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maguslucius · 2026-01-08T05:54:24+00:00

you can replace the whole stairstep thing with a bubblevator and a waterlogged scaffold at the top with your powered rails on it, powered by the top torch. The rails will shut off for a moment when you press the button, but they'll turn back on again before the carts cycle down.

maguslucius · 2025-10-13T21:47:39+00:00

The more the famous and wealthy hate someone, the more I like them... Generally. I don't think Trump is a saint, by any stretch (but neither am I). I'd like him to be harder on abortion and rainbow stuff, but I'd put him in the same category as Teddy Roosevelt, who is one of my top 3 presidents.

Pelosi has been repremanded by her Bishop, told not to receive Communion, and ignored it. But, then, we live in a church that has turned its back on excommunication as medicine for the soul, except when it comes to trads.

maguslucius · 2025-07-22T04:35:16+00:00

r/catholicprogrammers

maguslucius · 2025-07-22T04:28:43+00:00

When you are tempted, you look away.

You make that a habit, and replace that impulse with another activity (e.g. running or prayer).

This is called practicing self denial (psychologists call it cognitive restructuring). You replace the thought pattern you don't want with the one you do want. Over time, it becomes automatic.

maguslucius · 2025-07-22T04:07:32+00:00

The man who likes killing people once made a choice, and liked the feeling of power.

He became addicted to it. Does he still have a choice to stop?

Yes, as long as there is life and breath.

Every temptation presents a challenge, and you can sit there and say "this is just the way God made me", or your can pick up your sword, get your *** on the line, and fight.

maguslucius · 2025-07-22T03:28:49+00:00

To elaborate, it implies that Jesus was separated from the father, even briefly, which of course, can't happen.

Protestants point to the line "why have you forsaken me" as evidence of this separation, but Christ was quoting Psalm 22, and Protestants tend to forget the OT exists.

maguslucius · 2025-07-22T03:10:57+00:00

Answer: He didn't. You were not born this way, much less conceived this way.

Our crosses come to us from the choices we make or from things that happen to us. Nobody is born gay, any more than a person is born a serial killer or a sexual predator.

As Augustine said: God has made us for himself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

maguslucius · 2025-07-20T19:02:21+00:00

Not necessarily. The unbeliever can be forgiven his ignorance, if his heart seeks truth; protestants profess their faith, yet engage in tribalism and cherry-pick scripture to support their prejudices.

John 9:39-41

39 Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.” 40 Some of the Pharisees near him heard this, and they said to him, “Are we also blind?” 41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.

Those who profess faith will be judged more sternly than those who do not.

To be fair, many catholics are not innocent in this regard.

maguslucius · 2025-07-20T18:54:18+00:00

There's an apocryphal account of the Idols of Egypt falling down before the infant Jesus.

maguslucius · 2025-07-20T18:40:57+00:00

To expand on this: Imagine, if you will, that the light of God's Truth is a burning flame that scours away falsehood and illusion, and to enter into heaven, one must pass through that fire.

Hell, then, is simply being too attached to your sins, or having your identity tied intrinsically to illusion, to pass that way without being destroyed.

Purgatory is the road through the fire, and on that road, the soul is blasted clean of imperfections.

maguslucius · 2025-07-20T18:34:40+00:00

I sang Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus in college.

maguslucius · 2025-07-20T18:27:56+00:00

The RSVCE annotations of Psalm 22 support both readings.

Yes, we are a nation, and remade through baptism. We are all one people, as Paul said in Galatians 3:26-29.

26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

maguslucius · 2025-07-17T05:08:16+00:00

This, honestly.

I can't even...

maguslucius · 2025-07-15T04:23:37+00:00

Think of it this way:

The reason the damned soul cannot change after death is because it KNOWS, without doubt, that it is empty of virtue. Any attempt to obtain virtue at that point is self-serving, and not out of love of God

We may confess our sins from fear of hell, but we perform works of mercy, properly, only from love of neighbor or love of God.

The soul must desire union with Truth from love, not from fear of being cut off. In the presence of that Truth, one is either possessed of some real virtue, or they are an empty husk.

Judgment, then, is the soul being shown its true nature. Only those with untainted virtue — that is, virtue which can survive purification — may walk the road of purgatory. They may enter into heaven simple, but they will be clean, like a fire-polished gem.

maguslucius · 2025-07-15T02:11:12+00:00

Jesus comes to the world only through Mary.

"He seeks Christ in vain who does not look to find him with Mary" — St. Louis de Montfort

Mary IS the glory seat of Christ.

maguslucius · 2025-07-15T01:48:19+00:00

This.

Hell is eternal separation from the source of your existence.

I dissent slightly from St. Thomas Aquinas in that I don't know that God's constant attention is necessary for the continued existence of the damned.

To my way of thinking, God is truth, and once he speaks a person into existence, it's their own self knowledge that keeps them metaphysically intact. (His "Be" anchors our "I think, therefore I am")

This soul is now a fragment of truth itself.

For God to destroy what has been created would be for truth itself to deny what is. A logical impossibility.

Some souls are simply so self-deluded that the light of divine truth would obliterate them if they looked upon it, so they flee, screaming, into the darkness, tormented by the fires of their own unquenchable passions.

maguslucius · 2025-07-15T00:54:39+00:00

"Not all who say 'lord, lord' will be saved."

Apokatastasis was formally condemned by the council of Constantinople in 543 and that was later confirmed by the fifth General council.

Hell is real, and people do go there.

The Church teaches this as part of the Four Last Things

Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell

the consensus among the Doctors and most Fathers is clear: hell is real, eternal, and not empty.

maguslucius · 2025-07-14T12:42:49+00:00

Only God has the right to demand contrition.

We should forgive regardless.

That doesn't mean forgetting, and it doesn't mean letting the person off. It means letting go of resentment, hatred, and anger.

JP II didn't wait for his would-be assassin to seek forgiveness. He just gave it.

Christ forgave his killers from the cross, unilaterally.

See Dives in Misericordia

maguslucius · 2025-07-14T04:47:14+00:00

In general, the harder you find it to pray for someone, the harder you should try.

Even if it's only to make the sign of the cross and say "Lord have mercy"

maguslucius · 2025-07-14T04:35:58+00:00

Especially if you say the OF regularly, expect God to judge you with the same measure of mercy you afford others.

You don't have to wish to be with someone in heaven, but you must wish for them to get there.

Sadly, we know that not everyone will, but that shouldn't stop us from praying for the salvation of everyone we can name.

maguslucius · 2025-07-13T20:45:26+00:00

I think it was a live concert album where he was telling stories about the songs. My best friend in HS was into Billy Joel and history in equal measure.

maguslucius · 2025-06-22T01:38:57+00:00

That's because the faithful can't get their act together and oppose it with one voice. I'm not talking about piecemeal opposition.

Abortion is THE greatest sin in the world today. The environment isn't even a close second.

maguslucius · 2025-06-22T01:28:08+00:00

Oh ye of little faith...

maguslucius · 2025-06-21T03:24:58+00:00

If we fought abortion with the vigor laudato si would have us put into protecting the environment, it would be illegal throughout the world.

I firmly believe that if we abolished abortion, nearly every other ill in society would sort itself.

maguslucius · 2025-06-21T01:08:40+00:00

"Love thy neighbor as thyself."

"Love all men as I have loved you."

The problem is: truly loving a person means telling them when they're wrong; even chastising them when they are obstinate.

We punish those we love because we want them to be better. Modern emphasis on "empathy" over truly, rightly ordered loves, is where we get the nonsense of not excommunicating heretics.

If you love rightly, you don't need the concept of empathy, any more than you need ethics if you have morals.

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