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🕊 Yes God loves you, do you love Him? John 14:15

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

"Return to your first Love" - #Repent #Catholic #USA

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

All-powerful and ever-living God,
at morning, noon, and evening we pray:
cast out from our hearts the darkness of sin
and bring us to the light of your truth,
Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
— Amen.

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

This is the one whom I approve:
   the lowly and afflicted man who trembles at my word.

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

READING
Isaiah 66:1-2

      Thus says the Lord:
The heavens are my throne,
   and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house can you build for me;
   what is to be my resting place?
My hand made all these things
   when all of them came to be, says the Lord.

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

God, + come to my assistance.
— Lord, make haste to help me.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
— as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.

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[𝕭𝖎𝖘𝖍𝖔𝖕 𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖊𝖗𝖙 𝕽𝖊𝖊𝖉 𓀦 @BpRobertReed]

Beginning today:
the Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus:

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

The horror film “Obsession” is a surprise hit at the box office this summer. Made for around one million dollars, it has already grossed over a hundred and fifty million. But it's not only a financial success; it's also a spiritually quite interesting film. What drives the plot is a young man's ardent desire to be loved by the woman whom he loves. Seeking a gift for Nikki in an occult store, Bear finds a device that advertises itself as “One Wish Willow.” If you break the stick and make a wish, it will come true. In his desperation, he follows the instructions, and it works like a charm. The previously diffident Nikki becomes totally devoted to the delighted Bear. All his dreams, it seems, have come true. Then things go, shall we say, south. I won't spoil any more of the plot. Suffice it to say that Nikki proceeds to devour the young man and push him toward despair.

Throughout this film, I kept thinking of Oscar Wilde's famous line: “the only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting what you want.” The spiritual issue here is one that the masters have recognized for centuries and one that stands at the very heart of Biblical revelation: if you tie your deepest desire to anything or anyone other than God, you will find, not satisfaction, but destruction. This is the moral teaching behind the great Shema prayer: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is Lord alone.” Jesus reiterates this when he says, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and all your strength.” The psalmist affirms it when he sings, “Only in God will my soul be at rest.”

During the rite of Confirmation, I ask the young people a series of questions, the first of which is “do you renounce Satan and all his works and empty promises?” Up and down the ages, Satan has made the same empty promise: I will give you something less than God and it will make you happy. In point of fact, it will ruin you, and the more you seek to acquire it, the unhappier you will become. What becomes clear in the course of “Obsession” is that the owners of the occult shop where Bear bought the fateful wish-willow are in fact involved with very dark spiritual powers. In my conversations with exorcists, I hear over and over again that those who get ensnared by the devil commence by dabbling in the occult.

“Obsession” is a good horror movie. If you like the genre, and you're not too squeamish, go see it. For it won't just scare you; it will offer some important spiritual truths.

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
— Amen.

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

Father,
you have made the blood of the martyrs the seed of Christians.
May the witness of Saint Charles and his companions
and their loyalty to Christ in the face of torture
inspire countless men and women
to live the Christian faith.
Grant this through our Lord Jesus

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

READING
1 Peter 4:13-14

Rejoice, beloved, in the measure that you share Christ’s sufferings. When his glory is revealed, you will rejoice exultantly. Happy are you when you are insulted for the sake of Christ, for then God’s Spirit in its glory has come to rest on you.

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

God, + come to my assistance.
— Lord, make haste to help me.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
— as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.

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[U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops @USCCB]

Reading for the Thursday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time https://t.co/T0YwBisMSE

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#Catholic #Priest

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[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
— Amen.

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

Father,
you have made the blood of the martyrs the seed of Christians.
May the witness of Saint Charles and his companions
and their loyalty to Christ in the face of torture
inspire countless men and women
to live the Christian faith.
Grant this through our Lord Jesus

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

have received from him. As we have shared much in the suffering of Christ, so through Christ do we share abundantly in his consolation.

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

READING
2 Corinthians 1:3-5

Praised be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation! He comforts us in all our afflictions and thus enables us to comfort those who are in trouble, with the same consolation we

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

God, + come to my assistance.
— Lord, make haste to help me.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
— as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.

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[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

and ever.
— Amen.

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

Almighty God,
we give you thanks
for bringing us safely
to this evening hour.
May this lifting up of our hands in prayer
be a sacrifice pleasing in your sight.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

we shall be like him,
for we shall see him as he is.

[Peg 🇻🇦 @CatholicForLife]

READING
1 John 3:1-3

See what love the Father has bestowed on us
in letting us be called the children of God.
Yet that is what we are.
Dearly beloved,
we are God’s children now;
what we shall later be has not yet come to light.
We know that when it comes to light