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[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

When the Turks found the Greek bishop Dionysios the Philosopher in 1611, they flayed him alive, stuffed his skin with straw, and paraded it from city to city. Eventually, this "attraction" reached Constantinople, where it was received with enthusiasm by the muslims.

When it passed below the sultan's seraglio, the sultan, hearing the commotion, rose from his throne and stepped out onto the balcony to see what was happening.

Three days later, the muslim Turks also discovered Deli Giorgos and Lambros. They burned Lambros alive, while they crucified Giorgos and, instead of a crown of thorns on his head, they drilled holes into which they placed feathers. Dionysios’s skin, together with the heads of 85 Greek Christian rebels, was sent to Constantinople, where it was thrown into the Sultan’s stables.

Afterwards, Osman Pasha carried out reprisals against the population of Thesprotia, while a climate of terror spread to Ioannina and throughout Epirus.

Many churches and monasteries were destroyed, such as that of Saint Demetrios at Dichouni, and their properties were confiscated. Many inhabitants of these areas were killed, enslaved, or forced to convert to Islam, while most of the survivors scattered into the mountains.

From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until 1822, the Greeks suffered systematically unimaginable tortures and slaughters for their faith. It was barbarism that the human mind cannot imagine or comprehend. These are dark pages of history that the world does not know.

But you have learn and search about what the barbarians did in the name of their god.

- Homer Pavlos

[STORM NEWS 📰🗞️ @storm1news]

🚨 BREAKING: In a MASSIVE victory, the City of Broken Arrow in Oklahoma has REJECTED construction of a massive Islamic Center

Hundreds of patriot residents showed up and made their voices heard!

The final vote was 4-1 in DENIAL.

DEFEND THE WEST! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Libertario 🟨⬛ @QuotesforGoal]

"Estudié mucho el Corán. De ese estudio salí convencido de que, en general, pocas religiones en el mundo han sido tan letales para los hombres como la de Mahoma"

Alexis de Tocqueville

[National Catholic Register @NCRegister]

7 Catholic Habits for a Happy and Holy Life

What Scripture and the saints have taught for centuries, modern science is increasingly confirming: The habits that draw us closer to God can also make us happier and healthier.⤵️

https://t.co/FcTNDhqnnM

[UNA VOCE SEVILLA - Misa Tradicional @UnaVoceSevilla]

Otra verdad incómoda del obispo Mutsaerts:

“Una misa católica no es, ante todo, una reunión en la que la comunidad celebra su unión. Es el sacrificio de Cristo hecho presente sacramentalmente. No es un banquete en forma de sacrificio, sino un sacrificio en forma de banquete.

Eso lo cambia todo. Cuando se cree realmente en ello, surgen por sí solos el respeto, el arrodillarse, el silencio, la belleza, el esmero, la música sacra y un sacerdote que no piensa que la liturgia mejora cuando cuenta espontáneamente una anécdota graciosa”

(Doce cuestiones, verdades incómodas y un camino católico hacia el futuro)

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

A Virginia bishop just did something never done before.

Bishop Michael Burbidge ordered every priest in his diocese to read a letter at Mass, exposing a ballot question that would allow abortion up to birth.

Dismembering fully developed children in the womb is not “healthcare,” it’s murder.

[LifeSiteNews @LifeSite]

Bishop Strickland says the time has come to rebuild the Church and recover what was lost after Vatican II.

"No pope or council possesses the authority to create a new Catholic Faith."

https://t.co/WBVb8lUJjl

[Cedars and Saints🇻🇦 @CedarsAndSaints]

"Same-sex marriage is heresy, not only against faith, but against reason itself."

- Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke

[Texas @1836TexasD]

🤣🤣 https://t.co/r2EMCwcDVw

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

The Charlotte NC high school that painted over a student's tribute to Charlie Kirk, called the police on her, and then publicly branded the 16-year-old girl a VANDAL in front of her entire school...

…was forced to pay her $95,000!!!!!!

Her name is Gabby Stout, she was a junior at Ardrey Kell High School.

Days after Charlie Kirk was assass*nated, she got PERMISSION from the front office to paint the school's spirit rock, a tradition kids have used for years.

She painted a heart. An American flag. "Freedom 1776." And "Live Like Kirk ... John 11:25."

Within HOURS, the school painted over it.

Then the principal emailed the ENTIRE school calling it VANDALISM, claiming she broke the code of conduct, and announcing they had called LAW ENFORCEMENT to open a criminal investigation.

They pulled this teenage girl out of class again and again and then MADE HER WRITE A CONFESSION!!!!

They demanded her PHONE so they could search her call logs.

For painting a rock. With permission.

So her family sued. And they WON.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in June learned it has to pay her $95,000, publicly clear her name, and admit in writing she did NOTHING wrong.

But not only that... they were forced to adopt a brand new student free speech policy because of her.

THIS is how you fight back.

GOD BLESS GABBY STOUT!!!!!!

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Charlie Kirk died with a microphone in his hand—not a gun, a knife, or a grenade, but an instrument of communication. When we stop believing in the dignity of the human person, violence takes its place. A year later, that is still the wound. May he rest in peace.

[UNA VOCE SEVILLA - Misa Tradicional @UnaVoceSevilla]

Otra perla del obispo Mutsaerts: “Cuando los católicos ya casi no comprenden que la Misa hace presente sacramentalmente el sacrificio de Cristo, cuando se debilita la conciencia de lo sagrado, cuando desaparece el silencio, cuando los confesionarios están vacíos, entonces la Iglesia no tiene un problema de gestión. Entonces tiene un problema de fe.

Una nueva estructura de participación no puede resolverlo. Tampoco lo resolverá una nueva asamblea. Quizás sí lo haga un redescubrimiento De Dios”

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

NEW: Cardinal Müller has warned that -- “the Christian West is no longer merely threatened by external forces, but is being eroded by an internal apostasy”

On Islam, he adds: “Muslims do not respect a weak Christianity that is ashamed of the Cross & reduces itself to a charity organization or an environmental watchdog. They respect those who believe”

On @CatholicHerald

[UNA VOCE SEVILLA - Misa Tradicional @UnaVoceSevilla]

Obispo Mutsaerts, Países Bajos: “la Iglesia católica no necesita un sínodo permanente sobre sí misma. Necesita santos. Obispos que enseñen. Sacerdotes que recen. Religiosos que vivan radicalmente para Dios. Padres que transmitan la fe. Jóvenes que descubran que la verdad es más que una opinión. Una liturgia en la que Dios ocupe realmente el lugar central. Confesionarios en los que los pecadores encuentren el perdón. Seminarios en los que se forme a hombres dispuestos a entregar su vida a Cristo. Católicos que no se pregunten constantemente cómo debe adaptarse la Iglesia al mundo, sino que tengan el valor de invitar al mundo a dejarse transformar por Cristo”

Carta abierta a Su Santidad sobre la “Sinodalidad”

[Sign of the Cross @CatholicSOTC]

Archbishop Viganò: "Only a return to the holy Tradition and the holy Mass of all time can stem the current ruin."

https://t.co/gdejGIn1dB

[Texas @1836TexasD]

Absolutely 💯 and pray that all the Muslims leave!

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Sweden has proposed a ban on cousin marriage, and Muslims are FURIOUS and threatening to leave the country.

“Cousin marriage is part of our culture. Banning it is Islamophobic. We’ll be forced to leave the country!”

Should Sweden go through with it?

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

BREAKING: Cardinal Burke has defended the title of Mary as Co-Redemptrix

Full details on @CatholicHerald

“The Blessed Virgin Mary is Co-Redemptrix, that is, she participates in Our Lord’s saving work, in a unique way.”

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Word has just come down that St. Paul’s Cathedral in London—the second most important church in the Anglican world—has imitated Canterbury Cathedral in permitting “raves,” nightclub-like entertainments, to take place in its confines.

The usual reasons for acquiescing to this have been trotted out: reaching out to the young, trying to get with the times, etc. But this development simply shows that the leadership of the Church of England has lost any sense of the crucial distinction between the sacred and the secular.

Across the centuries and across the cultures, our ancestors seem to have intuitively grasped the importance of this demarcation. Whereas the secular is the arena of ordinary experience and activity, the sacred is another realm, a different dimension.

Accordingly, in the properly sacred space, one is lifted out of the conventional and introduced into the numinous. This is why Christian cathedrals are filled with images of the saints and angels and why their interiors are meant first to disorient us and then to reorient us toward the divine.

It is also why, in the initiation rituals of primal peoples, a young person is purposely ripped out of the ordinary and introduced into the mythic and mystic dimension. And it is why, throughout the Bible, sacred spaces are carefully set apart from common spaces.

The contemporary West is, quite literally, the first culture in human history that is in danger of collapsing the sacred into the secular, or better, losing any sense of the difference between the two.

This is doing enormous damage, especially to young people, whose lives have been flattened into a preoccupation with money, worldly success, and material things.

The Church indeed should go out into the secular space to find those who have wandered away from God, but it should then lead those wanderers back to the holy.

Having “raves” in the nave of one of the most sacred spaces in the Christian world is, I’m sad to say, another sign of our pitiful surrender to ideological secularism.