Tim Owak

Rugby savant

[St. Maximilian @Totvs_tuus51320]

"Since Jesus has gone to Heaven, I can follow Him only by the traces He has left."

-- 𝑺𝒕. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑳𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒖𝒙

[ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕔 ℚ𝕦𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕤 @Catholic_Mind]

"The contemplation of God is promised to us as the goal of all our acts and the eternal consummation of all our joys."

- St. Augustine of Hippo

[That Trad Gal @thattradgal]

The true story of how the rosary drove 15,000 demons from a heretic.

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

There can be nothing in common between light and darkness; no agreement is possible between Catholics and heretics.

-St. Pius V

[Robbert Leusink 🇳🇱 @robbertleusink]

I go to churches that are closing in the Benelux and save what I can.

Chasubles, copes, procession crosses, banners, baldachins, altar bells, missals, cruets, crosses… things that would otherwise disappear… or be sold in thrift shops…

2 years ago I filmed part of what we rescued

It got over 20K views on TikTok

These aren’t just old objects
They’re pieces of a living tradition

If more of us did the same, a lot more would survive

Start saving culture, no one else will

[Memento Mori @TempusFugit4016]

"When you suffer misfortune of any kind, accept whatever comes as coming from the hand of God. Say simply, the Lord has permitted me to bear these sufferings not because He dislikes me but because He loves me. Shall I not therefore accept them with resignation?" - St. Alphonsus

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

Society doesn’t demand but your purpose does…

[Kevin Carpenter @kejca]

Charlie Munger on how the Army influenced him.

"I never wanted to be in a big bureaucracy ... It was not a milieu where I was going to succeed."

"My senior officers could tell I thought they were wrong. I tried to hide it and they could still tell. Who in the hell likes a junior officer [who is] plainly indicating that he thinks you're an idiot?"

"I am much better adapted to being a capitalist operator than I am to being a cog in a bureaucracy."

(Yahoo Finance || 2019)

[IMPERATOR @IMPERATORAUS]

If the order of the family is destroyed, the order of the state is necessarily destroyed.

– St Thomas Aquinas (Commentary on Aristotle's Politics)

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee.

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

He who desires only God is rich and happy: he is in want of nothing, and may laugh at the whole world.

-St. Alphonsus

[Auxilium of The Holy Face @Auxiliumvolto]

"My beloved Jesus, Your face was beautiful before You began this journey; but, now, it no longer appears beautiful and is disfigured with wounds and blood. Alas, my soul also was once beautiful when it received Your grace in Baptism; but I have since disfigured it with my sins. You alone, my Redeemer, can restore it to its former beauty."

Prayer of St Alphonsus Ligouri

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

Fr. Ripperger: “Confidence in God is one of the main things lacking today. And the main reason it’s lacking is that people don’t have a sense of the spiritual taking precedence over the material. So when they don’t get the material things they want, they don’t trust God.”

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

"I do not believe that a nation dies save by suicide. To the very last every problem is a problem of will; and if we will we can be whole."

–G.K. Chesterton

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

I advance the brief and open opinion of my mind, that I must remain in that Church, which was founded by the apostles, and endures even to this day.

-St. Jerome

[Vita et Terra @VitaetTerra]

At 27, Alphonsus Liguori was one of the most brilliant lawyers in Naples.

He had never lost a case.

Then one day he did.

Humiliated, he walked out of the courtroom, laid down his legal career forever, and gave his life to Christ.

He went on to found a religious order, write masterpieces of Catholic theology, and become a Doctor of the Church.

What looked like his greatest failure became the beginning of his true vocation.

St. Alphonsus Liguori, pray for us!

[EWTN Vatican @EWTNVatican]

A special plenary indulgence is available on August 1st and 2nd each year!

Here is the story of the "Pardon of Assisi":

In July 1216, while praying in the Portiuncula chapel, St. Francis saw a vision of Jesus and Mary. When asked what he desired, he requested a full pardon for all who entered the chapel with sincere repentance and confession. Jesus granted it, instructing Francis to seek papal approval. Pope Honorius III granted the request—now known as the “Pardon of Assisi.”

Originally limited to the Portiuncula from the evening of August 1 to sunset on August 2, this plenary indulgence was later extended to all Franciscan—and eventually all Catholic—churches.

To receive the indulgence (from noon August 1st to midnight August 2nd), one must: visit a Catholic or Franciscan church with devotion, go to Confession and Communion within 20 days, recite the Apostles’ Creed and the Our Father, pray for the Pope’s intentions, and be free from attachment to sin.

This extraordinary grace, born of divine mercy and Franciscan humility, is available each year—not only for ourselves (the living), but also for the souls in purgatory (the deceased).

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

The humble realize that of themselves they are nothing, and that they stand in extreme need of help and grace of heaven; but the proud are convinced that they are full of grace and virtue.

-St. Augustine

[IMPERATOR @IMPERATORAUS]

Pray for the return of Francisco Franco.

[Chris Stefanick @ChrisStefanick]

Today is the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the man who told people to meditate on hell.

One of the darker (and less talked about) steps of his exercises is a meditation on hell. Ignatius tells you to ask God for the grace to not only imagine hell, but to give you an interior sense of the pain of the damned … to know what it's LIKE to be in hell.

Ignatius is blunt about his motive: when it comes to our biggest temptations, if the love of God isn't enough to move us to do the right thing, fear of hell can serve as a solid backup motivation.

But what he was really after was for us to see in detail what EXACTLY Jesus has saved us from. Because a man who has really seen that spends the rest of his life grateful.

But if I may be so bold as to add to Ignatius (yeah I know…that's REALLY bold), I think if you meditate on what hell might be for YOU, it can also shine a light on your recurrent vices, and the motive behind them all.

So often when we fall into sin, we're not going for a reward, but a relief. We're running from something we recoil at deep down inside..

Maybe the "fix" for your recurrent sin isn't that ongoing wrestling match with yourself. Maybe it's inviting Jesus into the emptiness you've spent your life trying to outrun.

St. Ignatius of Loyola, pray for us.

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