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#Aquinas: "Every #love causes ecstasy. To suffer ecstasy means to be placed outside oneself."
Ecstasy is bigger than us: it comes w/ every love, transforms us & makes us new. The love of a tree, a bird, a poem, a dance, a friend, an enemy - any love whatsoever causes ecstasy. https://bit.ly/453ossb

RevDrMatthewFox 1d ago

#Aquinas: "No person is in such #darkness as to be completely devoid of #divinelight. The divine light shines in the darkness & radiates upon all." Even in the darkest of circumstances, the darkest of dark nights, the divine light shines & radiates therein. Even when we cannot see it. https://bit.ly/453ossb

RevDrMatthewFox 2d ago

#Aquinas: " #Hope is about the possible; despair is about the impossible." We humans are adept at seeing & dwelling on the impossible till it takes over our souls. To maintain hope is to look for possibility, creative solutions, alternatives. Hope keeps our souls & imaginations alive. https://bit.ly/453ossb

RevDrMatthewFox 3d ago

#Aquinas: " #Love is cause of all the lover does....Love is the cause of both pleasure & sorrow."
Even sorrow happens b/c of love. Deepest #loss is directly related to deepest love, the source of great joy. Love undergirds all our deepest exper. in life, negative as well as positive. https://bit.ly/453ossb

RevDrMatthewFox 4d ago

#Aquinas: "The freezing or hardening of the ❤️ is a disposition incompatible w/ #love, while melting denotes a softening of the ❤️..." No love can follow w/o this softening, in any relationship.
Has #patriarchy taught men how to soften their ❤️s? Might much more melting be in store? https://bit.ly/453ossb

RevDrMatthewFox 5d ago

#Aquinas: "Every love makes the beloved to be in the lover, & the lover in the beloved."
True lovers strive for a mutual "in-ness," lover merging w/ beloved. Love drives us beyond superficial knowledge of the beloved to intimate, in-depth knowledge, of the very soul of the beloved. https://bit.ly/453ossb

Pixelcats⁷ Jun 4

Happy #ThursdayFiveList and Happy Pride with #LGBTQPlusMusicians

1. HOLLAND - Nar_C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHmBKxkjXeY

2. XG - GALA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cEdndsuzSE

3. JIAE 지애 - Love is Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuZ8xAG_l2A

4. JUSTB - Going South
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1iSnWpTWm4

5. AQUINAS - Oh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quhgLJLMCMc

#KPop #KHipHop #Holland #XG #Jiae #JustB #Aquinas

HOLLAND - Nar_C M/V

YouTube

RevDrMatthewFox May 12

#Aquinas’s favorite virtue was #magnanimity: “brave great dangers for great things:...common welfare, justice, divine worship....” #RabbiHeschel calls on all people: God demands every person to do #justice: it is the supreme commandment wh. cannot be fulfilled vicariously. https://bit.ly/4wvN6gS

RevDrMatthewFox Apr 13

#CreationSpirituality welcomes #science b/c CS seeks to know all we can abt #nature & #creation. #Aquinas warned in 13th century: "A mistake abt creation results in a mistake abt God." So too, insight abt creation results in insight abt God. bit.ly/4hkaVA6
#OrderOfTheSacredEarth
UNC botanist takes water sample. Wikimedia

Timothy R. Butler Mar 25

Yeah, this tracks. Kinda disappointed I got "0" on Lewis -- I think there were several times my second option would have boosted the #CSLewis-quotient (or #Aquinas for that matter), but I'll take #Luther and #Calvin on top. What's your result? https://whichtheologianareyou.netlify.app

#Christianity #Theology