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The 40 soldiers on the frozen lake
Sebaste, Armenia. Around AD 320.
Forty Roman soldiers refused to sacrifice to the pagan gods. They were Christians, and they would not deny Christ, even under orders.
Their commander chose a slow death for them.
On a bitter winter night, they were stripped naked and forced onto a frozen lake. On the shore, within sight, stood a heated bathhouse. Any man who renounced Christ could walk off the ice and into the warmth.
Through the night, the soldiers encouraged each other and prayed that all forty would stay faithful to the end.
Then one broke. He staggered off the ice toward the bath. According to the account, the shock of the sudden heat killed him almost instantly.
But a guard on the shore had been watching all night. The ancient account says he saw a vision of crowns descending on the men on the ice and counted only thirty-nine. He tore off his clothes, declared himself a Christian, and walked onto the lake to take the empty place.
By morning, there were forty again.
Their story was preached by Basil of Caesarea within living memory of the event, and churches have honored them for 1,700 years.
One man had a warm room and lost everything.
Another had everything and chose the ice.
Which way would you walk?
"Hijos, [...] no deis ocasión para que el enemigo os pregunte con arrogancia impía ¿Dónde está vuestro Dios? Pelead en su santo nombre, pues muertos o victoriosos, habréis de alcanzar la inmortalidad".
~Don Juan de Austria, discurso previo a la batalla de Lepanto, 7 de oct. 1571
I’m not mad at the boomers for taking advantage of the housing boom. I’m not mad at them for squandering that and leaving their kids with nothing. The only thing I’m upset at them for is their abandonment of the faith. The countless boomer fathers who left their children’s spiritual lives to their wives. The ones left the church in the hands of women. For that you will have to give an account.
@PaulinusOfTrier It's from the masonic lodges where the devil gives them his orders.
"They have one purpose, and give their power and authority to the beast" Revelation 17, 13.
"The Rosary is most practical. It takes us from the midst of our too human interests and joys and makes us think of those which center on the coming of the Savior. It takes us from our meaningless fears, from the sufferings we bear so badly, and reminds us of how much Jesus has suffered for love of us and teaches us to follow Him by bearing the cross which divine providence has sent us to purify us. It takes us finally from our earthly hopes and ambitions and makes us think of the true object of Christian hope - eternal life and the graces necessary to arrive there."- Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Holiness - sanctity - is attained by means of the Cross, penance, and sacrifice. If we truly seek perfection, then we must follow the Way of the Cross. -Abp. Lefebvre
With God nothing that is suffered for His sake, no matter how small, can pass without reward. Be prepared for the fight, then, if you wish to gain the victory.
"Michael is the breath of the Redeemer’s Spirit, who at the end of the world, will combat and destroy the antichrist, as he did Lucifer in the beginning." - St. Thomas Aquinas
Here’s a list of books every Catholic should read (start with the first three):
1. The Bible
2. The Imitation of Christ by Thomas á Kempis
3. Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales
4. The Three Ages of the Interior Life by Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange
5. The Spiritual Combat by Lorenzo Scupoli
6. Treatise on the Love of God by St. Francis de Sales
7. On Loving God by St. Bernard of Clairvaux
8. Uniformity with God’s Will by St. Alphonsus Liguori
9. True Devotion to Mary by St. Louis de Montfort
10. The Secret of the Rosary by St. Louis de Montfort
11. The Glories of Mary by St. Alphonsus Liguori
12. Confessions by St. Augustine
13. The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Ávila
14. The Story of a Soul by St. Thérèse of Lisieux
15. Preparation for Death by St. Alphonsus Liguori
16. The Art of Dying Well by St. Robert Bellarmine
Remember the painful woes of others, that you may bear your own little ones more easily. And if they do not seem so small to you, examine if perhaps your impatience is not the cause of their apparent greatness; and whether they are great or small, try to bear them all patiently.