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The wound that caused Jesus the most pain is unrecorded in the scriptures.
St. Bernard asked Our Lord which was His greatest suffering and He answered: "I had on My Shoulder, while I bore My Cross on the Way of Sorrows, a grievous Wound, which was more painful than the others and which is not recorded by men.”
A prayer to the shoulder wound of Jesus: O Loving Jesus, meek Lamb of God, I a miserable sinner, salute and worship the most Sacred Wound of Thy Shoulder on which Thou didst bear Thy heavy Cross, which so tore Thy Flesh and laid bare Thy Bones as to inflict on Thee an anguish greater than any other Wound of Thy Most Blessed Body. I adore Thee, O Jesus most sorrowful; I praise and glorify Thee and give Thee thanks for this most sacred and painful Wound, beseeching Thee by that exceeding pain and by the crushing burden of Thy heavy Cross to be merciful to me, a sinner, to forgive me all my mortal and venial sins, and to lead me on towards Heaven along the Way of Thy Cross. Amen.
Dear God: Please help me see what isn’t for me. Expose every intention that doesn’t have my best interest.
Jesus Personally Taught St. Faustina How To Survive Spiritual Attacks… ⤵️
Here are 10 Instructions That Could Change Everything.
1. Trust Me completely
→ Distrust opens the soul to fear. Trust disarms it.
Jesus repeatedly says that graces flow according to trust (Diary 1578) and that the soul that trusts Him is never lost (Diary 723).
2. Run to My Heart immediately in temptation
→ Do not dialogue with temptation. Refuge is victory.
“When you are about to fall, run at once to My Heart” (Diary 1485).
He warns not to engage temptation but to flee to Him immediately.
3. Reveal temptations in confession
→ Darkness loses power when brought into the light.
“The priest is My representative… reveal your soul to him” (Diary 1725).
Confession breaks the power of hidden struggles.
4. Do not be guided by feelings
→ Feelings change. The will chooses love.
“Do not be guided by feeling, because it is not always in your power” (Diary 1760).
Faithfulness is measured by the will, not emotion.
5. Practice humility and patience with yourself
→ Impatience weakens the soul. Humility strengthens it.
“My daughter, know that you are what you are before Me… nothing more” (Diary 56).
Jesus calls the soul to patience in weakness and growth (Diary 1488).
6. Accept suffering with love
→ United to Christ, suffering becomes redemptive.
“You will save more souls through prayer and suffering than through activity” (Diary 1767).
Suffering embraced in union with Him has real spiritual power.
7. Remain obedient to legitimate spiritual authority
→ Obedience protects against deception.
“My will is that you should obey your confessor in everything” (Diary 639).
Obedience is tied to safety in the spiritual life.
8. Avoid curiosity about the future
→ Trust God’s timing. Curiosity breeds anxiety.
“Do not be curious about the future… I am your security” (Diary 293).
He redirects the soul from curiosity to trust.
9. Reject discouragement immediately
→ Discouragement never comes from God.
“Why are you afraid…? Do you not know that I am always with you?” (Diary 613).
Jesus corrects discouragement with His presence and truth.
10. Fight with courage, knowing I am with you
→ Courage rooted in Christ causes fear to retreat
“Do not fear… I am with you always” (Diary 586).
“Fight like a knight… do not be discouraged” (Diary 450).
💬 Is your spiritual life built on discipline… or just motivation when you feel like it?
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"Es duro seguirte Señor, pero es imposible dejarte."
—San Agustín.
In every workplace and every form of honest labor, the Church offers us heavenly companions who understand the dignity of work. These Catholic saints once lived the same daily struggles we face:
providing for family, seeking purpose, and offering their efforts to God. Through their intercession, may we find strength, patience, and the grace to turn our ordinary labor into something holy
These are some of the Catholic saints for workers
1. ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER
Patron of workers and the Universal Church. Model of all workers.
Through his example we find purpose, dignity, and the grace to offer our labor to God with love.
2. ST. CAJETAN
Patron of the unemployed and of financial provision.
He opens doors of opportunity and sustains those in need.
3. ST. LAWRENCE
Patron of deacons and the poor.
He teaches us to work with charity and to use our gifts in the service of others.
4. ST. RITA OF CASCIA
Patroness of impossible causes.
She brings hope and strength in workplace challenges and difficult situations.
5. ST. MONICA
Patroness of mothers and workers.
Her perseverance inspires us to balance work and family in faith and love.
6. ST. EXPEDITUS
Patron of urgent needs and quick solutions.
He helps us face deadlines and important decisions with courage.
7. ST. AGATHA
Patroness of nurses, bakers, and workers in hard labor.
A source of strength and protection in daily work and trials.
8. ST. Gianna Molla
Patroness of mothers and physicians.
She shows us how to embrace life and family with heroic charity.
9. ST. JOHN BOSCO
Patron of apprentices and students.
He guides young workers to labor with joy and purity of heart.
All Ye Holy Angels of God, assist us that through your intercessions, God will bless all workers with strength, safety, dignity, and a fair reward for their daily labor 🙌
Thought of The Day.
The souls in Purgatory are already saved, but they are still being purified before entering the fullness of Heaven.
They can no longer earn merit for themselves, which is why our prayers for them are such a powerful act of love.
Scripture tells us it is “holy and wholesome” to pray for the dead so they may be freed from sin (2 Maccabees 12:46).
That is why Pope St. John Paul II said, “Praying for the souls in Purgatory is the highest act of supernatural charity.” We are helping people who may have no one left on earth remembering them by name.
A Mass offered for the dead, the Rosary, sacrifices, indulgences, or even a simple prayer can be offered for these souls. One day, we may hope someone will do the same for us.
Pass this on so more forgotten souls may be remembered in prayer.
💬 Be honest: do you regularly pray for the souls in Purgatory, or is this something you rarely think about? What makes you remember them?
Centuries before Jesus was born, Hebrew writers described a coming figure in unsettling detail.
His birthplace. His family line. The price of His betrayal. The manner of His death, described in an era when that method of execution had not yet been invented.
And we can prove these texts existed long before He did.
Here are ten of them. 🧵
There is a statue in Milan Cathedral that tourists mistake for a man wearing a robe.
Then they look closer.
The robe has hands. The robe has a face. The robe has feet, hanging down his back like the hood of a cloak.
He is wearing his own skin.
Saint Bartholomew Flayed. Carved by Marco d'Agrate in 1562. Every muscle exposed. Tendons like rope. Veins running down forearms with no skin to hide under. And draped over his shoulders, folded neat as a priest's vestment, everything they took off of him.
The sculptor was so proud of the anatomy that he carved a boast into the base: Praxiteles did not make me. Marco d'Agrate did.
But the statue isn't the story.
The story is who this man was.
Bartholomew is Nathanael. Same man: Bartholomew is the family name, Nathanael the given one. And Nathanael enters the Bible by insulting Jesus to His friend's face.
John 1:45. Philip runs to him: We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth.
Nathanael's answer: Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
That's the future apostle. First recorded words: trash-talking the Messiah's hometown.
Then he walks up to Jesus, and before he can say a word, Jesus says something no one had ever said about him.
Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
No guile. No mask. No hidden self. Nothing performed. What you see is what he is, even when what he is, is rude about Nazareth.
Nathanael is stunned. Whence knowest thou me?
Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.
Under the fig tree.
Slow down. Where have you seen fig leaves before?
Genesis 3:7. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Fig leaves are the first thing shame ever made. The first human invention was a covering. Adam heard God in the garden and hid, and men have been hiding ever since behind reputations, behind religion, behind the version of themselves they let people see.
And Jesus finds Nathanael under a fig tree, the plant of hiding, and announces that this man hides nothing.
I saw thee.
Before Philip called you. Before you knew My name. Under the tree. I saw you already, and I'm still calling you.
That one sentence broke Nathanael. Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel. From insult to confession in two verses.
Now follow him to the end.
Scripture doesn't record his death, but the tradition is ancient and unanimous about the manner of it. He carried the gospel east, as far as Armenia. And when they decided to kill him for it, they didn't hang him or behead him first.
They flayed him. Alive. They took his skin.
The man in whom was no guile, no covering, no mask, no hidden layer, died with the last covering he had peeled away.
And here's what the sculptor saw that the executioners didn't.
D'Agrate didn't carve the skin lying in the dirt. He didn't carve it in an enemy's fist. He carved it draped over Bartholomew's shoulders like a stole. Like a garment of office. Folded. Worn. The way a priest wears what he's been given, not what was taken.
The thing they used to destroy him, he wears like vestments.
Because that's what God does with what the world strips off His people.
Isaiah 61:10. He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation; he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness.
Revelation 6:11. And white robes were given unto every one of them, that's the martyrs, the ones killed for the word of God.
They took his covering. God had a better one waiting.
Now you.
You're under the tree right now. The fig leaves fit so well you've forgotten you're wearing them. The polished version of you at church. The profile. The reputation. The self you perform because you're certain the real one, seen plainly, would be walked away from.
Ask Nathanael how that works out.
The only man Jesus ever publicly certified as having no mask is the man He praised on sight. Seeing all of him was not the obstacle. Seeing all of him was the compliment.
He already sees under yours. Before you ever call on Him, before your Philip ever finds you, He has already looked under the tree, seen the whole thing, everything the leaves were for.
And He's still calling you.
Come out from under the tree.
He has robes.
Hoy, festividad de Santa María Reina.
Mi obra más compleja, en la que se refleja la Realeza de María, se encuentra en el Oratorio de Santa María Reina y pertenece a la @HdadLasPenas.
POWERFUL PRAYER FOR FINANCIAL HELP TO ST. PADRE PIO
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Dearest Saint Padre Pio,
I pray for strength in my trials,
immediate financial breakthrough,
grace and direction with the purpose
our dear Lord has called me for.
Padre Pio, I have many insecurities that
make me doubt my ability to provide for
my family.
Dear Padre Pio, I pray for your assurance
that I will be able to give financial
stability to my family so I can provide
for their needs.
Help me, Padre Pio, to get my financial
worries in the right perspective and to
fix my eyes upon Jesus, knowing
that you know everything we need
before we even ask you.
Saint Padre Pio, I ask that you remove
my worries, anxieties, and fears about
money and replace them with faith.
Please calm my heart and mind.
Help me confidently believe that
you will help me find a way;
help me show my family love
even when I am stressed myself.
I know and trust that my debts will
be paid, and money will flow into my
life in order to give God all the glory.
Forgive me, Lord, for I think I have
spent too much time worrying about
my finances.
May I be assisted in all my needs and
may God be pleased with me building
His Kingdom and being a blessing to
others in return for His divine grace
and urgent help.
Oh good God, that You have honored Saint
Padre Pio by giving him the grace to
perform miracles, have mercy on
me and grant me for his intercession
what I pray for.
Keep my family healthy, safe, and
united in Your love.
Amen.
• St. Padre Pio says:
"Blessed is the crisis that made you grow,
the fall that made you gaze up to heaven,
the problem that made you look for God!"
The life you're living today is the result of decisions you made 10 years ago.
Let that sink in.
Mostly this chart proves stereotypes to be accurate. I love love love where statistics sit on this chart: in the middle.
Fr. Ripperger, sermon, his father’s funeral: “Every decision you make will either increase or decrease your virtue. When you die, you take your state of grace & your virtue with you. So every single decision you make determines for all eternity what people will see in your soul.”
One more find from the Flannery O’Connor archives before bed:
At Emory, I found a prayer typed up on a rectangle of paper tucked inside a booklet titled CONFIDENCE IN GOD. The prayer is titled “Act of Resignation.”
I didn’t think too much of it until the following day when I opened an unmarked folder in the Milledgeville archives and found the same prayer typed up about a dozen times on onion skin paper:
“Lord, I know not what to ask, I merely present myself to Thee. Thou seest my miseries. Thou lovest me. Supply my needs according to Thy mercy. I adore without seeking to understand Thy Holy Will. I resign myself to Thee, entirely and absolutely. I have no other desire but to do what Thou dost wish me to do. Teach me to pray, Jesus—Pray within me Thyself. Amen.”
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
1. It is generally believed that Our Blessed Lady died, since she would not have wished to escape death any more than her divine Son did. Our Lord, however, had seen her sharing in His agony and death upon Mount Calvary, and He willed that her own death would be so peaceful as hardly to justify the name.
The just die in the love of God and the martyrs died for the love of God. But Mary died consumed by the love of God. It was not disease which brought an end to her life, but love. Her love for Jesus was more ardent and more perfect than that of any other creature. She loved Him when she held Him in her arms in the stable at Bethlehem, when she fled with Him into Egypt, and when she offered Him in the temple to His heavenly Father. She loved Him when she found Him after He had been lost and when she looked after Him in their home at Nazareth. She loved Him as she followed Him to His death on Calvary. She loved him in the joy of His Resurrection and, subsequently, of His Ascension into Heaven. Jesus desired her to remain on earth for a while to comfort the infant Church and to initiate the loving patronage which she would exercise over it in Heaven. Her love grew from day to day until it entirely consumed her and her immaculate heart could no longer contain it. Mary fulfilled in a most perfect manner the Creator's command to His creatures to love Him with all their hearts and with all their strength. Consequently, her love reached such a peak that her soul in its final ecstasy glided from her body.
Let us ask our Mother, Mary, to help us to die with the love and grace of God in our hearts, and with the names of Jesus and Mary on our lips.
2. Even as Christ by His own power rose from the grave, so by reason of His intervention the soul of Mary was reunited, after a short separation, with her body, and she was taken up body and soul into everlasting glory. It was fitting that this privilege should have been bestowed on the Mother of God. It would have been unbecoming for the immaculate flesh in which the divine body of Jesus was formed to have been allowed to corrupt in the grave. It was fitting, too, that she who was to be proclaimed Queen of Angels and of men should have come immediately to her throne of glory with her humanity integral and unimpaired. Her resurrection was, moreover, the reward of her virginal purity. From the first moment of her conception she was preserved free from original sin and from every evil inclination, and throughout her life she had advanced farther and farther in the way of perfection.
We shall rise one day also, O Blessed Mother. Grant in your great love for us that we may so imitate your example as to deserve to rise in glory and to be associated with you in everlasting happiness.
3. After she had risen, Mary was gloriously taken up into Heaven. Jesus has ascended into Heaven by His own power, but Mary was borne aloft by the Angels, whose Queen she was soon to be proclaimed. She reigns in Heaven with her divine Son and looks down in love and mercy on her exiled children, whom she is ever ready to assist. She was the humblest and most exalted of creatures (Dante, Par. XXXIII, 2) for when told that she was to be the Mother of God, she desired to be called His handmaid.
Humility is the Mother of all the virtues even as pride is the source of all the vices. If we wish to share in Mary's triumph, we must first of all share in her humility.
“Everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled,” Jesus has said, “and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.” (Luke 14:11) “God resists the proud,” we are reminded by the Apostle James, “but gives grace to the humble.” (James 4:6) The glorious Assumption of Mary contains a lesson in humility for all of us. (Antonio Cardinal Bacci)
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Rembrandt painted this in the last years of his life.
He had buried his wife. Three of his children. The woman he loved after his wife. And then his last surviving son.
Bankrupt, out of fashion, near death, he painted a father embracing a son who came home.
Look closely at this painting. It's a dying man's theology.
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