#Larry chapp

[apesoformythoughts]

"...it is more important than ever for Catholics to remember that electoral politics are of penultimate importance, and that when too much hope is placed within it, it can become a distorting idol.

This apotheosis of intramundane politics can rob the Christian of a sense of the truly ultimate, and so we need reminding that no politics can even be truly political in a proper sense unless it is first animated by the leaven of sanctifying grace. But that can only happen when there are Christians who are indeed sanctified. And if there be no such Christians in significant numbers, then the Empire will fill that vacuum with secular sacraments and saints that will act as a simulacrum of the Church in an eschatological register."

— Larry Chapp: "The Universal Call to Holiness as a 'Politics' for Our Time"

[francesderwent]

I was tagged to answer the following questions by @coruscanttojerusalem! thank you!

1) The last podcast you listened to? with reasons.

I am not a podcast girlie, so the last one was over a month ago. I listened to a single episode of this show “Cordial Catholic” called “What SUCKS about the Catholic Church - and Why Be Catholic Still!” because Larry Chapp was on it and because Catholics were driving me absolutely bonkers at the time. alas the episode didn’t quite live up to the name

2) what was the last fanfic you read? What did you like about it?

I started rereading The Figurehead after my last Stranger Things rewatch! an ensemble cast like that show has is not easy to handle and @thelonelybrilliance makes it all seamless and beautiful—because she understands all the characters so well!

3) Your favorite discord server?

I am too old to understand discord. however, I did just say yesterday that I need to download it so I can use it to text my teenage brother who doesn’t have a phone.

4) open pinterest and show the first thing it recommends you!

pinterest didn’t get the memo the wedding is over now.

5) If you’re comfortable, show me something from your notes app!

I am the woman of a thousand to-do lists and getting married only allowed me to delete some of them, but they all have too much personal information, so have a recipe I improvised and then wrote down so I can repeat it:

6) Show us who you last gave a like to on Tumblr! And why?

it was @why-bless-your-heart for this reblogged post which cracked me up:

7) Show us a picture that's in your gallery that you are proud off/like/are comfortable sharing.

the aforementioned gnocchi recipe:

8) final question, what was the last YouTube video you watched?

in all honesty I think it was English premiere league football highlights with my husband

I tag anybody else who’s scrolling tumblr at work

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Larry Chapp sobre el Sínodo: «Algo está fundamentalmente mal y en contradicción con el Vaticano II»

El teólogo estadounidense Larry Chapp ha escrito un artículo en el que usa un juego de palabras que hace referencia al famoso dicho «Nerón tocaba la lira mientras Roma ardía», adaptándolo al contexto de la sinodalidad en la Iglesia Católica. Leer más… »

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(Im)mortals and Misfits - Catholic Herald

(Im)mortals and Misfits – Catholic Herald

Old letters with used stamps are displayed at the Van Dieten Postzegelveilingen in Capelle aan den IJssel, Netherlands, on 27 September, 2008.(Koen van Weel/AFP via Getty Images)   Editor’s note: This essay first appeared in the pages of Chapter House on 18 September 2020, and has been lightly edited for time references. Death teaches us that we are no mere mortals.By Larry Chapp Late last summer…

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David Bentley Hart interviewed by Larry Chapp

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Sten Hugo Hiller - 627184: Mecha Combat #1112 -September 3352 Rhinoplasty Chrono

(By Sten Hugo Hiller - 627184)

Mountain Climbing Mecha Combat #1112

Brought to you by ANN

Highlighting the September 3352 Rhinoplasty Chrono

As we Commanders have become more or less acustomed to, as soon as the raiding hordes appeared the Gaming authorities decreed that we should have a low tonnage Mech specific Chrono.

The Mech chosen for that honor was this time the 35 ton Keradon. It was the only legal model one could use. No sidekicks this time.

-Unless you were fighting on K11 that is. On that top it was just a standard unlimited Chrono.

For me, the chosen model was a mixed blessing. As the only Keradon I had was Fido (long story how it got its name, and not relevant) I could by just easing fido into my main still be quite effective in the raid, but how would I fare in the Chrono?

The only way to find out was to sign up, and a short while later the top was claimed. It semed most opponents had few if any Keradons.

Just as I thought so, I was blown off the top by Luc Lachance from the Brotherhood Blackwatch. He had an almost fully developed Keradon, but it had still not gotten its second cockpit.

A harder opponent showed up as the top was reclaimed.

Brian Wilson of the Smurf patrol had a quartet of Keradons, and while they were quite a way from being fully developed, 4-1 odds are hard to beat.

The weapon loadout were changed to have as many W-F weapons as possible, and while he was a hard case, I managed to stay on the top nearly as much as him.

Then disaster struck. My friends who had guarded my back through the war said their time was up and were heading for home

Frantic calls for help and scouring the countryside for guards eventually got me first one dozen helpers, later expanded into a bit over two full dozens. That was barely enough to let me beat Brian about one time in five tries.

But the RNG gods was pretty much on my side. Time after time I grabbed the top for a few scant minutes, or in many cases just a handful of Seconds. But that was usally when the snapshots were taken, so the scores were pretty evenly matched.

As we entered the last scorerounds, Brian must have fallen asleep for a bit, because my forces stayed unmolested on the top for 10 continious scorerounds.

Of course he returned a bit later and started kicking butt again, but the respite had given me a score advantage he would be hard pressed to overcome. I managed to hold the top one more scoreround, and luckily none other disturbed our duel. It ended a bit early as well, so my score was barely sufficient to beat him.

I had also managed to get enough footage to determine the highest scorers in this event had been:

Div 1 381+ (24 Commanders): Sherriff Leary Wretham, Warlock (+13780)

2: Jeff Haas

3: Daniel Scott

4: Stuart Myshrall

5: Gary Muenzel

6: Ben Rail

7: Don Davis

8: roward

9: Dan Ross

10: Larry Vandervort

Div 2 -380 (19 Commanders): Christine Mainer, Spirit of Bunny (+9980)

Div 3 -245 (7 Commanders): Colin Toenjes, Heroes (+21420)

Div 4 -203 (18 Commanders): Sten Hugo Hiller, Star League (+620)

Div 5 -161 (21 Commanders): Eric Astronomicon Finley, Heroes Support (+1330)

Div 6 -118 (13 Commanders): Grego, Phoenix (+30280)

Div 7 -91 (28 Commanders): Robert Pawulski, Ronins (+14620)

Div 8 -67 (18 Commanders): Fredo Gustavo, Black Star Bandits (+11310)

Div 9 -47 (18 Commanders): RacerX_, Jagdstaffel 2 (+1560)

Div 10 -29 (14 Commanders): Iain Bryce, *R.V.* (+4500)

Div 11 -18 (17 Commanders): Map Chapp, I.N.A. (+18690)

Only ten Medals, three Golds, four Silvers and three Bronzes, were given to Commanders who at the end of the event had what looked like pure Keradon formations.

Total Contestants: 197

Total medals claimed: 154 (of 165 possible)

Perhaps due to the raid, or possibly because a lack of Keradons, the number of contestants who showed up was fifty-five lower than in the Point Mech we had just after the war.

Also, the imbalance between the tops was pretty severe, and the curse of K3 was back with a vengeance. a total of eleven Bronzes from three ended unclaimed and were returned for resmelting.

The highest score achieved in this event was on K11 where Map Chapp of the Indo Nusa Alliance managed to get a score of 116 250 by staying on the top for 93 scorerounds. The biggest difference to the runner-up was on K6 where Grego of Phoenix had a score advantage of 30 280.

Lowest score needed for a medal was also on K6, 12860 was enough to get a Bronze there.

Five Commanders won by a margin in excess of 12 000 but we also had a trio of Golds decided by less than 3000, one of them by a mere 620 difference such a close call might well be atributed to an early signup.

Given the closeness on at least some of the tops, it is perhaps interesting to look at the differences between the medal tiers in this event:

..Silver to Bronze....Bronze to nothing

Div 1 ...…..740......………..1145

Div 2 ......7600...…............1820

Div 3 ....19750...….........…..N/A

Div 4 ....10040...…............2980

Div 5 ....20240...….........…..540

Div 6 ......1920...….........…..N/A

Div 7 ......3450...…..............540

Div 8 ......8480...…............1340

Div 9 ......6200...…............2900

Div 10 ….9920...….........…..N/A

Div 11 ….2240...….........…..500

Some pretty solid walls for the Silvers, but one of the Silvers and three of the eight contested Bronzes were decided by less than a 1000 point difference. That might well be a difference caused by who signed up first, and shows that when it comes to Chrono`s, one should sign up first, get the formation right later.

This was one of the none events. None of the clans got more than one Gold, none of the unaligned Commanders won a Gold, and none of the last events winners got a follow-up Gold

Upcoming event: Weighty.

This event is for Mechs massing 80 tons or less

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[apesoformythoughts]

"So really, it doesn't matter who is in power—Democrats or Republicans—and it does not matter if we place more emphasis on the government to solve our problems or free enterprise economics in a secular, amoral, Malthusian register. Nor is this a cynical reading of our situation. It is rather who we are. I cannot emphasize enough that what I am talking about here is not just a few falsehoods in the modern worldview that we can just tweak and set them right which will make all of the boo boos better. What we can now see clearly is that modernity, freed from the last vestiges of its Christian hangover, and which now manifests its inner logic publicly, represents a total reworking of the fabric of the real, of how we construe what truth is. We are way beyond tweaking the mechanism of the modern world with a little St. Thomas Aquinas.

I am not here to tell people not to participate in the electoral process or for whom they should vote. But since our choice seems to be between Claudius or Domitian, what I am saying is that the transformation of our Empire is now, as it was back then, more a function of our holiness as a counter witness to the idolatries of power than it is about which apparatchik is in charge of things now."

— Larry Chapp: "The Universal Call to Holiness as a 'Politics' for Our Time"

[apenitentialprayer]

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.

Cormac McCarthy (The Road, page 54)

Blood and Water Flowing from the Pierced Side of Jesus (x)

Therein lies as well a kind of liberation as the valor of an unshielded heart […] allows itself to be broken open, revealing the soul's true inner dignity as a liturgy of transformed suffering that also acts as a medium for the god's epiphany.

Larry Chapp (The Christological and Cruciform Nature of Evangelization)

[francesderwent]

“God exists, God is infinitely good, there is evil. What we do with that third piece is critical, and not to over-analyze it, but to simply say, we know one thing: that God has not exempted Himself from the implications of that evil. He has entered into that evil, and descended into it, and suffered through it. So ours is not an absentee landlord god. The tenement in which we live might have rats and roaches, but God is living there, too.”

—Larry Chapp, Living in a Sacramental Cosmos, The Benedictine Dialogues

[apesoformythoughts]

"Saint Augustine therefore points out that entire civilizations, when they fall into depravity, must hide their perfidy in a fog of lies and deceptive illusions. They must spin the straw of sin into the gold of an alleged moral heroism. Good becomes evil and evil good in the grand reversal of values that the French historian Alain Besançon, following Soloviev, calls, “the falsification of the good.”

Decadent cultures (such as ours) must always engage in a repristination of their vices by recasting them as virtues. Wars of bloody conquest are re-narrated as grand victories over the forces of darkness. Rapacious greed among the wealthy elites is transformed into entrepreneurial beneficence. Unfair judicial systems that distribute justice inequitably based on race or economic status are re-imagined as necessary “law and order” provisions for keeping “ordinary people” safe. Sexual licentiousness loses its patina of shame and is celebrated as a liberation from moral oppression. Pre-natal infanticide becomes “reproductive health and freedom.” Corruption in high places where money is the only language of discourse is reformulated as “lobbying.” And for St. Augustine this pattern of mendaciousness is pervasive in world history and explains why when great empires fall, it comes as a shock to those who have fallen under the spell of such deceptions."

— Larry Chapp: "The Universal Call to Holiness as a 'Politics' for Our Time"

[apesoformythoughts]

'Wealth. Power. The GDP. The Pentagon. Our Nuclear “deterrence”. Endless wars and many more invisible wars. Pre-natal homicide. Sex. Porn. Impregnable borders. “My freedom to do as I damn well please so long as I am not ‘hurting someone’.” These are our gods; Dionysius, Mars, Moloch, and all of the elemental archons of Blut und Erde that now govern our culture. We tut-tut and fret over a gnat and then swallow a camel. Where is the prophetic Catholic voice in the midst of this degradation? Why the timidity from our leaders to pronounce on these matters with courage? Fear of losing tax exempt status?'

— Larry Chapp

[apesoformythoughts]

"My claim is that the gods that animate our own culture are cut out of the same cloth as those of old, even if they are now dressed-up differently, and are now even more destructive since the power of modern technology only increases the reach of those who seek to control and to dominate. The noose of “surveillance capitalism” grows ever-tighter around our necks as big tech becomes the dominating power of our time. We now live in an age of even more terrifying myths, made more lethal by the fact that our myths posture as anti-myths and are thus more beguiling in their deceptive packaging as a form of sophisticated enlightenment."

— Larry Chapp: "The Universal Call to Holiness as a 'Politics' for Our Time"

[apesoformythoughts]

"What we need now is a recovery of a healthy sense of the futility of earthly politics as an eschatological project.

And to illustrate this I will begin with a personal story. I was in London in 2008 on the morning after Obama was elected President. Londoners were euphoric and giddy as school kids on holiday and were openly gushing about the new election as if we had just elected the Messiah himself. It struck me how strongly eschatological the tone of it all was; it was expressive of something that represented the end point of a historical teleology which had (finally!) been reached. The progressive, liberal reading of history had been vindicated; history does indeed have a goal and that goal is us. It was as if we had all rented a party bus and parked in Fukuyama’s cul de sac to await the coming utopian moment. And yet, after eight years of the President of “Si se puede!” not much changed, the status quo of power and wealth remained in place, all previous social inequities persisted, and the dear leader departed his office a rich man and has taken up residence in his new mansion on a beach in Hawaii..."

— Larry Chapp: "The Universal Call to Holiness as a 'Politics' for Our Time"

[apesoformythoughts]

“As a Catholic, all things being equal, I owe the Pope the benefit of the doubt. And I did that for about six years with Pope Francis. But we are way beyond that now and all things are not equal. The Pope is not a heretic. He is the real Pope. But therein lies a deeper problem. The real problem. And the problem as I see it is more subtle and more dangerous than debates over things like the change in the teaching on the death penalty or the repression of the Latin Mass or even that famous footnote in Amoris Laetitia. The problem is that precisely while remaining within the boundaries of orthodoxy Pope Francis has subtly redefined the Church’s terms of engagement with the modern world. And it is in that shift that I think the gravest danger resides.”

— Larry Chapp: “The Falsification of the Good - Part One: Pope Francis and the Question Begging Nature of Accusations of Heresy”