Marian Consecration With Aquinas: A Nine Day Path for Growing Closer to the Mother of God - Matt Fradd
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St. Louis de Montfort’s classic Total Consecration to Mary has seen a strong resurgence in recent years, with Catholics around the world consecrating themselves to Our Lady. Building off this momentum, we wanted to encourage this closeness to Jesus through Mary, but with a preparation that reflected the Church’s love for St. Thomas Aquinas.
In Aquinas’s writings, we found ample resources for the task. Especially in his preaching, we discovered passages detailing the graces bestowed on Mary and the role afforded her in leading us to Christ. Special inspiration came from a passage where Aquinas describes what motivates religious to consecrate themselves. He writes that it is their great desire to “offer to God all that one has.” Wow! That struck a chord.
We wrote this book to assist others in offering all that they have in consecration, with the Angelic Doctor as a teacher and guide. After all, it’s not just religious who are called to holiness. We all are!
It is our hope that this method will captivate you like it has us, and lead you to closer union with Jesus as you offer yourselves to Him through Mary.
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This post has 16 comments with rating of 4.5/5
April 16th, 2023
Good ol’ St. Tom!
April 16th, 2023
Einstein says: “The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.”
But you have fun, now.
April 16th, 2023
The number & range of things Einstein said - and the statements often erroneously attributed to him - are as staggering as his achievements in his actual discipline of theoretical physics.
What we do know is that Albert was a deist, which rather goes against that internet quote, my old friend. In addition, he was deeply proud to be a Jew, and that the Jews had given the world the Hebrew Bible.
Aquinas was also - along with Augustine, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Leibniz et al - one of the greatest geniuses in human history. Theists & deists all.
Although you seem to agree with your internet quote, & that ol’ Caesar is a primitively puerile person, I’ve sincerely wrestled with the questions of causation, ontology, contingency, whether base materialism is at all coherent, etc. etc. I’ve been atheist, anti-theist, agnostic, and now I’m just more open to the metaphysical possibilities. Stuff like, why is there something, rather than nothing? What is the nature of causation? Y’know, childish stuff like that. And it really is a fun adventure, as it ought to be.
April 16th, 2023
No, he wasn’t. He acknowledged the value of religion to a point. In certain respect he was like Pratchett, who claim to be angry for God not to exist.
” I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”
Then again, I personally do not believe in any kind of God, and I also think the humanity could do much better without the existing belief systems.
April 17th, 2023
You’ve just confirmed what I said! Yes, as I observed, he was a deist. (You’re not confusing your terms, are you?) According to his profile, Einstein’s religious views have been widely studied & often misunderstood. he stated “I believe in Spinoza’s God.” He further clarified that, “I am not an atheist,” moreover, “I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings,” - this is deism. You knew that? Einstein believed the problem of God was the “most difficult in the world” — a question that could not be answered “simply with yes or no.” He conceded that “the problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.”
And, Einstein said he was not an atheist, and resented being labelled or claimed as one.
His great biographer, Walter Isaacson (really worth reading), cautions against any such simplistic reading of Einstein’s position on religion.
As to your opinion on humanity doing much better without - no less than such ethical colossi as Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kims, and all their planners of famine, state oppression & genocide would wholeheartedly agree with you, ol’ buddy.
April 17th, 2023
Bah, he was just being polite to religious people. And for all the mother teresas and father don camillos there’s a sect that annihilates non-believers. And it’s aiways been thus, sometimes even worse. People.
April 17th, 2023
Well, now you’re just being silly again. I refer you to the definition & history of deism. His deism remained a deeply held conviction. It can’t be that foreign a concept, given the Finnish word is “deismi” - so go on outta that with your codology. There’s no holpen for such behaviour.
As for - there’s always been a sect that annihilates non-believers - I’ve never encountered this lot, where do they live? However, all across the globe there have been - and there remain - hateful, atheist ideologues who have murdered & intentionally starved countless millions, and enslaved many millions more in their oppressive states, and in the name of their odious ideologies. I remind you that there’s an ongoing genocide of the Islamic Uyghur people by the ideological Chinese regime, right at this very moment. Furthermore, you’ll notice that there’s disturbingly little mention of it.
April 17th, 2023
The ideologies you mentioned are just love children of the true christianity. It’s just semantics that they’re “atheists”.
April 17th, 2023
You’ve again fallen into the oh-so self-serving fallacy of “everything that’s bad must be Christianity because it must be Christianity if it’s bad” - & round & round you go - even if the political ideologies were & are specifically opposed to all forms of theism; or reject all the tenets & the very basis of theism; or existed in cultures which had no tradition of Christianity, etc. etc.
The desperation manoeuvre is too transparent.
“It’s just semantics that they’re “atheists”” - Oy. Is it just semantics that an elephant isn’t a volvo? Or that Marxism isn’t Platonism?
April 17th, 2023
Ideologies/religions= means to grab power, sometimes with good intentions (but only in the beginning).
April 17th, 2023
Attempting to brazenly conflate the two - purely materialistic, ruthlessly anti-theist, political ideology on the one side; & the metaphysical, extramundane, theistic system of values on the other, is a blatant equivocation fallacy.
You’re reduced there to an impossibly nebulous, reductive ruse - that all these complex, diverse phenomena constitute is some kind of power grab - this is so broad as to be meaningless. It won’t fly. I’m an old dog at this; not only have I heard the arguments - as an adolescent anti-theist, I also made many of them.
I would also dispute that extreme political ideologies ever have “good intentions” - at any point. They begin by planning for violent, revolutionary terror - & immediately consolidate their apparatus of repression. The bodies begin piling up right away.
This can hardly be attributed to Buddha, Jesus - or any of those who were martyred in just causes; people like Fr. Maximilian Kolbe, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Sr. Edith Stein, MLK, Archbishop Óscar Romero et al. Establishing networks of global charity, famine relief, education, fundamental human rights, healthcare, poor relief, and ministering to the most hopeless, outcast people is something far more than a power grab.
When Fr. Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of another man in Auschwitz - actually volunteered to starve death for another human being - there was damn all power to be grabbed that day.
April 17th, 2023
In all those cults and -isms there are certainly many good, idealistic people, rarely even leading the masses. I can believe that. It’s the idea that there is, or in your case was, great being or a great truth, that will bless us all if we just listen and obey, that I have difficulties to take in. Listing atrocities by known monsters doesn’t change that. There are enough a$$holes in any group to make it bad given time. You can trust people to mess every good thing eventually.
April 17th, 2023
Human beings are deeply flawed creatures, and our institutions will always reflect our flaws, writ large.
The best religious principles will advise acting in accordance with conscience, natural law, and the most sublime, objective ethical truths.
The point is that it was most telling that the extreme, political ideologies which explicitly rejected objective morality, religious conscience & compassion - which sought to hatefully destroy religion & established religious principles - these extreme ideologies also somehow “succeeded” in slaughtering almost 150 million human beings in just a few decades.
They were able to accomplish this by reducing dignified human persons to the status of mere soulless material units, to be easily discarded in the service of brutal ideology. Human beings had no more significance than that, and could be “liquidated” without any obsolete moral concern or consequence.
Although, perhaps that was all just an enormous coincidence, and that objective morality really doesn’t make any difference to us whatsoever. It’s one hell of a coincidence, however…
May 11th, 2023
Always wonder at the offense against logic when a materialist accuses a deist of innocence. He who flees from nuance of complexity, personal symbols and the ecstasy of wisdom these can carry for us.
December 13th, 2023
hello, please seed
May 28th, 2024
So much thought and intellect put into something one calls foolishness makes us wonder who is truly the fool.Thats God laughing you
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