Mario_Cath 🇻🇦

Católico que sueña con un mundo mejor

[Mario_Cath 🇻🇦 @Mex_cath]

@AndyBurnhamFC Obviously, the French Revolution was carried out by Muslims

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@SituationMntr22 @TaglesTopGuy Good verse, sadly for your case being against illegal migration ≠ being racist.
Being in favor of human law isn´t justification of hate

[Mario_Cath 🇻🇦 @Mex_cath]

"Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world" John 18:36 KJV
Wow, we definitely need to be super racist and hate anyone who isn't from our country

[Will Sexton @willsextonx]

Uh…

[Mario_Cath 🇻🇦 @Mex_cath]

@dmarjos @TugoNews "Hay que leer un poco más" y sacaba un resumen de la IA de Google

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@BryanFenixGod3 Irónicamente estoy seguro de que el we de esa página piensa que la desaparición de los 43 estuvo justificada

[Mario_Cath 🇻🇦 @Mex_cath]

@de_la_paz_owo Congrats!!!

[EMI-rage 👻 @MirageDraw]

"Que pasa su santidad porque no ha tocada su masa alimenticia de cumpleaños"

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@ValentinaSabino @NoVive_Socialis Al menos el del vídeo pues sí

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@CatholicSOTC A simple diplomatic formality

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@ValentinaSabino @NoVive_Socialis Adelante, será la primera vez que un venezolano haga algo contra Maduro

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@banterwithb This thing of nazi orthodox needs to be a real case of study

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@ValentinaSabino @NoVive_Socialis Nadie dijo que lo fuera, pero si tanto les preocupa la estatua de Maduro pues vayan a tirarla

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@ByzantineYurii Let me get this straight, American Orthodox believers who discovered Christianity two years ago think they have property rights over the cross?

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@Apu_elrojo JD Vance de temu

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@Protespedia @Guz_animador Zunzunegui ni siquiera es historiador...

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@poperespecter1 It was a marketing strategy, not a papal mandate

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@redeemed_zoomer Spain: 😐

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

One of the greatest things I learned in college came from an old ex-hippie prof who tried to convert to Buddhism in the 70's.

She went to Nepal to see the Dalai Lama speak. At one point, he addressed the hippies directly, saying:

"It's nice you came to see us from the West, and there is a lot you can learn here. But you did not need to travel to the other side of the planet to learn what is important. You could have just as well knocked at the door of the Church down the street from where you grew up. Never think that the West is devoid of spiritual truth." (I am paraphrasing, of course)

As a 19-year-old lapsed Catholic with an orientalist bent, an obsession with Lao Tzu, and a craving for all kinds of exotic spirituality, this hit me hard. It would stick with me for the rest of my life.

For some reason, I'd had this idea that all things Western were hopelessly corrupt, not worth considering, bogged down by a kind of hollow myopia that only non-Western cultures had the answer to.

I had assumed that Christianity was dead on arrival, and that Catholicism in particular was just shameless grift, power politics, and perversion -- and that somehow, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Sufism (and later, Eastern Orthodoxy) were all somehow "purer." I never thought about this very deeply; the idea was totally reflexive, like an instinct that came from nowhere.

But the way my old professor related the Dalai Lama's teachings on spiritual orientalism really changed that for me. It planted a seed that would eventually bring me back to the Church at the center of the most dynamic civilization in human history. It led me to recognize that just because something is foreign does not make it "purer" or "more true."

There's something profound in that. Something deeply nourishing about staying home, keeping it simple and even kind of boring. Because the thrust of the spiritual life probably ought not to be some kind of a high-drama sojourn into dizzyingly foreign worlds if we can help it.

Because the real core of the thing is simple prayer. It is the imitation of Christ and the reception of His sacred Flesh and Blood into our bodies. It is the quiet unity of the only truly global Church, in union with Rome, and the steadfastness of the old ladies praying the Rosary at the daily Mass. To participate in this is not to miss out on anything; it is not to err or stray or delve into a corrupt, impure world of control and power at all...

I ultimately concluded that there is simply no reason for a Westerner to ever "go East" for anything, unless it is simply to learn, to share the Gospel and to sow unity, and to make friends before taking the journey back home.

No disrespect to those who have not arrived at this conclusion too; all I will say to them is that if you ever get exhausted at being "the foreigner," know that you can come home anytime, and you will be just as fulfilled here as you would be "out there," if not moreso. That door is open, if you want it.

A blessed Sunday to all, praise to our Lord Jesus Christ.