CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦

Disciple, husband, father, son, brother, Cardinal, Thunder & Blues Fan!

[CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦 @Catholicfrank]

@FeserEdward Congratulations Ed!

[CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦 @Catholicfrank]

@CatholicPods Beautifully said. Faith or despair is the test. Peter is the Final Boss.

[Uche is a girl 🇻🇦 @UcheMaryOkoli]

He did not make himself the Successor of St. Peter.

God entrusted him with that office.

No smear campaign against the Pope will ever be accepted by this user.

It is our collective responsibility as Catholics to pray for the Holy Father.

If you think he has erred, pray for him.

If he appoints people whose character you question, pray for him.

Whatever your concerns may be, pray for him.

He is the Successor of St. Peter. It is wise to remain with Peter, remain in communion with Rome, and pray for the one Christ has entrusted with shepherding His Church.

As St. Catherine of Siena wrote:

"Even if the Pope were Satan incarnate, we ought not to raise our heads against him, but rather to rest in obedience."

Pray for Peter.

Stay with Peter.

Stay with Rome.

[CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦 @Catholicfrank]

Lord, help me to be like St. Benedict, knowingly ignorant and wisely unlearned in the ways of the world that lead to empty happiness.

[CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦 @Catholicfrank]

@TheStaad Stay the course Joey. It's the only way to remain in the one, holy, catholic Church. God bless you.

[CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦 @Catholicfrank]

@An3rchy @honorablesaint Interesting.

[CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦 @Catholicfrank]

@SullyNFC @honorablesaint Actually he seemed to be asking out of genuine curiosity without a holier than thou attitude. We have to be careful to not look for offense where there is none intended. It's the only way to true communion.

[CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦 @Catholicfrank]

@An3rchy @honorablesaint Our NO priest does the double genuflection. It helps frame the moment of adoration nicely.

[CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦 @Catholicfrank]

@CatholicPebble Blessings Pebble

[CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦 @Catholicfrank]

@TradMonarchism More like Tertullian

[Fr. Kelly Edwards @kelly_o_edwards]

Long day?

Prayer.

Then, if you want, moderately and appropriately, Cold Beer.

If we rest in God first, I promise the beer will taste better. (Or you may even discover that you don't actually even want it.)

[Christine Niles @ChristineNiles1]

Comment from Monica Miller: "Having grown up in both sedevacantism and SSPX I can say that this holier-than-thou attitude does exist. And I am ashamed that I had that chip on my shoulder.

And yes, Fr. Daniel Cooper (SSPX) told me that abuse including sexual molestation is very high in traditional Catholic families.

As a child I learned about all the problems church. Rather than how to develop my spiritual life. I grew up in such fear, that I have trouble trusting. After becoming an adult, I considered leaving the Church.

Attending FSSP as well as N.O. masses has opened my eyes. There really are holy priests who celebrate reverent masses. I feel such devastation by the lack of charity of my former SSPX friends who now believe I am going to hell after leaving the SSPX.

I believe that no matter how holy a pope we may have in the future, these people will deny his authority. There can be no solution for them."

https://t.co/79byAs0WSj

[CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦 @Catholicfrank]

@KoobSarah27189 @FatherChenal Sadly you are getting your information from a source that is twisting everything into disinformation.

[CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦 @Catholicfrank]

@KoobSarah27189 @FatherChenal I'm sorry you've been led to believe the Roman Church does not believe that Christ is God. It's just not true. Sectarian rivalries have led to all out false witness.

[CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦 @Catholicfrank]

@FatherChenal @CatholicPebble Father, I don't understand. I do know who we call The Accuser. Yes, I did make an accusation. And you just made your own about the Pope. I'm not sure I understand your point.

[Gilbert Dabari @SkyVirginSon]

THE NARROW GATE THAT LEADS TO HEAVEN

One of the most frightening things Jesus Christ ever said is rarely talked about.

“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few.” (Matthew 7:13–14)

Here is the part most Christians never pause to consider:
Jesus did not say the narrow gate is hard to find.
He said few actually enter it.

Not because God hides it.
Not because salvation is complicated.
But because the narrow way demands a life that costs you something.

THE SHOCKING TRUTH JESUS IS POINTING AT

• Many Christians know about Jesus.
• Many go to church.
• Many say “Lord, Lord.”
• But few actually surrender their lives to Him.

The wide road is crowded because it allows:

• Faith without repentance
• Christianity without obedience
• Worship without transformation
• Jesus without the Cross

The narrow road demands:

• Purity in a world of compromise
• Prayer in a world of distraction
• Holiness in a world of sin
• Sacrifice in a world of comfort
• Love in a world of hatred
• Forgiveness in a world of revenge

The narrow gate is not small because God is cruel.
It is small because sin cannot fit through it.

THE MOST TERRIFYING PART OF JESUS’ WARNING

Jesus says “many” are on the road to destruction.
Not a few.
Not the obviously wicked.
Many.

Meaning:
Hell will be full of people who thought they were safe.

People who believed in Jesus but never followed Him.
People who loved His blessings but rejected His commandments.
People who wanted Heaven but not holiness.

This is why Jesus says:
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”
(Matthew 7:21)

SO WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ENTER THE NARROW GATE?

It means choosing Jesus even when it costs you everything.

It means:

• Choosing truth over popularity
• Choosing purity over pleasure
• Choosing prayer over entertainment
• Choosing humility over pride
• Choosing forgiveness over bitterness
• Choosing the Cross over comfort

It means letting Jesus cut away everything in you that cannot enter Heaven.

A SOBERING REALITY AND A BEAUTIFUL HOPE

The narrow gate is hard.
But it is not impossible.

Because Jesus Himself walks the road with you.
He strengthens you.
He purifies you.
He carries you when you fall.
He never abandons those who choose Him.

The narrow way is not walked by the perfect.
It is walked by the surrendered.

A FINAL CALL TO THE HEART

If you want Heaven, you must want holiness.
If you want eternal life, you must want Jesus more than the world.
If you want the narrow gate, you must reject the wide road.

Few choose it.
But those who do will see God.

And that is worth everything.

[CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦 @Catholicfrank]

@Catholicizm1 I was so distracted by the far left I didn't have the imagination for the abuses of the far right. Shame on me.

[CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦 @Catholicfrank]

@FatherChenal If you're equating blind obedience with disobeying my conscience, those as different things. We are required to follow our conscience & also to form it properly. My conscience is formed to know that if I want to belong to Christ's one Church, I must submit to the Pope of Rome.

[CatholicFrank |-/🇻🇦 @Catholicfrank]

@FatherChenal I didn't see a question Father. I have an obligation to religious obedience to the Holy Father. It isn't blind. It just isn't Donatist.