Dante Canto

[Larry Conger 🇺🇸 @eMTBrides]

"You don’t need a church to get saved?" ⛪️
Historically, the early Church existed and operated long before the New Testament was compiled. The Catholic Church discerned and canonized the Bible in the late 4th century.

Are good works the root of salvation, or the fruit of salvation? 🍎
Protestants believe we are saved by faith alone—works are just the evidence. Catholics believe true faith must cooperate with God’s grace through both faith and works.

See how Frank Turek @DrFrankTurek responds to this young gentleman.
#debate #usa

[The “Doctor” Rblv73 @Rblv73]

“The heretics quote the Scriptures, and by quoting them deceive many. The devil himself quoted Scripture.” - St Jerome

[Dante Canto @stuckincanto1]

@sola_chad The same readings that every other Catholic Church on planet earth did.

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

My brother, be persuaded that, if you wish to lead a holy life, you must expect the ridicule and contempt of the wicked.

-St. Alphonsus

[Dante Canto @stuckincanto1]

@farmingandJesus My life has been blessed 1000 fold since embracing the liturgy and the sacraments of the Catholic Church. Catholicism is hard for the weak of mind and those of hardened of hearts.

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

ST. AUGUSTINE ON MAINTAINING CATHOLIC UNITY IN SPITE OF SCANDALS

That you can read a 1,600 year old sermon as if delivered yesterday is, itself, profound—a cause for rejoicing as a Catholic. The Church—the threshing floor—remains.

I am thankful beyond the power of words to express for the role that the Catholic witness of St. Augustine had in bringing me Home to the Church!

St. Augustine, pray for us!

“There are those who, though called believers, are not so. There are believers in whom the sacraments of Christ are subjected to abuse; persons who live in such a way that they themselves perish, and they ruin others. They themselves perish by evil living; they destroy others, however, by giving the example of evil living. Do not wish, my dearly beloved, to be associated with such as these. Seek the good; cleave to the good; be good.

Do not be surprised at the large number of bad Christians who fill the church, who communicate at the altar…They can exist along with us in the Church of this time, but they will not be able to remain in that assembly of saints which will be after the resurrection. For the Church of this time, since it has good mixed with bad, is compared to a threshing floor where grain is mixed with chaff; but, after the judgment, it will have all good members without the evil. This threshing floor contains the harvest sown by the Apostles, watered by subsequent good teachers down to the present times, somewhat bruised by the persecution of enemies, but with the remnant not yet purged by the final sifting. Nevertheless, He will come concerning whom you recited in the Creed: ‘Then He will come to judge the living and the dead,’ and, as the Gosel says: ‘His winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly clean out his threshing floor, and will gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.’

Let the old faithful members hear what I say; let him who is the grain rejoice in the tossing; let him remain; let him not depart from the threshing floor. Let him not, following his own judgment, try to free himself from the chaff, since he will not be able to remain on the threshing floor if he wishes to separate himself now from the chaff. Furthermore, when He comes who distinguishes without error, He will not raise to the granary what He has not found on the threshing floor. Whatever grains have now withdrawn from the threshing floor will then boast in vain about their stock. The barn will be filled and closed. Fire will consume whatever has remained outside. Therefore, my dear brethren, let him who is good put up with the evil; let him who is bad imitate the good. On this threshing floor, in truth, grain can degenerate into chaff; and, on the other hand, grain can be restored from chaff. These changes take place daily, my brethren. This life is full of punishments and consolations. Daily those who seemed good do wrong and perish; and again, those who seemed evil are converted and live. For, ��God does not will the death of the sinner, but only that he be converted from his ways and live.’

Hear me, O grains of wheat; hear me, you who conform to my desires; hear me, O grain. Do not be saddened by the intermixture of chaff; the evil will not be with you forever. To how great an extent does the chaff press upon you? Thank God that it is not heavy. Only let us remain the wheat; then, how abundant soever the chaff may be, it will not oppress us.”

St. Augustine, “Sermon 223: On the Vigil of Easter”

[Timeless ✠🇻🇦 @timelessfaithh]

"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement."

— St. Augustine

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

If you are silent, be silent from love. If you speak, speak from love.

—St Augustine

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”

~ St. Thomas Aquinas

Photo: Fr. Francesco Vera, executed immediately after saying Mass (which had been outlawed), Mexico, 1927.

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

THOMAS PAINE: "He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

[🇻🇦🇫🇮 @jesuitpatriot]

"try very hard in Latin because in my humble opinion familiarity with Latin is the real test of the progress of a good priest's training. If you knew what a joy it is later on to be able to read St Gregory and St Ambrose, in whose writings the most beautiful and profound mysteries of Christian life and doctrine are firmly and incisively portrayed! But for this purpose you must accustom yourself to understanding, writing and even speaking Latin."

- Saint John XXIII, Letter to his nephew 1948

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

In the pursuit of knowledge never forget the purpose of it; to serve others.

—St Ambrose

[Dante Canto @stuckincanto1]

@IndianaBrunner There wasn’t a bible or the knowledge of the trinity for hundreds of years

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

—Bl. Fulton Sheen

[Dante Canto @stuckincanto1]

@rustyrockets His Church.

[Catholic Life @prayandfast2]

"The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host."

- Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

The printing press created protestantism.

The internet is destroying it.

It has never been easier for the lies and calumnies of the last 500 years to be exposed and refuted.

Praise be to God!

[Dante Canto @stuckincanto1]

@jonbeadle @poperespecter1 God created the Catholic Church. Man has created Protestantism and church’s apart from His.

[Catholic Frequency @CatholicFQ]

“Feminism is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”

- G. K. Chesterton