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"The wise man is the one who knows how to save his soul" -St. Hardini
“Lord… your cross is the source of all blessings, the cause of all graces."-St.Leo

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@CTrefugees What of number of Traditional Latin Masses in the world being up by 255 since '21. https://t.co/HnUdVqFsXO

Thanks be to God always

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One paragraph from C. S. Lewis can change your life

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@CraigOnin @catholicobgyn According to His Holiness Pope Pius XII they are medical, eugenic, economic and social (see his address to midwives) and are referred to in CCC2368 as "just reasons"

Thanks be to God always

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@Sensus_Fidelium Thanks be to God always

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@Sensus_Fidelium It was a custom in France in the past and part of the Gallican tradition (see sources below). It was also a custom in the past in Latin America and the Mediterranean (see sources below). It is a beautiful way to manifest the theological reality of the sacred priesthood....

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@Sensus_Fidelium "The priest is the vicar of Jesus Christ, because he holds His place on earth... In the celebration of Mass, the priest offers to the Eternal Father the very same victim, that is, His own Son, which was once offered upon the cross."-St. Alphonsus

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@Sensus_Fidelium "If I saw an angel and a priest, I would bend my knee first to the priest and then to the angel." -St. Francis of Assisi

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@Sensus_Fidelium Mario Righetti (Historia de la Liturgia): In his treatment of liturgical gestures (Los gestos de reverencia and El beso litúrgico. Joaquín Solans in Manual Litúrgico and traditional Mexican seminary manuals

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@Sensus_Fidelium France - The principal French liturgical manuals—most notably the foundational work of Père Léon Le Vavasseur (Manuel de Liturgie et Cérémonial selon le Rit Romain, 1858), along with its subsequent twentieth-century revisions by Joseph Haegy and Louis Stercky

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

ST. AUGUSTINE ON MAINTAINING CATHOLIC UNITY IN SPITE OF SCANDALS

That you can read a 1,600 year old sermon as if delivered yesterday is, itself, profound—a cause for rejoicing as a Catholic. The Church—the threshing floor—remains.

I am thankful beyond the power of words to express for the role that the Catholic witness of St. Augustine had in bringing me Home to the Church!

St. Augustine, pray for us!

“There are those who, though called believers, are not so. There are believers in whom the sacraments of Christ are subjected to abuse; persons who live in such a way that they themselves perish, and they ruin others. They themselves perish by evil living; they destroy others, however, by giving the example of evil living. Do not wish, my dearly beloved, to be associated with such as these. Seek the good; cleave to the good; be good.

Do not be surprised at the large number of bad Christians who fill the church, who communicate at the altar…They can exist along with us in the Church of this time, but they will not be able to remain in that assembly of saints which will be after the resurrection. For the Church of this time, since it has good mixed with bad, is compared to a threshing floor where grain is mixed with chaff; but, after the judgment, it will have all good members without the evil. This threshing floor contains the harvest sown by the Apostles, watered by subsequent good teachers down to the present times, somewhat bruised by the persecution of enemies, but with the remnant not yet purged by the final sifting. Nevertheless, He will come concerning whom you recited in the Creed: ‘Then He will come to judge the living and the dead,’ and, as the Gosel says: ‘His winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly clean out his threshing floor, and will gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.’

Let the old faithful members hear what I say; let him who is the grain rejoice in the tossing; let him remain; let him not depart from the threshing floor. Let him not, following his own judgment, try to free himself from the chaff, since he will not be able to remain on the threshing floor if he wishes to separate himself now from the chaff. Furthermore, when He comes who distinguishes without error, He will not raise to the granary what He has not found on the threshing floor. Whatever grains have now withdrawn from the threshing floor will then boast in vain about their stock. The barn will be filled and closed. Fire will consume whatever has remained outside. Therefore, my dear brethren, let him who is good put up with the evil; let him who is bad imitate the good. On this threshing floor, in truth, grain can degenerate into chaff; and, on the other hand, grain can be restored from chaff. These changes take place daily, my brethren. This life is full of punishments and consolations. Daily those who seemed good do wrong and perish; and again, those who seemed evil are converted and live. For, ‘God does not will the death of the sinner, but only that he be converted from his ways and live.’

Hear me, O grains of wheat; hear me, you who conform to my desires; hear me, O grain. Do not be saddened by the intermixture of chaff; the evil will not be with you forever. To how great an extent does the chaff press upon you? Thank God that it is not heavy. Only let us remain the wheat; then, how abundant soever the chaff may be, it will not oppress us.”

St. Augustine, “Sermon 223: On the Vigil of Easter”

[Memento Mori @TempusFugit4016]

"We ought not to put loyalties or fatherland or distinctions or riches before God, for Scripture says: "The fashion of this world passeth away." And those who love this world will also perish with it." - St. Paulinus of Nola

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Edward Feser: Leo XIV contra the new Babel: Reflections on the pope’s landmark encyclical

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Does Just War Doctrine Require Moral Certainty? https://t.co/OEJCEy7QcL

[Memento Mori @TempusFugit4016]

"Cast all memory of the world behind you; cautiously watching your thoughts, as a good fisher watches the fish. Above all, place yourself in the presence of God with fear and trembling." - St. Romuald

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@FreyChristopher Thanks be to God always!

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@FeserEdward @Pontifex 5/ entrance into the churches. Also Saints who plead for murderers and other capital offenders to be spared?

Thank you for this and all your work. Thanks be to God always

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@FeserEdward @Pontifex 4/ finality. Also I would ask what you think of the traditional practices of Catholic countries during the Glory of Christendom when the Church required some capital offenders to be released during Holy Week/Easter Week so strenuously that magistrates who did not were denied

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@FeserEdward @Pontifex in other countries morso than in ours). Upholding the dignity of human life (not that the death penalty is inherently contrary to it but that if there are fundamental problems or unfairnesses in that system its use is contrary to human dignity in a unique way because of its

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@FeserEdward @Pontifex 2/ our country. Problems with the fairness of the justice system for those without the means to secure the representation (and influence/insight) of lawyers costing hundreds of thousands of dollars? The death penalty being used for political purposes/revenge (an issue

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@FeserEdward @Pontifex 1/ Thank you for the thoughtful reflections. I think all of your points are valid. On the other side do you recognize the validity of the arguments that may inform the almost universal rejection of the application of the death penalty in the United States by the Bishops of