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Folks
[edit]- St. Thomas Aquinas
- William cavanaugh "But the essential problem is that we don’t see enough friction between being Catholic and being American. We assume that they go together hand in glove."
War is deviltry. It calls for sacrifices indeed, but not at the altar of love. “Greater love hath no man than this.” A great blasphemy this, to use Christ’s words in connection with men going to war. They go because they are drafted, because they are afraid of what their neighbors will say, because the pay is good, because the benefits accruing afterward (the G.I. Bill of Rights) are great. And they are told by the press and the pulpit that they are going because they love their fellows, and they are filled with a warm glow of self-love. And then they are given their intensive training in how to escape death, how to kill. Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his brothers, and the Russians are our brothers, the Negro is our brother, the Japanese are our brothers, the Germans, the Mexicans, the Filipinos, the Jews, the Arabs. . . . So let’s not have any more talk about God and country. The battle is for this world, for the possessions of this world.
Peter's Christian Philosophy of work was this. God is our creator. God made us in His image and likeness. Therefore we are creators. He gave us a garden to till and cultivate. We become co-creators by our responsible acts, weather in bringing forth children, or producing food, furniture or clothing. The joy of creativeness should be ours. But because of the Fall the curse is laid on us of having to earn our bread by the sweat of our brows, in labor. St. Paul said that since the Fall nature itself travaileth and groaneth. So man has to contend with fallen nature in the beasts and in the earth as well as in himself. But when he overcomes the obstacles, he attains again to the joy of creativity. Work is not then all pain and drudgery.
- Pope Pius XI - Raw Materials went into the factory and came out ennobled and man went in and came out degraded
- Leo Tolstoy - The Kingdom of God is Within You
I cannot take part in the councils of government, and therefore I am not responsible for its misdeeds.. Indeed, but we are responsible for our own misdeeds. And the misdeeds of our rulers become our own, if we, knowing that they are misdeeds, assist in carrying, them out. Bethink yourselves whether it is righteous to obey man more than God
- St. Thomas - Truth is true whomever says it.
- John Howard Yoder
Saints
[edit]Ideas
[edit]Corpreal
[edit]- Feed the hungry
- Give drink to the thirsty
- Clothe the naked
- Welcome the Stranger
- Visit the imprisoned
- Visit the sick
- Bury the dead
Spiritual
[edit]The spiritual acts of mercy provide for the needs of the spirit.
- Warn the sinner
- Instruct the ignorant
- Counsel the doubtful
- Comfort the sorrowful
- Bear wrongs patiently
- Forgive all injuries
- Pray for the living and the deceased
Notes
[edit]From Sermon on the Mount The Double Standard View is the official position of the Catholic Church. It divides the teachings of the Sermon into general precepts and specific counsels. Obedience to the general precepts is essential for salvation, but obedience to the counsels is only necessary for perfection. The great mass of the population need only concern themselves with the precepts; the counsels must be followed by only a pious few such as the clergy and monks. This theory was initiated by St. Augustine and later fully developed by St. Thomas Aquinas, though an early version of it is cited in Did. 6:2, "For if you are able to bear the entire yoke of the Lord, you will be perfect; but if you are not able to do this, do what you are able" (Roberts-Donaldson), and reflected in the Apostolic Decree of the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15:19-21). Geoffrey Chaucer also did much to popularize this view among speakers of English with his Canterbury Tales (Wife of Bath's Prologue, v. 117-118)