It has been an interesting exceptionally sad week for many Americans, but this week God reminds us that He will not be outdone in suffering, and we will never be alone in our sorrow.
Rigid is the wood of the Cross 💪⚜️
One of Charlie Kirk's last videos was to honour the Blessed Virgin Mary and to tell Protestants and Evangelicals to honour her more
He called her the solution to 'toxic feminism'
“One had to accept sorrow for it to be of any healing power. And that is the most difficult thing in the world. A priest once said to me, when you understand what accepted sorrow means, you will understand everything. It is the secret of life.”
-Maurice Baring, “Darby and Joan”
My wife and I have no living children.
Our two naturally conceived babies died before birth -- Gabriel and Ariel
The NHS only offered us IVF which we had to repeatedly reject.
One gynaecologist signed us up to a course of IVF without our permission, despite us being absolutely clear that it was not an option.
One gynaecologist demanded to know why we rejected IVF because his other Catholic, Jewish, Muslim patients accepted it. He was quite indignant.
Though we grieve the absence of children most days, we don't regret rejecting IVF and its abhorrent manipulation and destruction of embryonic human beings.
IVF causes so much evil -- surrogacy, human-animal hybrids, embryonic experimentation, sex selection, commodification of human beings.
Reject IVF
@nlxroman@Bug_Hall@FlatCath Bug, can you clarify if you’re against the medium of video production as a whole, or simply any production related to the modern film industry? It can seem like you’re writing off moving pictures as a whole, which obviously isn’t realistic in the efficacy of modern storytelling
The truth is the most loving thing that you can give to someone. The truth can be hard though. Painful for both the deliverer of truth, as well as the receiver of truth.
I engaged with a lot of Catholics over the past week who disagreed with my take on “LGBTQ” Catholics. Many made the argument that we must use “their” language in order to reach them.
The problem I take with that, is that words matter. The precision of language is important beyond comprehension. It’s the difference between the clarity of truth or the fog of ambiguity.
There seems to be this notion among liberal Catholics that in order for the LGBTQ community to feel welcome in the church, that we must cater a new type of message for them. We treat them as fragile and unable to hear hard truths.
I’m actually quite shocked at how many Catholics actually believe that you can be in an active gay lifestyle and still be a Catholic in good standing. That’s a slap in the face to all the other SSA Catholics who have literally given up everything to follow Christ.
God forbid, we tell them right off the bat that they are called to live a life of chastity; they may run for the hills and won’t ever feel welcome in the church.
I say, let them run then. Not because I don’t desire their coming to Christ, but because the churches job is to be the arbiter of truth. What good is their presence in the church if we’ve misguided their soul?
We are not only doing them a huge disservice but we are gravely damaging them if we suggest that they can be LGBTQ at the same time as being Catholic.
Our job is to deliver the truth to people. Not to change language in order to trick them into coming into church.
6 years ago I was struggling to get clean again off drugs in yet another round of rehab. I had nothing to my name.
Afterwards I lived in a halfway home for an entire year where I had to pee in a cup once a week to prove I was staying clean.
I had no money, no car, nothing. I took public transportation back and forth to a job that barely paid me enough money to keep my spot at the halfway home.
I was extremely sensitive and emotionally damaged beyond what most people in my life would have considered repairable. As far as anyone else was concerned, I was a lost cause.
During that period of my life, the only person who told me the truth (albeit hurt like hell), was my brother.(@JoshuaTCharles)
He drafted me a 5 page letter, telling me gently yet firmly a truth that no one else ever would have done for me.
He, in so many words, told me that until my identity rests in God, I will never know peace (see the letter below).
Till this day I consider it to be one of the most painful yet pivotal moments of my life.
It took me 6 years after that letter to finally make it into the church and surrender my life to God. But his patience and his sincere love for me planted a powerful seed in my heart that day.
A seed that 6 years later, prompted me to beg God for him to show me that he was real, when I had hit the absolute lowest rock bottom I had yet to hit in my life.
For those who have seen my story; You know that I almost killed myself that day…but instead of killing myself, I begged God to show me that he was real; to which He did!
If my brother wouldn’t have told me the truth 6 years earlier, would I have had any desire to seek the truth in my absolute darkest moment? Isn’t that where God meets us?
Catering a watered down message of truth to people just to get them in the door is not what they want. They may think they want that now, but the soul longs for real truth.
If you tell them the truth today, they will know where to find the truth when they are ready to concede to it. Sometimes that means they have to hit the absolute lowest points in their life, before they are finally ready to surrender.
To diminish Gods word, is to undermine what God is capable of doing.
@Mike_RRET @BoriSupernova@Vision4theBlind Catholicism is the original institution founded by Christ Himself. That’s just a historical fact - only one’s who try to deny it are the other Christian denominations who broke off sometime after. Also, red bracelet isn’t a thing. Also also, who do you think compiled the Bible?
In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI gave his famous “Regensburg Address.”
Can faith be spread by violence?
No, because: “not to act in accordance with reason is contrary to God's nature.”
BXVI compared Islam, in which Allah transcends reason and can thus be unreasonable and command the unreasonable, with Catholicism that holds that God’s nature is rational and to act rationally is to act in accordance with the nature of God.
John tells us that God is Logos, and that the Logos became flesh.
The Greek word Logos, from which we draw the term “logic” and the suffix “ology” (eg, biology) means the ordering principle of a thing, the account of it, the reason of a thing.
Socrates seeks the logos of justice in the Republic, and Aristotle speaks of logos as a rational argument.
Christ as the Logos is the account of all reality, the ordering principle of being.
In Him, by Him, for Him, and through Him all things were made and all things are held in being.
Man too has a “logos,” an intellect and can act “with logos” or with reason.
When we act rationally we act like God.
When we act irrationally we do not act like God.
Read the address here: https://t.co/OXbT0bKAwg
The CIA was running an organization called “The Finders” that kidnapped children from daycares, locked them in cages on a farm in Virginia, subjected them to satanic ritual abuse, had them participate in orgies, blood rituals, and the sacrifice of other children, and then sold them as sex slaves over seas.
The FBI discovered this during an investigation.
What did they do?
Covered it up. 👇🏼
https://t.co/HAk4NgSOUQ