Virgin Mother of God

Companion to the Summa ^ | 1950 | Walter Farrell, O.P.

[Maximilian]

Bases of a philosophy of life: animal, rational, divine

He left one out: the sub-animal. An african tribal chieftan with dozens of wives and hundreds of children is living on a purely natural level, but at least he is fulfilling the purposes of nature. But what happens when effeminate weakness replaces strength as an ideal, and "men exchange natural relations for unnatural, in order to lie with other men, receiving in their bodies the punishment for their sins"? This is a level that sinks even below the natural. Everything about it is unnatural, from the acts themselves to the fashions, drugs and music which accompany it.

This is the level to which our society has sunk, not just in the percentage who actually practice these deviant acts, but in the general population who carry out their lives within the media dominated by them, and in the larger percentage who practice equivalently unnatural acts such as contraception for older couples and oral sodomy which is becoming a common practice among teenagers.

[Catholicguy]

Unfortunately, one can never be subhuman. Would that those lost souls you described could be so they could avoid the Judgement. Those lost souls are me and thee, except for our cooperation with Grace. And me and thee would be Saints did we not refuse to cooperate with Grace as we do.

The materialism of carnality that is killing our culture can only be treated with the antidote of chastity and virginity and the Lord will restore Christian culture within the domestic church and that leavening process will go on quietly, faithfully and silently, with love, laughter, with all the joys of home and hearth, unnoticed by the media that celebrates Brittany and brutality.

Let the dead simultaneously celebrate/bury their dying culture. Those alive in the world are dead in the spirit and those dead hear everything and are deaf and see everything and are blind.

The worldly-blind Christians within the Domestic Church have before them the vision of Christ leading them to raise the Christian Children that will raise this culture to one worthy of being called Christian.

We never have had a Christian Civilisation in America. We will someday. We know that because Mary chose to appear in the center of the Americas with her example of virginity,chastity, humility, courage and faithfulness and those who present her as a model for Christian femininity are destined to rule the Americas..the humble hand that rocks the Cradle has a Rosary in the other hand and that weapon can defeat the materialism and carnality of this deracinated dead culture.

[LibertyGirl77]

Whoa - I'm sorry. I tried to get through that, I really did. But it's way too long and flowery.

[ksen]

What's a "Vrigin?"

Does that violate the no obscenity rule?

[St.Chuck]

bumpp fer later. The Flowery description made it a must read.

[Catholicguy]

I'm sorry it seemed too flowery. I really like the genius of Walter Farrell. He makes Aquinas understandable to me.

I thought this was especially useful because of his treatemt of women and culture. Unless women are valued as the model of Mary suggests to us, we are left with the model of woman our culture presents to us. Essentially, our culture considers woman a rental car. She is to be used by men for pleasure. If she becomes dirty (pregnant) one can discard her and rent another clean car while the dirty (pregnant) rental car can be vacuumed (aborted) and perfumed and set back out in the lot for another pleasure-seeking man to rent for a joy ride (fornication).

Madonna/Brittany as a model or Mary/Virgin Bride as model.

When we raise our daughters, whom do we present to them as role models? If not the role models of Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the Saints, them the dead culture of Madonna, Brittany,Crowe will triumph. We know which ones our deracinated culture presents to our girls as role models- the ones that make money for the soulless corporations.

[Catholicguy]

The question is "who's a virgin?"

The answer is "all real Christian boys and girls upon entering the Sacrament of Marriage."

[ksen]

The answer is "all real Christian boys and girls upon entering the Sacrament of Marriage."

In America? Are you ready to say someone isn't a Christian based on their virginal status at the time of marriage?

[dangus]

>>In America? Are you ready to say someone isn't a Christian based on their virginal status at the time of marriage?

No, because forgives sin. But now the "in" thing for those to whom "chaste" is a foreign word is to use the recently created word, "revirginization." I.e., "redeveloping a state of spiritual chastity."

[Catholicguy]

In America, Angola, Armenia, Australia ect ect all Christian boys and girls ought be virgins upon entering into the Sacrament of Marriage - unless fornication is seen as no barrier to following Christ or not an act that kills Sanctifying Grace in one's soul and leaves it dead and lifeless.

One doesn't ponder how much poison a man can swallow and still remain a man because the antidote of sorrow,repentance, contrition, ammendment, confession, and penance is close by.

[ksen]

I agree with you when you say they "ought to be virgins" at marriage.

I thought you said they all "are virgins" at marriage.

My bad.....

[LibertyGirl77]

See, you should have written the article. That was clear, concise, and I utterly agree.

[Catholicguy]

post # 8 is an accurate statement.

[Maximilian]

We never have had a Christian Civilisation in America.

True, but it would be more accurate to say in North America. South of the border as well, the Catholic culture has been badly damaged by Masonic revolutionaries, like the communists who have ruled Mexico since 1917, but there were Christian civilizations in those countries at one time.

We will someday. We know that because Mary chose to appear in the center of the Americas with her example of virginity,chastity, humility, courage and faithfulness and those who present her as a model for Christian femininity are destined to rule the Americas..the humble hand that rocks the Cradle has a Rosary in the other hand and that weapon can defeat the materialism and carnality of this deracinated dead culture.

Let us hope that this vision becomes a reality.

[irishtenor]

***that never in all the course of her life did Mary commit any actual sin, either venial or mortal***

Mary was a sinner. Just like everyone else.

[Gamecock]

(psst, don't tell the RC's, but she had sex with Joseph, after Jesus was born of course.)

[irishtenor]

No, say it ain't so!

[Catholicguy]

Actually, your comment about Mexico made me rethink what I said. There was a pretty good Christian Civilisation in Mexico prior to the revolutions. The first College in the Americas was there, women were educated, there was peace twixt/among the races, there was a middle class of injuns ect. It wasn't perfect but it was far better than what we had/have in the U.S.

[Catholicguy]

(psst...Enjoy your snickering and lies about His Mother while you have time. I predict you will have a diminished state of joviality once you are standing in Judgement before our Lord and Saviour and you try to explain those lies about His Mother).

Even Tennyson understood Mary is "our tainted nature's solitary boast". Tis a pity his theology was superior to your own.

Didn't anyone ever explain to you it is a dumb idea to make fun of another's Mother? And this isn't just any Mother. And her Son isn't just any other Son.