Fr. Harrison Ayre
@frharrison.bsky.social
Pastor of St Peter's in Nanaimo, BC. Doctoral Candidate at St Mary’s, Twickenham. Amazon Wishlist for Doctoral Studies in the link. Co-host of Clerically Speaking
I see bluesky isn’t exempt from vicious people, sadly.
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I see bluesky isn’t exempt from vicious people, sadly.
The Compendium of CST is so good:
Basic rule behind every CST Principle:
"God is our Ultimate End and society must provide for us to reach that end"
Basic rule behind every CST Principle:
"God is our Ultimate End and society must provide for us to reach that end"
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Compendium of CST is so good:
Basic rule behind every CST Principle:
"God is our Ultimate End and society must provide for us to reach that end"
Basic rule behind every CST Principle:
"God is our Ultimate End and society must provide for us to reach that end"
The biggest mistake instrumental political thought makes re: Russia &Ukraine is that this is about political or ideological ends. Partially, but it is not the essence.
It is a question about civilizational roles and how Russia understands itself in the world-historical narrative
It is a question about civilizational roles and how Russia understands itself in the world-historical narrative
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The biggest mistake instrumental political thought makes re: Russia &Ukraine is that this is about political or ideological ends. Partially, but it is not the essence.
It is a question about civilizational roles and how Russia understands itself in the world-historical narrative
It is a question about civilizational roles and how Russia understands itself in the world-historical narrative
take a little bit of 'West is community-movement', sprinkle in cultures seeing themselves as the true instantiation of the West, and douse it with so much eschatology, and you get nationalism.
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
take a little bit of 'West is community-movement', sprinkle in cultures seeing themselves as the true instantiation of the West, and douse it with so much eschatology, and you get nationalism.
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side note but a while ago a friend explained to me that Lonergan’s “good of order” is just his phrase for the common good and it was so obvious and so helpful that I got mad for a good fifteen minutes
The Church: You ever think about how there aren’t just individual goods but also a genuinely distinct good of order by which certain goods systematically recur?
me: No.
The Church: Well guess what.
me: No.
The Church: Well guess what.
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
side note but a while ago a friend explained to me that Lonergan’s “good of order” is just his phrase for the common good and it was so obvious and so helpful that I got mad for a good fifteen minutes
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Integralists seem to make the (frankly quite intuitive) mistake of thinking that cultures & societies sublate, & so order persons.
Lonergan, at least, presses the more correct, but less-intuitive position that it’s the other way around: normatively, persons sublate & order society/culture
Lonergan, at least, presses the more correct, but less-intuitive position that it’s the other way around: normatively, persons sublate & order society/culture
lol. amen!
I’ve gotten…obsessed with the social order question in part because I think (writing it now) Ratzinger’s habilitation is actually contributing quite intentionally towards a vision of social order (but not in an integralist way. integralists just get order so wrong)
I’ve gotten…obsessed with the social order question in part because I think (writing it now) Ratzinger’s habilitation is actually contributing quite intentionally towards a vision of social order (but not in an integralist way. integralists just get order so wrong)
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Integralists seem to make the (frankly quite intuitive) mistake of thinking that cultures & societies sublate, & so order persons.
Lonergan, at least, presses the more correct, but less-intuitive position that it’s the other way around: normatively, persons sublate & order society/culture
Lonergan, at least, presses the more correct, but less-intuitive position that it’s the other way around: normatively, persons sublate & order society/culture
Catholic Social Teaching for intro to theology tomorrow.
AKA: I finally get to talk about the history of social order.
(1 hour history, 1 hour principles of CST).
AKA: I finally get to talk about the history of social order.
(1 hour history, 1 hour principles of CST).
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Catholic Social Teaching for intro to theology tomorrow.
AKA: I finally get to talk about the history of social order.
(1 hour history, 1 hour principles of CST).
AKA: I finally get to talk about the history of social order.
(1 hour history, 1 hour principles of CST).
I just discovered ElevenReader and hearing portions of my thesis in the voice of Burt Reynolds is oddly incredibly satisfying.
November 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I just discovered ElevenReader and hearing portions of my thesis in the voice of Burt Reynolds is oddly incredibly satisfying.
We read Newman’s Meditation 16 (On The Mental Sufferings of Christ) for the Christology seminar this week.
What is impactful spiritually is the way he navigates will and emotion in Jesus, implying instruction on our sense of this relation. 1/2
What is impactful spiritually is the way he navigates will and emotion in Jesus, implying instruction on our sense of this relation. 1/2
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
We read Newman’s Meditation 16 (On The Mental Sufferings of Christ) for the Christology seminar this week.
What is impactful spiritually is the way he navigates will and emotion in Jesus, implying instruction on our sense of this relation. 1/2
What is impactful spiritually is the way he navigates will and emotion in Jesus, implying instruction on our sense of this relation. 1/2
Chernobyl is a perfect miniseries
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Chernobyl is a perfect miniseries
browing Maritain’s “Integral humanism” and happened upon a whole section on the Social Philosophy of Alois Dempf.
God is good :)
God is good :)
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
browing Maritain’s “Integral humanism” and happened upon a whole section on the Social Philosophy of Alois Dempf.
God is good :)
God is good :)
ive been sitting on image #1 the last 2.5 months. splurged and got image #2.
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
ive been sitting on image #1 the last 2.5 months. splurged and got image #2.
the last class of Intro to Theology is in a few weeks. Promised them we would do 'contemporary theological questions'. Almost unanimously they wanted me to talk about AI. Should be fun.
But also pulling 'teachers prerogative' and giving them a 30 minute lecture on my doctoral research :)
But also pulling 'teachers prerogative' and giving them a 30 minute lecture on my doctoral research :)
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
the last class of Intro to Theology is in a few weeks. Promised them we would do 'contemporary theological questions'. Almost unanimously they wanted me to talk about AI. Should be fun.
But also pulling 'teachers prerogative' and giving them a 30 minute lecture on my doctoral research :)
But also pulling 'teachers prerogative' and giving them a 30 minute lecture on my doctoral research :)
Using the phrase 'struggle bus' in my Intro to Theology (Moral theology unit) class today in honour of @catholickungfu.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Using the phrase 'struggle bus' in my Intro to Theology (Moral theology unit) class today in honour of @catholickungfu.bsky.social
holy crap just realized something kinda huge that is gonna really make chapter 1 that much more explosive. wooooo boy.
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
holy crap just realized something kinda huge that is gonna really make chapter 1 that much more explosive. wooooo boy.
man Pope Leo’s statement on cinema is 🔥🔥🔥. especially this first line in this paragraph
November 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
man Pope Leo’s statement on cinema is 🔥🔥🔥. especially this first line in this paragraph
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Gotta be on the struggle bus together or not at all. Eucharist says so. And makes it so.
the biggest sign to me of the “protestant spirit” in american catholicism is that it emphasizes doctrinal purity over historical continuity.
what makes catholics catholic is that we are united to a bishop. even if he is a sinner or theologically suspect: his office is the anchor
what makes catholics catholic is that we are united to a bishop. even if he is a sinner or theologically suspect: his office is the anchor
November 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Gotta be on the struggle bus together or not at all. Eucharist says so. And makes it so.
the biggest sign to me of the “protestant spirit” in american catholicism is that it emphasizes doctrinal purity over historical continuity.
what makes catholics catholic is that we are united to a bishop. even if he is a sinner or theologically suspect: his office is the anchor
what makes catholics catholic is that we are united to a bishop. even if he is a sinner or theologically suspect: his office is the anchor
November 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
the biggest sign to me of the “protestant spirit” in american catholicism is that it emphasizes doctrinal purity over historical continuity.
what makes catholics catholic is that we are united to a bishop. even if he is a sinner or theologically suspect: his office is the anchor
what makes catholics catholic is that we are united to a bishop. even if he is a sinner or theologically suspect: his office is the anchor
about to send in 12k words to my advisors.
I cant wait till they tell me I have to cut this portion down by 5k words…*sigh*
I cant wait till they tell me I have to cut this portion down by 5k words…*sigh*
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
about to send in 12k words to my advisors.
I cant wait till they tell me I have to cut this portion down by 5k words…*sigh*
I cant wait till they tell me I have to cut this portion down by 5k words…*sigh*
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@bpdflores.bsky.social suggested at the end of his Q and A that everyone say this prayer after your usual prayers each night and promised it would change you for the better
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
@bpdflores.bsky.social suggested at the end of his Q and A that everyone say this prayer after your usual prayers each night and promised it would change you for the better
If semi-Pelagianism can exist.
So too can semi-Plagiarism
So too can semi-Plagiarism
November 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If semi-Pelagianism can exist.
So too can semi-Plagiarism
So too can semi-Plagiarism
Online translation tool translating "Analogienfolge"
Tool: cultivating of analogies
My brain goes: "Hey Cletus. We gotta go to the analogy farm and cultivate the analogies we got sproutin' there. Yee haw!"
"Analogy farm" may be stuck in my brain forever.
Tool: cultivating of analogies
My brain goes: "Hey Cletus. We gotta go to the analogy farm and cultivate the analogies we got sproutin' there. Yee haw!"
"Analogy farm" may be stuck in my brain forever.
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Online translation tool translating "Analogienfolge"
Tool: cultivating of analogies
My brain goes: "Hey Cletus. We gotta go to the analogy farm and cultivate the analogies we got sproutin' there. Yee haw!"
"Analogy farm" may be stuck in my brain forever.
Tool: cultivating of analogies
My brain goes: "Hey Cletus. We gotta go to the analogy farm and cultivate the analogies we got sproutin' there. Yee haw!"
"Analogy farm" may be stuck in my brain forever.
We think we have studied and understood Ratzinger.
We haven’t.
Because we haven’t studied the history and intellectual zeitgeist he is an active player in at all.
He is so much more interesting when you see the conversations he is a part of that no one highlights.
We haven’t.
Because we haven’t studied the history and intellectual zeitgeist he is an active player in at all.
He is so much more interesting when you see the conversations he is a part of that no one highlights.
November 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
We think we have studied and understood Ratzinger.
We haven’t.
Because we haven’t studied the history and intellectual zeitgeist he is an active player in at all.
He is so much more interesting when you see the conversations he is a part of that no one highlights.
We haven’t.
Because we haven’t studied the history and intellectual zeitgeist he is an active player in at all.
He is so much more interesting when you see the conversations he is a part of that no one highlights.
I used my “Medieval ends my post-Reformation means” quip about Adenauer with my second supervisor today. he laughed and gave me a grin and said “oh I like that”. he saw the back hand to Deneen immediately. it felt great
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I used my “Medieval ends my post-Reformation means” quip about Adenauer with my second supervisor today. he laughed and gave me a grin and said “oh I like that”. he saw the back hand to Deneen immediately. it felt great