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[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

We see the tower of Jesus Christ illuminated for the first time!
The light show, starting from the base up to the illumination of the cross, culminated with a composition of lights guided by drones that traced the figure of Gaudí and the phrase “first love, then technique”.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

The choir in the Sagrada Família is putting on the performance of a lifetime.

The vocals perfectly complement the stunning visuals of Gaudí’s cathedral!

[Uche is a girl 🇻🇦 @UcheMaryOkoli]

St. John Lateran is the first church that was built in Rome after Christianity became officially legalised.

Above the altar of this church holds a reliquary that contains a piece of the table where the first Mass was celebrated by Jesus Himself(the Last Supper), and the altar also holds the skulls of St. Peter and St. Paul.

I must come here one day.

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

🚨 Pope Leo XIV has delivered a hard hitting speech to EU leaders, calling out the 'rejection of the Christian inspiration of the founding fathers of the EU'

He also said that Europe is facing 'DRASTIC STERILITY' because 'too many have been deprived of the right to be born' and 'because there has been a failure to pass on the material and cultural tools that young people need to face the future'

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Atheists: The Catholic Church has always been against science

Meanwhile the Church:

• Georges Lemaître — Catholic priest; proposed the “primeval atom” theory, which became the foundation of the modern Big Bang cosmological model.

• Gregor Mendel — Augustinian friar; discovered the laws of inheritance (Mendelian genetics), forming the basis of modern genetics.

• Nicolaus Copernicus — Catholic canon; developed the heliocentric model (Sun-centered solar system), transforming astronomy.

• Christopher Clavius — Jesuit priest; principal mathematician behind the Gregorian calendar reform still used worldwide today.

• Roger Boscovich — Jesuit priest; early theory of atomic structure and force fields, influencing modern physics concepts.

• Angelo Secchi — Jesuit priest; pioneer of astrophysics and first classification system of stars based on spectra.

• Francesco Maria Grimaldi — Jesuit priest; discovered diffraction of light and contributed to wave theory of optics.

• Jean Picard — Catholic priest; first highly accurate measurement of Earth’s radius using modern scientific instruments.

• Nicolas Steno — Catholic bishop; founded stratigraphy (law of superposition), a foundation of modern geology.

• Marin Mersenne — Minim friar; “Mersenne primes” in number theory are named after him; also built scientific communication networks across Europe.

• Benito Viñes — Jesuit priest; developed early hurricane tracking and forecasting methods in Cuba.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Shortly after becoming Catholic I confided in a friend that I didn’t feel like I was “getting that much out of Mass”

I will never forget his response, “that’s OK. It’s not about you.” In five seconds it was the most powerful spiritual insight I have ever received.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

"Abortion is the greatest tragedy of our time" -

Robert Cardinal Sarah

[The Aramaic Wire ܣܘܪܝܐ @AramaicWire]

The love of God the Father
The grace of the only begotten Son
The fellowship & indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

Inspired by Jesus’ prayer in John 17:21, a new movie called “That They May Be One” is exploring the theme of Christian unity — both across history and in the present day.

The film blends documentary-style interviews with prominent figures in the faith community and reenactments that bring key moments to life. Perspectives from both Catholic and Protestant leaders are featured in the film, including interviews with Father Mathias Thelen, Pastor James Ward, evangelist Francis Chan, and Catholic biblical scholar Mary Healy, who also serves as a producer of the film.

The movie will be in theaters nationwide May 19 and 20.

Adriana Gonzalez, the Catholic executive producer behind the film, told EWTN News in an interview that the inspiration for the film came from her own passion regarding Christian unity as well as a talk she heard in 2020 given by Healy.

Gonzalez said she felt it was necessary to make the documentary because in today’s society “thereʼs greater division, greater animosity, so greater unity is just logically beneficial because we want to stand strong against a world that really attacks Christianity.”

Another reason she believes this movie is needed “is because we do witness a move of God today and so much of it is based on unity in the Holy Spirit ... So, who knows when that last day will come, but yet, there is a preparation that moves forward in history and in the progression of the Church, and I do believe that unity is one of those things that must be wrought by the Holy Spirit to prepare the bride of Christ.”

Gonzalez highlighted that this film also addresses some of the misconceptions many have regarding the pursuit of Christian unity, namely that it "waters down our Catholic faith.”

One of the main reasons this fear needs to be debunked, she explained, is because “the Church itself calls all of her faithful to pursue unity in the body of Christ.”

“This was established in the Second Vatican Council,“ she said. ”St. John Paul II reiterated it in his encyclical Ut Unum Sint. And so itʼs a call from the Church herself to all the faithful, not just to the hierarchy, to all the faithful, to pursue unity.”

Michael Girgenti, the actor who portrays Jesus in the film, added that he often sees Christians of many denominations focusing on “wanting to be right versus maybe teaming up on trying to bring others who donʼt know Christ to Christ.”

He added: “The Churchʼs mission until the end of ages is to gather as many souls and to unite them to Christ and thatʼs literally what the documentary focuses on as far as like yes, thereʼs a bunch of different denominations, but thereʼs also even more people who reject the Lord, donʼt know the Lord, and we have to do what we can, together, to bring and show them the light of Christ.”

Gonzalez emphasized another aspect of Christian unity that personally impacted her passion toward the topic and believes all Catholics should contemplate.

“What moves me toward really being passionate about this … is just thinking that our dear beloved Jesus — who is the center and head and core of everything in our faith — prayed this the night before he died,” she shared. “It seems to me like ‘Oh wow, that should be enough to compel every single Christian on the face of the earth to say, ‘Lord, how can I be a part of an answer to this prayer that you prayed just hours before you knew you were going to get arrested and crucified?’”

Girgenti shared that he hopes Christian viewers of the film will be reminded that “itʼs not about trying to prove and convince everyone whoʼs right” but instead would be “more inspired to just talk and preach about the Lord.”

As for nonbelievers, he said he hopes “they accept the invitation to know him [Jesus]. I hope they accept the invitation to go deeper, to try to read Scripture, to try to go to church, and to follow the light that he is providing us always.”

Gonzalez added that she hopes viewers will pursue a renewal in “falling in love with Jesus again because then one of the natural consequences of that is unity in the body of Christ.”

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[EWTN Global Catholic Network @EWTN]

“I have made fun of you people. I have mocked you... How are you not striking me down?”
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Hear more powerful conversion stories from former wiccans, atheists, protestants, and more - Stream “The Journey Home” on the free @EWTNmedia app!

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

CHURCH FATHER: FAITH AND WORKS IN SALVATION

“The Savior calls everyone through faith; and he wants them to come to share in His supernal munificence, and everyone enters indiscriminately. For the grace that is through faith is upon us all.

But those who add to faith the unblemished splendor that comes from good works, and who don the brightness of virtue as a kind of robe, will dine with the groom and partake of the holy and spiritual feast.

But those who have added nothing to faith, but have remained in the fifth of wickedness and retain the stain of their former guilt, so hard to wash out, will be finally and unconditionally dismissed from the sacred wedding. They will lament their negligence, for they had burst in without a wedding garment.”

St. Cyril of Alexandria, Festal Letter 24 (§2)

[Michael Patrick Barber @MichaelPBarber]

In Romans 4, "works of the law" are not just circumcision and "identity markers."

[Brayden Cook @The_Catechumen]

THE LETTER OF ST. CYRIL TO JOHN OF ANTIOCH
We confess, therefore, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, perfect God, and perfect Man of a reasonable soul and flesh consisting; begotten before the ages of the Father according to his Divinity, and in the last days, for us and for our salvation, of Mary the Virgin according to his humanity, of the same substance with his Father according to his Divinity, and of the same substance with us according to his humanity; for there became a union of two natures. Wherefore we confess one Christ, one Son, one Lord. According to this understanding of this unmixed union, we confess the holy Virgin to be Mother of God; because God the Word was incarnate and became Man, and from this conception he united the temple taken from her with himself. For we know the theologians make some things of the Evangelical and Apostolic teaching about the Lord common as pertaining to the one person, and other things they divide as to the two natures, and attribute the worthy ones to God on account of the Divinity of Christ, and the lowly ones on account of his humanity [to his humanity]. These being your holy voices, and finding ourselves thinking the same with them (“One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism,”) we glorified God the Saviour of all, congratulating one another that our churches and yours have the Faith which agrees with the God-inspired Scriptures and the traditions of our holy Fathers.

[ChurchPOP @Church_POP]

On April 29, 1991, at 11:00 a.m., a sergeant from the Military Police entered the parish rectory in Salgueiro, Pernambuco, in Brazil, and shot the parish priest five times. Death was immediate.

The priest was 63 years old. His name was Father José Maria Prada, and he died because he refused to officiate an invalid marriage.

Born in 1928 in northeastern Portugal, Father José Maria joined the Redemptorists at a young age and was ordained a priest in 1953. Two years later, he left as a missionary to Angola, where he spent more than two decades serving the people through a demanding life of missionary work.

He later came to Brazil, serving first in the interior of São Paulo before being sent to the backlands of Pernambuco in the 1980s. After ministering in several cities, he eventually arrived in Salgueiro, where he became pastor of Saint Anthony Parish.

Those who knew him remember him as a simple priest—close to the people and unwavering in his convictions.

The situation began like many others: a man approached the priest seeking to be married in the Church.

Father José Maria did what any faithful priest would do—he investigated the situation. He soon discovered that the man was already sacramentally married to another woman.

The Church’s teaching is clear:
“Thus the marriage bond has been established by God himself in such a way that a marriage concluded and consummated between baptized persons can never be dissolved.” (CCC 1640).

Given the circumstances, there was nothing to negotiate. The answer was no.

The man persisted, returning several times. He tried pressure, offering money, and finally threats.
But Father José Maria would not yield. He did not alter records, minimize the situation, or look for a “shortcut.”

According to reports from the time, he even said he would rather die than celebrate that marriage.

On April 29, the sergeant returned.
He entered the rectory and opened fire.
There ended the life of a priest who remained faithful to his beliefs until the very end.

The funeral drew the bishop, priests from across the region, and a multitude of faithful Catholics.

One detail deeply moved those present: the bloodstained shirt Father José Maria was wearing at the time of the murder was carried at the front of the funeral procession.

Nothing needed to be explained. It said everything.

His heart was later preserved in Saint Anthony Church beneath the inscription:
“Martyr for the sanctity of marriage.”

To this day, there is no formal beatification process underway in Rome. Yet the memory of Father José Maria remains alive in the community.

It is not difficult to understand why.

He did not die over a mere formality. He died defending something concrete: fidelity to marriage, the truth of the sacraments, and the unity between faith and life.

His story recalls that of John the Baptist, who was also killed for refusing to legitimize an unlawful union.

This is not merely a story from the past.
It still matters because it touches something every person eventually faces:
What do you do when telling the truth begins to cost you?

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[Brayden Cook @The_Catechumen]

Ryan from @needGod_net Gets Ephesians 2 Wrong. Ryan recently responded to @counseloftrent ’s use of Ephesians 2, claiming that “not by works” contradicts the Catholic teaching that we must obey, abide, persevere, and cooperate with grace in order to receive eternal life. But what happens when we use Ryan’s method on the rest of Scripture?

[The Aramaic Wire ܣܘܪܝܐ @AramaicWire]

1400 year old cross discovered in Abu Dhabi.

The Church of The East, from its Mesopotamian core, spread as far as the Gulf, India & China.

While many in Iraq & Syria are trying to erase this history, it’s beautiful to see this history rediscovered & protected in the Gulf.

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

St. John Chrysostom was crystal clear: none of us should be scandalized. We should maintain hope in God amidst whatever trials we endure. He drew from countless biblical examples to make his point.

“Do not let any of these things scandalize you, neither the priest who has now gone bad and is assaulting the flock more savagely than any wolf, nor those in power who display great cruelty.”

St. John Chrysostom, On the Providence of God (Ch. 20)

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

There is much to say about each of these points, which either proceed from protestant assumptions nowhere in Church history, and/or misrepresent the Catholic position.

But one thing that is absolutely false is the first point. As someone blessed to be in their writings almost every day for almost 9 years now, I have found astounding unanimity among the Fathers on many different subjects, and even small details of Scriptural interpretation (to say nothing of their unanimity on the Church—more below).

But even on this, when one Father observes something different than another in Scripture, virtually every time, this isn’t a contradiction, but equally Catholic, and in accordance with the “Rule of Faith.” Protestants often automatically present this as a contradiction, but Catholics don’t, and have never seen it that way. For example, our answer to the question “Was the Rock Christ, St. Peter, or Peter’s Confession?” is simply “Yes,” because each aspect symphonically reinforces the others.

And beyond even that, all the Fathers agreed that the Catholic Church had authority from God to issue binding definitions on the faith, and that such definitions could only issue from the successors of the Apostles, the bishops (with virtual unanimity about a superior authority of some kind in the bishop of Rome). They believed this because they knew they were not inspired, or infallible, as individual men. But they knew the Church was indeed infallible, and had authority from Christ to teach the whole world ONE and the SAME faith.

They always and everywhere speak of the Church as having ONE teaching, ONE government, ONE worship, ONE canon law, ONE faith, etc. Protestants cannot make this claim for themselves, and have never been able to.

So even if they got things wrong—which many of them admitted they could—the Fathers knew the Church would not. They knew that when a theological issue was resolved, it would ONLY be resolved within THAT Church. Not by a heretical sect who had long since left it; or by a schismatic group that stood aloof from it.

I hope this shows why attempts such as those below by this protestant fellow are superficial at best, if not outright false.

[Deacon Nick Donnelly @ProtecttheFaith]

Please pray for the Catholic hostages kidnapped by islamist terrorists in Nigeria

As their ransom demands have not been met, the terrorists have begun to execute women and children

No coverage in western media

Please RT so that the world knows about the inhuman crimes committed in Nigeria with the compliance of western politicians, religious leaders and media

[Gideon Lazar - The Byzantine Scotist @ByzCat]

According to St. Augustine, since the Church is the body of Christ, the entire Church is present in Christ's high priestly offering of Himself to the Father and the entire Church is offered up to the Father in the sacrifice of the Mass.

We do not talk enough about this...

“the whole redeemed community, that is to say, the congregation and fellowship of the saints, is offered to God as a universal sacrifice, through the great Priest…

“This is the sacrifice of Christians, who are many, making up one body in Christ'. This is the sacrifice which the Church continually celebrates in the sacrament of the altar, a sacrament well-known to the faithful where it is shown to the Church that she herself is offered in the offering which she presents to God.”

- City of God, 10.6