Any chance you can get a Schoenstatt priest in one day? We who follow the Schoenstatt movement consecrate our eye ears mouths and heart and self without reserve to her everyday.
Just simply amazing. I’m not Catholic, but this refreshed my spirit & imparted a renewed sense of hope & joy in the Lord at hearing the things my soul has already received revelation about regarding Him, but somehow gotten away from lately... plus it made my Calculus homework go a lot faster & a lot more enjoyable! Thank you for recording & sharing this absolutely brilliant discussion on Christian faith, theology, logos; it’s truly one of the best & most articulate explanations of God’s existence, beauty, & wonder I’ve heard...a treasure!
This is such a gracious thing to hear. God bless you for your sincerity! If you're really looking to take your spiritual life to the next level, I would suggest reading the Church Fathers: particularly the Confessions of St. Augustine, as well as the Apostolic Fathers, those who were around in the late 1st Century, many of whom were taught directly by the Apostles themselves: Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp of Smyrna, Justin Martyr. Other classics include the writings of Irenaeus of Lyon, Anthony the Great, Athanasius of Alexandria, Jerome of Stridon, etc. Best of luck on your spiritual journey! Peace be with you.
Gotta love the young men Jesus is raising up! I’m in the application process for diocesan seminary but I’m open to any religious vocation. It’s because of young, on fire priests like Fr. Gregory Pine that I want to do this P.S. My name is also Gregory...
Jew here enjoying the discussion. Since you are talking about names and nicknames I note that Father Pine is tall. A good nickname is Father Pine-Tree. Joking aside, I always admired a number of the Catholic saints like Saint Thomas Aquinas. I read Summa Theological and Summa Contra-Gentiles. I will soon read Saint Bonaventure's works because I like his approach.
There is something special about Dominicans. I knew a Dominican priest a long time ago, Father Ninian. He had a problem that he struggled through. He was humble and pious and loved by all who knew him.
I love how he talks about sin and punishment. It's so easy to get a misconception about that and in turn have it hurt your relationship with God. Great talk
I have been with so many of my pups from puppy to end of their lives. I knew them through their lives. When I had to watch them pass, I knew their souls went to God. I expect to see them again.
It's always been my view that, if everything good on this earth is of God, then it would only be fitting that it should be restored in some perfected form for all eternity.
Accumulated brilliance of this sort is what you get when you belong to a church that is not Only FOUND BY CHRIST but that persist on one line of apostolic tradition, which 1300 years later from inception the Commander in Chief decide to send the Angelic Saint. Jesus Thank you for making me a Catholic and giving some small foundation in philosophy, without which it would have been almost impossible to follow this a beyond ten munities.
Its really funny where Matt's mind goes "do they have shoes in your size when you go bowling" But I can't excuse Fr. Pine. He is on equal ground when speaking to Matt "I am just a tall child" These 2 men have a great interaction between each other...ot true friendship for sure! Thank you for letting me listen in, and for all the good teaching and surely all the laughs!
This is GREAT Matt - Pints with Aquinas can unite the Thomists and call others to understand Thomas!! We can all benefit from this work of yours -- many thanks!
Matt, I just wanted to send you a note of encouragement and gratitude for your work on your Pints with Aquinas channel. In my opinion, you're the best Catholic interviewer out there. I just watched your interviews with Fr. Gregory Pine and Fr. Michael O'Loughlin, and that debate you did with the Capturing Christianity "bloke." One area of discussion that I might encourage you to pursue is the Church's teachings on the literal truth of Genesis (by which I mean, a plain text reading, and acceptance of its sacred historical accuracy). In the Capturing Christianity discussion,you seemed to hedge a bit? (not having studied the issue, I recall you saying) on whether Adam and Eve were real people. I think you said that you were personally inclined to believe they were based on Jesus' & Paul's reference to them as being actual people. Fair enough. Maybe an interview with Fr. Ripperger or, Hugh Owen, or Ryan Grant would be worthwhile? They could defend a literal perspective of Creation, quite readily, I believe. Your extended interview format would lend itself to that kind of interview. You could ask the hard questions! In your interview with Fr. Gregory Pine (what a fantastic Dominican!), he said that he wasn't sure that St. Thomas Aquinas got the questions on Creation quite right. He preferred St. Augustine's treatment of it, instead. Certainly, St. Augustine famously wrote that the Days of Creation referred to Angels, and believed creation to be instantaneous (it is thought, do to having a bad translation of Scripture). He, nevertheless, defended a literal reading of Genesis in Book XV of, the "City of God". (See link below.) Keep up the great work! Cheers, John St. Augustine ends Book XV quite beautifully, "And since this is so, if not even the most audacious will presume to assert that these things were written without a purpose, or that though the events really happened they mean nothing, or that they did not really happen, but are only allegory, or that at all events they are far from having any figurative reference to the church; if it has been made out that, on the other hand, we must rather believe that there was a wise purpose in their being committed to memory and to writing, and that they did happen, and have a significance, and that this significance has a prophetic reference to the church, then this book, having served this purpose, may now be closed, that we may go on to trace in the history subsequent to the deluge the courses of the two cities - the earthly, that lives according to men, and the heavenly, that lives according to God." www.newadvent.org/fathers/120115.htm
Looking back at this video, you should definitely take Fr Pine’s recommendation to have Fr Matt Monnig on the show! He’s at Boston College and a wonderful resource for much of the Catholic community here
Another goody - a keeper, in fact. Both Purgatory and Indulgence - believe it or not, if I understand them correctly - relate to love, God's love, Love Himself, and our response to the demands of this relationship. What currently seems to be 'odd' or 'weird' to us is the idea that justice can be loving, and charity can also be just - i.e. that 'love' makes demands and requires what is due .. whether we like the notion of such a relationship or not. Yo! ;o)
Fr. Pine being such the humble "smartest guy in the room" is fascinating. It opened a whole different dimension to your show allowing extra commentary from Mrs. Fradd. Lovely that.
Protestant vs. Catholic views on Purgatory are closely tied to their respective views of grace. Catholics believe in an infusion of grace - it enters you through participation in the sacraments and works in you to make you a perfect creation that can stand in the presence of God. Protestants believe grace is imputed to you - God looks at you, as you are, through Jesus' sacrifice and sees you as a perfected being who can stand in His presence. The former requires purgatory to make up for any unfinished work that did not occur in this life while the latter does not. In case anyone else was thinking 'I know I'm not supposed to believe on Purgatory but it makes so much sense!'
And the “all dogs go to heaven” talk, I feel like I would love to think they do, but I know that we will be so enamored that it won’t matter like we think it will. ❤ all y’all and can’t believe I hadn’t watched this earlier, Kristy in Missouri 📿📿📿✝️✝️✝️🙏🙏🙏
Brilliant and captivating on so many levels! Well done from both sides of the table. Very grace infused conversation from start to finish ! I am though much more of a Meister Elkhart guy than Thomas though - still both Dominicans
See that plant in the shelf behind Fr Pine? Here in Brazil it is called St George's sword (espada de São Jorge). Is the name the same in English? (Btw, I had it my garden and copied the your idea. I planted a shoot in a small vase and now I have a beautiful one inside my house).
Here in Canada it's called "Mother in law's tongue" but more and more it is referred to by just "snake plant". I love that in Brazil it's called Saint George's sword. God Bless you, take care.🙂
On the question of Dominican spirituality, Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, OP, did a synthesis of Thomist and Carmelite theology. St Theresa of Avila had Dominican and otherwise Scholastic (though Jesuit) spiritual directors; one of which was the famous Domingo Banez. St John of the Cross learned Scholastic theology at Salamanca. (I am assuming these guys were all, at least broadly speaking, Thomist. Though I supposed it could have been a more Suarezian version.) The via-negativa works well with the Carmelite "Nada"; and St Theresa, while she believes the transcendence of God is important, still maintains the importance of the "sacramental" nature of the Hypostatic Union.
A Mother's Rule of Life is an excellent book on creating a rule of life for lay people. It focuses on motherhood, but the principles can be applied to anyone.
I really appreciate your perspective on studying Aquinas. I feel we can get too caught up in thinking every single thing is 100% correct or must be correct because we respect that saint. So, this perspective seems a lot more healthy spiritually.
I'm glad Father gave his unorthodox view on other beings in heaven; I personally think there are better reasons, such as the one you gave, that there WILL be other life rather than there WON'T
also like that you mentioned panentheism. In case there is any interest in what that means, I wrote a paper on that in my undergrad studies. Short answer I think I concluded that the various types of panentheism are almost the steps between pantheism and theism, but never approach the truth of theism because as an advocate of the position said, all forms of panentheism put God on par with the world.
About the topic of the vicious sinner getting a plenary indulgence when they die. We must remember what the requirements for getting a plenary indulgence are, particularly that one my be detached from all sin even venial. So if a vicious sinner were to do all requirements for a plenary indulgence but still be attached to sin then he would only get a partial indulgence.
We have the most beautiful jewish rosary and nativity at our Roman catholic church every year from the Vatican. Traditional conservative roman catholic miss shiloh stodolka
40:44 I was under the understanding that the numbering of days for partial indulgences was the number of days equal to how long penance was done. Like when a priest used to assign “14 days in sackcloth and ashes in penance” for example (penances were much harsher then), these indulgences were equal to that for 800 days or however long it was listed.
Your understanding is correct. The numbering of days comes from the days of public penance assigned to a sin in the early church that could be shortened on account of certain good deeds by the penitent that were viewed as substituting partially or wholly the penance due to that sin. The numbering was however long carried on when that penitential practice had ceased leading some to assume that the number of days assigned to a certain prayer was indeed number of days in purgatory - a misconception.
Hey Matt did you know your channel has ads for the Mormon Church before they play? Just thought I'd let you know. The odd thing was it was a black Mormon which is odd considering what Mormons think of black people. I'll let people do that research for themselves lol.
You're exactly right, Justin. But the Mormons have been really trying to rebrand themselves recently so they really try to portray themselves as tolerant and not a crazy non-Christian religion.
My parish calls all priests by their first name. Not sure why, but they're very stuck in their ways, so I don't think that's going to change any time soon.
Matt, maybe the difficulty between being a vicious sinner and then the alleged receiving of plenary indulgence at death bed is resolved by the ordinary conditions that one must be detached from any sin. Now, without completing the ordinary condition, plenary indulgence just becomes a partial indulgence, right?
@@_random_dude hey brother/sister in Christ, hope you are well. No we do not worship Mary, but we do ask for her to pray for us, just like I might ask you to pray for me. And no Jesus didn't pray with rosary beads, and if that's a problem with you that's completely fine but I don't think it should be. The rosary beads in and of themselves aren't important, they're helpful in assisting us pray. And they remind us of the price Christ payed for us on the cross
@@abelj5145 I can pray for you because I am not dead, unlike Mary, who is. Why not go directly to Jesus? Or do you think Mary is alive and is "soft"? And can plead your case to Jesus on your behalf?
@@_random_dude Hey CT, thanks for the reply. Yeah I get where you are coming from, but we view it differently. For us those in Heaven are actually more alive than we are, they're with The Father and they are perfected in righteousness. So we aren't praying to those who are dead but to those in heaven who like I said are more alive than we are. Again when I say prayer I mean it in the traditional sense not like worship. Like you know long ago in like Shakespeare someone might say 'I pray thee tell' or something. I think for a lot of people this meaning has changed over time and pray is the same thing as worship and when we 'pray' we are also worshiping Mary which isn't true. For us death cannot seperate the body of Christ and we think those in heaven are also apart of the body of Christ, the Church. While we are on earth we call this the Church militant, but nevertheless we are still one. So those in heaven are also apart of the body of Christ so yes we can pray for one another, like the Church praying for others in the Church they're always going to pray for us as we are one body. Why not pray to Jesus? There is absolutely no reason not to ( I mean apart from why people don't usually pray to Jesus, I sometimes don't cause I'm lazy or ashamed or whatnot), but yeah we should pray to Jesus, but us asking for prayers does not take away from the Glory of Jesus in any way. And I certainly think it's possible for those in heaven to pray for us, and while I don't know how exactly they are able to hear our prayers because I don't exactly know how heaven works, it would be weird to say God cannot allow those in heaven to pray to Him for us, as after all we are one body on Christ Jesus. Sorry for long message. God bless you Jesus loves you!
I'm puzzled by Matt saying that God could not just take on a human body, without any mother or father. I mean, didn't he create a human from the dust at the very beginning? Frankly, God can do whatever he wants... period! He could also fashion a human body from the dust that had all the fallen qualities of a son of Adam... of course he could do this. A simple piece of cake for him!
Protestants are strange when they say forget the saints in your prayers essentially they forget the Bible is written by the saints. The Gospels according to St.Luke or St.John. They sound like immature Christians who confuse how love works. You can love all the angels and saints and holy family and God as the trinity. We all know God is God. Its like the family structure parents can love more than one child at a time yet respect remains for the spouse.
Adam didn’t have a mother or father and was a man. God could have made the incarnation out of clay. But he chose Mary as his mother. And she was his mother then in every way that each of us have mothers. Amazing! I’ve always wondered about the male DNA in Jesus. And if God reused Adam’s DNA. Literally the second Adam. Or David’s. Literally the son of David.
33:35 - I think it was Martin Luther that said something like “even if indulgences are legitimate, I wouldn’t want them! If purgatory heals me, I would want to be properly healed”
Tim Staples thinks there will be hunting in heaven!!!!???!!!! God created all living things and he saw that it was GOOD. Do you really think God -- in all his infinate mercy and love -- would let anyone hunt innocent animals in heaven??!! Personaly, I think all living things will be in heaven, even ancient dinosaurs and long extinkt plants.
36:36 - Pine illustrates here why people put baptisms off as long as possible. Just sin it up and then get justified on your death bed. Something seems off here...
Whoa, whoa! They just said that Jesus would have inherited original sin from Mary, or that Mary had original sin. Isn't that the whole point of the Immaculate state of Mary? She did NOT have original sin. Also, Jesus did NOT take on the fallen nature of Adam, but he initiated a NEW human line of the second Adam. How could this mistake be made? It is a fundamental dogma of the Church.
Are you denying the judgement of the Supreme Pontiff to canonise one of the most supreme thinkers in the history of the Church? Aquinas did not bring Aristotle’s paganism into Catholicism, but used what was already a reflection of the Supreme Truth in order to explain. Read Chesterton, man.
17:00 - As a well-informed Protestant, I respect Catholics a lot more when they just straight say they worship Mary and pray to saints. It’s like, alright now that you’re being honest, we can get somewhere haha
But Father Pine used "worship" in a nuanced, creative way. Matt Fradd even made a point to call that out. What a "well-informed Protestant" means by "worship" is not the same as how it was being used here. This is not evidence that Catholics worship Mary. To think so would be to commit a logical fallacy called equivocation, where the same word is used in different senses.
At around 12:30 he started the explanation by explaining the differences of worship and veneration, by pointing out that veneration is a type of worship of God through the veneration of a saint who followed the ways or the Lord. I don't understand how people think that we would mistake a saint who we know was made Holy by and redeemed through Christ. It's not like we're honoring disciples and followers of Zeus, Kali or Osiris lol. Just like the Marian consecration is consecration to Jesus through Mary. It only glorifies God even more to honor his greatest creature, Mary, the first Christian.
Wow! Fr. Gregory is amazing...love listening! The “Wreck it Ralph” analogy was really illuminating.👊🏻. You really push him, Matt, and he steps right up and knocks it out...love his calm, humble confidence. Well done, you two!
@Matt Fradd, Hey Matt, off topic, what do you/Christians mean when you say we come from nothing? Are you referring to the ex nihilo creation thing? Or something more specific to the human person? Thanks, keep it up, God bless.
@@khoalam888 This is a year late but yes we mean ex nihilo. God created everything from nothing, there wasn't something that existed for eternity alongside God that He used to create.
Coming in and watching this again I really noticed how good of an interviewer / conversation director Matt is. Thank you both for this Matt and Fr Pine as well as everyone behind the seance working on theses videos
Jeez Matt! You and Fr. Pine use such a high vocabulary!! I hope by continual listening and understanding your normal speech I may get a vocabulary as vast as yours!
Dear Matt, I was listening to the discussion about the vicious man whom has had a death bed conversion and received a plenary indulgence and goes to heaven. It is worth meditating that such a soul may only have a thimble, a little cup of Glory in heaven. They would be perfectly happy, but a thimble of Glory for all eternity. Now consider a Saint like Saint Francis of Assisi whom will have a vast seraphic ocean of Gods Glory flaming in heaven for all eternity. Being a great Saint has a great reward in heaven. Both the vicious repentant sinner and the great Saint may enter heaven at the same time, but both will have vastly different cups of Glory for all eternity.
Hey Matt. How could you not be “into” de Montfort??! What do you mean exactly?? You should really read “True Devotion” and “Secret of the Rosary” again. St. Louis-Marie is practically a Marian Doctor of the Church, nobody wrote better about Our Lady (the saints say so)!
This is a very high-quality, relevant show. Thank you for doing this, it is a genuine alternative to watching garbage on Netflix on a Sunday. God save us all.
Hope I'm listening intently, but the whole philosophy part is - Zoom, over my head. I could listen to Fr Gregory talk for ages though. Such insights to share about God, life and prayer, etc. And Matt makes it a little less intimidating with his true curiosity and openness. These two together are a joy!
I enjoy very much as listen and learn about the richness of my Catholic Faith, however, on podcast #192 you said something that I really believe is a great offense to God! You said that Jesus could have been incarnated from any women, including a prostitute! How can you even consider that thought!!! How could Jesus the Son of the most High, the all pure and Devine been born of any common women???? Can you please clear this for me? Thank you 🙏
I agape his mind 😆. I got so much from this, my mind was racing has his mouth was racing, through philosophy and the great theological theories. I will probably have this on rotation for a week until I absorb it all 😆. Thank you, so enjoyable.
I came back to re-watch this after The Big News and can't believe how triggered I am now by seeing two people in a room together without masks. Oh, how innocent we were in February.
@@markjones9479 I can't tell if you're joking or not, but either way he doesn't. Catholics have a great respect for the Blessed Mother, but Collyridianism is a condemned heresy by the Catholic Church.