Joyous Things

Amateur Catholic Thinker.
Generalist.
Often reflects on Daily Mass Gospel.
Life is too short not to surround oneself with The Good, The True, and The Beautiful!

[Joyous Things @JoyousThings]

When my mind wanders in prayer, it helps me to think of rule 4 from @ChrisStefanick's Living Joy, and remember that God enjoys wasting time with me!

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[Jan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @RosaryMum]

“We have close to us an angelic spirit who never leaves us for an instant from the cradle to the grave, who guides and protects us like a friend or a brother.”

St. Padre Pio

[Catholic Frequency @CatholicFQ]

“Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.”

Fulton J. Sheen

[Joyous Things @JoyousThings]

Recourse to Mary for marital issues is a real thing too! Always ask her to pray for your marriage!

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Study shows Christ centered marriages last longer. Data from Harvard reveals that couples who share prayer and regular church attendance see their divorce risk cut by up to 50%.

Renowned researcher Shaunti Feldhahn similarly proves that devoted, churchgoing couples experience a stability the world ignores.

Reject the cultural myth that "half of all marriages fail", that statistic changes entirely when Jesus is the foundation.

A marriage sustained by Christ will endure.

[Patrick Coffin @CoffinMedia]

St. Monica prayed for her son for 17 years while he lived in sin, sired a child out of wedlock, and chased every new age philosophy under the sun. Nothing changed. Until it did: St. Augustine became a bishop & doctor of the Church. Never underestimate a mother's prayers.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

>Modern Hollywood has completely failed at making historical epics, choosing to rewrite history with modern agendas instead
>Mel Gibson decides to do it himself, announcing a limited TV series about the Great Siege of Malta
>The true story of roughly 700 Catholic Knights of St. John and local Maltese citizens facing down an Ottoman invasion force of 40,000 men
>The Knights believed they were fighting for the absolute survival of Christianity itself
>After four months of brutal, non-stop bombardment, the massively outnumbered defenders miraculously broke the siege and won
>Gibson is to film on location in the exact ancient Maltese fortresses where the battle actually happened
>Just pure, unapologetic European excellence and Catholic heroism

We need this.

[The Wonder of Tolkien @TolkienWonder]

“In reading great literature I become a
thousand men and yet remain myself.”

- C.S. Lewis

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

The modern world will accept no dogmas upon any authority; but it will accept any dogmas on no authority.

[Joyous Things @JoyousThings]

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the Father."

John 14:12 RSV-SB

-Lord please help me to do the small and great things you've called me to with joy, gratitude, and charity of heart for those you've given me to love. Thank you especially for the opportunity to do so today!

Amen.

#Catholic #Christian #Christianity #Orthodox #Orthodoxy #orthodoxyouth

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

“The Church can never be brought down. Indeed it grows under persecution, and those who attack it are destroyed.”

~ St. Thomas Aquinas

[The Wonder of Tolkien @TolkienWonder]

“The first demand any work of any art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.”

- C.S. Lewis

[The_Catholic_Cartoon @CatholicToons]

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[𝔊𝔯á𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢 🕊️☘️ @GrainneMcD92925]

Meet the hidden heroes, The Grey Nuns. During the Irish famine in 1847 thousands of starving Irish immigrants washed up on Montreal's docks dying of typhus. The doctors fled, the priests hesitated and a mob tried to throw the sick into the river. Yet forty Catholic nuns walked in instead. They carried dying children in their arms, they nursed strangers and thirty of them caught the disease. Seven of them died, but they saved thousands yet nobody remembers them.

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

We used our immortality so badly that we earned death; Christ used His mortality so well that He restored us to life. The disease entered through a woman's corrupted soul; the remedy came through a woman's virgin body.

-St. Augustine

[Trad West @trad_west_]

We are so back 🇻🇦🇺🇸✝️

This new vanguard of priests isn't interested in theological ambiguity or reinventing the sacraments.

Overwhelmingly identifying as conservative and orthodox, they are actively prioritizing deep Eucharistic devotion, the historical weight of the liturgy, and an unapologetic defense of absolute truth.

They understand that the priesthood is not meant to be a mere reflection of current cultural trends, but a permanent anchor against them.

When you offer a watered-down, compromised religion, you inspire absolutely no one.

When you offer a demanding, enduring truth that requires total sacrifice, you attract men willing to lay down their entire lives to defend it.

The pendulum is swinging back with incredible force. The Catholic priesthood is about to become a cultural force for Good.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

It is often a strategic mistake to silence a man, because it leaves the world under the impression that he had something to say.

[Saint Quotes @GloryBeeGod4evr]

The good God does not need years to accomplish His work of love in a soul; one ray from His Heart can, in an instant, make His flower bloom for eternity.

- St. Therese of Lisieux

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

mandatory Ursula K. Le Guin quote

[The Catholic Gentleman @catholicgent]

Do you share the Joy God has given you?

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

The truth is that Irreligion is the opium of the people. Wherever the people do not believe in something beyond the world, they will worship the world. But, above all, they will worship the strongest thing in the world.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.