Trees love Jesus 😂? This is the Sinukuan tree from the Philippines, where it is known locally for a striking feature: when some of its branches are cut, the cross-section appears to reveal the shape of a cross.
The tree is especially associated with Guimaras, where local accounts describe it as a rare and unusual natural sign. Some people have reportedly carved pieces of its wood and kept them as amulets, especially around Good Friday, believing the cross-shaped pattern carried protection.
For Christians, the meaning must be understood properly.
The wood itself has no power apart from God. A cross-shaped pattern in a tree should not be treated as magic.
Its proper meaning is symbolic.
It points back to the Cross of Christ, the instrument of our salvation and the sign by which Christians remember the Passion, death, and victory of Our Lord.
The Philippines has one of the deepest Catholic cultures in Asia. It is not surprising that a natural cross found in wood would be read through Christian eyes, especially in a country where the Cross is present in homes, churches, processions, schools, roadsides, and public life.
Creation often gives man reminders.
A branch marked with the shape of the Cross should lead the soul to reverence, gratitude, and faith, not superstition.
The Cross belongs at the center.
This speech goes so hard:
“Gentlemen, I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative.”
— Hilaire Belloc responding to his anti-Catholic opponent for MP
Watch the most compelling moments of the Holy Father's trip to Spain, including two children who captivated hearts and minds around the world.
Pope Leo is back in Vatican City after a whirlwind trip to Spain, but Catholics are still poring over the many moments that stirred hearts during his six-day trip, including the captivating conversations he had with children.
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Saint Stephen will remain
All he lost he has regained
Talk about your plenty
Talk about your ills
One man gathers
What another man spills
Saints Stephen and Paul
Orate Pro Nobis
Iaminin cell adhesion molecule (what holds us together) is shaped like a Cross.
"He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together" - Colossians 1,17
BREAKING: Planned Parenthood hands teenagers cross-sex hormones, then abandons them when they regret it.
When @ChloeCole called undercover as someone seeking detransition help, she was turned away every time.
Planned Parenthood kills babies and harms young people.
Defund Planned Parenthood!
Dr. John Bergsma: “Salvation by ‘faith alone’ is unbiblical. St. Paul, in Romans, sounds like James (‘not by faith alone’): ‘It is the DOERS of the law who will be justified’. Paul definitely says we’re saved by faith, but he never says by ‘faith alone’.”
A peasant girl became a legendary military strategist in the Middle Ages.
That girl was none other than Joan of Arc. And she was killed for her divine brilliance.
We want to inspire young Catholics with heroic stories like hers. That's why we're creating the CORE confirmation program.
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For those seeing this for the First time, this is the Chapel of the Finding of the Cross.
It is the deepest underground point located inside an ancient stone quarry and cistern.
The Church built upon it is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.