/lit/ - Literature

Our Lady's 15 Promises to Those Who Pray Her Rosary - https://www.goodcatholic.com/fifteen-rosary-promises/
Traditional Catholic Prayers - http://catholictradition.org/prayers1.htm
Prayers to the Holy Spirit - https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=336
The Enchiridion of Indulgences - https://www.catholic.org/prayers/indulgw.php
Papal Authority At The Earliest Councils - https://web.archive.org/web/20110629002305/http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1991/9101fea2.asp
Letters of St. Jerome - https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3001.htm
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton - https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/g-k-chesterton/orthodoxy
Book III of Against Heresies by St. Irenaeus - https://ccel.org/ccel/irenaeus/against_heresies_iii/anf01.ix.iv.iv.html
Church Father Quotations on Apostolic Doctrines - churchfathers.org
Meditations and Devotions by John Henry Newman - https://www.newmanreader.org/works/meditations/
Did the Papacy Exist While St. John Was Still Alive? - http://shamelesspopery.com/did-the-papacy-exist-while-john-was-alive/
Papias, Ehrman, and the Gospels - https://faithfulphilosophytest.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/papias-ehrman-and-the-gospels/
Writings of Gregory Nazianzus - http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/20_30_0329-0390-_Gregorius_Nazianzenus,_Sanctus.html
Fragments of St. Irenaeus in Eusebius - http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/irenaeus-eusebius.html

>>19232723
>tfw you realize Christ died on Friday, the day He created Adam
>tfw you realize Christ finally rested from His salvific work on Great Saturday
>tfw you realize He rose on the Lord's day, when He created the world

The gospel isn't about your personal salvation, it has element of it sure, but fundamentally it's about what God is doing in the world. Salvation is to participate in the life of God, to become in communion with him, become divine. He does show signs to people, yet they still do not have faith in him. Then how does it follow, that revealing himself to a person would change anything? Would a person not assume they were hallucinating? And as for His revelation, St. Paul is struck blind when encountering Him. Coming too close to Him in impurity is serious peril for your mortal existence, which IS something He does care about.
I think the fundamental misunderstanding is to think that the scripture is some kind of divine behaviour manual or an ethical dictionary or something. It is not. Let's suppose that He is real. Then the first thing required of you is worship not moral action. The true revalation of Christ is, that your whole life can be in service to the Lord. Not only that, but in service, it will be better for you and for people around you. And hence "moral" whatever that means anymore.
Sorry if come off a bit cranky. I just woke up and I seriously do not know what people mean by "good" anymore. Only God is good, so without Him, what does the notion rest on?

>>19069975
You have a quite protestant understanding of christianity. The gospel isn't about your personal salvation, it has element of it sure, but fundamentally it's about what God is doing in the world. Salvation is to participate in the life of God, to become in communion with him, become divine. Plus it's interesting that you do admit, that He does show signs to people, yet they still do not have faith in him. Then how does it follow, that revealing himself to a person would change anything? Would a person not assume they were hallusinating? And as for His revelation, St. Paul is struck blind when encountering Him. Coming too close to Him in impurity is serious peril for your mortal existence, which IS something He does care about.
I think your fundamental misunderstanding is to think that the scripture is some kind of divine behaviour manual or an ethical dictionary or something. It is not. Let's suppose that He is real. Then the first thing required of you is worship not moral action. The true revalation of Christ is, that your whole life can be in service to the Lord. Not only that, but in service, it will be better for you and for people around you. And hence "moral" whatever that means anymore.
Sorry if come off a bit cranky. I just woke up and I seriously do not know what people mean by "good" anymore. Only God is good, so without Him, what does the notion rest on?

>>18971262
>why couldn't we be prevented from doing evil but still able to freely will anything else that isn't evil?
Because Adam failed to achieve theosis in Eden and fell, the fall corrupted our human will into being able to deliberate between good and evil. This doesn't exist in either Christ or the saints and we will be freed of this if we align our will with Christ's.
> necessarily include the capacity to do evil?
Fallen free-will only existed as potentia in Adam, before the fall he did not pick and choose between good and evil as his mind was always oriented towards God. But sin (disobeying God's commandment, which he thought would lead to good) introduced a corruption into our will.