Paul Winskowski

Husband to @CortneyWinskow1 | Father of 3 Boys | Catholic | Aspiring Theologian | Ecstatic Mystic | Coordinator for Family Faith Formation | Non nisi te, Domine

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Holiness isn’t absence from the world.

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Jesus is God and what God says, is.

“This is my body.”
“This is my blood.”

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“The proximity of his divinity in no way compromises the integrity of his humanity, but rather makes it shine in greater beauty.” - a contemplation on the fourth luminous mystery of the rosary.

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"Mystical wisdom is revealed by the Holy Spirit.

If you ask how such things can occur, seek the answer in God’s grace, not in doctrine; in the longing of the will, not in the understanding; in the sighs of prayer, not in research; seek the bridegroom not the teacher; God and not man; darkness not daylight; and look not to the light but rather to the raging fire that carries the soul to God with intense fervor and glowing love."

- From the Journey of the Mind to God by Saint Bonaventure

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At Holy Communion we understand that every drop, every crumb, of the precious Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, is enough to save the whole world.

[John Daniel Davidson @johnddavidson]

The reason every US military chaplain chaplain awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor since the Civil War was a Catholic priest is because Catholic priests have something to offer a dying soldier that Protestant chaplains don’t: last rites.

That’s why they would routinely put themselves in harm’s way to reach dying men on the battlefield, why they inspired their fellow soldiers to become Catholic, and why they alone have been recognized with the Congressional Medal of Honor in the modern era.

[Dcn. Garlick, Chancellor 🇻🇦 @HarrisonGarlic1]

Did Jesus speak Greek?

Many seem to want to say “no,” viewing Greek culture as something alien to Christianity, a corruption of a pure biblical faith.

🏛️But others point to the biblical and historical evidence to show that Christ lived in a Hellenized world, spoke Greek to people, and cited the Greek Old Testament.

And if He did, what does it matter?

🏛️Let’s look at the evidence for Christ speaking Greek.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Like many others, I have been alarmed by the success of certain politicians in our country who identify as extreme socialists or communists.

This is not a matter of classical liberals triumphing over standard-issue conservatives; this is the victory of people who stand athwart the fundamental principles that undergird our country.

There are many reasons why I detest Communism, but I want to draw attention to just one issue of supreme importance.

Karl Marx said that the first critique is the critique of religion. He meant that, before a complete re-working of the politics and economics of a society can take place, religion has to be taken down.

This is because religion, as he saw it, is the “opium of the masses,” a drug taken to dull our sensitivity to the suffering caused by economic exploitation. As long as the suffering populace is lured into complacency by fantasies about God's providence and the promise of eternal life, they will never rise up and throw off their chains.

But there is a second reason why the elimination of religion is of paramount significance for Marx.

Communism aspires to be a totalizing system, involving the government's control over education, entertainment, communication, politics, and especially economics.

What stands resolutely athwart this ambition is religion, which declares that all of these societal expressions are finally under the judgment of God. So, if you want Communism to succeed, religion has to be stamped out.

If you doubt me on any of this, I would encourage you to read the recent histories of China, Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Venezuela. Revisit those histories and tell me I'm wrong about the attack on religion.

Might I encourage my fellow believers in God not to be complacent in the face of this very troubling development in the American body politic?

[Catholic Answers @catholiccom]

John the Baptist when he sees the Lamb of God

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

The future will belong to people who know how to join beauty with technology.

A machine can move the pieces, but only human vision can turn gold, glass, stone, and code into something that stops people in their tracks.

This is what great technology should do: extend craft, deepen wonder, and prove that progress reaches its highest form when it still remembers how to make something beautiful.

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@Aquinas_Quotes We owe Him Abba-solutely everything. 🙏🏻

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is.

University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages.

Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.

There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.

If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything.

Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:

Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.

Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.

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Beautiful

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@Catholic_bro 🙌🏻

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“Indeed, the Lord Jesus, when He prayed to the Father, ‘that all may be one … as we are one’ (Jn 17:21-22) opened up vistas closed to human reason, for He implied a certain likeness between the union of the divine Persons, and the union of God’s sons in truth and charity. This likeness reveals that man, who is the only creature on earth which God willed for itself, cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself.”

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[Nancy Charles @cancelwok3]

It’s not just #Pride month; for Catholics, June is the Sacred Heart of Jesus month.

This matters to me deeply.

Why?

Because I know how it feels to be a slave to the world’s agenda while insisting that I was free. I remember feeling deeply convinced of this pride narrative about myself, and I lived in that narrative my entire life.

I started having same-sex attraction as young as third grade. I grew up, came out of the closet, and lived as a lesbian for almost 15 years, until I decided to identify as a trans male. I even changed my name to Roman.

The hardest part of living this experience, internally, is that you experience yourself as something you aren’t. But you don’t know that.

You don’t simply make a choice to feel same-sex attraction. You just feel it. And because you just feel it, you don’t question it.

I would have never in a million years believed that there was a God, and that He would completely uproot the self narrative that I had once internally experienced as true about myself.

After all, who could know me better than I know myself?

I lived in a world that constantly mirrored back to me that my feelings and internal experience of myself, attractions, and desires were normal and good.

Quickly, this idea of good was affirmed to me by the world because it was connected to this word called love.

And that’s the difficult part for people caught in the LGBTQ+ lifestyle to understand. In their hearts, they connect their attractions to their understanding of love.

The human person was made by Love Himself. We are made to be loved and to give love. That’s why this is one of the most manipulative lies the devil has ever sold the human heart.

But what Christ helped me see was that love and desire become corrupt very quickly without proper order.

If you would have told me that one day I would no longer feel same-sex attraction, I would have actually laughed in your face. I would have believed that it was impossible.

And people who identify as LGBTQ believe this too.

Why?

Because they don’t know the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Christ is not just a person who gives life, who speaks truth, who gives love. He is Life. He is Truth. And He is LOVE.

I had an encounter with the real Christ at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in 2023. In that encounter, I felt a love so total, so intense, so undeniable, that it brought me to my knees.

I realized instantly that I didn’t know anything about love, and in that realization, I had to concede that maybe, also, I didn’t know anything about myself.

Every way in which I had previously experienced myself internally had to be rigorously brought into the light of Christ.

It was terrifying.

But after feeling that level of love, I had no choice but to chase after Him. I knew for the first time in my life, that whatever that was, it was what I was made for.

Every previous longing of my heart collapsed in importance. It’s not that I didn’t have those other longings still. I did.

But the love Christ showed me, now took the highest place in my chase for fulfillment.

I knew, for the first time in my life, that if I could only touch the hem of His garment, then just maybe I could, for the first time in my life, be fully known and fully loved.

I was right.

To be fully known and fully loved restores the human person and their dignity in ways that would shock the world to its knees.

Just like the Gospel tore down the pagan altars of the ancient world, so too did it tear down the altars of self within me.

You think you know who you are until you stand bare before the One who made you.

You will tremble in the presence of that.

It will change you.

❤️‍🔥

#Catholic #LGBTQ #Pridemonth #SacredHeart

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The kerygma isn’t a divine Plan B.

Creation → Fall → Redemption → Response is one Theo-Drama: Christ as eternal Center (Scotus), whose Incarnation perfects wounded nature (Aquinas).

Grace heals and elevates.

Barth’s actualism + Torrance’s homoousion find their home in Catholic sacramental realism — one kenotic love drawing us into Trinitarian communion.

Scotus & Aquinas finally hugged.

Beautiful.

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The kerygma calls for our free “yes” — personal faith, repentance, and participation in the Church’s sacramental life. This is not Pelagian effort but graced response.