Trinity help!

[Deacon_Ed]

Hello Deacon Ed,

All this is good to know, but I do apologize if I opened up a pandora’s box here. I want to apologize to everyone because that was not my intention at all.

Now I feel bad I asked.

Not to worry – when we fail to ask questions we fail to learn and one of the precepts of the Church is that we continue to learn all we can about the Church and her teachings.

Deacon Ed

 

[notsmart]

Not to worry – when we fail to ask questions we fail to learn and one of the precepts of the Church is that we continue to learn all we can about the Church and her teachings.

Deacon Ed

That makes sense. I already knew I was responsible to teach my child before I read her its my duty to. So, you are right.

I will have lots of time to research now. RCIA is put off until next year now. So I will be a sponge for information until then.

 

[Aramis]

Palamas was not a Catholic; therefore, his theology which was developed outside of the Body of Christ is not part of our faith. We don’t adopt the theology of Luther. Why would we adopt the theology of Palamas?

But, by the same token, A great many eastern churches (at least 8) are returnees from the Great Byzantine Schism… when the Eastern Orthodox left Union with Rome… and came back at various points. The Slavics with Uzorod in the mid 1600’s, Brest in 1595… Russians in 1905… and they arrived with Palamite theologumenia in their overall praxis and doxis.

To deny the origin in Eastern Orthodoxy of Byzantine Catholics is to reduce them to nothing more than Romans dressed in alternate vestments.

 

[StRaphael]

Terms I am trying to understand:

3 distinct relations?

Dear Monica, there are four distinct relations in God, viz. paternity, filiation, common spiration, and procession. The Persons of God are distinguished by the relations, and the Persons are the subsisting relations which are really distinct from another. How, then, can there be four distinct relations if God is three Persons? St. Thomas Aquinas, the prince of theologians, replies that spiration is common to the Father and the Son, and it is not a personal relation in the sense of a relation constituting a person. Read St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 1:30:2 @ newadvent.org/summa/1030.htm#article2. Cf. forums.catholic-questions.org/showpost.php?p=1690055&postcount=5.

God bless you and yours,
Will R. Huysman

+JMJ

 

[Allyson]

Yes, God being an essence is part of Catholic theology. God is a being and thus an essence. In fact, God’s essence is his being God is purely simple.

God is an essence? Might it be better to say that because God is a being, he has an essence. I know that for God being is his essence, in classic scholastic thought. I just like the language of possession better, and it fits quite well… God is 3 in 1; three persons that share in one essence. Sadly, I know you can not reply for now, but you can save it for later I hope.

God Bless,
R.

Hope to see you here again soon.

 

[Allyson]

Hello Deacon Ed,

All this is good to know, but I do apologize if I opened up a pandora’s box here. I want to apologize to everyone because that was not my intention at all.

Now I feel bad I asked.

Do not feel bad at all. The box has long been open. There are other active threads dealing with St. Gregory Palamas and other “disputed” saints of the Catholic East and their theological positions. You asked a legitimate question about what terms meant. You are entitled to seek for yourself.

God Bless your study of the Church,
R.