This channel is positively 10% terms, 20% methods, 15% concentrated will, 5% leisure, 50% grace built on nature, and 100% reason to remember the faith with 0% pelagianism
The first 35 seconds of this video answers the Euthyphro dilemma and would have easily helped me in those nights where I had to burn the midnight candle.
Thank you yet again,for those great videos,so lucky to be able to avail of so many helpful means of following Christ , especially the need to pray for the Grace we need to keep our sights on God.
Thank you so much for these videos. Watching them has greatly deepened my faith in God and my understanding of the church and her doctrine. God bless you
Thank you so much for this videos. I have studied this issues in depth but you always brings excellent synthesis, or add something new that I haven't considered. Plus the videos are really well done. If we are all were more Thomistic, the world would be way better. God bless your work.
Awesome presentation and Dominic is a great speaker, Very clear to understand and he gives me the feeling he really knows the material he is presenting
A lovely video ,thanks Fr.beautifully n so clearly explained ,showing the need to ask for God's grace and His love to guide us those higher things n finally towards Heaven?
A great idea a always; thankful toofor the enlightenment ,re: how grace works so the need to pray constantly for God to provide us with the graces we need ,to help us towards our Salvation,through His mercy.Thanks ! I wish to avail of the public discourse Magazine and I wish to purchase some of the videos please advise me?
1) God and God's grace cannot be separated.From this it follows that if man has to get grace God has to residing in us.2) grace originally means unmerited mercy, which is one dimension of love or charity. Since we are not using the term as equal to the term love people including priests are confused.
Ecclesiastes chapter 7 v 16. Self righteous mentality. Trying to reach beyond our own limited mentality regards God ways. This is Greek metaphysics. The good God.
At moment 6.28 of the video there slipped in a subtitle faulty rendering of the words "a rational nature" which inadvertantly became then "irrational nature"..important error to correct urgently, i presume because we tend to check what we think we heard by going to the subtitles, and as it would then imply that our openess is due to our irrationality..! Might i also hereby suggest a future video on the intricate articulation of nature and grace in the "mystery of the supernatural" (and thereby shedding some much needed light on this Mystery) as proposed by Henri De Lubac. I know we're on a jesuit turf here, but still, brotherly love helping beyond "order"-ly divides, we might all benefit greatly from a due clarification on this very ultimate intricacy and so diffuse some easy occasion of slipping into unsuspected and unholy modernism here. I think a subject one needs to get an as clear as possible view on...Thank you, dear brothers of St Dominic and St Thomas for all your marvellous works done at Aquinas 101. May The Good Lord grant you all a hundredfold in actual graces.
So, St. Joseph and all the saints responded to the God grace striving , aspiring in to holiness. Mary and Joseph were the first Christians before the Apostles came to know Jesus in person and we receiving him in the Holy Eucharist. Thus, let's have Mary and Joseph as our first patron Christian saints.
Hello, I would like to ask 2 questions, although they are not related to the topic of the video: 1- Satan is the introducer of sin in the Universe. When he sinned he became a demon, but he did not lose his angelic nature, created by God. According to Thomist philosophy, angels do not apprehend things by reasoning, but by intuition given by God, and therefore cannot change their decisions. Considering that all beings crave happiness, and that the end of all creatures is God, as Satan knowing the truth, chose to embark on a path that he knew would result in his suffering and perpetual unhappiness? 2- Evil exists in the world. God being omnipotent allows evil in the world for people to grow in virtues, and by merit they reach the beatific vision. Although the beatific vision abounds all the evil that the person suffered, is it lawful for God to use such a means to make his creatures reach a certain end? Does the end justify the means?
One the first question, you will benefit from this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iwJNi-f1NPc.html On the second question, you will benefit from this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Oo4hF3IYGp4.html
What are the main differences between the traditional catholic thomistic teaching on grace and the teaching of the reformers especially Calvin? Majority of Calvinists claim that Catholics are Semi-Pelagian.
I attended a lecture by a Calvinist entitled 'Calvin versus the Calvinists.' His theme was that Calvin didn't say what many Calvinists say. 'Semi-Pelagian' sounds like 'I'm almost finished,' which really means 'I'm not finished.' Semi-Pelagian' means, 'Not Pelagian.'
Can you explain what "designated matter" is? I've read a bit about it being matter that is designated by quantity and dimension, but I just struggle to understand at all what that means. Thanks!
Angels are rational. These videos shed light on the nature of that claim: 1. Angels and Demons - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J_xIChMDYGI.html 2. Angelic Knowledge and Choice - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iwJNi-f1NPc.html
@@ThomisticInstitute I'd be interested to know how you think a consciousness can exists in a spaceless, timeless, massless capacity and how that can be all-powerful, all-knowing and omni-present. Seems as though many have invoked the existence of some god-thing to explain the existence of life and the universe, as they have no other explanation, yet all they have done is created something else full of unknowns. No questions have been answered, merely just moved.
@@lewis72 It sounds like you are beginning to understand the way Christians understand God through the via negativa, but you should read more from St. Thomas on how we know God according to the limits of our understanding: aquinas101.thomisticinstitute.org/st-ia-q-12#FPQ12OUTP1. For one thing, we are not accustomed to think of God as a "consciousness," which implies a temporal frame of perception and intellection.
@@ThomisticInstitute Seems as though you have to jump through a massive number of mental hoops to convince yourself that some god exists. It clearly doesn't exist in any physical form nor in any detectable form, which arguably is also physical. No one has had a confirmed conversation with "it", now you're saying that it doesn't have a consciousness . You're not left with much really, are you ?
