Tom Wisenbaugh

Believer in the Nicene Creed. Engaged in spiritual combat. Still learning to pray like a Catholic Saint. Drawn to the reverence of the Traditional Latin Mass.

[Tom Wisenbaugh @mfodoc]

@GeorgePapa19 Sackcloth and ashes. Daniel 9:3

[A Soldier's Whisper @SoldiersWhisper]

🇺🇸 Marine Sgt. Merlin German of Manhattan, N.Y., died at age 22, April 11, 2008, at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, from wounds sustained while conducting combat operations in Anbar, Iraq.

On Feb. 21, 2005, a gas-fed improvised explosive devise detonated near a German Humvee outside Camp Ramadi. The explosion burned 97 percent of his body, disfiguring his face and destroying his hands. It was a miracle that he survived the injury.

Despite his physical, mental, and emotional struggles, German always made his rounds to motivate fellow brothers and sisters in arms during his treatment and rehabilitation period at the burn unit at Brooke Army Medical Center.
#TheIraqWar #RIP
#USMC

[Voices From Vietnam @VoicesfromNam]

Vincent Capodanno did not carry a rifle. He carried a Bible and a box of St. Christopher medals. He was a Catholic priest, a Maryknoll missionary from Staten Island, and when he joined the Navy as a chaplain in 1965 he asked for the one assignment most men would have run from. He wanted to be with the Marines in the field. They called men like him the Grunt Padre, and he earned it. He lived the way his Marines lived, ate what they ate, slept in the same mud, and spent his hours hearing confessions, writing letters home for scared kids, and sitting with the grieving and the dying.

On September 4, 1967, during Operation Swift in the Que Son Valley, the same mountains where Marines would still be fighting years later, a company of the 5th Marines was hit by a massive North Vietnamese force, around 2,500 men. When Father Capodanno heard that a platoon was about to be overrun, he did not stay in any safe place, because there was no safe place and he would not have gone to it anyway. He ran across open ground under fire to reach the Marines who were being cut apart.

Then he just moved through the battle doing his work. He went from man to man, giving last rites to the dying and pulling the wounded to cover, praying over kids as they bled out, telling terrified Marines that God was with them right there in that field. A mortar round shredded his arms and legs and tore off part of his right hand. He refused medical aid and kept going, one hand mangled, still crawling to the next wounded man.

He saw a wounded corpsman lying out in the open, close to an enemy machine gun, and went to him. As Father Capodanno knelt over that Marine to comfort him and give him last rites, the machine gun found them both. The priest was shot more than 27 times. He died there in the field with his Marines, doing exactly what he had come to do.

He received the Medal of Honor in 1969. The Catholic Church later opened his cause for sainthood, and he now carries the title Servant of God. To the men of the 5th Marines he was already something close to a saint long before any of that, the padre who ran toward the fire empty handed so that no man in that valley would have to die alone.

[Tom Wisenbaugh @mfodoc]

@father_rmv Thank you Father V !

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@Burgess7281975 @EWTNews Did Jesus mean for it to be this complicated?

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@TEOFOROS I am so thankful for you Bishop Athanasius Schneider

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@Burgess7281975 What can be done for this situation?

"For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins"
Hebrews 10:26

Hopefully purification in purgatory.

[Tom Wisenbaugh @mfodoc]

@father_rmv I don't think most Catholics know how closely related they are to the Coptic Orthodox. Just look at the TLM and the Liturgy of St. Basil : The Real Presence is there, so is the Epiclesis, the Preface and so on. Oh, but the Filioque... shame to part over that (1054 AD).

[Tom Wisenbaugh @mfodoc]

@AramaicWire As worded in Liturgy of St. Basil the Anaphora corresponds to the Preface introducing the Canon of the Traditional Latin Mass.

Priest: Lift up your hearts (sursum corda)...

https://t.co/ekWcKcdu1K

[Father João Silveira @joaosilveiraaa]

A rare recording of Pope Pius XII’s voice as he sings the preface of the Easter Mass.

V. Dóminus vobíscum.
R. Et cum spíritu tuo.
V. Sursum corda.
R. Habémus ad Dóminum.
V. Grátias agámus Dómino, Deo nostro.
R. Dignum et justum est.

Vere dignum et justum est, æquum et salutáre: Te quidem, Dómine, omni témpore, sed in hac potíssimum die gloriósius prædicáre, cum Pascha nostrum immolátus est Christus. Ipse enim verus est Agnus, qui ábstulit peccáta mundi. Qui mortem nostram moriéndo destrúxit et vitam resurgéndo reparávit. Et ídeo cum Angelis et Archángelis, cum Thronis et Dominatiónibus cumque omni milítia coeléstis exércitus hymnum glóriæ tuæ cánimus, sine fine dicéntes.

[Father V @father_rmv]

One of the symbols of the Easter season is the Paschal candle which has its origin in the fourth century Roman tradition of lighting candles on Easter night.

The celebration of light begins with a fire being lit outside the church with the people gathered around.

The candle is prepared by tracing the sign of the cross on it along with the alpha and omega signs (since Jesus is the beginning and the end) and the year.

Five grains of incense are placed one each in places on the cross representing the five wounds of Christ (His head, two hands, side, and feet).

As he is doing this, the priest says, “Christ yesterday and today, the beginning and the end, the Alpha and Omega. All time belongs to Him and all the ages. To Him be glory and power through every age and forever.”

And for the inserting of the incense grains: “By His holy and glorious wounds, may Christ the Lord guard us and protect us.” Beautiful prayers in their own right.

The candle is then lit from the new fire and the priest or deacon processes with it, raising it three times and proclaiming, “Christ our light”.

This is the symbolism of the candle—a reminder of Jesus who proclaimed, “I am the light of the world” (Jn 8:12), the light that defeated the darkness of the tomb and the light, we pray, which will dispel the darkness of our hearts and minds.

The procession to the altar with the light calls to mind that we are a people on pilgrimage following Chris, the light (“The one who follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life” Jn 8:12). There is also the reminder of the people of God wandering in the desert being led at night by God as a pillar of fire.

Once the candle arrives at the sanctuary, it is placed near the ambo (lectern) until the end of the Easter season when it is moved to the baptistery or sacristy.

During the Easter season, the candle is lit every time the church gathers for liturgy. Outside of the Easter season, it is used for funerals (the light of life conquers the darkness of the tomb) and baptisms (baptism enlightens us and gives us the light of faith).

Outside of these times, “The paschal candle should not otherwise be lit nor placed in the sanctuary outside the Easter season” (Celebration of the Easter Feasts, Congregation for Divine Worship).

[Tom Wisenbaugh @mfodoc]

@LukeGromen All good comes from God

All fools have their backs turned to Him

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@2020Upstream “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free"
Jesus as quoted in Gospel of John

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@Burgess7281975 Evangelical protestants discount early centuries of Church councils and writings a merely human wisdom adding nothing to scripture in matters of faith. Period.

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@Burgess7281975 Lacking Nicene and Athanasian creeds is a major handicap to understanding that Mary is Mother of God.

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

Our Lady of Guadalupe, intercede for us today

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@father_rmv https://t.co/WpPOCnbpfd

[Ankitha Poothavelil @RosaryQuotes123]

Today the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Paul Miki and his twenty five companions who were executed by crucifixion on February 5, 1597 in Nagasaki, Japan.

Miki, born into a wealthy Japanese family, joined the Society of Jesus and became a renowned preacher converting many to Catholicism. He was arrested and jailed with his fellow Catholics by the then ruler who looked upon the spread of Catholicism with fear.

These courageous witnesses of faith were forced to walk 966 km from Kyoto to Nagasaki where they were crucified. They sang the Te Deum all the way.

Miki's death closely resembled the death of his saviour. He was tied to a cross and his chest was pierced with a lance. He delivered his last sermon from the cross and even forgave his persecutors.

He was canonized in 1862 by Pope Pius IX.

[🇷🇺Russia is not Enemy @RussiaIsntEnemy]

☝️ “This complete negation of humanity, the rejection of faith, the abandonment of traditional values, and the suppression of freedom has taken on the form of an inverted religion, an overt satanism. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus Christ, denouncing false prophets, said, 'By their fruits you will know them.' And today, these poisonous fruits are evident to people not only in Russia, but in all countries, including those in the West.
Do we truly want 'Parent Number One' and 'Parent Number Two' instead of 'Mom' and 'Dad' here in our country? Do we want our schools to impose perversions on children from the earliest grades, leading them toward degradation and extinction? Do we want them to be taught that besides man and woman there are supposedly dozens of other genders, and to be offered sex-change surgeries? Is this what we want for our country and for our children?
For us, this is unacceptable. We have a different future." - President Putin

[Mike Lee @SenMikeLee]

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

To the hundreds of thousands of Americans marching for the right to life of generations yet unborn—thank you.

Let us forge a society where every child is loved and welcomed, where every mother is celebrated and supported, and the tragedy of abortion is unthinkable to all.

Keep marching.

[Brian Burgess @Burgess7281975]

“When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.”

Pope Pius XI

“Mary’s persistence about the dangers that menace the Church is a divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soul of the Church would represent. I hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the Church, reject her ornaments and make her feel remorse for her historical past.”

Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli

[Catholic Frequency @CatholicFQ]

“There are only two kinds of people, in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘thy will be done.’”

- CS Lewis