@rosaryknight@TradCathEd Do you know that book on the Sacred Heart written by French Jesuit Jean Croiset at the request of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was forbidden by the Vatican for two centuries before being re-examined and cleared (specifically placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1704)?
@TradCathEd Do you know that book on the Sacred Heart written by French Jesuit Jean Croiset at the request of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was forbidden by the Vatican for two centuries before being re-examined and cleared (specifically placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1704)?
“I am the Archangel Michael and I am always in the presence of God. The cave is sacred to me. And since I have decided to protect this place and its inhabitants on earth, I wanted to attest in this way that I am of this place and of everything that takes place as patron and custodian.”
“Where the rock is thrown open, the sins of men can be forgiven. What will be asked here in prayer will be granted. Go therefore to the mountain and dedicate the cave to Christian worship.”
Saint Michael the Archangel
Custodian of Monte Gargano
Ora Pro Nobis
“No amount of argument can overcome the evidence for the fact that apart from Rome there only exist national churches such as the Armenian or the Greek church, state churches such as the Russian or Anglican, or else sects founded by individuals such as the Lutherans, the Calvinists, the Irvingites, and so forth.
The Roman Catholic Church is the only church that is neither a national church, nor a state church, nor a sect founded by a man; it is the only church in the world which maintains and asserts the principle of universal social unity against individual egoism and national particularism; it is the only church which maintains and asserts the freedom of the spiritual power against the absolutism of the state; in a word, it is the only church against which the gates of Hades have not prevailed.”
Vladimir Soloviev, “The Russian Church and the Papacy” (1889)
رسالة الفصح ٢٠٢٦ لغبطة الكاردينال بييرباتيستا بيتسابالا، بطريرك القدس للاتين.
Easter 2026 Message from His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
بيان مشترك من البطريركية اللاتينية في القدس وحراسة الأراضي المقدسة.
Joint Press Release: The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land.
https://t.co/ujB3t50j67
Many Protestants tell Catholics we "read things into Scripture" when we see Old Testament types fulfilled in the New.
But the apostles did this constantly.
Paul in 1 Corinthians 10:4 says the Israelites "drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ."
That's typology. The literal rock in Exodus becomes a sign pointing forward to Christ.
Paul does it again in Galatians 4:24. Hagar and Sarah aren't just historical women. They "represent two covenants." His words, not mine.
The author of Hebrews spends three entire chapters (7-10) reading the Old Testament typologically. Melchizedek prefigures Christ's eternal priesthood. The tabernacle is "a copy and shadow of heavenly things" (Hebrews 8:5). The animal sacrifices point forward to the one sacrifice of Calvary.
This isn't some medieval Catholic invention.
St. Augustine put it perfectly around 400 AD: "The New Testament is hidden in the Old. The Old Testament is revealed in the New."
That's exactly how the apostles read their Bibles. Types and fulfillments. Shadows and realities. The whole Old Testament is a signpost pointing to Christ and His Church.
So here's the real question for sola scriptura advocates.
You say Scripture alone is your authority. You say you follow the apostolic teaching. But do you follow the apostolic method of reading Scripture?
Because when Catholics see the Passover lamb pointing to the Eucharist, or the Ark of the Covenant pointing to Mary, we're doing exactly what Paul did.
If typology was good enough for the apostles, why isn't it good enough for you?
“Heaven is not a dream. It is the presence of God. We enter into heaven to the extent that we allow God to possess us in silence and truth.”
—Cardinal Robert Sarah
The Power of Silence
@DonnieDarkened Revelation 13:3 was when Trump lost the election. Now there will be Rev 17:8. The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction.
Happy Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.
How is Mary the “New Eve”?
Let’s look ⬇️
Eve listens to the words of the serpent (Satan), and damnation enters the world.
Mary listens to the words of the angel, Gabriel, and salvation enters the world.
As St. Irenaeus, the second-century bishop of Lyon, teaches: “The knot of Eve’s disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary” (Against Heresies 3.22.4).
And “for what the virgin Eve had bound fast through unbelief, this did the virgin Mary set free through faith.”
The Blessed Virgin Mary provides a redemption of femininity and motherhood.
Where Eve was pulled from Adam, the new Adam is pulled from Mary.
As the old Adam and Eve were created in the grace of God, so too are the new Adam and Eve without the stain of original sin. For Mary, this is the Immaculate conception.
Mary is without sin not only due to her role as the “New Ark of the Covenant,” the perfected earthly vessel for God, but also due to her role as New Eve—a return to the perfection of the Garden and man’s rectitude with God.
Eve is the “mother of all who live,” but Mary is the mother of all who live in Christ.
In all this, it is now a woman, Mary, who is exalted as the highest creature in all of creation.