The Instant

Spiritual Psychology and Christian Philosophy

[contagiousgrace]

there's no chill way to be like, "yeah, I think generative AI is a crime against God and man."

[loth-caatgirl]

[hail-holy-queen]

"Love your neighbor as yourself" will be equated to "you can't love others unless you love yourself" as is the culture of self-love, contradicting all Christ has taught.

But rather, love your neighbor as you love yourself so much that when you are thirsty you quench your thirst, when you're hungry you make food without second thought. Love your neighbor as if the neighbor is you, as if you are sharing their hunger and feel it yourself, a love that doesn't think of itself, a love that sees and acts first. Love that is automatic. Helping others should be thoughtless for you, the same way eating and sleeping is.

To be fulfilled is to forget yourself. You love God, you love your neighbor so much, that you don't give yourself much thought.

[hail-holy-queen]

I breath God, I digest him. He is in me, around me. The Lord suffocates me. He rests between my ribs. He is desire Himself in me. He, who endlessly overflows the lips of my soul. God has no place to hide, He is exposed, and fills the universe with his glory.

[hail-holy-queen]

When he met women who had been raped during the war in Bosnia, he listened without speaking. He wept. He told them: "You are not guilty. Christ was violated too."

-Cardinal Dziwisz (A Life with Karol), referring to St. Pope John Paul II

[pukicho]

fuck/marry/kill father son holy spirit

That's one guy, you fucking shit

[pervigilatrix]

Council of Nicea, 325 C.E.

[rozieramati]

Fra Angelico & Mark Rothko

[cherubg1rl]

[theinstantblog]

Since the man who is too ardent a lover of his wife acts counter to the good of marriage if he use her indecently, although he be not unfaithful, he may in a sense be called an adulterer.

Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae II.II. Q. 154, A. 8. Reply to Objection 2.

[4waystreet]

the idea that predators and abusers are an ontological category of person, rather than everyone having the capacity to be predatory and abusive, leads to people having no regard for boundaries because they think that predation only comes from evil people ™

[mirielvairenen]

Teresa of Avila (1515–1582)

Christ Has No Body

Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, Yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

[faithshaped]

"Run, therefore, my mother, and let us all run, believers of Christ, towards the object of our reason, the scent of this blood! Then this blood will truly inebriate us, it will set us on fire and consume us in sweet love of God; and we will become one reality with Him. We will become like a drunk, who doesn't think of himself, only the wine, from which he drank and wants to drink again. Get intoxicated from the blood of Christ crucified: it is before you, don't let yourself die of thirst! And don't drink only a little, but drink so much that it inebriates you and you lose yourself."

—Letters of Saint Catherine of Siena, 29

[speakthewordonly]

«  she should be in the club » everyone knows your late twenties are for becoming increasingly offputtingly religious

[metamorphesque]

haiku #15, tathev simonyan

[divinum-pacis]

A priest sprinkles holy water on a pet snail during a blessing of the animals service marking the feast of Saint Anthony, at the San Anton Church in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

[femtocloaca]

[apesoformythoughts]

a one-man crusade against Catholics adopting influencer culture and generative AI