/lit/ - Literature

>>14415271
Habitual sin does not exonerate culpability, nor make a mortal sin in any degree a venial sin. St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori, Church Doctor, is very clear on habitual sin. As is commonly said by theologians: presumption of God's mercy has damned more than his justice. By repeating this erroneous doctrine (I can't help it!), you err, and this erring is communicable to anyone with ears and eyes. Even St. Augustine, a man most acquainted with horrible struggle of habitual lust would admit years later in role as bishop "the fight is common, but the victory rare."
>>14415304
The CCE is contradicted by numerous Doctors of the Church and is not recognized by all bishops as sound doctrine. It is a modern, post-Vatican II simplification of the faith, and in reducing it the lowest common denominator, all meaning, mystery, and utility is lost.

Islam is a false religion and will lead you to hell.

>>13394193
Surprised nobody has mentioned it so far: Confessions by St. Augustine

>For this was what I was longing to do; but as yet I was bound by the iron chain of my own will. The enemy held fast my will, and had made of it a chain, and had bound me tight with it. For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity. By these links, as it were, forged together--which is why I called it “a chain”--a hard bondage held me in slavery. But that new will which had begun to spring up in me freely to worship thee and to enjoy thee, O my God, the only certain Joy, was not able as yet to overcome my former willfulness, made strong by long indulgence. Thus my two wills--the old and the new, the carnal and the spiritual--were in conflict within me; and by their discord they tore my soul apart.

They meant that they were slaves seeking pleasure in the creature—falling further and further into the depths of depravity. This is evidenced by the continued profligacy of the Roman Empire hereafter, and its wretchedness would soon altogether consume itself.

St. Augustine - Confessions.

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>>13372355
'Wherefore, though good and bad men suffer alike, we must not suppose that there is no difference between the men themselves, because there is no difference in what they both suffer. For even in the likeness of the sufferings, there remains an unlikeness in the sufferers; and though exposed to the same anguish, virtue and vice are not the same thing. For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is beaten small, while the grain is cleansed; and as the lees are not mixed with the oil, though squeezed out of the vat by the same pressure, so the same violence of affliction proves, purges, clarifies the good, but damns, ruins, exterminates the wicked. And thus it is that in the same affliction the wicked detest God and blaspheme, while the good pray and praise. So material a difference does it make, not what ills are suffered, but what kind of man suffers them. For, stirred up with the same movement, mud exhales a horrible stench, and ointment emits a fragrant odor.'

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>>13313653
>thats my life
"What marvel then was it that an unhappy sheep, straying from thy flock and impatient of thy care, I became infected with a foul disease? This is the reason for my love of griefs: that they would not probe into me too deeply (for I did not love to suffer in myself such things as I loved to look at), and they were the sort of grief which came from hearing those fictions, which affected only the surface of my emotion. Still, just as if they had been poisoned fingernails, their scratching was followed by inflammation, swelling, putrefaction, and corruption. Such was my life! But was it life, O my God? "

But IS it life?

>>13200665
NO. I FUCKING HATE ANCIENT GREEK. YOU CANT ME ME LEARN THIS GOD DAMNED SHIT. I CAN STILL INTO THEOLOGY WITHOUT IT. HERES A NO BRAINER FOR YOU..... LEARN SOME FUCKING GOD DAMN LATIN. YOUR APPRECIATION WILL BE BETTER BECAUSE ITS A BETTER LANGUAGE PERIOD. END OF STORY. FUCK THE LEARNING OF GREEK.

Why would you read this filth? I put this shit down the moment I read anything this vulgar, much less perverse.

>>13113208
YES!!!!!!
>quippe ex voluntate perversa facta est libido, et dum servitur libidini, facta est consuetudo, et dum consuetudini non resistitur, facta est necessitas.

>quippe ex voluntate perversa facta est libido, et dum servitur libidini, facta est consuetudo, et dum consuetudini non resistitur, facta est necessitas.
Damn.

>>12950737
St. Augustine is the one responsible for that. Integrates well with natural law.

Men do not save anyone. Period. Men cannot even save themselves. Salvation is the business of God.

The only remotely acceptable English translation of Augustine's Confessions is the Outler edition. It is the only one that retains the cadence and near-poetic beauty of the original.
Unlike most other translations, the translator had a great command of English and Latin and himself was an adept writer. Most other works fall incredibly short. The only real criticism of this version is that it is "not accessible", which itself is a comment for brainlets and by brainlets.

>>12646467
"Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity." — St. Augustine of Hippo