Trinitas 🇻🇦🇺🇸

Rachelle. Abusus non tollit usum. Ex-lib. Mom. Roman Catholic. Artist. Retired Tech Exec. I Love God, Creation, Humanity.

[Trinitas 🇻🇦🇺🇸 @_trinitas_]

This is 24 weeks. This is sacred life. https://t.co/taZDzJQbjI

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

This is the amazing story of little Toby, born premature at 24 weeks. #Retweet this video. #prolife

[Kate 🐘🇺🇸👠 @KateKcollins1]

Our grandmothers spent their lives keeping the Catholic faith alive. But what happens to that faith when they’re no longer here?

This is my grandmother, Mary Catherine Collins, photographed many years ago while working for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

She was born in 1929, attended West Catholic High School, and lived to be 95 years old before passing away in 2024.

I love this photograph of her. She’s young, beautifully dressed, sitting at her desk with a lifetime of memories still ahead of her.

With All Souls’ Day approaching on November 2, I’ve been thinking about her and the generations of Catholic women who came before us.

The grandmothers who went to Mass every Sunday, kept their rosaries close, prayed for their families, and passed down a faith that had already survived centuries before they were born.

There was a time when they were the young women sitting in the pews, raising families, and building the traditions we remember from childhood.

Now so many of them are gone.

As I’ve grown deeper in my Catholic faith, attending Mass more often, studying Scripture, and learning about the Church’s history, I’ve come to appreciate that inheritance in a way I never did when I was younger.

I wish I could sit with my grandmother and tell her everything I’ve been learning. I would love to hear her stories about working for the Archdiocese and ask her questions I never thought to ask while she was here.

I’d like to think she would be proud.

This coming All Souls’ Day, I’ll be praying for the repose of her soul, just as generations of Catholics have prayed for their loved ones.

And I hope those of you who have lost your grandmothers will remember them in your prayers, too.

Because the older I get, the more I realize that the Catholic traditions we inherited are now ours to preserve.

Our grandmothers won’t always be here to fill those church pews, light those candles, or remind us to say our prayers.

Someone has to take their place.

They carried the faith so that we could inherit it. Now it’s our turn to make sure it reaches the next generation.

And I can’t help thinking how proud our grandmothers would be to see us doing exactly that.

Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. 🙏

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

FRANCE 🚨 🇫🇷

INCREDIBLE scenes today at the Sacré-Cœur Basilica at Montmartre as THOUSANDS of Catholics gathered to pray overlooking the city of Paris

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Let us continue to pray together for peace. The day after tomorrow, on 27 October, let us join in spirit with the heads of churches and religious leaders who will gather in Assisi to mark the 40th anniversary of the meeting convened by Saint John Paul II. Never before has it been so clear that wars, as well as sowing death and destruction, impoverish and harm the world. May the Lord inspire choices of dialogue and peace! #PrayTogether

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

The undeniable downfall of elegance

[That Catholic Guy 🇻🇦 @Catholic_bro]

Pray for the unborn

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Friends, in just two days, Christians were murdered on two continents.

On Friday, gunmen opened fire on a funeral at St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in Karak, Jordan, and killed nine people. On Saturday, armed men attacked Orthodox churches and homes in Oromia, Ethiopia, and killed more than forty.

These are not statistics. They are our brothers and sisters, members of the mystical Body of Christ. When Saul set out to destroy the Church, the risen Jesus asked him, “Why are you persecuting me?” The Lord is still being persecuted in these victims of anti-Christian violence.

Christianity is by far the most persecuted religion in the world today. Those of us who worship in comfort have to ask what the deaths of these martyrs demand of us. At the very least, they demand that we pray for them, learn their names, press our leaders to act, and refuse to look away.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.

[Mike, Mike, Mike @Gulicio1]

This is the best explanation between left and right I have heard in a long time! #RepublicanValues #democraticvalues

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

SORRY IF THIS OFFENDS GROCERY EXECUTIVES, BUT I’M DONE.

I just pulled a $4.99 box of cereal off the shelf, brought it to the register, and watched the scanner ring it up as $7.49.

When I told the cashier, she said: "Oh, that’s the digital coupon price. You have to download our store app, create an account, search for the item, and clip the digital coupon before scanning."

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

You inflated the shelf price by 50%, locked the normal price behind an app, and forced me to hand over my personal phone data and email just to pay the actual retail value of a box of food?

Stop hiding basic shelf pricing behind data-harvesting apps.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Christian Bale spent roughly 15–16 years quietly working to create a foster-care village in Palmdale through the nonprofit Together California. The project, costing around $20–22 million, was designed to keep siblings from being separated in the foster system by housing them together in family-style homes. It also includes apartments for teens aging out of care and a large community center offering support services to help them transition successfully into adulthood.

Christian Bale was deeply involved for over a decade in helping make the village a reality.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Everyone must read this novel. As soon as possible, ideally.

We're about to read it in our book club. The opening lines have never felt more relevant:

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us..."

The news cycle is an endless procession of doom. There are a thousand reasons to despair. It feels as though our time is uniquely chaotic, that an old order is collapsing and what lies ahead is beyond control. But we have been here before.

Dickens takes us into the hysteria of the French Revolution and a society utterly consumed by vengeance. But he also shows how an act of self-sacrificial love can redeem it. Indeed, "Death may beget life".

You must live now by refusing to be part of the cycle of decay. The counter to the mob is YOU, and the redemption of your own life. You are called to discover life even in the midst of terrible evil and death. The darkest times are the setting for the greatest acts of love.

This is one of the most powerful novels ever written. Please join our group and read it with us.

Our first discussion on A Tale of Two Cities is on November 4.

If you'd like to join our inner circle and participate in the discussions directly, join us with a full membership:

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[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

Beautiful way of saying that you eliminated all of the children who were not as desirable as Lucy.

In your world "choice" = eugenics.

[ALX 🎃🇺🇸 @alx]

This is, by far, my favorite thing ever printed in The Washington Post.

[Abrace a Tradição @abracetradicao]

Papa Bento XVI: “Um católico será considerado culpado por cooperar com o mal e não poderá receber a Comunhão se votar em um candidato político que é a favor da eutanásia e/ou do aborto.”

[Larry Elder @larryelder]

“Europe is belatedly discovering how unbelievably stupid it was to import millions of people from cultures that despise Western values and which often promote hatred toward the people who have let them in.”
—Thomas Sowell, August 18, 2015

[St. Maximilian @Totvs_tuus51320]

"The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you."

-- 𝑺𝒕. 𝑷𝒂𝒅𝒓𝒆 𝑷𝒊𝒐

[That Catholic Guy 🇻🇦 @Catholic_bro]

Jesus, help every lapsed Catholic find their way back to the Eucharist.

[Pray The Rosary @PrayTheRosary]

Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Catholic Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein has vetoed a bill that would have legalized abortion in the Catholic-majority country! The decision marks the first time Prince Alois has exercised his veto during his reign.

[Kevin M @kmckeon85]

I need prayers. I’m 65 and the pain from Parkinson’s is almost unbearable for me. I can’t text much more than this.
God Bless

[Brian Holdsworth @briankeepsworth]

It's refreshing to hear a bishop address speak as though his back actually had bones in it.