Baseball legend Babe Ruth was a Catholic who wrote this letter about Communion, Confession and the Miraculous Medal:
“In December, 1946, I was in French Hospital, New York, facing a serious operation. Paul Carey, one of my oldest and closest friends, was by my bed one night.
- They’re going to operate in the morning, Babe, Paul said. -Don’t you think you ought to put your house in order?
-I didn’t dodge the long, challenging look in his eyes. I knew what he meant. For the first time, I realized that death might strike me out. I nodded, and Paul got up, called in a chaplain, and I made a full confession.
-I’ll return in the morning and give you Holy Communion, the chaplain said, -But you don’t have to fast.
-I’ll fast, I said. I didn’t have even a drop of water.
-As I lay in bed that evening, I thought to myself what a comforting feeling to be free from fear and worries. I now could simply turn them over to God. Later on, my wife brought in a letter from a little kid in Jersey City.
‘Dear Babe,’ he wrote, ‘Everybody in the seventh grade class is pulling and praying for you. I am enclosing a medal, which if you wear will make you better. Your pal—Mike Quinlan. P.S. I know this will be your 61st homer. You’ll hit it.’
-I asked them to pin the Miraculous Medal to my pyjama coat. I’ve worn the medal constantly ever since. I’ll wear it to my grave.”
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come;thy will be done;on earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.And lead us not into temptation;but deliver us from evil.For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.Amen.
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Yeah so if Don Lemon and every single radical that stormed that church isn’t immediately arrested, people are going to start taking matters into their own hands & things are going to get ugly fast
Either the DOJ steps up, or the American parents whose kids were terrified, will
@LovelaceHopeful@mtaibbi Mifsud is the key!! He allegedly arranged a meeting with @GeorgePapa19 and Putin's niece. (Totally bogus.) He then disappeared! The Mifsud notification triggered Crossfire Hurricane. #whereisfMifsud
“In this book I will not hesitate to use forceful language….Let us not be afraid to say that the Church needs profound reform and that this happens through our conversion.
Forgive me if some of my words shock you. I do not want to put you to sleep with soothing, lying talk. I seek neither success nor popularity.
This book is the cry of my soul. It is a cry of love for God and for my brethren. I owe to you, to you Christians, the only truth that saves: The Church is dying because her pastors are afraid to speak in all truth and clarity.
We are afraid of the media, afraid of public opinion, afraid of our own brethren. The good shepherd gives his life for His sheep. Today in these pages I offer you what is at the heart of my life: faith in God.
In a little while I will appear before the eternal judge. If I do not hand on to you the truth that I received, what will I say to Him then?
We bishops ought to tremble at the thought of our guilty silences, our complicit silences, our overindulgent silences in dealing with the world.”
—Cardinal Sarah