tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22517294.post2437209524281068505..comments2023-08-05T17:29:04.803+01:00Comments on The Undercroft: Clearing the DecksAnagnostishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03706938507885553293noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22517294.post-20485631191498987792013-02-16T15:19:04.376+00:002013-02-16T15:19:04.376+00:00Interesting post. You are right as to the fact tha...Interesting post. You are right as to the fact that if we do not attempt theosis, or purification everything else is useless. However, being a member of the True church, and having the "correct", true faith (Orthe Doxa) is a pre-requisite for salvation. So I think that knowing what, why and who about the Filioque is important, without forgetting of course that getting the dogma right, does not save you...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22517294.post-55938009435642067672012-08-08T21:59:39.912+01:002012-08-08T21:59:39.912+01:00Just came across the blog; interesting, still don&...Just came across the blog; interesting, still don't know quite what to make of it. I don't do too well on this list I'm afraid, probably five of twelve. Dismayingly I've gone backwards on some things since becoming a Christian, but hope springs eternal.gallitzinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22517294.post-2092476042675971042012-07-26T19:52:38.060+01:002012-07-26T19:52:38.060+01:00Joe -
Integrity doesn't mean "perfection...Joe - <br />Integrity doesn't mean "perfection" - it just means not having to lug around a pile of extraneous apparatus in order to make something workable.Anagnostishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03706938507885553293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22517294.post-91574230953502437022012-07-26T18:39:03.442+01:002012-07-26T18:39:03.442+01:00Anagnostis, I followed you here from a Reluctant S...Anagnostis, I followed you here from a Reluctant Sinner and just wanted to say that this is a brilliant post. I'm definitely going to add your blog to my regular reading list.Elizabethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22517294.post-54099980737147415092011-06-21T20:36:49.872+01:002011-06-21T20:36:49.872+01:00It's my conviction that the western church los...<i>It's my conviction that the western church lost its integrity over several centuries ...</i><br /><br />It is my conviction that the western church never had any integrity at any time. St. Peter was a traitor, remember? And not the only one.<br /><br />I don't have any integrity, either. So I've stayed a Novus Ordo Roman Catholic since birth.Joe Magaracnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22517294.post-74316156509401935972011-03-16T18:49:46.621+00:002011-03-16T18:49:46.621+00:00Sortacatholic, thank you for comments and especial...Sortacatholic, thank you for comments and especially for your prayers, which are warmly reciprocated. It's my conviction that the western church lost its integrity over several centuries, so that what remained of it by 1970 crumbled at the touch. More of that later, perhaps...Anagnostishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03706938507885553293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22517294.post-52799215360405588962011-03-15T21:05:40.442+00:002011-03-15T21:05:40.442+00:00Linked to here. All of what you say is true.
I a...Linked to here. All of what you say is true.<br /><br />I am still a Roman Christian, but I know that the novus ordo has lost its way. It has "sold out" to academic and social scientific notions of what Mass should be. Mass is never a "should be". It is the Holy Sacrifice, the very entrance of our Creator into his Creation because we must die to Christ to live in Christ. We should desire nothing less than its orthodox and reverent celebration.<br /><br />Pray for me a sinner, as I will pray for you. Pray for the integrity of the western Church.sortacatholicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22517294.post-69115506057879790622011-03-15T08:29:37.371+00:002011-03-15T08:29:37.371+00:00Thanks. That makes things clearer.Thanks. That makes things clearer.Paul Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06212708120315795763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22517294.post-80030559263599461042011-03-14T21:37:57.419+00:002011-03-14T21:37:57.419+00:00Junk food can be classified as anything that has m...Junk food can be classified as anything that has more ingredients in it than you can remember without looking again at the label; food that isn't really food, in other words, but just processed mulch flavoured to taste like food.<br /><br />At the risk of departing slightly from Fr Thomas' intentions, silence of the mind can be achieved through the Jesus Prayer. However, it could be said that the Jesus Prayer requires a mind that is already still for it to be in any way useful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22517294.post-48855156783444856862011-03-14T20:21:58.058+00:002011-03-14T20:21:58.058+00:00To return to "Anonymous's" crucial q...To return to "Anonymous's" crucial question: is it not possible to practice all of this within Roman Catholicism? - of course it is. It's nothing other than the ABC's of basic Christian spirituality. <br /><br />However, the questions that brought us to the point of departure are not going to un-ask themselves as a consequence; rather, an authentic engagement with the questions becomes a realistic possibility. Otherwise, not.Anagnostishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03706938507885553293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22517294.post-24627467420128070572011-03-14T20:10:04.039+00:002011-03-14T20:10:04.039+00:00"Bad foods" is a nutritional category, n..."Bad foods" is a nutritional category, not a legal one: crap, junk food, the stuff that makes you feel "bleugh...I wish I hadn't eaten that". There's an element of the subjective here, of course, but in general, whatever you know instinctively to be garbage, and whatever will certainly harm you if you rely on it.<br /><br />Silence: essentially, learning to still the ceaseless racket of the mind. If you try what Father suggests (15 minutes every day being quiet and still and "pushing away" the thoughts as they come) you'll quickly learn just how noisy and chaotic the unhealed intellect really is. Learning to keep it still is the practice of silence.<br /><br />At another level, this involves custody of the mouth, and curbing the tendency to opinionise or prattle.<br /><br />"Do not trust in your own righteousness, do not worry about the past, but control your tongue and your stomach" - St Anthony the GreatAnagnostishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03706938507885553293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22517294.post-34736444099809495382011-03-14T06:57:59.430+00:002011-03-14T06:57:59.430+00:00I would like to know more about what you mean by s...I would like to know more about what you mean by silence, and what are "bad foods"?Paul Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06212708120315795763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22517294.post-67372167053461089312011-03-13T20:37:51.526+00:002011-03-13T20:37:51.526+00:00Exactly.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they...Exactly. <br /><br /><i>Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.</i>Anagnostishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03706938507885553293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22517294.post-63903340338781549592011-03-13T20:31:48.390+00:002011-03-13T20:31:48.390+00:00Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash m...Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.<br />Make me to hear joy and gladness, that the bones which Thou hast broken may rejoice.<br />Hide Thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.<br /> <br />Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.<br />Cast me not away from Thy presence, and take not Thy holy Spirit from me.<br /><br />Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation, and uphold me by Thy generous Spirit.<br /><br /><i><b>*Then*</b></i> will I teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted to You.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com