Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you. What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
-Flannery O'Connor
@athenaeumbc This is Whitby Abbey. It was destroyed by Protestantism, specifically Henry VIII who stole it from it's Catholic builders, just as he did to countless other beautiful churches and monasteries across Britain.
Catholicism is our true cultural heritage, and our only hope.
@JoshuaTCharles A few politicians, including the VP, have said the quiet part out loud - these are demons, not aliens. If there's any truth to the recent insane claim of human/alien interbreeding, guess what? It's not new. They're called "Nephilim." Get right with God. Here comes the flood.
It is clear why many Church Fathers and Saints throughout the ages have said Antichrist will be welcomed not only by the Jews (at least initially), but by a throng of heretics.
As a Catholic, we must stand for the truth as preserved in the Church for 2,000 years.
To the Jews, whose eternal salvation we desire: turn to Christ. The Messiah came (Messiah Ben Joseph). The Messiah will come back (Messiah Ben David). After He came, the demonic oracles were silenced. The Gentiles abandoned the paganism and idol worship of their ancestors and turned in droves to the God of Israel (Jesus called this the “sign of Jonah”). Egypt—that ancient lair of demons that enslaved you—turned from its demon worship, and this not after Abraham or Moses sojourned there, but only after Christ appeared in the world. For 2,000 years, the priesthood, temple, and altar that God removed from among you—which He prophesied would take place—has been maintained in the Catholic Church, where the one sacrifice of Christ in the Holy Eucharist is offered on Catholic altars throughout the world. 40 years before the destruction of the Temple (AD 30)—when Christ was crucified—your own Talmud reports that the scapegoat sacrifice of Yom Kippur was no longer accepted by God (Yoma 39b). Many more have come to the worship of the God of Israel through the Church over the last 2,000 years than ever came before. The Church is the Home of the religion of ancient Israel, now fulfilled and completed in the New Covenant, and extended to Jew and Gentile on equal terms. It is the Home of the “prophet” who Moses commanded you to follow, whose prophecies—particularly of the destruction of the Temple—came true (Deut. 18:15-22). The Church is therefore your Home, and we will rejoice as never before when you return to this Home to which you were the first to be invited, an invitation a remnant of your brethren accepted, and in doing so became its foundation (i.e. the Apostles).
To evangelicals who believe such things, with whom we share the bond of Holy Baptism: repent of your heresies, discover the truth of the Christian Faith as passed down by millennia of your Catholic ancestors (including countless martyrs). Return to the one and only Church founded by Christ, which amidst all the trials and storms of the last 2,000 years (including the sins of its own members) has exhibited precisely that continuity and permanence which you have entirely lacked: the Catholic Church. Your religion is not the religion of your ancestors, or anything close to it. It is not the religion of the Bible or the Apostles, but a recent invention built on the traditions of men—ephemeral, discordant, and protean in all its ways. As a former evangelical who is extraordinarily grateful for many of the gifts I received as an evangelical, I thank God for revealing this disturbing but medicinal truth to me, particularly through the testimony of our ancient Christian ancestors. I urge you to repent, before you too are overtaken by the lies of Antichrist. Perhaps that False Messiah will be interviewed by the Jerusalem Post. But when the real Messiah appears, you can be assured no one will have to view the Jerusalem Post to see Him.
@ByzCat Anything distinguishing between Christ as the cornerstone and Peter as the foundation stone? They have different functions, and in Jewish tradition the Foundation Stone under the temple seals the entrance to Hades, as the Pope/Magisterium are the Restrainer against Antichrist
@JoshuaTCharles "And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because wickedness is multiplied, most men’s love will grow cold. But he who endures to the end will be saved."
Keep the faith. Don't leave the Church.
@trad_west_ I've had a Mystic Monk coffee (& Earl Grey tea) subscription for a few years now. It is delicious, decently priced, and I'm excited to support the building of a gothic Carmelite church here in the States.
@MattWalshShow Reshore American jobs by tariffing offshore remote work.
Rebuild American families by restoring remote work so parents (especially moms) can work from home with kids. Birthrates rose during the covid work-from-home surge.
@ElijahSchaffer Discipline came slowly as I learned the faith, but prayer gave the fastest results.
If you struggle with alcohol or drugs or porn, earnestly ask God to take away the desire for them. When it finally happened, it was immediate, like a miracle.
@ByzCat The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church is amazing, free on the Vatican website, and the Church even provides a quick index of specific issues:
https://t.co/uDi1ycpHeD
Satan thinks he won.
But what he really did is put two more saints in heaven who are now reigning with Christ and interceding for us.
They will make his final ass-whooping all the more glorious.
@not_ai@JoshuaTCharles Might I suggest a more rowsing version, in the original folk melody, and in Latin? German isn't awesome.
https://t.co/fgOjfi2lvP