Blessed art Thou, o Lord, teach me Thy statutes

The Art of Salvation by Elder Ephraim of Arizona

O Good Shepherd, you never cease to seek out the lost, to call home the stray, to comfort the frightened, and to bind up the wounded. I ask you to bring (name) back to the practice of the Faith, and to remove all obstacles that prevent them from receiving your abundant mercy, which flows sacramentally through the heart of your holy Church. Through the intercession of Mary, the Mother of God, their Guardian Angels, their Patron Saints and the ever-prayerful St. Monica, may you pardon their sins and unshackle them from whatever hinders their freedom to come Home. For you, O Good Shepherd, have loved us to the end and offered yourself to the Father for the salvation of all. Amen

I actually hadn't heard about that yet until this ask. I'm obviously sad that people are formally excommunicated from the Church, that is going to be on their souls for as long as they remain in schism with the Church. However I am glad that Pope Leo is taking such a strong stance, rather than allowing the Society to remain in limbo ecclesiastically. They had ample opportunity to ask the Pope for more bishops and to come back to the Church, and they made their stance clear for the world to see that they are NOT part of the universal Church, as much as their adherents like to claim that they are.

Matt Walsh is a craven fool of course, but he's repeating the kind of fucked up shit that is sadly common these days; the stupid thing is if he wants America to "resemble" the country his (??) ancestors established then he might want the population to be 15% foreign born like it was in 1870, or 15% foreign born like it was in 1910, or maybe even 15% foreign born like it was in 2024, who knows!

However, it's not insane to think that a society would try to control and limit (negative) change.

similarly "acid rain" was a genuinely devastating problem that was solved, eventually, by banning it! turns out you can just do things.

The Other is in the Image of God; when they eat God eats through them: go satisfy the eros of the Other with your agape; go fill-full the lack of the Other with your filled-full-ness; go indulge the hunger of the Other with your flesh and blood, with your meat and milk. Do NOT starve yourself: you too are made in the Image of God — when you eat God eats through you. God is not in the bread nor in the eating of it but in the eating-with, in the community. Your “companion” is quite literally “one who you eat-bread-together with”, “one who you eat-God-together with”, one who you eat-love-together with”. Go east God and be fed by him. For in feeding God there is atonement for Sin, and in eating God there is life-unto-the-age.

So, y’know.

☝️FUCKING FACTS

To round this off, here's C. S. Lewis, originally talking about Calvinism but pretty applicable here: "If, on the other hand, God's moral judgement diggers from ours so that our "black" may be his "white", we can mean nothing by calling Him "good", for to say "God is good" when His goodness is wholly other than ours is really only to say "God is we know not what". And an unknown quality in God cannot give us moral grounds for loving or obeying Him. If we shall obey Him at all, it shall be through fear, and we should be equally ready to obey an omnipotent Fiend."

My Life in Christ by Saint John of Kronstadt

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