tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post1467304156483273258..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: Three in One OilTheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-88483153720907125272015-06-07T00:05:06.904-04:002015-06-07T00:05:06.904-04:00I found this, anyway.
While he was alive, the fig...I found <a href="http://catholicexchange.com/miracles-aquinas" rel="nofollow">this</a>, anyway.<br /><br />While he was alive, the figure of Christ came down off a Crucifix and praised the job Aquinas was doing writing about something, I forget if it's the Incarnation or Transsubstantiation. Aquinas tried to hush it up.Sophia's Favoritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871625814389904112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-49191775128602530632015-06-06T13:18:42.011-04:002015-06-06T13:18:42.011-04:00Do you know of miracles that have been attributed ...Do you know of miracles that have been attributed to St. Thomas?<br /><br />Christi pax.Daniel D. D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-72605374525083952312015-06-05T18:14:06.556-04:002015-06-05T18:14:06.556-04:00It belongs to Aquinas. Ask him.It belongs to Aquinas. Ask him.TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-17692628677297923552015-06-05T17:34:43.632-04:002015-06-05T17:34:43.632-04:00A lovely explanation. I may steal it.A lovely explanation. I may steal it.William M. Briggshttp://wmbriggs.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-51178171749618063672015-06-02T22:38:58.415-04:002015-06-02T22:38:58.415-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Elostirionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00311603783690801367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-30530912001111997872015-06-01T22:29:23.471-04:002015-06-01T22:29:23.471-04:00Here's some great analogies on the Trinity on ...Here's some great analogies on the Trinity on the the Summa of St. John of Damascus, who wrote Summas before they were cool ;-)<br /><br />"And so, let the faithful adore God with a mind that is not overcurious. And believe that He is God in three hypostases, although the manner in which He is so is beyond manner, for God is incomprehensible. Do not ask how the Trinity is Trinity, for the Trinity is inscrutable.<br /><br />But, if you are curious about God, first tell me of yourself and the things that pertain to you. How does your soul have existence? How is your mind set in motion? How do you produce your mental concepts? How is it that you are both mortal and immortal? But, if you are ignorant of these things which are within you, then why do you not shudder at the thought of investigating the sublime things of heaven?<br /><br />Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea, for the spring and the river and sea are all one nature.<br /><br />Think of the Father as a root, and of the Son as a branch, and the Spirit as a fruit, for the substance in these three is one.<br /><br />The Father is a sun with the Son as rays and the Holy Ghost as heat.<br /><br />The Holy Trinity transcends by far every similitude and figure. So, when you hear of an offspring of the Father, do not think of a corporeal offspring. And when you hear that there is a Word, do not suppose Him to be a corporeal word. And when you hear of the Spirit of God, do not think of wind and breath. Rather, hold you persuasion with a simple faith alone. For the concept of the Creator is arrived at by analogy from His creatures."<br /><br />Source: http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/print43553.htm<br /><br />The whole text can be found here: http://ia802609.us.archive.org/8/items/fathersofthechur009511mbp/fathersofthechur009511mbp.pdf<br /><br />Christi pax.Daniel D. D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-71829853020787602272015-06-01T21:58:58.710-04:002015-06-01T21:58:58.710-04:00https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopus#English
...https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopus#English<br /><br />http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=octopus&allowed_in_frame=0<br /><br />The Wiki seems to denounce "octopi" on the same grounds. However, Oxford seems to think "octopuses," "octopi," and "octopodes" are all valid. <br /><br />Christi pax.<br /><br />Daniel D. D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-46920037018388302432015-06-01T21:48:51.075-04:002015-06-01T21:48:51.075-04:00Language translation is never a perfect thing.
To...Language translation is never a perfect thing.<br /><br />To a Latin speaker, the Filioque has always been understood as an emphasis on the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son. Remember, the West (through the Germans) was the last group to have to deal with the Arians.<br /><br />The translation could be, in English, "proceeds...through the Son," but "procedit...per Filio," in Latin couldn't .<br /><br />Of course, the East complains that, even if the Filioque is orthodox, it shouldn't be in the Creed because no additions should be added without a Council. I'm more sympathetic with this claim.<br /><br />Christi pax.Daniel D. D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-38807832051978536802015-06-01T13:02:00.172-04:002015-06-01T13:02:00.172-04:00So I have to stop talking about the 16 tentacles o...So I have to stop talking about the 16 tentacles of the octoperum?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-13009997481366335472015-06-01T08:55:08.182-04:002015-06-01T08:55:08.182-04:00For those who wondered, the plural of "octopu...For those who wondered, the plural of "octopus"...is "octopuses", actually, but if we want to be highfalutin, it's "octopodes". It parses as "octo" + "p(o)us", third declension Greek, not "oct" + "op" with a Latin nominative ending (besides which, the only Latin word that would give you "op + us", is a third-declension neuter noun—its plural would be "octopera", and it would mean "with eight works" not "with eight feet").<br /><br />Likewise the plural of "platypus" is "platypodes", except that it's actually "platypuses", in English.Sophia's Favoritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871625814389904112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-68253793270321586922015-05-31T23:22:32.028-04:002015-05-31T23:22:32.028-04:00Nah, that's just as Aquinas described his reas...Nah, that's just as Aquinas described his reasoning. But if God is Truth and the Truth is the Conception of the Intellect -- i.e., the Son and the Father are One -- then the Spirit obviously proceeds from the Father and the Son. To Greek ears, this sounded a bit like the Spirit was being demoted to a subordinate position vis a vis the other two and so they resisted the formulation. Why not say the Son was conceived by the Spirit as well?<br /><br />(East and West contended with different heresies and their defenses against them tended to push them rhetorically apart from each other. IIRC, the Greeks started with the Persons and then had to figure out the unity of God; while the Latins started with the Unity of God and had to figure our the Persons.)TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-24054915901429491662015-05-31T22:09:08.788-04:002015-05-31T22:09:08.788-04:00God is a sealed class with three interfaces. Probl...God is a sealed class with three interfaces. Problem solved.Tim of Anglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10910643987517809686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-3120937216960415982015-05-31T21:44:34.692-04:002015-05-31T21:44:34.692-04:00Your picture has the Spirit proceeding for the Fat...Your picture has the Spirit proceeding for the Father alone. Are you backsliding on filioquism!?Alexander S. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12730344309429826487noreply@blogger.com