AdIesumPerMariam ✝️☦️

Catholic, Pro Life, living in the belly of the beast. Fast and pray. ☦️✝️

[AdIesumPerMariam ✝️☦️ @IesumAd]

We are surrounded by enemies. Let's be like Ven. Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan of Vietnam.

[Father V @father_rmv]

Ven. Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan of Vietnam:

I was in prison for 13 years, 9 of which in solitary confinement. Two guards watched me but never spoke to me; just yes and no.

But I knew that after all, they were my brothers and I had to be kind to them. I had no gift to offer as a prisoner. I had nothing at all, nothing to please them. What to do? One night, a thought came. "You are still very rich. You have the love of Christ in your heart. Love them as Jesus loves you".

The next day I set to work, first, by showing gladness and by smiling. I began to tell stories about my journeys in countries where people live in freedom and enjoy their culture and great technical progress. That stimulated their curiosity and they asked many, many questions. Slowly, very slowly, we became friends. They wanted to learn foreign languages. My guards became my disciples! The atmosphere of the prison changed considerably. The quality of our relationship changed for the better.

At that time, in another part of the area, a group of twenty people were learning Latin to be able to read Church documents. Their teacher was a former catechist. One of my guards was in the Latin class, and one day he asked me if I could teach him songs in Latin.

"There are so many", I replied, "And they are all so beautiful".

"You sing and I’ll choose", he retorted.

And so I sang Salve Regina, Salve Mater, Lauda Sion, Veni Creator, Ave Maris Stella - You’ll never guess the song he chose. The Veni Creator!

I can’t begin to tell you how moving it is to be in a Communist prison and hear your guard, coming down the stairs at 7 AM every morning, on his way to the gymnastics yard for physical exercises, singing the Veni Creator!

I will speak one language: Charity.

In another prison in Hanoi, I became friends with my guard and was able to request a piece of metal wire. He was terrified. "I studied in the University of Police that when someone wants electric wire, he wants to kill himself!" he cried. I explained that Christians, and most of all priests, do not commit suicide.

"And so what are you going to do with electric wire?" he asked.

"I need a chain to wear my cross."

"But how can you make a chain from wire?"

"If you bring me two little pincers, I’ll show you."

"Much too dangerous!"

"But we’re friends!"

He hesitated and finally said, "It’s too hard to refuse. Tonight at 7 PM we’ll do it. But we have to finish before 11. I’ll have my companion take the evening off. If he knew, he’d denounce the both of us."

That evening, with the tools he brought, we cut and shaped and worked together to make my chain and we finished it before 11 PM!

This cross and chain are not only my souvenir of captivity, as precious as that may seem. They are a constant reminder that only Christian charity can bring about a change of heart. Not arms, not threats, not the media. It was very hard for my guards to understand when I spoke about loving our enemies, reconciliation, and forgiveness.

"Do you really love us?"

"Yes, I really love you."

"Even when we cause you pain? When you suffer because you’re in prison without trial?"

"Look at all the years we’ve spent together. Of course, I love you!"

"And when you get out, will you tell your people to find us and beat us and hurt our families?"

"I’ll continue to love you even if you wish to kill me."

"But why?"

"Because Jesus taught us to love always; if we don’t, we are no longer worthy to be called Christians."

There is not enough time to tell you all the other moving stories which are proof of the liberating power of the love of Jesus.

You wear one uniform and speak one language—Charity.

Charity is the sign by which you will be recognized as one of our Lord’s disciples. It is a badge which costs little but is most difficult to find. Charity is the most important language. Saint Paul regarded it as far more important than being able "to speak the languages of men and even of angels".

[AdIesumPerMariam ✝️☦️ @IesumAd]

@MaddyStrong3 @reginamrc6 My most conspiratorial take is that certain cohorts are being assessed for cooperation with unlawful government demands.

[Patrick Webb @Patrickwebb]

BREAKING: A recent analysis of public government data has revealed that a small percent of vaccine batches have been responsible for a very high percentage of adverse reactions, including over 21,000 deaths as a result of the COVID-19 vaccine.

[Illiterate Autodidact 🇺🇸☹👎 @cigarette_liker]

My father passed away several minutes ago, would appreciate prayers

[AdIesumPerMariam ✝️☦️ @IesumAd]

@reginamrc6 I'm not sure, tbh, but it was the second one we got. I think the last one was the 10 year. They were really aggressive with that one, as well. My husband dealt with the guy who kept stopping by.

[Rae ❤️‍🔥 @FiatLuxGenesis]

Please pray for one of my long-term hospitalized patients who is very physically ill.
He told me that God told him he would pass soon, and he has suffered so much that he'll meet him in heaven.
It's a dire situation.
Tragic story.

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

And...it’s not just Pope Francis. Pope Benedict XVI: “The Church cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies, or support the so-called ‘gay culture’. Their situation gravely hinders them from relating correctly to men & women.”

[Watching for the King ✝️ @Watch4theKing]

Please pray for Ruby. Her and some classmates were playing a game at a local outdoor learning center (Hide and seek I’m guessing) today during a field trip and Ruby went missing. It’s been around 5+ hours. The area is heavily forested. Pray Ruby is found safe before nightfall ��

[Carry Your Cross @carryyourcross]

Porn was created to make you a slave of Hell. Are you inviting demons into your home?

[Laura J Helfen @bankofferns]

Prayer Request: please pray for the repose of the soul of Brigid Morriss. Her funeral Mass is this morning at Our Lady of Lourdes in Leigh-on-Sea, UK. Pray for her family, friends and all who are mourning. Thank you
#CatholicTwitter

[AdIesumPerMariam ✝️☦️ @IesumAd]

@TaliskeronSkye Neighbors are crazy. Never talk to the neighbors

[AdIesumPerMariam ✝️☦️ @IesumAd]

@RobertFlynn202 @RobertBeauriva1 Yes. My parish. 💕

[Robert @RobertBeauriva1]

It’s not often that I wish I had more followers on Twitter, tbh, but this is one of those times. Everyone needs to read this 👇

[AdIesumPerMariam ✝️☦️ @IesumAd]

@RobertBeauriva1 Fantastic. Thank you for sharing.

[+D.E. Meikle ❤️‍🔥 ☧ @FrDEMeikle]

I was reading an old Catechism commentary ~1940 era and it said that Catholic lay duty REQUIRES us to be involved in these things.

That it is God's will that those of the True Faith step up and work toward the building of the social order.

I think our pre 18 yr old should be sat down and told- in this age God has work for you to do. Priesthood, religious life, or building the social fabric. If you're a Catholic engineer you're expected to help form a guild furthering the Faith in your field, if you're a gifted leader or communicator then lets roadmap a plan- to get you the skills to be able to run for office credibility in 10 yrs etc. Roadmap, intentional community support.

I want to see bankers help form co-ops, entrepreneurs- employee owned corps. Keep the tent large in the sense be open to those who agree with the Catholic understanding of natural law virtues, but be clear our objective is a Trad Catholic compatible social order.

I guess most figure Our Lord has to work extraordinarily to fix this mess anyway and they don't want their kids corrupted. But what happens in practice they go to the TLM on Sunday and are owned by the world 5 days a week. Be a mover vs be moved by the de-evangelizers.

We face forces of de-evangelization and Bergoglianism in our own communities everyday.

What are WE doing to be forces of the Good? We can't just sit in our caves and pat ourselves on the back for how pure a Catholic we are.

Consider the servant who buried their talent and the Master returned.

Our Faith is a powerful and sacred gift, it is not meant to be squandered on self-satisfaction and presumption. The job is too big to do alone and Trads have so much infighting it's ridiculous.

This is BIGGER than the TLM, this is the lived Old Faith that is attached to it. Our ancestors facing this type of Borg in the past shouted Deus Vult! and ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

Now we just hurl poo at our own brothers on the internet.

While this goes on the enemy advances and laughs.

[AdIesumPerMariam ✝️☦️ @IesumAd]

@RobertBeauriva1 It is midtown west, between Times Square and Macy's. If you're ever in NYC, it's worth a visit.

[Robert @RobertBeauriva1]

The venerable Brother Bernard, of Corlione, having asked our Blessed Saviour if it were pleasing to Him that he should learn to read, the crucifix before which he was kneeling answered: "To read what? What books? I am thy book; this is all that is necessary for thee."

[Dietrich 🇻🇦 @jarldietrich]

"The servants of Mary who are in purgatory receive visits and consolations from her." St Alphonsus

[AdIesumPerMariam ✝️☦️ @IesumAd]

@Brickhau55 @MaddyStrong3 😂 Should get interesting with age.