tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post4479473206438723898..comments2023-11-03T12:44:19.948+01:00Comments on Orwell's Picnic ~: The pursuit of holiness; how to train your brainHilary Jane Margaret Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-81588658149600716732019-07-24T23:03:29.792+02:002019-07-24T23:03:29.792+02:00Fasting is proof that God loves us and want us to ...<br />Fasting is proof that God loves us and want us to be healthy. I lost 20 lb's once I understood fasting to be the gift that it is.<br /><br />LearningAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-58305540132007568262019-07-02T13:35:00.444+02:002019-07-02T13:35:00.444+02:00I have overweight for many years. There's a ne...I have overweight for many years. There's a new weight-loss "technique" called intermittent fasting, i.e. where you stop eating round-the-clock. You eat maybe 2 meals a day or even fast for many hours. I've done 48-hour fasts, etc. Once again, the Church, in its wisdom, had a technique, a way of life that not only was spiritually good for you, getting your passions under control, but it was also good physically for you. I'm reminded of several older folks who, when hearing that I fast at least 3 hours before receiving Holy Communion, tell me how difficult it was to fast from midnight. We've become such wimps.Lynnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-31112830200617987832019-07-01T15:52:46.323+02:002019-07-01T15:52:46.323+02:00Lydia, I'm going to be writing something for t...Lydia, I'm going to be writing something for the Remnant about exactly this; basically that things are so far gone that if we're shooting for recreating the culture of the High Middle Ages (as many monks are doing with building these big stone monasteries with pointed arches and whatnot) we're not taking into account just how bad it really is. We're not at a stage at which there's enough Christian culture left to presume to recreate the glories of the Age of Faith. We're back at the 3rd century again, starting from the dust of paganism; the one difference being that we no longer have a tired late-classical paganism looking for something better, but a jaded post-Christian paganism that is resigned to auto-destruction... <br /><br />stay tuned.Hilary Jane Margaret Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-64444835638635539462019-06-30T06:25:52.760+02:002019-06-30T06:25:52.760+02:00Dear Hilary, I totallly accept your point but I th...Dear Hilary, I totallly accept your point but I think you have missed mine. When I suggested getting “beyond” Thomas, I meant going back in time, not forward. The early Church Fathers in the East were the first to formulate the teaching on thoughts. Evagrius of Pontus, Dorotheos of Gaza, Methodios of Olympus, St Mark the Ascetic, etc all wrote on the thoughts and passions. And there are many others. It is in the East that you will find the most fully developed ideas. The teachings are tough and ascetic and that’s why we need them. Modern Roman Catholics quote Sts Augustine and Thomas almost to the exclusion of others. By ignoring the early Fathers of the Church, we deprive ourselves immensely of great spiritual knowledge and insight. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-76135282241969988842019-06-29T12:55:12.063+02:002019-06-29T12:55:12.063+02:00Where's the like button?Where's the like button?Fr PJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597780307057121375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-90285057517944292752019-06-29T10:15:34.013+02:002019-06-29T10:15:34.013+02:00Lydia, I don't really read Thomas. He's a ...Lydia, I don't really read Thomas. He's a bit mechanical, mathematical, for my personal taste, but we don't "get beyond" Thomas. The suggestion that we should is the foundational premise of the Modernists who have come so close to fulfilling Satan's plans for the Church. For devotional purposes of laymen all two thousand years of saints are fine; but as a basis for discerning what is and is not authentic Catholic teaching, the need to return to Thomas - abandoned by the twisted hubristic egotism of modern churchmen is an absolute necessity. Hilary Jane Margaret Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03771332473693479830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-88018404507288731282019-06-29T07:41:38.772+02:002019-06-29T07:41:38.772+02:00Why can’t Roman Catholics get beyond St Thomas? Th...Why can’t Roman Catholics get beyond St Thomas? There is a millennia’s worth of Christian writing that precedes St Thomas. Give it a go. <br /><br />LydiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15895111.post-86954604367037671662019-06-29T05:59:30.922+02:002019-06-29T05:59:30.922+02:00This post is not pleasant.This post is not pleasant.Fr PJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597780307057121375noreply@blogger.com