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[Hakudo 🇯🇵🤝🇻🇦 @Hacudus_rex]

Me confirman que es cáncer; por favor, si pueden intensificar los rezos, seguir rezando.
Gracias 🙏

[Fr. Thomas Petri OP @PetriOP]

The goal of the Christian life isn't simply to “get into heaven” and avoid hell. Salvation is ultimately binary—we either enjoy the vision of God or we don't—but the life of grace isn't.

St. Paul says that we are being transformed into the likeness of Christ “from one degree of glory to another” (2 Cor 3:18). Grace enlarges the soul. Charity can grow. Holiness can deepen. We can become more and more capable of knowing and loving God.

The Christian question isn't merely, “Will I get into heaven?” but, “What is grace making of me?” A Christianity concerned only with whether we've done enough to make the cut is rudimentary. Christ didn't come merely to get us across a threshold. He came to make us saints.

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

Until Christians regain their esteem of consecrated virginity and celibacy as a higher vocation than marriage, they will never regain their esteem of marriage itself.

Christian civilization was in many ways the fruit of the union between the two, with the lower subordinated to the higher. Both good. One better. Neither despising the other. Both embracing the other as its companion in sanctifying individuals and society.

Anything less will fail.

[Έκτορας @Hectarea1]

So trve

[Anthony @Catholicizm1]

American Catholicism is largely just intellectual Catholicism. Heavily influenced by Protestant converts and the American Protestant culture they converted from. It’s why the videos of Holy Week in Spain get so much traction on this site. The American convert looks on and says look how beautiful Catholicism is while failing to produce our own unique Catholic culture. Im not knocking converts. Just making an observation. I think outfits like Catholic Answers are great for answering Protestant objections to Catholicism, but they’ve also created a Protestant ethos where Catholicism becomes something like faith alone plus the sacraments. It’s still mainly based on what you believe rather than how the faith is embodied. It’s quote mining certain scriptures to combat the quote mining of other scriptures. The closest thing we get to a genuine Catholic culture is at ethnic parishes that have a remnant preserved from their European heritage. A polish parish, or Italian parish will still do processions but there’s nothing that is unique to America. We should work towards changing this.

[Έκτορας @Hectarea1]

La música caribeña y sus consecuencias han sido un desastre para todo el continente.

[Έκτορας @Hectarea1]

Que no se malentienda el estado actual del mundo:
«Porque nuestra lucha no es contra la carne y la sangre, sino contra los principados, contra las potestades, contra los dominadores de este mundo tenebroso, contra los espíritus del mal que están en las alturas»(Ef 6, 12).

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

It is Christ or the powers of hell.

There is no in between.

[Sola Requiem @Sola_Requiem]

Jesus is real and they hate him.

[Dux Vasconum ♱ @DuxVasconum]

Anuncio por aquí para todos los que interactuaron con él, que a Ivan, le impusieron ayer el hábito como postulante en Santo Domingo de Silos y que se encuentra feliz.

[✠Christopher John✠ @cs_micus]

The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is of divine origin. Iconoclasm is false.

[Novohs @Novohs2]

el mejicano, para olvidar que vive en un país fallido con una sociedad de baja confianza, obesa y llena de violencia, se tiene que inventar victorias apoteósicas como «estado laico»

[Fr. Paolo D'Angona @RomanoSace57080]

@WalmartThomist Many strange elements of the clergy who had been noticed as modernists (under Pius X and later), or who somehow leaned toward liberalism (the German word: "Reformkatholizismus"), subsequently became either staunch supporters of the "Führer" or at least sympathized with him. Cf.

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

I'm extremely bullish on this region's future.

Might have the best long-range prospects of any place on earth all things considered.

Morale is high. Opportunities for trade and regulatory arbitrage are endless. The buy-in is fair. Labor is plentiful. The demoralization so common to most other regions of North America is minimal -- residents of the border region almost seem immune to it. There's even 100,000 Mennonites in the area.

Above all, you can "feel" the optimism of this place.

So long as the water and cartel problems can be meaningfully addressed -- which is admittedly a tall order -- I think this is very likely where "the future" is going to be built.

[𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘴 @_bonaventurian]

I love the Lord Our Triune God, with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my spirit. And God willing, I will love Him for life everlasting, infused and transfigured with His grace and glory. Resting, at the dusk of life, with my head "upon his breast." (John 13:23)

[Classical Theist ✠ @ClassicalTheis]

A hallmark of the true Church is one that is unapologetically Marian, for Mary is in Her own person the concretization of the spotlessness of Christ’s Mystical Body and Bride

[Canti @space_canti]

Most "mexican" stuff isnt real, it was made up by the goverment in an attempt to undermine catholic traditions

[Έκτορας @Hectarea1]

Under very strict circumstances, perhaps.
Once you experience monks and canons chanting Gregorian a cappella at Mass, there’s no going back.

Tra le sollecitudini is absolutely right about everything.

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

Guitars can be appropriate, a lot of it depends on the music, yes, but also on the culture & setting.

We forget that piece a lot