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[🦅✝️All Glory to God☦️🦅 @augustinalbert7]

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[🦅✝️All Glory to God☦️🦅 @augustinalbert7]

Rest in Jesus Christ 🔥 credit and Artist @PetalsTT

[☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩ @SecretFire79]

A miracle in a photograph!🇻🇦

Take a good look at this miraculous photo. It was taken in 1932, during one of the first Masses of a young German priest.

Here is the testimony of the old Priest Franz Keiser, German.

“This image is not a painting but a real photo. It is a grace that was given to a German priest, on the third day after his priestly ordination, on August 29, 1932.
Neither the priest who celebrated, nor the brother who served the Mass, nor his brother who took the photo saw what this shows in the most wonderful way. I know the priest who was given this grace and also the most precise circumstances and responded for its accuracy, as well as for the authenticity of the event.”

This image shows in plain sight what happens at each Mass, the renewal of the Sacrifice of the Cross.

For it is attested of him,
“You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”

Hebrews 7:17🇻🇦🕊️

[Gema Sanz @gema222sanz]

“Let nothing disturb you.
Let nothing frighten you.
All things are passing away.
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices.”

~ St. Teresa of Ávila

[🦅✝️All Glory to God☦️🦅 @augustinalbert7]

The Power of Adoration.... Artist @PetalsTT

[Gema Sanz @gema222sanz]

"Go to Joseph with extreme confidence, because I do not remember having asked anything from St. Joseph, without having obtained it readily."

~St. Padre Pio

[Fr. Daniel☦️ @Fragbaza]

If the monk hadn't made the sign of the cross, he would have bowed to the devil. This is how the power of the cross works. It is our protection.

One night, a radiant, Christ-like vision appeared in a monk's cell. A voice called him by name and commanded him to bow. He was about to fall to his knees, but he made the sign of the cross and the vision vanished with a shriek.

St. Paisios the Athonite explained that the devil can take the form of light and even appear as Christ, but he always rushes a person, preventing them from stopping to reason. The sign of the cross exposes him.

While in a labour camp, Saint Seraphim Tyapochkin faced violent criminals. He did not argue or justify himself; instead, he peacefully crossed himself, and they retreated. Later he said, “They did not feel me, but Him who stands behind me.”

When a possessed woman was brought to Saint John of Kronstadt, he approached her with a cross and began to pray. After a loud scream, she calmed down and regained her senses.

The ancient Patericon tells of a hermit who was attacked by demons trying to drag him from his cell. He cried out, “Lord Jesus Christ, help me!” and the devils vanished instantly. The Lord then said to him, “I did not leave you, but you yourself did not call upon Me.”

The cross is not just a symbol. It is a confession of faith and an appeal to God. Therefore, sign yourself with reverence: in the morning, before meals, and in moments of fear or anxiety. Remember: with the cross of Christ, a person is never alone.

Reader Sergius

[Shoutout219 @Shoutout219]

Amen 🙏✝️👑

[Catholic Life @prayandfast2]

"Ignore the devil and do not be afraid of him: He trembles and flees at the sight of your Guardian Angel!"

- St. John Bosco

[T.E. Jentzen @Faithful2Pray]

"If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy."
-Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

[Cameron Riecker @riecker]

During an exorcism, demons were forced to confess the one secret hell had spent centuries trying to hide.

Once you hear it, you'll never fear spiritual warfare the same way again.

It happened in the year 1215, near Carcassonne in southern France.

A possessed man was dragged before St. Dominic.
Over 12,000 people had gathered to hear him preach the rosary. Now they watched as he began the exorcism in front of them all.

St. Dominic forced the demons to speak.

The first thing they confessed stopped the crowd cold.
There were 15,000 of them inside this one man.

Because he had mocked the 15 mysteries of the rosary.
Then they admitted something worse for them.

They told the crowd that Dominic was the man they hated most in all the world.

That his preaching of the rosary struck terror into the depths of hell. That he was stealing souls right out of their hands.

So Dominic pressed harder.

He took his rosary and looped it around the possessed man's neck. Then he commanded them to name the one saint in heaven they feared above all others.

The screams that followed were so unearthly that people collapsed to the ground.

The demons wept. They wailed. They begged.
The Demons said:

"Dominic, Dominic, have mercy on us. We beg you by the passion of Jesus Christ, have pity on us. You have always had compassion for sinners and those in distress. We are in grievous straits, suffering so much already. We promise we will never hurt you."

He did not move.

They tried to whisper the answer so only he could hear. He refused. He demanded they say it out loud, before everyone.

So they went silent. They would not speak.

Dominic knelt and prayed to Our Lady.
And then he saw her.

The Blessed Virgin, surrounded by a multitude of angels, invisible to everyone but him. She held a golden rod. She struck the possessed man with it and said four words:

"Answer my servant Dominic."

What came out of that man's mouth next is the reason this story has survived 800 years.

The demons, forced by Heaven itself, confessed the truth they had spent all of hell trying to hide:

"The Mother of Jesus Christ is all-powerful. She uncovers our hidden plots. She breaks our snares. She makes our temptations useless."

And then the line that should make every one of us fall to our knees:

"Not a single soul who has truly persevered in her service has ever been damned with us."

Not one.

They confessed that one sigh she offers to God is worth more than the prayers of all the saints.

That they fear her more than the entire court of heaven combined.

That if she had not stood against them, they would have destroyed the Church long ago.

Then Dominic had the people pray the rosary. Slowly. With devotion.

And at every single Hail Mary, demons poured out of the man like red-hot coals, until he was completely free.
A multitude of heretics converted that day.

Here is what I need you to hear. The demons themselves were forced to admit it under Heaven's command.

The rosary is the weapon. It is the chain they cannot break.

No matter your sins, no matter how many times you've fallen, if you persevere in this devotion until death, hell does not get to keep you.

The final battle of our age is over marriage and the family. You will not win it on your own strength. But you were never meant to fight alone.

This is exactly the kind of formation we do inside Terror Of Demons Academy. Real brotherhood. Real spiritual warfare.

Men learning to pick up the weapons of heaven and actually use them. We've walked over 100 men through it, and the doors are open.

If you're ready to stop fighting alone, the link to join is in the comments.

Source: St. Louis de Montfort, The Secret of the Rosary (Thirty-Third Rose)

[Dana Rachel 🇻🇦 @thyflameoflove]

Saint Monica, the mother of Saint Augustine, spent years praying and weeping for her son’s conversion. But one thing people often overlook is the wisdom she gave for everyday family life.

According to an ancient story recorded by Augustine, women would come to Monica upset about arguments in their homes.

Her advice was simple:
Do not speak while anger is controlling you.

Wait first. Be silent for a moment. Let your heart calm down before answering.

That is harder than it sounds.

Most people know the feeling of saying something in anger and regretting it later. One harsh sentence can stay in someone’s heart for years. Pride rises quickly. Patience usually comes slowly.

Scripture says, “Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.” James 1:19

Saint Francis de Sales once said, “Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”

That kind of strength is rare today.

People are trained to react instantly. To defend themselves immediately. To win the argument. But Saint Monica understood something deeply Christian: peace in the family is often protected by humility, self-control, and knowing when not to speak.

Not every battle needs another angry response.

Honestly, a lot of homes would probably look different today if more people learned to pause before speaking.

💬 Have you ever said something in anger that you later wished you could take back?

[+JMJ+Kyrie Eleison Christe Eleison @Jsmum46]

Holiness starts in the home.

[Gema Sanz @gema222sanz]

"Life is to live in such a way, that we are not afraid to die."
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~St. Teresa of Ávila