Syon Abbey. Hi Everyone, I have not posted here in awhile but I felt this was important. In the past, I have read posts about Syon Abbey in Virginia, and think that if I did not defend them, I was tempted to. I also remember reading that there were a few earnest souls considering a vocation who asked about that Abbey. I have some information to deliver. The "abbey" was never canonically established, so there is no 'abbey' and there is no 'abbot.' in 1983 the "Abbot" F. Edward Nugent, was found guilty and incarcerated in Curry County, Oregon for paedophelia with a minor boy. He was accused of the same by a priest of the SSPX back in 1974. It was implied he was abusing a specific person in 1968.
Despite claims that he was ordained in Boston, Mass, the Boston Diocese denies ever ordaining a man named Nugent. There have been more recent claims of terrible things, but since I have not seen these claims in writing, I will not state whether those are true or false. God bless and protect you,Quoprimum. Religion_in_the_world.png (1368×612) Great Philosophers: Augustine On Evil.
From the Enchiridion, by Augustine All of nature, therefore, is good, since the Creator of all nature is supremely good. But nature is not supremely and immutably good as is the Creator of it. Thus the good in created things can be diminished and augmented. For good to be diminished is evil; still, however much it is diminished, something must remain of its original nature as long as it exists at all.
For no matter what kind or however insignificant a thing may be, the good which is its "nature" cannot be destroyed without the thing itself being destroyed. There is good reason, therefore, to praise an uncorrupted thing, and if it were indeed an incorruptible thing which could not be destroyed, it would doubtless be all the more worthy of praise. When, however, a thing is corrupted, its corruption is an evil because it is, by just so much, a privation of the good.
This principle is found to apply in almost all disjunctions: two contraries cannot coexist in a single thing. 150 Reasons Why I am a Catholic (Revised) Our lady of Syon monastery. Syon Abbey in West Virginia....anyone heard of it? Luther Meets His Match: Part VI: Erasmus' Hyperaspistes (1526): Sola Scriptura & Perspicuity (Total Clarity) of Scripture Critiqued.
I myself prefer to have this cast of mind than that which I see characterizes certain others, so that they are uncontrollably attached to an opinion and cannot tolerate anything that disagrees with it, but twist whatever they read in Scripture to support their view once they have embraced it. (p. 120; citing his earlier Discussion, or Diatribe) I do not condemn those who teach the people that free will exists, striving together with the assistance of grace, but rather those who discuss before the ignorant mob difficulties which would hardly be suitable in the universities. . . . to discuss those difficulties of the scholastics about notions, about reality and relations, before a mixed crowd, you should consider how much good it would do. (p. 123) And then, as for what you say about the clarity of Scripture, would that it were absolutely true! But those who laboured mightily to explain it for many centuries in the past were of quite another opinion.
(p. 129)