Monday Musings - The Consequence of Doctrinal Confusion

The following words were written in the fifth century and need to be heeded once again. Will we listen? Is it too late?

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"In these times of doctrinal confusion, we must take particular precautions not to give way in the content of our faith, not even in the slightest degree, for if one yields ground on any single point of Catholic doctrine, one will later have to yield to another, and again in another, and so on until such surrenders come to be something normal and acceptable. And, when one gets to rejecting dogma bit by bit the final, the result will be the repudiation of it altogether."

(Saint Vincent of Lerins from Narrations, 23, from In Conversation With God, Volume 1:6.2)

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - January 12, 2017

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Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.

Justice Antonin Scalia 

“[Christ’s] message was not the need to eliminate hunger or misery or misfortune, but rather the need for each individual to love and help the hungry, the miserable, and the unfortunate. To the extent that the State takes upon itself one of the corporal works of mercy that could and would have been undertaken privately, it deprives individuals of an opportunity for sanctification and deprives the Body of Christ of an occasion for the interchange of love among its members.