Gerald Palay

Life is meant to be Lived!

[Shahid Chaudhary @Fani2536]

اشرف مخلوق تو انسان ہیں نا؟؟
پھر یہ مخلوق اعلی معیار پہ کیسے پہنچ گئ؟؟؟

[☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩ @SecretFire79]

WHEN YOU VISIT A PRIEST, PLEASE REMEMBER...🇻🇦

That a priest isn't married, nor will he have a family of his own. No wife, no children. His family is his parishioners. He is a spiritual father in faith to the community he serves. His future is in celebrating the Eucharist at mass every day, listening to confessions, anointing the sick, serving those who come to him for help.

A priest may serve a parish only for a minimum of five to seven years. After that he may be transfered to another parish or assigned a different role in the Church. He relies on his team of volunteers, staff and the lay faithful. Don't expect him to be there all the time for you.

When you give money to the Church, you may be surprised to know that the money isn't for him because no priest earns a fixed salary. They receive a stipend to meet their basic expenses of food, clothing and travel. They save every penny to go for a vacation and much of the money is gifted by friends, relatives and well wishers as they don't get paid leave like the rest of us who work. While we work for a fixed amount of hours with two days off a week , priests are expected to be on stand by 24/7. So don't be angry if they don't respond to you when you need them. They are humans as well with the same frailty as us.

If you hear anyone speaking badly about a particular priest, please correct that person and don't engage in idle gossip without knowing the facts. Remember that they are alone and at times would need company. Pay attention to their emotional, physical and mental needs. Accompany them if needed or offer a helping hand or even a lift.

It's not easy to go out alone at 2 or 3 in the morning especially in dangerous neighborhoods for counseling or even anointing someone on their death bed. If someone comes to them at such an hour for help, they have to get up from their deep sleep and still be expected to celebrate Mass in the morning. Who is there for them when they are ill or have emergencies in the middle of the night? Yet they are required to perform their duties because if not them, who?

Remember their birthdays, ordination anniversaries and important events in their lives. Celebrate with them, cry with them. Offer a shoulder to lean on. If they fall, don't judge or criticize. Lift them up and help them on their journey in life. Don't be offended if they don't live up to your expectations. No priest is perfect.

So take care of your priests, remember the ones who baptized, confirmed, married and anointed you. The ones who offer masses for your intentions and pray for you. May God bless our priests in Jesus name, our eternal High Priest. Amen.

[Michael Morelli @morellifit]

This is Thomas Seyfried.

He's a scientist who's dedicated 30+ years to researching cancer.

His message? Cancer IS preventable.

It's caused by lifestyle factors, not genetics.

Here are Seyfried's 7 MOST important rules for preventing cancer:

[Catholic News Agency @cnalive]

On the night of Aug. 6, 2014, everything changed for the residents of Karamlesh, a small town in northern Iraq. https://t.co/XdQBhtrl4P

[Au Dionisio @AuDionsio]

Aspiration Song of
Juan dela Cruz

[Ascension @AscensionPress]

From Protestant pastor to Catholic theologian 🤯

#CatholicTwitter

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

Our Lady of Sorrows teaches us that if we maintain our relationship with God, life does not spare us suffering. Rather, it opens up to a great horizon of goodness and moves towards its fulfilment.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

My heart 😭

This baby elephant thought he was drowning and rushed to save him ❤️

We really don't deserve them.

[Poem Heaven @PoemHeaven]

this.

[WYD English @wyd_en]

The next WYD will be in Seoul, South Korea 🇰🇷 See you in 2027!

#WYD

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

I leave you with this thought: walk and, if you fall, get up. Walk with a purpose; train every day of your life. Let us walk in hope, look to our roots, and strive ahead fearlessly. https://t.co/dOcJBubSFW

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

I love this observation from Dr. Lawrence Feingold, a Jewish convert to the Catholic Faith, seminary professor, and theologian:

“In the first years after our conversion, people often asked me why I ‘chose’ Christianity or the Catholic Church, and not Judaism or Buddhism or protestantism.

The question is framed in the language of religious liberalism, as if religion were a matter of our personal sentiments, personal preferences, personal loyalties or choices.

The experience of converts is not that we have chosen anything, but that it is God who has chosen to redeem us through the Incarnation and Passion of the Messiah, which is continued and made present in the Catholic Church, and it is God who called us to enter the ark of salvation.

We who have been given the grace to hear, through no merit of our own, have the duty to pray for those who have not yet been given this gift.”

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

104-year-old man receives his first Holy communion in Brazil after getting baptised in the Catholic Church

Read my report here: https://t.co/qMXDpgIuEY

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

A beautiful Catholic marriage tradition ❤️

When the bride and bridegroom go to the church to be married they carry a Crucifix with them. The priest blesses the Crucifix and instead of saying that they have found the ideal partner with whom to share their lives, he exclaims, “You have found your Cross! It is a Cross to love, to carry with you, a Cross that is not to be thrown off, but rather cherished.” When they interchange the marital vows, the bride puts her right hand on this Crucifix and the groom puts his right hand over hers. Both are bound together and united to the Cross. The priest covers their hands with his stole while they pronounce their promises to love one other in good times and in bad, proclaiming their vows to be faithful according to the rites of the Church. Then they both first kiss the Cross, not each other. If one abandons the other, they abandon Christ on the Cross. They lose Jesus! After the wedding, the newly-weds cross the threshold of their home to enthrone that same Crucifix in a place of honour. It becomes the reference point of their lives and the place of family prayer, for the young couple believes deeply that the family is born of the Cross.

[ChurchPOP @Church_POP]

Woman With Same-Sex Attraction Calls on D.C. Archdiocese to Cancel Parish's "Pride" Mass in Viral Tweet

Anna-Katherine Howell, a 31-year-old woman who struggles with same-sex attraction, called on Cardinal Wilton Gregory of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., to cancel a parish's upcoming "Pride" Mass scheduled on June 14.

Howell once lived a lifestyle contrary to the Catholic Church's teaching on homosexuality, and she is "not proud of any of this."

"From my teen years up until my conversion, I lived a horribly sinful life, including a great deal of promiscuity, an addiction to pornography, and a same-sex 'marriage' at age 26," she tweeted.

Howell explained that rather than celebrating the sin, she celebrates her repentance and return to the Church.

She said "LGBTQ" does not define her identity.

"Our attraction is a thing we experience, not an identity we are defined by."

She requested Catholics email Cardinal Gregory:

"Consider mentioning that 'Pride' events sponsored and/or attended by Catholics are contrary to Catholic teaching, give scandal, and actually do harm to faithful, chaste Catholics with same-sex attraction who do not wish to celebrate or be identified by their worst impulses or past sins."

More details: https://t.co/V9udesWi4C

@RCAnnaKate

[ChurchPOP @Church_POP]

This weekend, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, or the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. Here's 5 Eucharistic miracles that left physical evidence, including the 8th-century miracle of Lanciano and the 18th-century Hosts of Siena: https://t.co/owawfJKQSO

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

From the Cross forgiveness poured forth and fraternal love was reborn: the Cross makes us brothers and sisters. #HolyWeek

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

Living #HolyWeek means entering ever more deeply into God's logic, into the logic of the Cross, which is not primarily that of suffering and death, but rather that of love and of the gift of self that brings life.