Catholic Christian Man, ✝️🛐🇺🇸#YNWA, #🐻⬇️

[Caleb Williams @CALEBcsw]

We may wear different colors on the field, but when it comes to helping kids fighting cancer, we are all on One Team. Help St. Jude tackle life-threatening diseases and give kids with cancer the chance they deserve. Join me and the football community across the country and go to https://t.co/j6EC1BSuva to get your hat.

[Bearsszn @bearszn]

THE CHICAGO BEARS ARE YOUR 2025 NFC NORTH CHAMPIONS 🐻⬇️

[Ben Devine @Chicago_NFL]

With the Rams loss, the Chicago Bears are currently the #1 seed in the NFC. #DaBears

[Silvy @WaddleandSilvy]

I haven’t been this proud of a #Bears team in years.
And they’re just scratching the surface with Ben.
The way they bullied the bullies is amazing.
💪 🐻 💪

[George @Narrow_Gate3344]

A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans 6:19-23

Brothers and sisters: I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature.

For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.

But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed?

For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification, and its end is eternal life.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The word of the Lord.

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

“Evil preaches tolerance until it becomes dominant. From that point on, it seeks to silence the good.”

— Saint John Henry Newman

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

I confess to almighty God and to you , my brothers and sisters, that I greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I asked blessed Mary, ever-Virgin,
all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters,
to pray for me to the Lord our God.
Amen

[That Trad Gal @thattradgal]

Jesus, forgive me.

[Pray The Rosary @PrayTheRosary]

Best advice for Catholic X accounts : don't be fake, don't lead others into sin, be careful with your words and don't commit sins of gossip

[MotherMary @Mothermary0012]

Saint Padre Pio,pray for us.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

Abortion survivors exist.

Too often, people are told that abortion only removes “a clump of cells,” dehumanizing innocent children in the womb.

Every abortion ends a human life. But when an abortion fails, generations are saved—children born, marriages formed, and families that never would have existed now flourish.

Watch testimonies from those who survived abortion: https://t.co/7G6aG2tv40

[Catholic Frequency @CatholicFQ]

Jesus is the Good Shepherd

[Diana Henry @dianahenry]

In times of loneliness, Mary, be with me.

In times of turmoil and uncertainty, Mary, be with me.

In times of grief, loss, or illness, Mary, be with me.

In times of sadness or depression, Mary, be with me.

In times of temptation, Mary, be with me.

In times of anger or unforgiveness, Mary, be with me.

In times of fear, Mary, be with me.

In times of discouragement or despair, Mary, be with me.

In times of darkness, Mary, be with me.

In times of sin, Mary, be with me.

Mary, be with me always.

[Pray The Rosary @PrayTheRosary]

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner

[Catholic Frequency @CatholicFQ]

What God has joined together, let no man separate.

[Bishop Joseph Strickland @ Pillars of Faith @BishStrick]

Pray, pray, pray that Pope Leo and all the bishops of the Church will heed these critically important words.

“Pastors who lack foresight hesitate to say openly what is right because they fear losing the favor of men.”

From the Pastoral Guide by Saint Gregory the Great, pope
(Lib. 2, 4: PL 77, 30-31)

Let the pastor be discreetly silent, and to the point when he speaks

A spiritual guide should be silent when discretion requires and speak when words are of service. Otherwise he may say what he should not or be silent when he should speak. Indiscreet speech may lead men into error and an imprudent silence may leave in error those who could have been taught. Pastors who lack foresight hesitate to say openly what is right because they fear losing the favor of men. As the voice of truth tells us, such leaders are not zealous pastors who protect their flocks, rather they are like mercenaries who flee by taking refuge in silence when the wolf appears.

The Lord reproaches them through the prophet: They are dumb dogs that cannot bark. On another occasion he complains: You did not advance against the foe or set up a wall in front of the house of Israel, so that you might stand fast in battle on the day of the Lord. To advance against the foe involves a bold resistance to the powers of this world in defense of the flock. To stand fast in battle on the day of the Lord means to oppose the wicked enemy out of love for what is right.

When a pastor has been afraid to assert what is right, has he not turned his back and fled by remaining silent? Whereas if he intervenes on behalf of the flock, he sets up a wall against the enemy in front of the house of Israel. Therefore, the Lord again says to his unfaithful people: Your prophets saw false and foolish visions and did not point out your wickedness, that you might repent of your sins. The name of prophet is sometimes given in the sacred writings to teachers who both declare the present to be fleeting and reveal what is to come. The word of God accuses them of seeing false visions because they are afraid to reproach men for their faults and thereby lull the evildoer with an empty promise of safety. Because they fear reproach, they keep silent and fail to point out the sinner’s wrongdoing.

The word of reproach is a key that unlocks a door, because reproach reveals a fault of which the evildoer is himself often unaware. That is why Paul says of the bishop: He must be able to encourage men in sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it. For the same reason God tells us through Malachi: The lips of the priest are to preserve knowledge, and men shall look to him for the law, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. Finally, that is also the reason why the Lord warns us through Isaiah: Cry out and be not still; raise your voice in a trumpet call.

Anyone ordained a priest undertakes the task of preaching, so that with a loud cry he may go on ahead of the terrible judge who follows. If, then, a priest does not know how to preach, what kind of cry can such a dumb herald utter? It was to bring this home that the Holy Spirit descended in the form of tongues on the first pastors, for he causes those whom he has filled, to speak out spontaneously.

[Deacon Nick Donnelly @ProtecttheFaith]

6 years ago

Penance! Penance! Penance!

[Coworkeroftruth @coworkeroftruth]

The False Western Vision of Religion

Too often in the West, religion is presented as an activity in the service of human well-being. Religion is equated with humanitarian efforts, acts of charity, the welcoming of migrants and the homeless, the promotion of universal fraternity and peace in the world. Spirituality is viewed as a form of personal development, meant to offer some comfort to modern man absorbed in his usual political and economic pursuits.

Even if these matters are important, this vision of religion is false. Religion is not a matter of food or humanitarian action. In the desert, this was the first temptation that Jesus rejected. To redeem humanity, one must overcome the misery of hunger and poverty—this is what the devil proposed to the Lord. But Jesus replied that this is not the path of redemption. He shows us that even if all people had enough to eat, even if prosperity extended to all, humanity would not be redeemed.

We see clearly how, in lands of comfort, wealth, and abundance, man destroys himself, self-destructs, because he forgets God and thinks only of his riches and earthly well-being. What saves the world is the bread of God. Man must be nourished with the bread of God—and the bread of God is Christ Himself. What will save the world is man kneeling before God, to adore and to serve Him. God is not at our service. It is we who are at His service.
—Cardinal Robert Sarah