In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, many people have experienced a profound dismay. We didn't know him, and yet the events of the past week have really thrown us for a loop. Why exactly is that? And what is to be learned from the experience?

Also, I have a new book out. You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Eucharistic-Identity-Sacramental-Fullness/dp/162164796X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ELJ81ZJUVT1G&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.HRZlgfwsmxjGFj1ePRw-OgluBhzhKL7XiQCNKyHEK_s.V0RluCVNmFRjkIZWue1otfyktDPiZN_QnWrjE_LTPtU&dib_tag=se&keywords=your+eucharistic+identity+gregory+pine&qid=1756821967&sprefix=your+eucharistic+%2Caps%2C107&sr=8-1

A lot of folks have to decide, at one point or another, where they are going to live and what parish they are going to attend. At times you might be torn between growing where you're planted and moving to where you're nourished. I was in Tulsa this past weekend with a really excellent community, and it sparked some though on the theme.

Also, I have a new book out. You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Eucharistic-Identity-Sacramental-Fullness/dp/162164796X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ELJ81ZJUVT1G&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.HRZlgfwsmxjGFj1ePRw-OgluBhzhKL7XiQCNKyHEK_s.V0RluCVNmFRjkIZWue1otfyktDPiZN_QnWrjE_LTPtU&dib_tag=se&keywords=your+eucharistic+identity+gregory+pine&qid=1756821967&sprefix=your+eucharistic+%2Caps%2C107&sr=8-1

Please watch this beautiful introductory video to our 33 day preparation for total consecration to Jesus through Mary which starts September 4th. We will conclude on the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, October 7th.

Working on an entire album of lofi music. Here's one of those songs. Album should drop next week. THEN, a couple of weeks after that we hope to have our 24/7 stream up and running.

THE ERROR OF ARIUS ABOUT THE INCARNATION

In their eagerness to proclaim the unity of God and man in Christ, some heretics went to the opposite extreme and taught that not only was there one person, but also a single nature, in God and man. This error took its rise from Arius. To defend his position that those scriptural passages where Christ is represented as being inferior to the Father, must refer to the Son of God Himself, regarded in His assuming nature, Arius taught that in Christ there is no other soul than the Word of God who, he maintained, took the place of the soul in Christ’s body. Thus when Christ says, in John 14:28, “The Father is greater than I,” or when He is introduced as praying or as being sad, such matters are to be referred to the very nature of the Son of God. If this were so, the union of God’s Son with man would be effected not only in the person, but also in the nature. For, as we know, the unity of human nature arises from the union of soul and body.

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RESTORATION OF MAN BY GOD THROUGH THE INCARNATION

We indicated above that the reparation of human nature could not be effected either by Adam or by any other purely human being. For no individual man ever occupied a position of pre-eminence over the whole of nature; nor can any mere man be the cause of grace. The same reasoning shows that not even an angel could be the author of man’s restoration. An angel cannot be the cause of grace, just as he cannot be man’s recompense with regard to the ultimate perfection of beatitude, to which man was to be recalled. In this matter of beatitude angels and men are on a footing of equality. Nothing remains, therefore, but that such restoration could be effected by God alone.

But if God had decided to restore man solely by an act of His will and power, the order of divine justice would not have been observed. justice demands satisfaction for sin. But God cannot render satisfaction, just as He cannot merit. Such a service pertains to one who ...

Please pray for me as I discern returning to the Catholic Church after 40 years, and for my wife who would naturally be reluctant to follow me on this unfamiliar path as a life-long Protestant.

Matt, thanks for helping save my marriage from pornography addiction several years ago and thanks for loving Jesus with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength. What a joy and encouragement you are to many!

A joyous feast of Christ the King to you all!

I know I'm posting a lot today, but can you please send up a prayer for my thumb? It's infected, and I still remember my first thumb infection of 2000 when I was in college and getting it lanced at the ER and I just desperately don't want to go through that for this new thumb infection. I realize this is a relatively minor inconvenience amongst health issues LOL but that shot they give you in the thumb before they lance it is the worst and I'm super anxious about having to call the doctor and get it looked at tomorrow.

Let’s start with the question every hospital machine thinks it can answer but can’t: so… when we die, when do we actually die? Is it the flatline? The last breath? The flicker behind the eyes? How do you measure a soul unhooking—MRI, reflex test, Apple Watch? We talk like it’s instant, but what if the real crossing takes hours? What if it takes days? What if it takes years?

I don’t hear superstition when the old Church ladies talk about the initial forty days after death. I hear a kind of stubborn hope, whispering that dying is less “lights out” and more “the dimmer sliding into another room.” We talk like death happens in one clean second, cue the dramatic soap-opera flatline. But even our best diagnostic machines are guessing. We don’t really know when the “someone” is gone and not just slipping. Maybe the soul steps through death the way you drift from waking into sleep: first the eyelids, then the falling. Almost lucid. Almost aware. And then you’re elsewhere.In the ...