Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus begins today. Hopefully I'll begin it today, too. What a day! But at least I finally got the post written, formatted, posted, & a couple of pages of novenas done. Sent the wrong link out, forgot to add the title first.
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Friday, June 5th, 1:00 pm Eastern Time: "We Hold These Truths" a Fidelity Month discussion of the principles of the Declaration of Independence. Register for this online event below.
Feast of Corpus Christi.
Aquinas: Christ is “The Good Pelican” since pelicans will, if need be, peck at their chests & feed their young on their own flesh & blood.
“Lord Jesus, Good Pelican, clean me with Your Blood, one drop of which can free all the world of all its sins.”
This isn’t hard:
If you deny that Jesus has His human body in heaven, you deny the Resurrection and the Ascension—which means you aren’t a Christian.
His human body is now glorified—but it’s still His human body.
@CatholicusRoma1 I used to take encyclicals on my breaks from working at the Catholic bookstore where I was the buyer/mgr, and read them. Before I was Catholic. True, the most recent one i enjoyed reading was written by Pope Benedict XVI.
Do Catholics pray to dead saints? Jesus clarifies: God is not the God of the dead, but the living. Old Testament saints like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are more alive than we can imagine. The real question is: Will we believe Jesus? #Christianity#Faith
On this night in 1781, one man on a horse saved the American Revolution from losing Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and half of Virginia's government in a single morning.
You were never taught his name.
June 3, 1781. The British had chased Virginia's entire government out of Richmond. Jefferson, in his final days as governor, and the legislature had fled to Charlottesville, thinking they were safe in the foothills.
They were wrong.
That evening, 26 year old militia captain Jack Jouett was at a tavern in Louisa County when roughly 250 of the most feared cavalry in the British army came pounding down the road. Their commander: Banastre Tarleton, nicknamed "The Butcher," the man whose dragoons had cut down surrendering Americans at Waxhaws.
There was only one place they could be going. Charlottesville. 40 miles away. And the capture of Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, would be the prize of the war.
Jouett couldn't outrun them on the main road. So he didn't use it.
He swung onto overgrown backwoods trails and the abandoned Old Mountain Road, riding 40 miles through the dark with only the full moon for light. Legend says low hanging branches whipped and scarred his face for life.
Tarleton stopped his men for a 3 hour rest. Jouett never stopped.
Before sunrise on June 4, he came up the mountain to Monticello and woke Jefferson. Then he rode down into Charlottesville and warned the legislature.
Jefferson got out with minutes to spare. British dragoons were coming up his mountain as he left. The legislature escaped over the Blue Ridge to Staunton. Tarleton caught only seven stragglers, one of them a frontiersman serving in the legislature named Daniel Boone.
Paul Revere rode about 12 miles in 1775 and got captured before reaching Concord. Longfellow wrote him a poem and made him immortal.
Jack Jouett rode 40 miles, lost nothing, saved everything, and got a thank you gift of two pistols and a sword from the Virginia Assembly.
No poem. No fame. Almost no memory.
@Sachinettiyil Eternal rest, grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen. 🙏
Father Mark Moore, a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Steubenville, has died at the age of 49 after a battle with cancer.
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Week of June 1, 1776:
**In Halifax, Howe leads 10,000 British troops en route to an attack on New York City.
**In Quebec, John Thomas, a Continental Army general, dies of smallpox.
**In Philadelphia, Richard Henry Lee introduces a resolution declaring the colonies independent.
@March4LifeUK https://t.co/f7UguOY0O6 Catholic men & women follow the Catholic Bishops & stand up for Life by Signing & Sharing Ban and criminalise all abortions. Choose Adoption and Save Children’s Lives We believe Life Is From Conception No Exceptions Until A Natural Death.
📣 March for Life UK 2026 Update:
14 Catholic Bishops will be attending this year’s March for Life UK!
This is double the number who have attended in previous years. A significant sign of growing support for the pro-life cause within the Church. 🙏 👣
After a 2 month break of hospitals, I am now back with sepsis again. This is the risk with TPN, but it’s the only way I can get nutrition. I’ve been here for a few days but was way too weak to even think about my phone. I’ll be here for… I’m praying no more than 2 weeks, by Gods grace. Missing my family and my own bed but grateful for modern medicine so I can stay alive. +JMJ+