John

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“Your future is shaped by the habits you repeat, not the goals you set.”

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

An absolutely horrific story
A woman sexually assaulted by an immigrant
She begged him to leave
She's trembling on national television as she tells the world what happened

And what did she get for it?

Convicted for inciting racial hatred

Insanity has taken over Europe

[IL Family Action @ILfamilyaction]

Big government is never satisfied. It always wants more — more fees, more taxes, more from hardworking families.

https://t.co/96EvvFVPbD

[Fyodor Dostoevsky Collection 🪓 @Dostoevskyquot]

he was onto something

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

Government may grow into something worse than injustice; it may turn into treachery.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

G.K. Chesterton, what a line

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Good morning friends, Christ is King!

[Jan Hoving @JanHoving4]

Young Jewish girl from Amsterdam slaughtered in Auschwitz on December 3, 1942.

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

“The encounter with the beautiful can become the wound of the arrow that strikes the heart and in this way opens our eyes”

- Pope Benedict XVI

Images are of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.

[Discover Catholic Business @PapistDirectory]

Catholicism is beautiful

[Father V @father_rmv]

“I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history.” (Francis Cardinal George)

[𝕯𝖆𝖎𝓼𝔂⚜️ @DaisyLiliumDei]

"I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe. I know what torment this is, but I can only see it, in myself anyway, as the process by which faith is deepened."
— Flannery O’Connor

[Jessica Hooten Wilson @HootenWilson]

Who are you and how did you read my mind!?

[IMPERATOR @IMPERATORAUS]

Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

The Man in the Arena
President Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

[Dr. Thomas Carr O.P. @ArdorNew]

HOW COMMUNION IN THE HAND CAME TO U.S. PARISHES:

"The practice took longer to reach implementation here in the United States, and the story of how it came about is not an edifying one. In 1975, the Archbishop of Cincinnati (later of Chicago), Joseph Bernardin, who was also at that time President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, tried in vain to generate the two-thirds vote of U.S. bishops required prior to requesting an indult. He tried again in 1976 and again failed to get the votes. At the 1977 conference, one brave bishop, knowing well that the practice of communion in the hand had little support among the American faithful, asked for a survey of dioceses on the question. Cardinal Bernardin immediately dismissed his request as “out of order.” Frustrated after three years of failed votes, Bernardin resorted to counting the votes of bishops not in attendance at the meeting, including several retired bishops who no longer presided over any diocese. It was in this seemingly underhanded way that the later Cardinal Bernardin was able to generate sufficient votes to apply for an indult.

"Just days after the indult was granted to American parishes – to all parishes, not just those in which communion in the hand was already in evidence – printing presses went into overdrive pumping out small pamphlets in support of communion in the hand. These were distributed during parish Masses and in RCIA classes. A quick survey of these pamphlets and their cartoonish stick-figure illustrations reveal that they are riddled with historical inaccuracies and theological assumptions that are not well supported."

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Catholic Bishop Osório Citora Afonso of the Diocese of Quelimane in Mozambique, was shot and killed at his residence today. He was 54 years old.

Info: Aid to the Church in Need

[Deacon Richard @CatholicDeacon]

John Paul II warned us.

When a culture loses sight of the dignity of the human person, the weakest are the first to suffer:

The child in the womb.
The elderly.
The sick.
The disabled.
The lonely.
The person the world calls inconvenient.

Evangelium Vitae is more than a pro-life document.

🚨It is a spiritual alarm.

Human life is not sacred because it is strong, useful, productive, wanted, or healthy.

❤️ Life is a gift from God, and every person is special because they are loved and wanted by Him.

We are all made to be with God forever, and that's what makes life so precious. 💪

A civilization is judged by how it treats the lives that cannot defend themselves.

The Church will never grow quiet about this.

From conception to natural death:

❤️ Life is sacred.
❤️ Life is a gift.
❤️ Life belongs to God.