Blessed Bartolo Longo Society Australia 🙏🇦🇺

The Bl. Bartolo Longo Society makes acts of reparation, to preserve Catholic heritage and culture.

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This week, the Vatican honors many, including Blessed Bartolo Longo, a former self-proclaimed Satanist. @MattBunson shares insights into why these individuals are being recognized and why they remain relevant today.

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Pope Francis approved the canonization of Blessed Bartolo Longo, the satanist and anti-clerical lawyer who converted to the Catholic faith to spread the Holy Rosary's devotion and to dedicate his life to the poorest. Read more 👉🏻 https://t.co/wyehpm0VU5

[Bree Solstad @BreeSolstad]

In case you missed it, Blessed Bartolo Longo has been cleared for canonization!

No matter how far you fall into the pit, you can be brought back to the light.

Not by your own power but by He who created you. Glory to Jesus Christ!

Do you know the story of Bartolo Longo?

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[Blessed Bartolo Longo Society Australia 🙏🇦🇺 @Bl_LongoSociety]

This week, the Vatican honors many, including Blessed Bartolo Longo, a former self-proclaimed Satanist:
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#Catholic #Christianity #saints #news

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The date of our baptism is important, he said, and it should be celebrated “as if it were a new birthday: that of our birth in the Spirit of God.”
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Today the Church remembers St Francis de Sales – a bishop and the patron saint of journalists – a man who teaches that “devotion (to God) is meant for everyone, in every situation”.
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The Sydney Centre for Evangelisation (SCE) is gearing up to welcome 1,000 men for its annual St Joseph Camino Walk in the picturesque Sutherland Shire for the largest annual men’s pilgrimage in Australia.
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"Since publishing 'Riddles of the Shroud—Questions Science Can’t Answer' in 2022, I have come across more reasons than ever to believe in the authenticity of this strip of ancient linen cloth carrying an impossible photographic image of Jesus in death."
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"Mixing Catholics, convicts, Masons and police was a hot pot for a social stew which Governor Macquarie ironically recognised. When he was laying the foundation stone of what became St Mary’s Cathedral, he made a joke about being a mason!"
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More than half a million pilgrims crossed the threshold of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica in the first two weeks after Pope Francis opened it.
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Our culture has become a spiritual desert, lacking the living water the Lord offers, with so many lost in the isolation of individualism and thirsting for something more.
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Pope Francis said: “The Christian life is a constant journey made of hope, made of seeking; a journey that, like that of the Magi, goes on even when the star momentarily disappears from sight. Trust in the Lord: this is the key... Jesus never disappoints.”
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God has made it quite clear that we can attain all the graces necessary for salvation, and how do we begin and persevere with such a task? By asking.
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For millennia, Christians have gone on pilgrimage, not just to visit a place and admire its nature, art or history … but to seek and immerse themselves in the places touched by the presence of God.
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The Archdiocese of Melbourne has revealed the 13 churches and shrines within the Archdiocese that will be designated Pilgrim Places for the purposes of the 2025 Jubilee, with the majestic St Patrick’s Cathedral serving as the principal Pilgrim Place.
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We celebrate Christmas with our churches, family and friends – a joyous respite from a world suffering wars and cultural conflicts, and adrift from its divine Creator.
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Great public intellectuals are not common in the self-consciously pragmatic culture of Australia. Even rarer is it to find a philosopher who draws from an unapologetically faith-informed mind and hope-guided experience of long-term chronic pain & illness.
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The Very Reverend Dr Gerald Gleeson has been appointed as Australian Catholic University’s Senior Advisor, Catholic Identity and Mission, a newly created role.
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In today’s world, which is losing its understanding of the nature of the human person and the natural family, the Holy Family is the model for our family as a safe haven, a spiritual garden.
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‘Oh, how I wish we would only remember that we are but travellers here.’
– Mary MacKillop, 17 November 1866
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