J.J. Dusong, MI, LOM

✠¡𝑽𝒊𝒗𝒂 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐 𝑹𝒆𝒚!✠

| Idealist | INFJ/INFP | Imaginative |Aspiring author and academic | Future religious & theologian | Nerdy geek | Old soul

[J.J. Dusong, MI, LOM @jayjay_dusong]

That Night Sky Glimpse
an answer to my whims

Yet sea of clouds
Above us shrouds

When moonlight meets
And evening greets

My night sky scene
Blissful and serene

[Raios Luminosos @RaiosLuminosos]

Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe, Imperatriz das Américas, livrai-nos do mal.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

No Empire feared Buddha. They all feared Christ.

[That Trad Gal @thattradgal]

In every tabernacle, on every Catholic altar, Jesus Christ waits for you.

Come home.

[Ivy🧃 @Starlight_Scrib]

@elonmusk

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Same goes for all male mammals

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

“When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!” -

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

[cassie 🇻🇦 @CatholicCassie]

My Lord and My God

[Trad West @trad_west_]

The first man to walk in space, Alexey Leonov, made this Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

Pray not for lightier loads but for stronger shoulders
St. Augustine

[Jan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @RosaryMum]

The 15 promises of the Rosary.

1. Those who faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary shall receive signal graces.

2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary.

3. The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell. It will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.

4. The recitation of the Rosary will cause virtue and good works to flourish. It will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God. It will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.

5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary shall not perish.

6. Those who recite my Rosary devoutly, applying themselves to the consideration of its sacred mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. In His justice, God will not chastise them; nor shall they perish by an unprovided death, i.e., be unprepared for heaven. Sinners shall convert. The just shall persevere in grace and become worthy of eternal life.

7. Those who have a true devotion to the Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.

8. Those who faithfully recite the Rosary shall have, during their life and at their death, the light of God and the plenitude of His graces. At the moment of death, they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.

9. I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary.

10. The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in heaven.

11. By the recitation of the Rosary, you shall obtain all that you ask of me.

12. Those who propagate the holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.

13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of their death.

14. All who recite the Rosary are my beloved children and the brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ.

15. Devotion for my Rosary is a great sign of predestination.

[Must Be Catholic @Mustbecatholic]

“Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints they are your public.”

— St. John Vianney

[Adrian F. Pascal 🇻🇦 @AdrianFPascal]

“Mohammed seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us.”

— Saint Thomas Aquinas

[Catholic Manhood ❤️‍🔥 @bethecreed]

Word.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Fr. Daniel Reehil
A Wall Street Banker who became a Catholic Priest

Enjoying the lifestyle of a successful banker on Wall Street, Daniel was renting a house in Amalfi, Italy for the summer. When a friend expressed a desire to visit Medjugorje, a place of Our Lady’s apparitions just across the Adriatic Sea, Daniel decided to accompany her. Despite the privileges and luxuries of his job, Daniel had, over the years, become very unhappy. He had started having nightmares which ultimately lead to months long insomnia. After a full nights sleep in Medjugorje Daniel woke up with a tremendous sense of goodness. He says the word peace is not enough to describe the feeling he had. That day he sought out a preist who would hear his confession after 20 years way from the Catholic Church. In this Fruits of Medjugorje video, Fr Daniel gives his testimony of conversion and his journey to priesthood.

[cassie 🇻🇦 @CatholicCassie]

Catholic aura

[Timeless ✠🇻🇦 @timelessfaithh]

All Eastern Catholic Churches "returned to Rome".

Not the Maronites. We never "returned".

We stayed.

Our history is 100% Catholic to the bone.

[St. Maximilian @Totvs_tuus51320]

"When you have received Holy Communion, close your bodily eyes so that you may open the eyes of your soul. Then look upon Jesus in the center of your heart."

--𝑺𝒕. 𝑻𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒂 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒂.

[Anthony @Catholicizm1]

This should cause Protestants to self reflect.

[Timeless ✠🇻🇦 @timelessfaithh]

"Purgatory was invented by the Catholic Church to make money."

This is false.

Purgatory is a Catholic doctrine, but not a Catholic invention.

Long before medieval popes, Christians prayed for the dead.

St. Monica asked St. Augustine to remember her soul at the altar.

The catacombs of the first three centuries are filled with inscriptions asking prayers for the departed.

One inscription from around 150 A.D. reads: “I pray you, brethren, to remember dear Agape in your prayers.”

Does it really get any earlier than that?

Even today, Protestants speak of a “middle state,” and the Orthodox admit a post-death journey of purification.

The reality remains, even if the name is resisted.

Scripture supports this:

- “Nothing unclean shall enter Heaven” (Rev ).
- Souls are saved “as through fire” (1 Cor ).
- Jesus speaks of release only after the “last penny” is paid (Matt ).

Even logic confirms it:

If a crackhead decides to stop doing lethal drugs after years of abuse, does he instantly sleep well, wake up healthy, live normally, and go to work the next day?

Or is there a painful transition he must pass through to reach the life he desires?

How can that logic not apply to the sinful human being, who spends his life in sin, and then expects to enter the sacred place where nothing unclean shall enter?

That final purification is what the Church calls purgatory.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1030–1031) states the following:

"All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.

The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned"

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

When all restraints are removed by which men are kept on the narrow path of truth, their nature, which is already inclined to evil, propels them to ruin.

-Pope Gregory XVI