Rossana Blackburn

Chemical dependency counselor, outgoing, loyal, friendly, caring, GSD lover

[Rossana Blackburn @Rosscblackburn]

@NatGeo Wow, we can tell they were females but many ignorant and supposed to be experts can say what a woman is?

[Deacon Richard @CatholicDeacon]

Stop scrolling for one minute.

Listen to the Salve Regina.

This is not just beautiful music. It is the cry of the Church to our Mother:

Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy.

Let Mary quiet your heart and lead you back to Jesus.

[Rossana Blackburn @Rosscblackburn]

@BritCathAes I was at Killarney once in tour but they did not take us there. We did go to Knock, at that time I didn’t know that I was I such blessed place.

[Rossana Blackburn @Rosscblackburn]

@LegiondeCristo Estará en mis oraciones Padre Jorge. Que el Espíritu Santo le ilumine siempre y que su vida de oración siempre sea primordial para que alcance la santidad y nos guíe a ella.

[ChurchPOP @Church_POP]

The Church celebrates the feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas on January 28!

This powerhouse saint and Doctor of the Church left us with an outstanding amount of timeless knowledge.

His writings include ways to prove the existence of God, a comprehensive guide to vice and virtue, and even lifestyle tips we can regularly use or recommend to a struggling friend.

In one of his most notable works, "Summa Theologiae," Saint Thomas Aquinas provided five powerful remedies for overcoming sadness (refer to "Summa Theologiae," I-II, q. 38).
"Pints with Aquinas" podcast host Matt Fradd discussed this in his book, “How to Be Happy: Saint Thomas’ Secret to a Good Life.”

“No matter how good we have it, no matter how wealthy we are, or how many good friends we have, or even how holy we are, all of us will experience sorrow in this life,” Fradd explained in an article for Christendom College.

The article continued with an explanation of the sorrows Saint Thomas Aquinas detailed in his writings.

“Aquinas, following Saint John Damascene, lists pity, anxiety, envy, and torpor as the species of sorrow.”

Fradd also explained why the remedies presented by Aquinas are so important and often counter-cultural.

“In order to counteract these sorrows, Aquinas recommends five treatments that keep us from destructively turning inward. They orient us to some good that we can pursue, leading us to relief and eventually, a return to happiness.”

Next time you fall into sorrow, give one of these resolutions a try!

The Prayer of Saint Thomas Aquinas
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, pray for us! 🙏

You can find the full article here:

https://t.co/rBsoFPZtnS

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

Today, we celebrate the Vigil of Christmas.

In the first ages, during the night before every feast, a vigil was kept. In the evening the faithful assembled in the place or church where the feast was to be celebrated and prepared themselves by prayers, readings from Holy Writ (now the Offices of Vespers and Matins), and sometimes also by hearing a sermon.

On such occasions, as on fast days in general, Mass also was celebrated in the evening, before the Vespers of the following day. Towards morning the people dispersed to the streets and houses near the church, to wait for the solemn services of the forenoon.

This vigil was a regular institution of Christian life and was defended and highly recommended by St. Augustine and St. Jerome (see Pleithner, "Aeltere Geschichte des Breviergebetes", pp. 223 sq.). The morning intermission gave rise to grave abuses; the people caroused and danced in the streets and halls around the church (Durandus, "Rat. Div. off.", VI, 7), and St. Jerome speaks of these improprieties (Epist. ad Ripuarium).

The Synod of Seligenstadt (1022) mentions vigils on the eves of Christmas, Epiphany, the feast of the Apostles, the Assumption of Mary, St. Laurence, and All Saints, besides the fast of two weeks before the Nativity of St. John. After the eleventh century the fast, Office, and Mass of the nocturnal vigil were transferred to the day before the feast, and even now [1909] the liturgy of the Holy Saturday (vigil of Easter) shows, in all its parts, that originally it was not kept on the morning of Saturday, but during Easter Night. The day before the feast was henceforth called vigil.

A similar celebration before the high feast exists also in the Orthodox (Greek) Church, and is called pannychis or hagrypnia. In the Occident only the older feasts have vigils, even the feasts of the first class introduced after the thirteenth century (Corpus Christi, the Sacred Heart) have no vigils, except the Immaculate Conception, which Pope Leo XIII (Nov. 30 1879) singled out for this distinction.

The number of vigils in the Roman Calendar besides Holy Saturday is seventeen, viz., the eves of Christmas, the Epiphany, the Ascension, Pentecost, the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption, the eight feasts of the Apostles, St. John the Baptist, St. Laurence, and All Saints.

Some dioceses and religiousorders have particular vigils, e.g. the Servites, on the Saturday next before the feast of the Seven Dolours of Our Lady; the Carmelites, on the eve of the feast of Mount Carmel. In the United States only four of theses vigils are feast days: the vigils of Christmas, Pentecost, the Assumption, and All Saints.

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[Rossana Blackburn @Rosscblackburn]

@S54537Simon @Andrew669631 @redpilldispensr I know people who had stopped working because with welfare, and all social services they can survive. If they need extra money they work under the table. Don’t tell me you do not know anyone like that.

[Rossana Blackburn @Rosscblackburn]

@S54537Simon @Andrew669631 @redpilldispensr Wow, there is no worse person that the one who is not willing to see you need to start paying attention, our economy used to be a working society but now with “tax the rich more” we are loosing them and with that all their money and the jobs.

[Rossana Blackburn @Rosscblackburn]

You need to think about these things honestly.

[Red Pill Dispenser @redpilldispensr]

Economist Arthur Laffer: "If you tax people who work, and you pay people who don't work, do not be surprised if you have a lot of people not working."

"We tax speeders on the highways to get them to stop speeding. We tax cigarettes to get people to stop smoking."

"Why then do we tax people who earn income? Why do we tax people who employ other people? Why do we tax companies that make wonderful products at low cost and make lots of profits?"

"Don't for a moment think that the same consequences don't befall taxes on income, employment, and profits as they do on speeders and on smokers."

[Rossana Blackburn @Rosscblackburn]

@hartndc @nytimes 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Rossana Blackburn @Rosscblackburn]

@padrenurgle @yippieyiyokayah @nytimes @grok Bad news, journalism has been dead for decades. We no longer get newsworthy we get sensationalism, what makes rates it doesn’t matter if the next day they have to correct them. Is time for that to stop. They need to make sure news are facts like it used to be.

[Rossana Blackburn @Rosscblackburn]

@DamagedGoodsArt @nytimes You are so right. Freedom of speech is our right whether others agree with us or not. However, it is also our responsibility to use it and to deal with the consequences of whenever is use. CONSEQUENCES, that’s what you are forgetting, many people forgot about it

[Rossana Blackburn @Rosscblackburn]

@nytimes @PMadridShow I’m sorry for him, I don’t wish anything bad on no one. Freedom of speech is our right but also our responsibility. When you missed use it, you will face the consequences. Finally, ABC is listening. Thanks be to God.

[Rossana Blackburn @Rosscblackburn]

@Amanda41307223 @robfirsching @davidharsanyi You are so right, sadly they are so sick in their head they don’t understand it. The most common numerator in all of these mentally ill people is the devil, gender agenda and dysfunctional families. Sad. Parents leave your personalities aside and be parents to your children.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We often defend our lives, our plans, our securities, without realizing that doing so causes us to remain alone. The logic of the Gospel is different. Only what is given away flourishes; only love that is freely given can restore trust, even where everything seems lost. #GeneralAudience

[Sr. Mary Joseph Calore, SSCJ @sscjusa]

Reposted from Leanne Bowen https://t.co/MFnYtkJE3z

During the 70s, some priests were becoming rather casual with the liturgy. One afternoon, a priest came into the soup kitchen that Dorothy Day was working at. He wanted to offer a liturgy for the homeless. He went into the kitchen and grabbed a mug to use for the chalice.
Dorothy, although frustrated at the irreverent use of houseware for the liturgy, prayed throughout the mass with the priest. After the liturgy ended, she quietly got up and started to cleanse the vessels. Then, she walked outside with the mug and a shovel.
A man followed her and asked her what she was doing. It is said she kissed the mug and then buried it. She told him that it was no longer a mug, but a chalice. It was no longer suited for coffee- it had held the Blood of Christ. She didn’t want anyone to mistake it for a mug again. Once something holds the Body of Christ, it is no longer what it was. When the mug held the Blood of Christ, it changed its vocation forever. It could no longer hold anything less than Christ again.
We were common mugs. Simple, functional, practical, and good people. We had a capacity to hold good things. But when Christ entered our lives, we became more. We became Chalices. We started to hold divinity Himself within our hearts. Now that we have held the Body of Christ within our bodies, we are no longer common, but rather extraordinary.
May you know the transformation God has placed in your heart. May you trust that you are truly made new and be extraordinary today.
Pictured: Dorothy Day holding a different mug.

[Rossana Blackburn @Rosscblackburn]

@welshjan66 @FrGoyo Jan pray more, specially the Rosary and the Divine Chaplet. Trust in Jesus, when you feel scared repeat “Jesus, I trust in You” as many times as you need until you start feeling better. It will be hard at the beginning but it will get easy.

[Rossana Blackburn @Rosscblackburn]

@FrGoyo 🤣🤣🤣🤣, I can do it like that too, but maybe in two days. Thank you so much for your priesthood, people don’t really know how much work that implies. You are in my prayers father.

[Rossana Blackburn @Rosscblackburn]

@k_yoder I will be praying for you.

[Rossana Blackburn @Rosscblackburn]

@EVerastegui Felicitaciones Eduardo, si ella te menciona mal o bien quiere decir que te tiene en la mira y si eres un rival capaz.