Members of the Dominican Confraternity of the Angelic Warfare are united in pursuit of chastity and purity through the intercession of Our Lady and St. Thomas.
I was happy to talk about how Dominican friars helped bring me into the Church and support me as a Catholic.
They're raising money for vocations, with a matching fund through Dec. 31: https://t.co/GW24gmnRs7
Pope St. John Paul II prophetically replied to the ideology of gender:
"The human person cannot be reduced to a freedom which is self-designing, but entails a particular spiritual and bodily structure..." Veritatis Splendor, 48
#SpiritofTruthNovena Day 9:
Pope John Paul II: "The splendour of truth shines forth in all the works of the Creator...Truth enlightens man's intelligence and shapes his freedom, leading him to know and love the Lord. " (Veritatis Splendour)
#SpiritofTruthNovena Day 8: "In order to remain spiritually free men, we must live in truth. To live in truth means to bear witness to it to the outside world at all times and in all situations. The truth is unchangeable." - Bl. Jerzy Popieluszko
Pope John Paul II: "What happens by virtue of the gift of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, of freedom and of love is this: in Him the ability is given to us to interiorize the law, to perceive it and to live it as the power of true personal freedom" (Veritatis Splendor, 83)
#SpiritofTruthNovena Day 7: 1 John 4:6 "We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us and he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of error."
John Paul II: "The supreme and complete self-revelation of God, accomplished in Christ and witnessed to by the preaching of the Apostles, continues to be manifested in the Church through the mission of the invisible Counselor, the Spirit of truth." (Dominum et Vificantem, 7)
John Paul II: "To remain in the truth and to act in the truth is the essential task of Christ's apostles and disciples...Always and everywhere, even in the ceaselessly changing events of the life of humanity, the 'Spirit of truth' will guide the Church 'into all the truth'"
Pope St. John Paul II taught us: "In convincing the world concerning sin the Spirit of Truth comes into contact with the voice of human consciences... the suffering of the conscience becomes particularly profound, but also particularly salvific." (Dominum et Vivificantem, 44-5)
#SpiritofTruthNovena Day 4 John 16:7-11: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convince the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment...
The Lord promised to send the Spirit of Truth to ratify within our spirits the truth of the gospel. The grace of the Holy Spirit is an "interior light that leads to assent" (St. Thomas Aquinas). Let us pray together for the Spirit to illuminate every person in the Church.
#SpiritofTruthNovena Day 3: Jn. 15:26-7: But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me; and you also are witnesses...
The tendency of fallen human beings is to forget the Word of God, but the Lord promises to send the Spirit to awaken our memory of the Word and to understand. "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." (Heb. 13:8)
#SpiritofTruthNovena Day 2:
Jn.14:26: " But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you."