pray and fast

Catholic, pro-life, loves the Rosary and TLM. “The law entered in so that transgression might increase but, where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more,”

[pray and fast @egd777]

Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae;
Vita, dulcedo et spes nostra salve.
Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Hevae.
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
in hac lacrimarum valle. Eia ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte. Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.
O clemens, o pia, o dulcis Virgo Maria.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Father Erik Pintar, who left a high paying job at Google to answer God's call, has been ordained to the Catholic priesthood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Image: Fr Eric Pintar

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

Because both Jesus and St. Paul SAID you could lose your salvation—over and over and over again.

@patrickmadrid provides DOZENS of Bible verses proving it here:

https://t.co/Agjte5c16l

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Archaeologists found the oldest evidence of Christianity in Northern Europe.

A silver amulet, buried with a man between 230 and 270 AD.

Scientists used CT scanning to digitally unroll the scroll and it said: “Holy, holy, holy! In the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God.”

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

This will save culture

[Brian Burgess @Burgess7281975]

Yes, the Holy Mother of God is a Perpetual Virgin and Christianity has held this perpetually.

Luke 1:27 and 1:34 affirm Blessed Virgin’s virginity AFTER her betrothal to Joseph. Saint Ignatius of Antioch (among others) taught that one reason that Saint Joseph and the Blessed Virgin Mary were wed was to deceive the diabolical spirits (and Herod) about the Virgin Birth prophesied in Isaiah 7.

Aside from being Infallibly Defined as Dogma at the Second Council of Constantinople (A.D. 553) Our Lady’s Virginity was uniformly professed by the Church Fathers.

ca. 107 A.D., Saint Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Disciple of the Apostle John, Letter to the Ephesians
— Virginity before birth —
19:1 The virginity of Mary, her giving birth, and also the death of the Lord, were hidden from the prince of this world:—three mysteries loudly proclaimed, but wrought in the silence of God.

ca. 125 A.D., Aristides of Athens, Apology
— Virginity before birth; sinlessness; incorruptibility —
15 He was born of a holy Virgin without seed of man, and took flesh without defilement.

ca. 125 A.D., Letter to Diognetus
— Virginity before birth; New Eve (incorruptibility) —
12:7-9 Let your heart be knowledge, and your life the true teaching that your heart contains. If you bear the tree of this teaching and pluck its fruit, you will always be gathering in the things that are desirable in the sight of God, things that the serpent cannot touch and deceit cannot defile. Then Eve is not seduced, but a Virgin is found trustworthy.

ca. 155 A.D., Saint Justin the Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho the Jew
— Virginity before birth; New Eve (freedom from original sin; incorruptibility) —
100 [Justin:] “[Jesus] became Man by the Virgin so that the course which was taken by disobedience in the beginning through the agency of the serpent, might be also the very course by which it would be put down. For Eve, a virgin and undefiled, conceived the word of the serpent, and bore disobedience and death. But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow her, for which reason the Holy One being born of her is the Son of God. And she replied: ‘Be it done unto me according to thy word’ (Lk. 1:38)."

ca. 170 A.D., Saint Melito, Bishop of Sardis, Easter Homily
— Virginity before birth; New Eve (sinlessness; incorruptibility) —
[H]e clothed himself in man’s flesh
in the womb of a Virgin from whom he came forth as a man … .
[H]e is born of Mary, the fair ewe. …
He it is who made heaven and earth, …
who became incarnate in a Virgin.

ca. 185 A.D., Saint Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons and disciple of Saint Polycarp, Against Heresies
— Virginity before birth; New Eve (freedom from original sin; incorruptibility) —
3:22:4 Consequently, then, Mary the Virgin is found to be obedient, saying: "Behold, O Lord, your handmaid; be it done to me according to your word" (Luke 1:38). Eve, however, was disobedient; and when yet a virgin, she did not obey. Just as she … having become disobedient, was made the cause of death for herself and for the whole human race; so also Mary, betrothed to a man but nevertheless still a virgin, being obedient, was made the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race. … Thus, the knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. What the virgin Eve had bound in unbelief, the Virgin Mary loosed through faith.

#CatholicX

[Catholic Quotes @CatholicQuote12]

Pray for Holy Marriages!

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Charles Midol, a medical doctor, has been ordained to the Catholic priesthood for the Diocese of Lille in France

Video: Diocese of Lille

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Colombian President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella is visiting Catholic pilgrimage sites across the country, entrusting Colombia to God ahead of taking office.

[Rebecca Centurion 🇻🇦 @BeccaCenturion]

My beautiful grandson was born into the world yesterday and baptized into the Body of Christ just three hours after his arrival. He will undergo a highly invasive heart surgery this week; I implore you to keep him in your prayers.

Blessed Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, pray for us.

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

St. John Chrysostom, on “faith alone”: “What is the use of believing in Christ, if we do not live as He commanded? The demons also believe; what they lack is obedience and love.”

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

Heartbreaking.

Wife of Venezuelan footballer Andrea Bello was found in the rubble, shielding her one-year-old daughter from the earthquake

Her baby girl was found alive in her arms.

There is no greater love than to lay down your life for another. Motherhood is irreplaceable.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

A 131 mph wind gust in Highmore, South Dakota, ripped through the roof of a Catholic church, leaving it split open in a way that dramatically illuminated the crucifix inside.

Image: Joseph Mat

[Dana Rachel 🇻🇦 @thyflameoflove]

“Abortion is the greatest sin of our time.”
— Cardinal Robert Sarah

Cardinal Robert Sarah speaks strongly about abortion because the Catholic Church teaches that every human life is sacred.

From the moment of conception, every child is created by God and made in His image and likeness.

Scripture says:
→ “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.” (Jeremiah 1:5)

Abortion does not only end a life. It changes how a society sees human life itself.

When the most vulnerable can be discarded, our sense of human dignity begins to fade.

The unborn cannot speak for themselves. They cannot defend themselves. They depend entirely on others to protect them.

The Church speaks about abortion because every human life has value, worth, and purpose.

God knows every child.
God loves every child.
Every child matters.

💬 Do you think our culture sees unborn children as people, or as something else? Why?

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

97-year-old Cardinal Ernest Simoni, who endured 18 years in prison under Albania's communist regime, prays the Rosary while climbing the hills of Medjugorje.

Video: BUDI MUŠKARAC LJUBAVI

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

URGENT–Planned Parenthood is set to regain funding on July 4th.

They kill over 400k babies every single year.

Join thousands of Americans around the country to tell Congress we must defund the abortion industry.

Stop the bloodshed.

Defund Planned Parenthood permanently.

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

Patricia Heaton: Abortion Doesn’t “Eliminate” Down Syndrome, “It’s Just Killing Everybody That Has It” https://t.co/kcLEyA24of

[Dana Rachel 🇻🇦 @thyflameoflove]

Ancient prayer asking for the intercession of the virgin Mary Dating back to 250 AD ✝️

The oldest-known prayer to Mary was found in a Greek text from A.D. 250 that addresses Mary as “Theotokos," that is, “Mother of God” or “God-bearer”. Catholics know the prayer from a Latin version called the "Sub tuum praesidium:

Ὑπὸ τὴν σὴν εὐσπλαγχνίαν, καταφεύγομεν, Θεοτόκε. Τὰς ἡμῶν ἱκεσίας μὴ παρίδῃς ἐν περιστάσει, ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ κινδύνων λύτρωσαι ἡμᾶς, μόνη Ἁγνή, μόνη εὐλογημένη.

🙏 Sub Tuum Praesidium (English)
“Under your protection we seek refuge,
Holy Mother of God.
Do not despise our petitions in our necessities,
but deliver us always from all dangers,
O glorious and blessed Virgin.”

If Christians were praying this to Mary in A.D. 250, maybe it's time to rediscover what they knew. Check out more ancient Christian prayers on the Hallow app

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[SW Prayer @SwPrayer]

Let us offer one Hail Mary for the repose of the soul of Fr. Youhanna Al-Amin, a Catholic priest who remained with his parishioners amid the conflict in Sudan and was tragically killed in an attack. Please comment "Amen" as a response. #OneHailMarycampaign

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

Real men are pro-life

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Christopher, a social media influencer and cancer survivor with more than 150,000 Instagram followers, has announced that he is leaving his career to pursue a vocation to the Catholic priesthood.