Eric Ortiz

American🇺🇸 Catholic🇻🇦

[Sign of the Cross @CatholicSOTC]

Protestants must return to the one true fold if they wish to be saved.

[New Mexico Football @UNMLoboFB]

Don’t miss another football Saturday in the Land of Enchantment.

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

Reading for the Monday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time https://t.co/rA0CDTBveY

[Josh Hawley @HawleyMO]

Americans do not surrender their privacy rights when they drive to work, drop their kids off at school, or go to church.

I’m investigating Flock cameras to determine WHO has access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ data - and what they’re doing with it

[Arizona Football @ArizonaFBall]

1-0.

[Arizona Football @ArizonaFBall]

At the break in Southern Arizona.

[New Mexico Football @UNMLoboFB]

Making moves through the opening quarter 🐺

[Arizona Football @ArizonaFBall]

About that time. 🐻⬇️

[Arizona Football @ArizonaFBall]

WELCOME TO TUCSON, DASH

[Arizona Football @ArizonaFBall]

New stadium lights putting in work tonight.

Cats up three scores.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Friends, what does it mean to offer ourselves, as Saint Paul exhorts the Romans to do, as “a living sacrifice”? It means that every thought, action, impulse, and emotion—everything in you—is now turned to God.

[Peter Kwasniewski @DrKwasniewski]

Every time incense is brought forth at Mass, it feels like worship is now truly under way. Something special is happening here that no words or songs can convey by themselves; someone is present who deserves the treatment owed to a king or a god. The fragrance surrounds you, gets into your hair and your clothing. Your line of vision is interrupted by a hanging haze, which subconsciously says: You are in the midst of mysteries that cannot be clearly seen but must be worshiped on bended knee. When the embers are glowing well and the grains are heaped on with abandon, those clouds of incense make everything hazy, as if seen through a veil—a drifting image of the pilgrimage of the Christian’s life, as he passes through this vale of tears.

Today at Tradition & Sanity, I explore the symbolism of incense in the liturgy, and lament its absence from too many churches.

https://t.co/gZUtjFS1NP

[Republicans @Republicans]

Thanks @Apple 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Arizona Cardinals @AZCardinals]

The 2026 uniform schedule 🤝

[National Catholic Register @NCRegister]

The Church ‘Cannot Declare War’ on Latin Mass Devotees, Cardinal Robert Sarah Says

The cardinal praised Pope Benedict’s 2007 decision to allow the faithful greater access to the Latin Mass but called Pope Francis’ 2021 decision to restrict it neither ‘sensible’ nor ‘respectful.’⬇️

https://t.co/MwP15HBgBO

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Gospel of the Day (Luke 4,38-44)

After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered the house of Simon. Simon's mother-in-law was afflicted with a severe fever, and they interceded with him about her.
He stood over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up immediately and waited on them. At sunset, all who had people sick with various diseases brought them to him. He laid his hands on each of them and cured them.

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[House Republicans @HouseGOP]

Illegal immigrants who can’t read our signs or speak our language have no business barreling 40-ton trucks down our interstates. That’s a recipe for tragedy we’ve already lived through too many times. Thank you @SecDuffy and President Trump for protecting our roadways!

[Sign of the Cross @CatholicSOTC]

Cardinal Sarah: "Banning or suspending the Latin Mass can only be inspired by the devil."

https://t.co/K4HYiFm5tt

[Oratory of St. Joseph @OratSJosephReno]

Tune in for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Today, Canon Silvey offers the Holy Sacrifice at the altar. Join us in prayer as the Church renders unto God the most perfect act of worship: the unbloody renewal of the Sacrifice of Calvary.
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[Deacon Nick Donnelly @ProtecttheFaith]

Today is the feast of St. Raymond Nonnatus (c. 1204–1240). He was a Mercedarian priest

who ransomed Christian captives held by Muslim rulers and slavers in Spain and North Africa.

Mercedarians took a distinctive fourth vow: if necessary, they would offer themselves as hostages in place of captives.

Traditional accounts credit him with these specific redemptions:

140 Christians from Muslims in Valencia
250 Christians from Muslims in Algiers
28 Christians from Muslims in Tunis, for whom he surrendered himself as a hostage when funds ran out

While a hostage St. Raymond Nonnatus preached and converted some Muslims, which led to severe punishment. His Muslim captors bored a hole through his lips with a hot iron and padlocked his mouth to stop him preaching.

What do you think St. Raymond Nonnatus would think of the Bergoglians demanding that Catholics not seek to convert Muslims?

What do you think St. Raymond Nonnatus would think of Pope Leo saying Christians should be less afraid of Muslims?