Sanctus Fidelis

Community of Catholic men on a journey towards the imitation of Christ

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Archbishop Fulton Sheen on how pain is what forge us into better Men:

[FrSteveGrunow @FrSteveGrunow]

Ora pro nobis!

[Sanctus Fidelis @SanctusFi]

It was a joy and a privilege to walk these miles together @FrSteveGrunow

[FrSteveGrunow @FrSteveGrunow]

I’m up to something in Santa Barbara CA. Great to see you @SanctusFi

[Sanctus Fidelis @SanctusFi]

If you spend more time reading the news than in prayer you’ve got some work to do.

[Sanctus Fidelis @SanctusFi]

Praise God, you woke up today! A gift none of us deserve. Make it count.

[Bulletproof Dad @bullet_proofdad]

Fat people know exactly how to lose weight.

Ask them and they’ll give you the entire blueprint:

• Eat less
• Walk more
• Lift weights
• Drink water
• Sleep better

They know what to do.

The problem isn’t information.

The problem is they no longer have a reason strong enough to suffer for the result.

Nobody changes because of a diet.

They change because a mission grabs them by the throat.

A heart attack.
A newborn child.
A divorce.
A moment they finally realize they’ve become someone they never wanted to be.

People don’t need another meal plan.

They need a reason to become dangerous again.

[Sanctus Fidelis @SanctusFi]

The gospel is de facto countercultural. Live it and expect to be hated by the world.

[FrSteveGrunow @FrSteveGrunow]

Always remember that people will connive to create villains to obscure their own guilt and conceal their own villainy.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Three cheers for Pope Leo's comments regarding the Christian foundations of Europe and the defense of the unborn. Echoing the sentiments of Pope Benedict XVI, Leo reminded his audience that the essential structures of European society and Europe's commitment to human rights are unthinkable apart from Christianity. And speaking before a hard-left Spanish Parliament, the Pope presented an admirably consistent ethic of life, defending migrants, to be sure, but also insisting that no society which "casts into the shadows" the unborn can be called truly just. With bracing clarity, he insisted, "Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence." And he concluded that "the moral greatness of a nation" is manifested in this principle. That he has been received so warmly in Spain I take to be an encouraging sign that the people of that country, especially the youth, have finally had it with a soul-flattening secularist ideology.

[☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩ @SecretFire79]

U.S. Marines received Holy Communion on March 3, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima🇻🇦

[Sanctus Fidelis @SanctusFi]

Honestly! We are the inheritors of a tradition what has wrestled with only the hardest questions for thousands of years. So ignorant.

[FrSteveGrunow @FrSteveGrunow]

Second guessing? Because “people of faith” have never given serious consideration to such questions or any questions, living as we do in a self chosen state of irrationality. Such a dumb, patronizing thing to say.

[Sanctus Fidelis @SanctusFi]

Life is tough but with a band of brothers fixed on Christ you can be tougher.

[Sanctus Fidelis @SanctusFi]

The more fake the culture becomes the more premium will be placed on reality by those worth knowing. Don’t just text your friends, go do something.

[ThomasAquinasCollege @TACollege]

New episode of The TAC Podcast: We dive into TAC’s Great Books approach to education, where students are immersed in diametrically opposed worldviews — from the virtue ethics of Aristotle to the radical critiques of Nietzsche.
https://t.co/GxaIv1QYxi

[☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩ @SecretFire79]

They had been married for only 20 days.

Most newlyweds dream of a long life together.

A home.

Children.

Years of shared memories.

But for Saints Timothy and Maura, their marriage would end on a cross.

And it would become one of the most extraordinary love stories in Christian history.

Timothy was a young lector in the Church, responsible for safeguarding and reading the Sacred Scriptures. Maura was his newlywed wife.

They had been married for less than a month when persecution broke out in Egypt during the reign of Emperor Diocletian.

Timothy was arrested and ordered to surrender the Christian books in his care.

He refused.

The authorities tortured him mercilessly, demanding that he reveal where the Scriptures were hidden.

Still, he would not betray Christ.

When the governor learned that Timothy had recently married, he ordered Maura to be brought before him.

Perhaps, he thought, she could persuade her husband to give in.

Instead, she strengthened him.

Standing before the governor, Maura boldly professed her faith in Jesus Christ.

The enraged officials turned their cruelty upon her as well.

For days, the young couple endured horrific tortures.

Their bodies were broken.

Their wounds multiplied.

Yet neither abandoned Christ.

Ancient accounts tell us that during their suffering, Timothy and Maura encouraged one another to remain faithful.

Rather than despair, they spoke of Heaven.

Rather than fear death, they fixed their eyes on eternity.

Finally, the governor sentenced them both to crucifixion.

Two crosses were erected facing one another.

For nine long days, the young husband and wife hung there in agony.

Yet rather than despair, they encouraged one another.

They prayed together. They sang hymns. They reminded each other of Christ's suffering and the promise of eternal life.

When one grew weak, the other strengthened them.

Their final days were not filled with bitterness.

They were filled with faith.

Together, they endured.

Together, they hoped.

Together they carried their final cross.

Around the year 286 AD, Timothy and Maura surrendered their souls to God and entered Heaven as martyrs.

Their story reminds us that the strongest marriages are not built merely on human love, but on a shared love for God.

Timothy and Maura were married for only a few weeks on earth.

But their union lasts forever in Heaven.

Saints Timothy and Maura, pray for us.

[Magda Lewandowska @MLewandowska]

Czytam sobie o sikhach i ich, wprowadzonym w 1699r, religijnym obowiązku noszenia kirpanów (ceremonialnych mieczy), który to religijny obowiązek jest szanowany/uznawany na całym Zachodzie, w tym w Polsce.

Uważam, że katolicy powinni mieć religijny obowiązek noszenia dwuręcznych mieczy, na podstawie wezwania papieża Urbana II na soborze w Clermont w 1095.

[Sanctus Fidelis @SanctusFi]

In light of AI, a world is coming very soon where value will once again be seen in real experience but that experience will be increasingly difficult to have.

[Against Atheism @AgainstAtheismX]

This was the most important moment in all history

[Sanctus Fidelis @SanctusFi]

Them: You have to get your wife and girls on birth control
You have to put your kids in public school
You have to work a job you hate in the city
You have to vote like everyone else.

Me (An intellectual): No.