@AsianDawn4 It took her a trip to Madagascar and being robbed in broad daylight to understand not all cultures are equal. 🤦♂️
PSA: Don’t trust the Jews, the Blacks, and the Middle Eastern Muhammadans.
@BasedDavePA Just recite the rosary in Latin. You’ll get the Ave Maria in no time. Reciting it 50 times helps. Do the Hail Mary parts in Latin and rest in English. Slowly progress to the other prayers step by step.
It’s truly a blessing to pray like the saints in the same language.
It happens. I’ve been there. Don’t be discouraged, but be humble. Some of us really suck at being Catholic, but that’s okay, because it’s not how you start, but how you finish.
St. Andrew Wouters, Bartolo Longo, and St. Mary of Egypt were horrible and sinful.
Just try not to add more sins on to your list, like profanity. Let us be careful with our tongue, for our tongue is where we house our Lord at Holy Communion.
In Tanzania, during the week, depending on the timetable, I can have as many as 300 faithful at Mass or none at all. But there was a boy who began asking to serve at the altar. His name is Gaspar. Happy every day, in a red cassock, surplice and bare feet. During Mass he answers in a shy but sure Latin. Outside it he speaks Swahili and rudimentary English.
A few days later he brought a friend, Pedro. Another day there were already three. Then there were already four serving at the altar and three watching how it is done. Holy Mass attracts the youngest, the most innocent. And serving at the altar is a school of vocations.
La forte croissance de la communauté desservie par la FSSPX à Jacksonville rend la chapelle Saint-Michel-Archange désormais trop petite. Pour répondre à cet afflux, la FSSPX restaure une église catholique centenaire dédiée à Notre-Dame du Rosaire de Pompéi, qui pourra accueillir plus de 400 fidèles.
Après les bouleversements qui suivirent le concile Vatican II, l’ancienne église catholique passa entre les mains d’une communauté protestante. Son acquisition par la FSSPX permet aujourd’hui son retour à sa destination première.
Lorsqu’on se tient aujourd’hui en silence dans l’édifice encore en travaux, témoigne l’un des responsables, on croirait presque entendre ses murs murmurer : « Je veux redevenir une église catholique. »
Un siècle après sa première dédicace, Notre-Dame de Pompéi s’apprête ainsi à renaître de ses cendres, portée par la croissance et la générosité des fidèles.
La tiara papal no era simplemente una corona. Sus tres coronas simbolizaban tradicionalmente la triple potestad del Papa: Padre de los príncipes, Gobernador del mundo y Vicario de Cristo.
Más que un signo de riqueza, expresaba la grandeza y responsabilidad del ministerio petrino
"Você nunca será feliz se sua felicidade depender apenas de conseguir o que deseja. Mude o foco. Faça o que Deus quiser, e sua alegria ninguém tirará de você."
Venerável Fulton Sheen.
“Feminism is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”
- G. K. Chesterton
Por meio do silêncio, retornamos à nossa origem celestial, onde reside calma, paz, repouso, contemplação silenciosa e adoração à face radiante de Deus.
Vivemos numa época histérica e barulhenta que detesta aquilo que o silêncio nos conduz:
A humildade diante de Deus.
Antes de subir al altar, el sacerdote y el acólito recitan al pie del altar las oraciones iniciales.
“Introibo ad altare Dei…”
No comienza con prisa ni protagonismo humano: comienza con humildad, penitencia y temor santo ante el misterio del Sacrificio.
St. John Chrysostom commented on St. Paul’s words (1 Tim. 2:11-12): “Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness. I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent.”
He said:
“[Adam] transgressed, not captivated by appetite, but merely from the persuasion of his wife. The woman taught once, and ruined all. On this account therefore he [St. Paul] says, let her not teach.”
St. John Chrysostom, Homily 9 on 1 Timothy
Art: Benjamin West, The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (1791)
Please prayerfully consider this introduction to the Oath against Modernism and the first clause presented here. In the coming days I will present the other clauses (five total) and the concluding section.
This was promulgated by Pope St Pius X in 1910 and should be embraced by every faithful Catholic, not just the clergy:
THE OATH AGAINST MODERNISM
To be sworn to by all clergy, pastors, confessors, preachers, religious superiors, and professors in philosophical-theological seminaries.
I . . . . firmly embrace and accept each and every definition that has been set forth and declared by the unerring teaching authority of the Church, especially those principal truths which are directly opposed to the errors of this day. And first of all, I profess that God, the origin and end of all things, can be known with certainty by the natural light of reason from the created world (see Rom. 1:19), that is, from the visible works of creation, as a cause from its effects, and that, therefore, his existence can also be demonstrated:
“As I have said before, I regard women’s rights women and the leaders in the new school of female progress as the worst enemies of the female sex.
They teach that which robs women of all that is amiable and gentle, tender and attractive, and which gives nothing in return but masculine boldness and brazen effrontery.
They are habitually preaching about women’s rights and prerogatives, but have not a word to say about her duties and responsibilities. They withdraw her from those sacred obligations which properly belong to her sex, and fill her with ambition to usurp a position for which neither God nor nature ever intended her.”
James Cardinal Gibbons, “The Restless Woman” (1902)