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"Percayalah kepada Tuhan Yesus Kristus dan engkau akan selamat, engkau dan seisi rumahmu." Kisah Para Rasul 16:31

[Magister Iācōbus @latinedisce]

Nothing says "Tradition" like Gregorian Chant.

🇻🇦Latin Text:

Subvenite, Sancti Dei,
occurrite, Angeli Domini,
Suscipientes animam eius,
offerentes eam in conspectu Altissimi.
Suscipiat te Christus, qui vocavit te,
et in sinum Abrahae Angeli deducant te.
Suscipientes animam eius,
offerentes eam in conspectu Altissimi.

🇬🇧 English Translation:

Come help, saints of God,
hurry, angels of the Lord,
Taking up her soul,
and offering it before the eyes of the most high.
May Christ, who has called you, receive you,
and may the angels lead you to the bosom of Abraham.
Taking up her soul,
and offering it before the eyes of the most high.

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

Pope Benedict XVI died on this day last year.

We took this photo when we visited his grave to pray for him some months later.

May he rest in peace 🙏

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

"Jesus, I love you," were the last words of Pope Benedict XVI

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Polish President Andrej Duda was found kneeling as the casket of Pope Benedict XVI was carried away to St Peter's Basilica for funeral last year.

[Coworkeroftruth @coworkeroftruth]

Christ, the one Mediator, established and continually sustains here on earth His holy Church, the community of faith, hope and charity, as an entity with visible delineation through which He communicated truth and grace to all. But, the society structured with hierarchical organs and the Mystical Body of Christ, are not to be considered as two realities, nor are the visible assembly and the spiritual community, nor the earthly Church and the Church enriched with heavenly things; rather they form one complex reality which coalesces from a divine and a human element. For this reason, by no weak analogy, it is compared to the mystery of the incarnate Word. As the assumed nature inseparably united to Him, serves the divine Word as a living organ of salvation, so, in a similar way, does the visible social structure of the Church serve the Spirit of Christ, who vivifies it, in the building up of the body.
This is the one Church of Christ which in the Creed is professed as one, holy, catholic and apostolic, which our Saviour, after His Resurrection, commissioned Peter to shepherd, and him and the other apostles to extend and direct with authority, which He erected for all ages as "the pillar and mainstay of the truth". This Church constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him, although many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside of its visible structure. These elements, as gifts belonging to the Church of Christ, are forces impelling toward catholic unity.
Just as Christ carried out the work of redemption in poverty and persecution, so the Church is called to follow the same route that it might communicate the fruits of salvation to men. Christ Jesus, "though He was by nature God . . . emptied Himself, taking the nature of a slave", and "being rich, became poor" for our sakes. Thus, the Church, although it needs human resources to carry out its mission, is not set up to seek earthly glory, but to proclaim, even by its own example, humility and self-sacrifice. Christ was sent by the Father "to bring good news to the poor, to heal the contrite of heart", "to seek and to save what was lost". Similarly, the Church encompasses with love all who are afflicted with human suffering and in the poor and afflicted sees the image of its poor and suffering Founder. It does all it can to relieve their need and in them it strives to serve Christ. While Christ, holy, innocent and undefiled knew nothing of sin, but came to expiate only the sins of the people, the Church, embracing in its bosom sinners, at the same time holy and always in need of being purified, always follows the way of penance and renewal. The Church, "like a stranger in a foreign land, presses forward amid the persecutions of the world and the consolations of God", announcing the cross and death of the Lord until He comes." By the power of the risen Lord it is given strength that it might, in patience and in love, overcome its sorrows and its challenges, both within itself and from without, and that it might reveal to the world, faithfully though darkly, the mystery of its Lord until, in the end, it will be manifested in full light.

—Pope Saint Paul VI, LG

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

"Well, I'm still alive"

Cardinal Burke's response when asked about how his meeting with Pope Francis went today at the Vatican

[Creepy.org @creepydotorg]

Real recordings of a demon speaking during the exorcisms of Anneliese Michel in Germany (1975)

[Sisters of Aquinas @ QAS Online Academy @sistersaquinas]

Vespers Antiphon of Christmas

[🇮🇩 Fakta Katolik 🇻🇦 @FaktaKatolik]

“We note the noble pastoral desire to assist people to move forward by renewal of life and the call to conversion, building on all aspects of natural good will and virtue.”

[Robert Nugent @DecreviD2BC]

Greek Catholic, sacred, reverent, ancient.

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

After a bombing attack on a Catholic Mass in the southern Philippines kills four and wounds many more, Pope Francis says he is “close to the families, to the people" of the region.

https://t.co/PofkuXtjG2

[Joseph Shaw @LMSChairman]

Bishop Schneider's Mass in Milton Keynes last Sunday: photos. The Mass had to be moved to a school hall because the interest in it indicated that numbers would have been far too great for the nearby church originally planned: as proved to be the case. 1/4

[🇮🇩 Fakta Katolik 🇻🇦 @FaktaKatolik]

Jika memang terjadi suatu pelanggaran yg layak dihukum, maka hukumlah. Tapi jangan nodai rasa keadilan dg membiarkan berbagai macam pelanggaran lainnya berlangsung seolah tanpa konsekuensi, dan tak jarang justru dilindungi oleh sang penghukum itu sendiri. 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️😕🤷🏻‍♂️

#intermezzo

[Shane Schaetzel †☧ @ShaneSchaetzel]

Early in the Francis pontificate, I defended the man. I mustered all my apologetic resources to put him in the best possible light, even when I started having doubts. Then I got burned by him. Not once, not twice, but over and over again. I made the mistake of defending Pope Francis. I'll never make that mistake again. His pontificate is indefensible.

[Nicole Winfield @nwinfield]

Pope moves against Cardinal Burke for fomenting "disunity" in the church, in second action against high-ranking American critics, according to people briefed on the measures. https://t.co/USOSdDvaXA

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Raymond Leo Burke, a Catholic cardinal and Eduardo Verástegui, an actor, praying the Rosary together on their knees

[Michael J. Matt @Michael_J_Matt]

"Cardinal Burke is my enemy, so I am taking away his flat and salary," Pope Francis Reportedly Tells Heads of Dicasteries (Rorate Caeli)
Still holding out hope that it's just a rumor. If not, Francis is well on his way to becoming the most tyrannical pope in history.

[OnePeterFive @OnePeterFive]

"By the very nature of the bishop’s office he cannot be removed unjustly because he is free to use his native jurisdictional power to oppose an arbitrary and openly tyrannical act of the pope."

By Antonio Francés, PhD

https://t.co/yTt4TLrfnD

[Coworkeroftruth @coworkeroftruth]

Lord, give us a spiritual Pope. 267 ✨

[Arlington Latin Mass Society @tlmarlington]

"Cardinal Burke is my enemy, so I am taking away his flat and salary," Pope Francis Reportedly Tells Heads of Dicasteries

This statement will come as no surprise to those who have closely followed Francis's pontificate. Cardinal Burke angers Francis because he is American and is a reminder of the doctrine and tradition of the Church.

https://t.co/qFvyyJ5RyR