ERA 𝕏 🥇

This ERA is not for lukewarm people. Anti-wokeism.

[ERA 𝕏 🥇 @EraEquix]

Como puerca quedó la vicealcaldesa de Guayaquil @BlancaLopezC_ cuando la concejal de Guayaquil @AnaChoezV le dijo de la manera más respetuosa y elegante que era una mentirosa. La cara del resto de zurdos como el contrabandista @aquilesalvarez tb es épica.😆😁
#LuisaMentirosa

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

The translation by X (which I verified with Google Gemini) says Netanyahu declared the following:

“In the last three years, through joint efforts, we have prevented the destruction of the Third Temple…Together, with the help of God, we will ensure the eternity of Israel.”

Netanyahu seems to be equating the “Third Temple” with the State of Israel, which he speaks of as “eternal.”

But we know who God identifies as His Third and truly “Eternal” Temple: His Son, Jesus Christ, and His Catholic Church, the New Israel spanning both Heaven and earth (which will one day be united), where Jew and Gentile are equal and have access to the Father in Him, through the Holy Spirit.

These are completely incompatible theological claims. There is and can only be one Third Temple. Either Jesus Christ was a liar, or He was the Truth Incarnate. There is no third option. To propose another “Third Temple” is to call Jesus Christ a liar.

The Fathers are unanimous in their understanding of Scripture: the Jews will initially receive Antichrist as a False Messiah, followed—thank God—by their conversion to Christ (likely via the preaching of Enoch and Elijah, or whoever the Two Witnesses are; my own theory being that the state of the Church and hierarchy will likely be so weak during the Passion of the Church that the Two Witnesses have to make up the difference to help the Jews convert).

This False Messiah will undoubtedly at least OFFER to rebuild a “Third Temple” in Jerusalem, as one of his types—Julian the Apostate—tried to do in AD 363.

We are no longer in the realm of “conspiracy theories” (a silly, obscurantist term to begin with).

We get more and more hints about this agenda from a host of gradually unveiling facts, as well as straight from the mouth of Netanyahu, who has likewise said the State of Israel is the “Lion of Judah,” yet another title that belongs to Jesus Christ, the Son of David.

Let those with ears, hear; and those with eyes, see.

[María Isabel Fiallo Flor (Mamela)💙 @MamelaFialloFlo]

¿Me ayudan a viralizar esta HERMOSA 🤩NOTICIA?
Durante la final del mundial la FIFA permitió que sobrevivientes del aborto muestren sus rostros para que el mundo los conozca.
Deben pagar la publicidad. Ayudemos a que tenga más alcance.

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[Benito Horák @benitokatolik]

Fun fact: Most torture devices didn't actually exist in ancient times (they were created in the modern era to raise money for museums). The Church and the Inquisition didn't use anything like that.

[Bree Solstad @BreeSolstad]

The chains that the Angel freed Peter from in Acts 12:7.

Yeah, the Catholic Church has kept them and they’re on display for all to see and venerate…

🤯🤯🤯

[Jose Ignacio Munilla @ObispoMunilla]

No me gusta ser un aguafiestas, pero menos aún que se manipule la fiesta para anestesiar nuestra conciencia...

¡Me alegraré si gana #España, pero no me entristeceré si gana #Argentina!

En mi podcast "Sexto Continente" he recordado que no debemos CONFUNDIR UN BALÓN con el SENTIDO DE LA VIDA: https://t.co/Ic5LD9nzOP

#WeAre26, #FIFAWorldCup, #WorldCup2026, #FWC26

[Santo do dia @Santododia1]

"Permissão para morrer, madre!"

A multidão ficou profundamente sensibilizada com a firmeza, a serenidade e a mansidão das santas. A força de seu testemunho tocou os corações de tal maneira que, ali mesmo, surgiram conversões sinceras e até vocações religiosas e sacerdotais entre os espectadores.

Santas Mártires de Compiègne - Memória, dia 17 de julho.

[Robbert Leusink 🇳🇱 @robbertleusink]

On this day in 1794, the French Revolution guillotined sixteen Carmelite nuns for being nuns

They walked to the scaffold singing the Veni Creator Spiritus.

Each one renewed her vows before mounting the guillotine. The prioress, Mother Teresa of St Augustine, went last. She waited until every sister was dead before she knelt

Robespierre was arrested ten days later. The Terror ended almost immediately after.

The nuns were canonised in 1906.

The ideology that killed them is now taught in your local parish church.

[Memento Mori @TempusFugit4016]

"Permission to die, Mother?"
"Go, my daughter!"

[PaiCatólico 🇻🇦 @Pai_estovir]

Aborto é uma questão de saúde pública.

A saúde pública:

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

SPAIN 🇪🇸

Catholics celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

[Bree Solstad @BreeSolstad]

232 years ago today, 16 humble Catholic Carmelite Nuns effectively put an end to the French Revolution’s Godless reign of terror in France.

How did they do it?

They died singing praises to the Lord and shattered the atheistic delusion that has overwhelmed the psyche of a nation

[Trad West @trad_west_]

The Orion Nebula appeared perfectly framed between two Church Towers

Aura.

[Padre César Piechestein @elcuradetodos]

Muchas bendiciones he recibido de Dios, pero la más grande ha sido mi vocación sacerdotal.
Gracias a todos los que me han acompañado y sostenido durante estos 26 años.
Recen para que persevere hasta el último instante de mi vida.
#UnCuraFeliz #Vocación #ServirAmando

[Padre Javier Olivera Ravasi @PJavierOR]

Tal cual

[Padre Javier Olivera Ravasi @PJavierOR]

The Church is wise. She does not give us devotions merely to stir our emotions; she gives them to lead us to holiness. That is why, today, on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, we do well to ask ourselves a simple question: Why did Our Lady give the Brown Scapular to the Church? Was it simply to wear another religious object? Or was she asking something much deeper of us?
The answer takes us back to the thirteenth century. The Carmelite Order was passing through a terrible crisis. Driven from the Holy Land, surrounded by uncertainty, it seemed that its days were numbered. Its Prior General, St. Simon Stock, did not place his confidence in princes or in clever plans. He turned to the Mother of God. According to the ancient tradition of Carmel, Our Lady appeared to him on this very day, holding the Brown Scapular and promising: "Whoever dies clothed in this Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire."
Those words have comforted Catholics for centuries, but they must be understood correctly. The Blessed Virgin was not handing out a magical object, nor was she offering salvation without conversion. God asks for our cooperation. He gives grace freely, but He also asks us to respond freely. Every gift from Heaven carries with it a responsibility.
The Scapular is, therefore, a sacramental. It is a sign that says, without words, "I belong to Mary, and through Mary I belong to Christ." Think of a religious wearing his habit. The habit does not make him holy, but it reminds him every day of the life he has promised to live. The Brown Scapular is like a small habit placed on the shoulders of the faithful. It reminds us that we should think, speak, and live as children of the Blessed Virgin.
That is why the Church has always taught that wearing the Scapular must be joined to a Christian life. Tradition also speaks of the Sabbatine Privilege, encouraging us to trust in Mary's maternal intercession for those who faithfully wear the Scapular, live chastely according to their state in life, and persevere in prayer. Notice the pattern: faithfulness, prayer, and perseverance. Our Lady never encourages laziness; she always leads us to a deeper love for her Son.
Many of us received the Scapular years ago. Perhaps it was placed around our neck as children. Perhaps we have worn it for decades without giving it much thought. Today is a good day to ask ourselves whether we are wearing only a piece of cloth, or whether we are truly living beneath Mary's mantle. The Scapular should not simply rest on our shoulders; it should shape our hearts.
The Church also reminds us today of the gift of a plenary indulgence, under the usual conditions of Confession, Holy Communion, prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father, and freedom from attachment to sin. What a beautiful reminder that the Church is truly our Mother. She not only teaches us the way to Heaven but also opens for us the treasury of Christ's mercy.
My dear friends, the older we become, the more clearly we see that everything in this world passes away. Health passes. Strength passes. Possessions pass. Only one thing remains: whether we die united to Christ. That is why the Brown Scapular is such a precious gift. Every time we touch it, it reminds us to lift our eyes from this passing world and to remember our eternal homeland.
Let us ask Our Lady of Mount Carmel today for one simple grace: that we may never wear her Scapular carelessly, but always as faithful disciples of her Son. And when the day comes for us to leave this world, may she be at our side, leading us with confidence into the presence of Jesus Christ, to whom be all honor and glory forever.
Amen.
Fr. Javier Olivera Ravasi, SE

[María Isabel Fiallo Flor (Mamela)💙 @MamelaFialloFlo]

¿Nos ayudan a circular esta imagen?
Mientras los medios funcionales al poder intentar instaurar un discurso opuesto, la modesta cuenta del párroco de Gaza @PGabRomanelli nos muestra que los cristianos están con Argentina 🇦🇷

[Universitarios Católicos @UniCatolicos_es]

«El que no sepa rezar
que vaya por esos mares,
verá que pronto lo aprende
sin enseñárselo nadie».

Feliz día de la Virgen del Carmen, patrona de los marineros, pescadores y de la @Armada_esp 🇪🇸

[Padre Javier Olivera Ravasi @PJavierOR]

¡Vamos todavía! La última selección que nos quedó en Hispanoamérica

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is the oldest surviving icon of Christ, the oldest painted portrait of the face of Jesus that has come down to us.

It was made around 1500 years ago, and if you cover one half of the face, then the other, you are looking at two different men...

It's called Christ Pantocrator, a Greek title meaning "Ruler of All," and it was painted in the sixth century, around the year 550, most likely in a workshop in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

It was almost certainly sent as an imperial gift to a remote new monastery being built in the Egyptian desert. It has hung there, in the Monastery of Saint Catherine at the foot of Mount Sinai, ever since.

For roughly 1,500 years, it has never left.

That it survived at all is remarkable. In the eighth and ninth centuries, the Byzantine Empire went through a violent period called Iconoclasm, in which religious images were condemned as idolatry and destroyed by the thousands. Almost every icon of this age in the empire was burned. But Saint Catherine's lay far out in the desert, beyond the reach of the emperors and their decrees, so this one was spared. It is one of the very few images of its kind on earth to come down to us intact.

But the truly haunting thing is the face. Look at it, and the two sides do not match. On the side where Christ holds the Gospel, his features are harder, sterner, the brow raised, the eye larger and more severe, the face of a judge who sees everything. On the side where he raises his hand in blessing, the expression softens, calm and merciful, the face of a savior. One half is divine authority. The other is human compassion.

Most scholars believe this was entirely deliberate. The icon was painted not long after the Church had formally defined that Christ was at once fully God and fully man, two natures joined in one person. And so the artist, it is thought, built that doctrine directly into the face, splitting it in two so that the same man could be, in a single gaze, both merciful and just, both human and divine...

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[Aaron D. Schneider @aaronogre]

Never forget that the janissaries were the result of one of the evilest systems ever invented.

Christian boys torn from their father's homes and their mother's arms to be beaten and raped until they converted to Islam then sent out to murder their own people.

Abominable.