All of the evils that are afflicting the West are part of a Divine chastisement permitted by God in order to punish us for our many sins – primarily that of apostasy and for murdering our own children.
Peace will not reign in our nations until Christ reigns in our hearts.
Breaking: Pope Leo XIV tells states that Catholic Colleges and Universities must teach "sound doctrine" and that it is not enough to teach intellectual truths but they must teach the "Truth that is Christ."
One year ago the Sacred College of Cardinals elected His Holiness Pope Leo XIV.
V. Let us pray for our Pontiff, Pope Leo.
R. The Lord preserve him, and give him life, and make him to be blessed upon the earth, and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.
Baseball legend Babe Ruth was a Catholic who wrote this letter about Communion, Confession and the Miraculous Medal:
“In December, 1946, I was in French Hospital, New York, facing a serious operation. Paul Carey, one of my oldest and closest friends, was by my bed one night.
- They’re going to operate in the morning, Babe, Paul said. -Don’t you think you ought to put your house in order?
-I didn’t dodge the long, challenging look in his eyes. I knew what he meant. For the first time, I realized that death might strike me out. I nodded, and Paul got up, called in a chaplain, and I made a full confession.
-I’ll return in the morning and give you Holy Communion, the chaplain said, -But you don’t have to fast.
-I’ll fast, I said. I didn’t have even a drop of water.
-As I lay in bed that evening, I thought to myself what a comforting feeling to be free from fear and worries. I now could simply turn them over to God. Later on, my wife brought in a letter from a little kid in Jersey City.
‘Dear Babe,’ he wrote, ‘Everybody in the seventh grade class is pulling and praying for you. I am enclosing a medal, which if you wear will make you better. Your pal—Mike Quinlan. P.S. I know this will be your 61st homer. You’ll hit it.’
-I asked them to pin the Miraculous Medal to my pyjama coat. I’ve worn the medal constantly ever since. I’ll wear it to my grave.”
@TertiusIII@MrCasey62 The previous verse literally said "water", read it again
1 Peter 3:20-21 NIV
[20]... In it only a few people, eight in all, were SAVED THROUGH WATER, [21] and this WATER symbolizes baptism that now saves you also.
Having mortal sin and not going to confession to a Catholic priest is like having a gunshot wound in the stomach and refusing to see a doctor.
Insanity.