Editor’s Note: If you have a problem solve it. If you have a problem you cannot solve, seek advice and help from others who love you. Don’t resort to stimulants, as they don’t solve any problem. Whether Caffeine or etc.. — And the biggest problems are solved by Faith in Christ, penance for your sins, prayer to see the truth about yourself and they way you are walking, and the decision to love and live for God above and before and more than anyone else.
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The Book on the Trinity, every faithful Catholic priest would love as his next present
This is Br. Bugnolo's English Translation, of Saint Bonaventure's encylopedic book of theology on the Trinity: With this book, your priest will always have something intelligent and awesomely inspiring to preach to you about
God the Father, God the Son & God the Holy Spirit!
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Isn’t it sad that we have more knowledge on drugs and other methods of spurring or encouraging therapeutic processes, just at the moment in history in which there is less and less nursing and practice of medicine with a wholesome view of the infirmary that our forebears had? Even Saint Alphonsus, a gargantuan of penance and unity with the Divine Will, qualifies his moral statement on resigning entirely and cheerfully to our infirmities by prefacing that with “once the normal remedies have been applied…”
The last thing anyone in the entire world wants at this point in history is to ask which are the moral sorts of applications for drugs when seeking a remedy, and a specific discussion of pain regardless the class of substance used to relieve or extinguish it. Everyone wants to grandstand, pass off the responsibility to physicians who work in a morally insane framework most of the time if not also messed up personally, or to moral teachers who are literally for sale to whichever drug ring wants to bid for their loyalties.
Have you read Rev Dominic Prummer’s old text on applied moral theology, or do you know anything between St Alphonsus and the present day that you recommend moreso? Most things that mention drugs are extremely terse to the point of a sentence or a few paragraphs on a domain the content of which could be broken into multiple specialized studies consuming entire careers. Prummer is of the opinion that the simple motivation to treat some pain and therefore drinking is not intrinsically evil for instance.
Inebriation is a sin by reason of excess. Simply wanting to reduce pain is not a sin, but it is a lack of virtue, since for the Christian who knows the Way the Truth and the Life, having the opportunity to offer one’s suffering with Christ, in penance for one’s sins and for sinners, is the greatest treasure in the cosmos.
If you are able to get inebriated even by half a glass of wine, then the virtuous thing to do is never drink wine. Period. zippo. Same with all other substances. Anything which causes the reason to be clouded, impairs moral judgement and, thus, by taking it, one has increased one’s moral responsibility before God for all the vices and sins which one commits under its influence, from sloath to anger, etc..
For the Christian, whose Savior died on the Cross, maintaining sobriety of the mind and spirit is a most grave habitual obligation, in all endeavors and all vocations. How many Saints fled to the monastery for having committed 1 venial sin! Saint Alphonsus fled to the monastery for committing 1 legal error in a lawsuit (he was a lawyer)!
I agree 100% with you, Brother Bugnolo.
Our societies are those of the very little individual pains hiding huge pains like the loss of independance and sovereignty of people.
So many people cannot suffer small things happening in their lives.. for the small headache they take “forte” aspirin, for having too much eaten they take a pill, to be able to talk to other humans, they drink alcool. If they fall at an exam they smoke cannabis, if they divorce they take antidepressors, and because their lives have no sense they take those substances. The aim is to alterate their perception and they like it because they are kind of stupid, empty, too.
That is why they fell in the trap during the plandemy, indeed, too. To get a jab was kind of a sensor reflex to relieve. That is why all those weak people will also fell in the trap of security/surveillance. And put humanity in the limbs of darkness.
Time for braves to take the power back.