« And how can you see the splinter in your brother's eye, and not see the board in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the splinter from your eye,' while, behold, a board is in your own eye? Hypocrite, first remove the board from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the splinter from your brother's eye. »
Matthew 7:3-5
What a horrifying start to a day, a Catholic moot says he has decided to become trans, I and many others try and warn him and push him back towards the Church, and now he's unfollowed me so we're no longer moots. 😭
Please pray for uzi, this is a dangerous choice he's making.
“O Raffaelina, how consoling it is to know that we are always under the protection of a heavenly spirit, who never abandons us, not even (most admirable fact!) in the very act by which we displease God! How sweet this great truth is for the believing soul! What can the devout soul fear that is diligent in loving Jesus, and that always has such a distinguished fighter present by its side? Oh, was he not perchance among those many who, together with St. Michael the Angel there in the empyreal heights defended the honor of God against Satan and all the other rebellious spirits, finally reducing them to perdition and casting them into hell (Cf. Dan. 10,13; 12, 1; Apoc. 12,7)?
Well then, know that he is still powerful against Satan and his satellites. His charity has not grown less, nor will it ever fail to protect us. Form the beautiful habit of thinking about him always. How close to us stands one of the celestial spirits, who from the cradle to the grave never leaves us for an instant. He guides us, he protects us like a friend, like a brother. This ought to be, moreover, a constant consolation for us, especially in our saddest hours.
Know, O Raffaelina, that this good angel prays for you: he offers to God all your good works that you accomplish, as well as your holy and pure desires. In the hours in which you seem to be alone and abandoned, do not complain about not having a soul-mate to whom you can open (your heart) and to whom you can confide your sorrows: - for the love of God, do not forget this invisible companion who is always present to listen to you and always ready to console you.”
From a spiritual letter written by Saint Padre Pio to his spiritual daughter Raffaelina in 1914.
A state always engages in censorship as well as propaganda.
What should guide our actions is the following principle: error has no “right” to be disseminated. There is no reason to promote or fund shameless opinions merely on the pretext of “diversity” of views; if only because the quantity of possible absurdities is infinite. Serious
and dangerous errors must even be combated, for by contaminating minds they incite unrestrained actions. On the contrary, the true and the beautiful must be sought out and promoted. “Censorship” is therefore the set of means by which one pursues the most serious errors. Propaganda, on the other hand, aims to promote what contributes to the Common Good.
Censorship is, in a sense, “negative.” It involves banning or destroying cultural products that are dangerous to the Common Good, in order to protect against subversion. For example, many works on “trans-genderism,” feminism, or even pornographic or pedophilic content should be destroyed. Other
ideologically dangerous content could also be removed from sale, deleted from the internet, etc. It is simply a matter of using the tools and procedures already widely in place, but instead of censoring Christian content, “far-right” political content, “anti-Semitic” content, etc., we should instead target manifestations of perversity and degeneration.
There is also “positive” censorship aimed at promoting selected content. Here, this is synonymous with propaganda, or the education of the masses. For the moment, the media inundate the public with trivial reports, mind-numbing programs, and vulgar films. A benevolent authority would instead educate citizens in good taste and decency, in transcendence, and in traditional and family values. A certain “aristocracy of the mind” could, moreover, gradually take shape, revive and showcase the nation’s cultural heritage, strengthen the spirit of cohesion, and foster understanding and acceptance of the new political line.
@JaycelAdkins If you're ever stumped by something in Scripture or an appended commentary I highly reccomend Cornelius a Lapide who is perhaps the most crisp and comprehensive commentator in English that is extant. [https://t.co/GT5PgJmCfc]
Godspeed.
"In no way can we arrive at the contemplation of the eternal Godhead unless our intellect be more fully elevated beyond the changes of time, beyond the fog of our phantasms, to the freedom of that supercelestial quiet."
- St. Bonaventure (De Mysterio, q. 5, a. 2, re. 11)
"My dear, dear brothers, our dear little, little mother, Immaculate Mary, can do anything for us. We are her children. Turn to her. She will overcome anything."
-St. Maximilian Kolbe
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My thoughts on the anti-immigration riots in Belfast, attempts to use it to build support for the Loyalist cause, and why Irish Catholics kept their distance despite sharing Protestant concerns about immigration.
God is young and forever new in His eternal Godhead. He becomes young yet again as the child born of a Virgin. And becomes ever new, every day, in every soul that blooms with grace wherein the Son is born in the soul. New, in times past, and forever, and in this day!