The Assumption of Mary lifts our hearts with hope and joy.
It reminds us of God’s promise of eternal life and the glory that awaits those who remain faithful.
Mary’s Assumption inspires us to trust in God and follow her example of faith, humility, and love.
@acidigital "Tudo que ligardes na terra será ligado no Céu, tudo que desligardes na terra, será desligado no Céu "Poder das chaves dado por Jesus ao 1° Papa São Pedro e seus sucessores. "Eu creio na Santa e Una igreja Católica Apostólica Romana", profissão de fé. Não em alguma fraternidade.
@acidigital "Nem todos que disserem: Senhor, Senhor, entrarão no reino dos Céus, disse Jesus. Então, só os que permanecerem fiéis a Ele, não a quem desobedece.
Às vezes, experimentamos a noite escura da alma, a dificuldade em acreditar, o cansaço do espírito, a sensação de inadequação diante do chamado do Evangelho, a amargura de nossas falhas. Essas noites são um lugar de bênção, um espaço para renascer. #ViagemApostólica
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
You should stop studying mathematics and statistics and start studying metaphysics. Maybe then you would understand what being, essence, and entity truly mean. The Pope isn't 'guessing' the future of technology; he is stating a fundamental ontological truth: artificial intelligence is complex syntax, not semantics. A simulation of a feeling is just mathematical data, not an actual conscious experience. No matter how sophisticated the math becomes, a mechanism will never be a living being.
Repost of excellent insight by Debra Gagnon Kelly via Facebook
Pope Leo XIV may have just fulfilled a 100-year-old prophecy.
And almost nobody is connecting the dots.
To understand why this matters, you have to go back to October 13, 1884.
After celebrating Mass that morning, Pope Leo XIII suddenly collapsed at the foot of the altar. His face turned ashen white. For about ten minutes, he stood frozen in what witnesses described as a trance.
When he finally came to, he revealed what he had seen.
A vision of Satan, boasting before the throne of God:
“I can destroy your Church.”
And the Lord replied:
“You have the time. You have the power. Do with them what you will.”
Most accounts say Satan was granted somewhere between 75 and 100 years.
Leo XIII walked straight from the chapel to his office and composed the Prayer to St. Michael — and ordered it prayed at the end of every Low Mass throughout the world.
He knew what was coming.
Now look at the last hundred years.
Two world wars. Mass apostasy.
The collapse of the family. Catholic divorce rates matching the secular world. Liturgical abuse. Scandal at every level of the hierarchy. Atheistic communism sweeping nations.
Exactly what Satan had threatened.
But here’s where it gets interesting.
Exactly 33 years to the day after Leo XIII’s vision — October 13, 1917 — roughly 70,000 people gathered in a field in Fatima, Portugal, and witnessed the Miracle of the Sun.
Our Lady had appeared to three shepherd children months earlier. She warned that Russia would spread her errors throughout the world.
She told them the final battle between Christ and Satan would be over marriage and the family.
Russia became the first nation to legalize ab*rtion. The first to legalize no-fault divorce. The birthplace of modern atheism and communism.
She was right about everything.
But she also made a promise:
“In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”
Now watch the dates closer:
→ October 13, 1884 — Leo XIII’s vision
→ May 13, 1917 — Our Lady appears at Fatima
→ October 13, 1917 — the Miracle of the Sun
→ May 13, 1981 — an assassin shoots John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square. He survives, the bullets narrowly missing his vital organs, and credits Our Lady of Fatima with saving his life.
→ March 25, 1984 — John Paul II consecrates the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
And now, in our own time:
On May 8, 2025, a new Pope steps onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica.
He chooses the name Leo XIV — explicitly stating he chose it in part to honor Leo XIII.
The same Pope who started this whole story.
Five days later, on May 13, 2025 — the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima — the world reflects on his election as the bookend to a century-long battle.
The bookend has arrived. And the data is staggering.
In 2025, nearly 160,000 adults entered the Catholic Church in the United States — the highest level in twenty years. By 2026, the average U.S. diocese reported a 38% increase in converts over the previous year.
Los Angeles received 8,598 people into the Church.
The Archdiocese of Paris welcomed its largest group of converts ever.
France’s adult baptisms have tripled in a decade.
England. Norway.
Australia. Belgium. Ireland.
Everywhere, the same story.
The 100 years are closing. The triumph is beginning. And you are alive to see it.
Our Lady didn’t perform the greatest public miracle since the parting of the Red Sea for nothing. She came with two requests:
1. Pray the Rosary daily.
2. Pray St Michael's Prayer often.
That’s it. That’s how you join the winning side of the greatest spiritual victory in centuries.
50 to 100 years from now, I believe most of the first world will be Catholic again.
The question isn’t whether the triumph is coming.
The question is whether you’ll be one of the souls who helped bring it about — or one who watched from the sidelines.
Catholic Concept of Purgatory.
- Baptized Christian who dies in a state of grace = Heaven (immediately or after purification)
- Baptized Christian with venial sins or remaining attachment to sin at death = Purgatory, then Heaven
- Baptized Christian who dies in unrepented mortal sins = Hell
- Baptized Christian who committed mortal sins but repented and returned to grace before death = can be saved
- Person who knowingly and deliberately rejects God and His truth, and dies unrepentant = Hell
- Someone who never truly knew Christ or the Gospel through no fault of their own, but sincerely sought truth and tried to do God’s will according to conscience = may be saved by God’s grace and mercy
That is a fair simplified presentation of Catholic soteriology.
You will be purified as through fire (1 Cor 3:15).
In the Old Testament is Isaiah. In Isaiah 6:6-7, a seraphim takes a burning coal from the altar and touches Isaiah's lips, saying: "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin, ATONED for." This Old Testament image beautifully prefigures the purifying fire of Purgatory, a cleansing that hurts but heals, removing every last trace of sin and attachment so the soul can stand holy and joyful in God’s presence.
''Precisamos rezar todos os dias não é por que somos bons, pelo contrário é porque somos fracos. Ai de nós se não rezarmos todos os dias.”
- Frei Gilson