most charismatic, most fruitful; and it can
Sep 30, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Thread: Pope Francis is one of the clearest popes on the LGBT moral question since the second vatican council, before and during his pontificate. But he does this in places that certain people (on both sides) want memoryholed. He has complained many times.
1. Cardinal Bergoglio's remarks from 2010, related to NYTimes by Sergio Rubin - his biographer, who wrote a book on Bergoglio’s life before pontificate.
Sep 14, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
As an example: Christ is the Word incarnate, and the Law is the Word 'inlibrate', both are conceived by the Holy Spirit in a human author (prophets, Mary) undergoing a transient participation in the incarnation (the intellect and will are both divinised).
The unconverted are in comparison dead stones no matter how beautified, whitewashed tombs (Mt 23:27). But God's justification of the ungodly is his making of them from stones to living tablets with the law written on their hearts, after the pattern of Christ who descended the
Sep 10, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
From the Church of the East union Synod under Patriarch Eliya VII. The following is read from Mar Cyril Behnam Benni's compilation work 'The Tradition of the Syrian church of antioch Concerning the Primacy and Prerogatives of Peter and his Successors the Roman Pontiffs'.
The book was written by this Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Mosul to be presented at the First Vatican Council as a way to stop other syriac tradition churches from attempting to argue that their current positions regarding Rome were in line with their own historic tradition.
Sep 10, 2021 • 91 tweets • 14 min read
Thread on the typology of the life of St Joseph: 1. Betrothal of Joseph to Mary.
Gn 35:22-3, Mt 1:16 “Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. The sons of Leah: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.”
“And Jacob was called the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.”
Sep 10, 2021 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Marriage is a remedy for weakness towards concupiscence. Remedies heal, they're not a way to live permanently in weakness. Perfection is still possible for the married - see Abraham, who had marital continence in act, but continence of celibacy in habit. aquinas.cc/la/en/~DePerfe…
"If anyone should object to us the example of Abraham and of other just men of old who were perfect without refraining from matrimony, we will answer them in the words of St. Augustine in the book de Bono coniugali:
Sep 10, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Wondering if any could help with a Latin question regarding GIRM #274 that my friend @carlschneed and I are having. Trying to get as many additional opinions as I can.
Here is the text we are concerned about:
In Missa tres genuflexiones fiunt a sacerdote celebrante, hoc est: post ostensionem hostiæ, post ostensionem calicis et ante Communionem. Peculiaritates in Missa concelebrata servandæ suis locis notantur (cf. nn. 210-251).
(the above is context)
