Nik

Católico, em busca da minha salvação e da sua. Salve Regina.

[Nik @olasounik]

@angelo_diogenes Milton cunhou uma palavra para um momento político específico da Inglaterra: pandemonium.

[EL MUNDO @elmundoes]

León XIV, llama a los migrantes a "abrirse a quienes les reciben, aprender su lengua, respetar sus leyes" y ordena a las mafias: "¡Deténganse! ¡Conviértanse!" https://t.co/9AjYnJplg9

[Observatório Católico @obscat]

⛪️Papa Leão CONDENOU traficantes de seres humanos que lucram com a migração para a Europa:

"Quero dirigir uma mensagem clara àqueles que se aproveitam do desespero das pessoas, àqueles que organizam rotas da morte, traficam seres humanos, retêm documentos, exploram trabalhadores, ameaçam mulheres, enganam famílias e transformam o sofrimento dos outros em um negócio.

Parem. Arrependam-se.

As lágrimas e o sangue desses irmãos e irmãs clamam a Deus, e seu sofrimento chega até Ele. O dinheiro arrancado da vulnerabilidade dos pobres não trará nem paz, nem honra, nem um futuro."

[Nik @olasounik]

@tradcatboy No my brother, we can only live as true Catholics as in number 3. As you know! God bless you. 🫡

[Nik @olasounik]

Santo Padre Papa Leão! Aguardamos o senhor no Brasil. Não demore, que Deus o permita.

[Gregorio S. «EL TALAVERANO» @Talaverano78]

Qué fotaza. Alegría, belleza, plantas, familia, amor... Y la tristeza de la soledad más absoluta.

[Morgan. @morganamooo]

eyes filled with tears over this

[Nik @olasounik]

Tenho vontade de dar um abraço apertado em Papa Leão, tal qual o das crianças que ele já conquistou.

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

I just play it on repeat since yesterday:

"Hello Pope Leo XIV, I'm Renzo, I'm six years old.
I'd like to ask you a few questions."

Renzo, a little a boy from the poor neighborhood of Barcelona, stole the show yesterday at St. Augustine's parish, a place where Pope Leo admitted he "feels at home."

Renzo in the sweetest way ever asked those questions to the pope:
Do you like soccer?
When you were little, did you want to be Pope?
Why are my mom and dad worried?
Why does my dad have so many jobs?
Why do bad things happen to some people and not to others? Whose fault is it?
Why are there so many people living on the streets? Does no one see them? Does no one help them?
How can we help if the world is so big?
Does God want there to be poor and rich?
Why are there so many lonely grandparents, if they are so important?
And one last question ... Must we always forgive?

What pope Leo answered the boy was really moving.

"Regarding whether I like football, I confess that I play tennis and I enjoy it very much, but I also appreciate football; in fact, during my years as bishop in Peru, I liked to follow how some local teams were doing; and now, as Pope, I have also received football clubs and sports groups," the pope said, adding that "sport is important because it helps us grow up healthy in body and mind."

He said that as World Cup unfolds, "many will be watching the matches. Football reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off alone, but a path we learn to travel together."

"Whoever doesn't know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, hasn't yet understood the game. And whoever doesn't know how to live with others and for others hasn't yet understood life."

Answering whether he wanted to be Pope when he was little, the pope said: "Well, Renzo, I don't think so. I don't think I ever thought about it."

"But I can tell you something: from a young age, I felt the desire to dedicate my life to God. I didn't yet know exactly how or where the Lord would lead me. Over time, I discovered that Jesus was calling me to follow him as a priest, and that this path led through the Order of Saint Augustine."

"But this isn't just true for me," he said. "Every child is a dream of God. You are too. God desires the happiness of all and wants us, from childhood and throughout our lives, to have a heart like that of children (cf. Mt 18:3): capable of trusting, full of kindness; he wants us to be his friends and not turn away from him. Therefore, more important than asking oneself whether one will be a priest, doctor, teacher, parent, or anything else, is asking oneself whether one wants to be a friend of Jesus. Because friendship with Jesus gives us joy, sets us free, and helps us to see, step by step, the vocation and the path that God has planned for each of us."

Answering the point on injustices in the world, Pope Leo told the boy that "through the life of Jesus Christ, God shows us that, although there is suffering, he never abandons any of his children, because he has prepared for us an eternal joy where there will be no more sadness or pain. Let us have confidence, Jesus is with us, he helps us and accompanies us, and gives us strength to go through the difficult moments we may encounter in life."

Stressing that grandparents play a crucial role in families, the pope said: "Let us not allow loneliness and abandonment to become normalized in the lives of older adults. That is a very sad thing. Let's have our hearts open to all of them."

On forgiveness, he told Renzo and those gathered: "It does not mean forgetting by force, as if nothing had happened. Forgiveness means not letting hatred become the master of our hearts ... our willingness to forgive is a condition for the forgiveness we receive from God."
Video: Vatican Media

[Nik @olasounik]

@ChristopherHale Catholic Church best export to the USA, you mean?

[Dr. Kohan🏛🏛🏛 @kohantoys]

No se asusten que termina bien.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In 1903, the French government expelled the Carthusian monks from their monastery in the Alps and seized everything they owned.

The monastery. The distillery. The equipment. All of it. There was just one little problem.

Only two monks in the entire order knew the recipe for Chartreuse, and they had memorized it. There was nothing written down that the government could take.

The French government hired chemists to reverse-engineer it. They analyzed every bottle they could find. They ran every test available to early 20th Century science. They could not replicate it. The liqueur they produced under the Chartreuse name was so inferior that it destroyed the brand almost immediately. Sales collapsed. The company the government set up to produce it went bankrupt in 1929.

The monks, meanwhile, had relocated to Tarragona in Spain and were producing the real thing the entire time.

In 1929, the same year the French government's operation went under, the monks quietly bought back the rights to their own name and returned to their monastery.

The recipe is still known by exactly two monks at any given time. When one dies or becomes too ill to continue, he passes his portion to a successor. The full recipe has never been written down in a form that has left the order.

Chartreuse is made from 130 Alpine plants and herbs. The monks tend the distillery themselves. They take no outside employees into the production process. The 1605 manuscript that started all of this is still held in the monastery archive.

The French Third Republic lasted from 1870 to 1940. The monks are still there, still making Chartreuse.

© Eats History

#drthehistories

[Nik @olasounik]

@RyanMNeuhaus My dear friend in your country 1.126.000 innocent children were murdered in 2025. Torn apart, sliced in pieces in cold blood. They committed no crime and their lives were not an accident. And no one called an ambulance for them too. So who's the savages here?

[Nik @olasounik]

Carlos Ramalhete sobre os jesuítas e seu papel na formação da América.

[Nik @olasounik]

Hoje na Festa de São José de Anchieta, padroeiro do Brasil e nosso primeiro Apóstolo, vale ler e conhecer o importante papel que os jesuítas como ele desempenharam na educação e formação da América Latina.

https://t.co/CDVJthLUU8

[Nik @olasounik]

Os Jesuítas de Anchieta, série ilustrada por "Seth", pseudônimo de Álvaro Marins (1891-1949). Álvaro foi um grande desenhista, ilustrador e caricaturista brasileiro. Era tão bom que fez o primeiro curta-metragem animado do Brasil, "Kaiser".
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[Nik @olasounik]

São José de Anchieta intercedei pelo seu Brasil junto a Deus Pai.

[Nik @olasounik]

Como morreu São José de Anchieta, por Pedro Calmon.

[Nik @olasounik]

@schmittpaula Bom, ele cita um biólogo para falar que moral não é assunto biológico, o mesmo que está de caso com Claude, ou Cláudia. Tom Holland é um bom historiador católico, apenas. Idealmente os ateus deveriam estudar metafísica antes de citarem este ou aquele livro, pois:

[Mason-Dixon Latin Mass Society @MDLatinMass]

An 18-line Latin prayer proclaiming Christ as the Son of God, invoking Saint Titus, containing the words of Saint Paul, and carried by a man well over a hundred years before the first Bible ever existed, is the most Catholic thing you'll see today.

[Nik @olasounik]

Um homem só pode ser santo numa igreja em que seja possível ser um demônio.

Fulton Sheen.

[Nik @olasounik]

Não há fogo no inferno.

[Father Christopher @FChristopher77]

One day the king encountered on the road a wretched fool, hideously disfigured, his face marred beyond recognition. Moved with pity, the king asked:

“Where have you come from, man?”

“From hell, O king!” the fool answered.

“And what were you seeking in that place of torment?”

“I went looking for fire - just a spark - to light my pipe and draw a puff.”

“Did you find it? Did you light your pipe and smoke?”

“No, sire. The prince of darkness himself told me: ‘We have no fire here.’”

The king laughed in disbelief. “No fire in hell? Impossible!”

The fool nodded gravely. “I too was astonished. But the master of that abyss answered me with chilling clarity:

‘Here there is no fire of our own. Each soul brings its own fire - and that fire burns him eternally!’”

Brethren, hear this and tremble!

The passions you refuse to uproot now - while you still dwell in the flesh - will demand fulfillment in eternity. But there, without a body, without matter, without the means to satisfy them, they become undying torment. The craving rages on, unquenchable, devouring the soul from within like an eternal furnace.

This is the fire that never dies:
• the burning thirst of drunkenness that finds no wine,
• the insatiable lust of fornication and uncleanness that embraces only ashes,
• the endless hunger of gluttony that gnaws on emptiness,
• the ceaseless fury of anger and malice that hates without end,
• the corrosive poison of envy that consumes its bearer while the envied rejoices forever,
• the slavery to tobacco, drugs, greed, pride, vainglory, and every other chain forged in this life…

As the holy Fathers teach: the fire of Gehenna is not an external punishment sent by an angry God. It is the very presence of God - the consuming Fire of His Love and Light - experienced as agony by those whose hearts have become hatred, whose wills are fixed on sin, whose souls cling to passions instead of Christ.

In Paradise the same divine Flame warms, illumines, and deifies the saints. In Gehenna the same Flame scorches and torments those who have made themselves enemies of love.

You carry the kindling now. Every unrepented passion is fuel you heap upon your own pyre.

Repent today!
Cut off the members that offend (Matt. 5:30).
Confess, fast, pray, receive the holy Mysteries, struggle with tears against the old man.
Uproot the weeds before the harvest, lest you yourself become the burning sheaf.

For when the soul departs the body, the contest is over. The fire you have nurtured will then burn without cease - and there will be no escape, no relief, no end.

“Remember thy latter end, and thou shalt never sin” (Sirach 7:36).

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner - before the fire I myself have kindled consumes me forever. Amen.

[Sacerdos in æternum ✪ @SacerdosMariae]

El Blanco o Ánima Muda de El Ballestero impresiona porque pertenece a esa España que todavía sabía rezar también por las calles.

Silencio, campanilla, anonimato y limosna por las almas del purgatorio.

Cuando la fe era cultura, hasta un pueblo pequeño recordaba que la caridad no termina en la muerte.

#Tradición #FeCatólica #Purgatorio #Albacete #EspañaRural