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#71
Holy Scripture & Liturgy / Re: Hebrews 13:5
Last post by Geremia - May 23, 2026, 03:33:56 AMQuote from: 777 on May 23, 2026, 02:04:28 AMHebrews 13:5St. Thomas's commentary on that verse.
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for He has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you.
His entire commentary on Hebrews is worth reading.
#72
Holy Scripture & Liturgy / Re: ἀνάργυροι
Last post by Geremia - May 23, 2026, 03:04:11 AMQuote from: 777 on May 23, 2026, 02:11:39 AMἀνάργυροιCan that mean a volunteer?
#73
Holy Scripture & Liturgy / ἀνάργυροι
Last post by 777 - May 23, 2026, 02:11:39 AMWho are unmercenaries?
ἀνάργυροι - anargyros (unpaid, voluntary, people who voluntarily renounce their property for the sake of the gospel)
The first unmercenary was Jesus Christ.
People characterized by the virtue of evangelical poverty:
Go, sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; and come follow Me, bearing your cross (Mark 10:21).
Lend, expecting nothing in return (Luke 6:35)
When you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just (Luke 14:13-14).
Let your conduct be free from the love of money, being content with such things as you have. For He Himself said, I will never leave you nor forsake you (Hebrews 13:5).
What is unmercenariness?
Gk. anargyria
Being non-mercenary, without money, lit. silverless, penniless
Giving without payment, free of cost
Something priceless, worthy.
If we try to locate the supreme instance of Christian caritas (Christian love, charity), that is at the same time a supreme instance of the mission of the Church, these efforts will undoubtedly lead us to the practice of unmercenariness.
This practice for the secular human mind of our contemporary age is both incomprehensible and unintelligible both by its meaning and significance.
It is the super-historical call of the human to realize himself as a creative being, at the same time leaving his creativity undetermined and unburdened with the business logic of the world and its time, which make the human and his creativity nothing but market idols.
Those idols, or false market values come from the tendency in which the human rejects his own worth, but also the worth of the entire creation. At the moment when the world and the human start to evaluate themselves with limited and finite prices, regardless how many numbers they require, at that moment the human loses his essential axiological criteria and immensely distances himself from the original Biblical Anthropology.
Matthew 10:8
Freely you have received, freely give
You received without payment; give without payment
You received without a price; give without a price
You are without a price, don't limit the world around you with prices
The Perfect Unmercenary
Saint Serapion, who loved the hermit life from his youth, was a perfect example of monasticism—so free from the love of money that he owned nothing. A cave in the desert was his cell, his mantle his constant clothing, and the Holy Gospel his only treasure.
One day, while traveling to Alexandria, the man of God encountered a beggar shivering from the cold. Serapion stopped and thought to himself: "I am considered a faster and a follower of Christ; yet I wear a robe, and this servant of Christ is perishing from the cold! I will undoubtedly be a murderer if this poor man freezes to death." He immediately took off his mantle and gave it to the beggar.
Serapion sat at a crossroads, holding the Holy Gospel under his bosom, which he carried with him everywhere; and when a passerby asked him: "Why are you without a mantle, Father Serapion?" he answered, showing the Holy Gospel: "This book of God has undressed me."
The unmercenary had barely finished speaking when he saw a debtor being led past him to prison. Serapion didn't think twice: he immediately sold the Gospel and satisfied the creditor. The unfortunate man went home, blessing the angelic stranger.
When Serapion arrived at the cell, the disciple asked him, "Where are your clothes?" "I sent them there," replied the unmercenary, "where I can get better ones in their place." "And where is the Holy Gospel?" the disciple asked again. "My son!" said the righteous man, "it kept telling me, 'Sell your possessions and give them to the poor .' But you know that it alone constituted my entire possession: so I sold it and gave it to the poor."
Christians! Imitate, even if only slightly, the virtues of Saint Serapion, and you will be saved.
ἀνάργυροι - anargyros (unpaid, voluntary, people who voluntarily renounce their property for the sake of the gospel)
The first unmercenary was Jesus Christ.
People characterized by the virtue of evangelical poverty:
Go, sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; and come follow Me, bearing your cross (Mark 10:21).
Lend, expecting nothing in return (Luke 6:35)
When you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just (Luke 14:13-14).
Let your conduct be free from the love of money, being content with such things as you have. For He Himself said, I will never leave you nor forsake you (Hebrews 13:5).
What is unmercenariness?
Gk. anargyria
Being non-mercenary, without money, lit. silverless, penniless
Giving without payment, free of cost
Something priceless, worthy.
If we try to locate the supreme instance of Christian caritas (Christian love, charity), that is at the same time a supreme instance of the mission of the Church, these efforts will undoubtedly lead us to the practice of unmercenariness.
This practice for the secular human mind of our contemporary age is both incomprehensible and unintelligible both by its meaning and significance.
It is the super-historical call of the human to realize himself as a creative being, at the same time leaving his creativity undetermined and unburdened with the business logic of the world and its time, which make the human and his creativity nothing but market idols.
Those idols, or false market values come from the tendency in which the human rejects his own worth, but also the worth of the entire creation. At the moment when the world and the human start to evaluate themselves with limited and finite prices, regardless how many numbers they require, at that moment the human loses his essential axiological criteria and immensely distances himself from the original Biblical Anthropology.
Matthew 10:8
Freely you have received, freely give
You received without payment; give without payment
You received without a price; give without a price
You are without a price, don't limit the world around you with prices
The Perfect Unmercenary
Saint Serapion, who loved the hermit life from his youth, was a perfect example of monasticism—so free from the love of money that he owned nothing. A cave in the desert was his cell, his mantle his constant clothing, and the Holy Gospel his only treasure.
One day, while traveling to Alexandria, the man of God encountered a beggar shivering from the cold. Serapion stopped and thought to himself: "I am considered a faster and a follower of Christ; yet I wear a robe, and this servant of Christ is perishing from the cold! I will undoubtedly be a murderer if this poor man freezes to death." He immediately took off his mantle and gave it to the beggar.
Serapion sat at a crossroads, holding the Holy Gospel under his bosom, which he carried with him everywhere; and when a passerby asked him: "Why are you without a mantle, Father Serapion?" he answered, showing the Holy Gospel: "This book of God has undressed me."
The unmercenary had barely finished speaking when he saw a debtor being led past him to prison. Serapion didn't think twice: he immediately sold the Gospel and satisfied the creditor. The unfortunate man went home, blessing the angelic stranger.
When Serapion arrived at the cell, the disciple asked him, "Where are your clothes?" "I sent them there," replied the unmercenary, "where I can get better ones in their place." "And where is the Holy Gospel?" the disciple asked again. "My son!" said the righteous man, "it kept telling me, 'Sell your possessions and give them to the poor .' But you know that it alone constituted my entire possession: so I sold it and gave it to the poor."
Christians! Imitate, even if only slightly, the virtues of Saint Serapion, and you will be saved.
#74
Holy Scripture & Liturgy / Hebrews 13:5
Last post by 777 - May 23, 2026, 02:04:28 AMHebrews 13:5
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for He has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you.
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for He has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you.
#75
Fides et Ratio / But what is quantum computing?...
Last post by Geremia - May 22, 2026, 12:24:15 AM #76
Fides et Ratio / Evidence for the Force Physics...
Last post by Geremia - May 19, 2026, 03:45:53 AMReferences: https://www.seethepattern.org/stp.html?v=20260516-long
This video is about this preprint:
- Graneau, Neal. "Direct Measurement of Longitudinal Electromagnetic (EM) Forces in Wires." Preprint, Cambridge Open Engage, May 12, 2026. DOI: 10.33774/coe-2026-pzmj7.
#77
Disputationes / Scholastic Principles Flashcar...
Last post by Geremia - May 10, 2026, 04:37:06 AMThomistic definitions, axioms, and theses in Latin 🇻🇦 & English 🇬🇧
cf. Wuellner, S.J., Summary of Scholastic Principles
- Anki deck
- printable flashcards (print duplex vel double-sided, long-edge flip); cf. HTML source and Python scripts used to generate it
cf. Wuellner, S.J., Summary of Scholastic Principles
#78
General Discussion / La conférence de presse de Mgr...
Last post by Geremia - May 06, 2026, 04:07:38 AM@justjeff Thanks for reminding me to interlibrary-loan « La conférence de presse de Mgr Lefebvre », 15 juin 1988, Fideliter hors série, 29-30 juin 1988, mentioned passim in Sel de la terre «Les sacres épiscopaux de 1988 Étude théologique (II).» It would be good to have the full-text of the press conference.
Update: It's available on FSSPX.org: "Conférences de Mgr Lefebvre - 15 juin 1988". ++Lefebvre doesn't mention the names of the candidates.
Update: It's available on FSSPX.org: "Conférences de Mgr Lefebvre - 15 juin 1988". ++Lefebvre doesn't mention the names of the candidates.
#79
General Discussion / Re: Bishop Schneider Appeals t...
Last post by justjeff - May 05, 2026, 10:25:56 PMI did not, but from the link you provided, it sounds like that would have been June 13,1988, though it doesn't specifically state that it was made public then.
From an answer to an AI query it sounds like the priests to be consecrated as their newest bishops will be announced this June.
QuoteOn "June 13 [1988] [...] the four candidates appeared together at Ecône"; they were:...
From an answer to an AI query it sounds like the priests to be consecrated as their newest bishops will be announced this June.
#80
General Discussion / Eph 6:12
Last post by Geremia - May 04, 2026, 11:24:00 PMQuote from: southwesterly on May 04, 2026, 02:02:52 PMIt raises a lot of questions about accountability and how much of our lives are being shaped by systems we don't even see or understand.Eph 6:12:
QuoteFor our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.