St. Alphonsus Liguori, St. Gregory the Great, St. Augustine, St. Chrysostom = wrong.

Black orthodox man = right.

"...Reprobation, however, is not the cause of what is in the present—namely, sin; but it is the cause of abandonment by God. It is the cause, however, of what is assigned in the future—namely, eternal punishment. But guilt proceeds from the free-will of the person who is reprobated and deserted by grace. In this way, the word of the prophet is true—namely, "Destruction is thy own, O Israel."

Reply to Objection 3. Reprobation by God does not take anything away from the power of the person reprobated. Hence, when it is said that the reprobated cannot obtain grace, this must not be understood as implying absolute impossibility: but only conditional impossibility: as was said above (I:19:3), that the predestined must necessarily be saved; yet a conditional necessity, which does not do away with the liberty of choice. Whence, although anyone reprobated by God cannot acquire grace, nevertheless that he falls into this or that particular sin comes from the use of his free-will. Hence it is rightly imputed to him as guilt."

ST I, q. 23, a. 2

"But these cases are very rare; they are prodigies and miracles of grace, by which God wished to show the boundlessness of his mercy. But, ordinarily, sinners who wish to continue in sin, are, in the end, cast into hell. On them are executed the threats of the Lord against obstinate sinners. ”You have despised my counsels, and neglected my reprehensions. I also will laugh in your destruction. . . . Then they will call on me, and I will not hear.” (Prov. i. 25, 26, 28.) I, says the Lord, have called on them again and again, but they have refused to hear me. ”But they did not hear nor incline their ears; but hardened their neck, that they might not hear me.” (Jer. xvii. 23.)

Now they call upon me, it is but just that I refuse to listen to their cries. God bears, but he does not bear for ever; when the time of vengeance arrives he punishes past and present iniquities. ”For the Most High is a patient rewarder.” (Eccl. v. 4.) And according to St. Augustine, the longer God has waited for negligent sinners the more severely he will chastise them. “Quanto diutius expectat Deus, ut emenderis; tanto gravius judicabit, si neglexeris.” (Lib. de util. ag. prcn.) He who promises to amend, and wilfully neglects to return to God, is unworthy of the grace of true re pentance.

8 But God is full of mercy . He is full of mercy; but he is not so stupid as to act without reason: to show mercy to those who continue to insult him would be stupidity, and not goodness. ”Is thy eye evil because I am good ?” (Matt. xx. 15.) Will you persevere in wickedness because I am bountiful? God is good, but he is also just, and exhorts us all to observe his law, if we wish to save our souls. “If thou wilt enter into life keep the commandments.” (Matt. xix. 17.)

Were God to show mercy to the wicked as well as to the just, and to give to all the grace of conversion before death, he would hold out a strong temptation even to the saints to commit sin: but, no! when his mercies have reached their term he punishes, and pardons no more. “And my eye shall not spare thee, and I will show thee no pity.” (Ezec. vii. 4.) Hence he says: Pray that your flight may not be in the winter or on the Sabbath.” (Matt. xxiv. 20.)"

- St. Alphonsus Liguori 'On Impenitence.'

Full Sermon:
http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/2017/11/11/impenitence-st-alphonsus/

An LGBT mob tried to attack a Catholic Church in Sydney tonight but were stopped by Catholics guarding the building.

https://www.catholicarena.com/latest/sydneychurch

Glory to God. Defend your churches from sodomite filth.

Remember, The external works of penance such as prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and everything else that should be practiced during lent, have no value in the sight of God unless they are accompanied by the spirit of interior sacrifice and self-denial.

Which basically means through humility and charity. As one cannot exist without the other. You cannot be humble and uncharitable, or charitable and prideful. The practice of these virtues is what makes these Lenten sacrifices valuable in the eyes of God. If you do not practice virtue, God does not care about the latter. As they are done contrary to how He wills for them to be done: through humility, charity and sacrificial self-denial.

“Fasting, when rightly practised, lifts the mind to God and mortifies the flesh. It makes virtue easy to attain and increases our merits.” - St. Francis de Sales

All of us are going to die. Your life can be taken at any moment. Do not live this life as a coward, faithless, polluted, and sinful being. Use this time during Lent to reflect on the state of your soul, and go to confession. For you have two deaths, and one will be eternal. Memento Mori, Remember death.

Most unfortunate.

Do not despair, have hope in God. When you cannot perceive the answer to your prayers, or you feel your spirit to be dry, offer these prayers up as sacrifice. Prove to our Lord that you can stand strong with pure faith in him even through spiritual dryness.

“The more empty the soul is of self, the greater room in it for God.”

-Fulton Sheen

"Whoever wishes to be saved must, above all, keep the Catholic Faith: whoever does not observe it in its entirety and inviolate, without a doubt will perish eternally.”

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, "Athanasian Symbol" (1439).

Love stories like this.
Glory to God, truly.

"The cross reveals that unless there is a Good Friday in our lives*, there will never be an Easter Sunday. Unless there is a crown of thorns, there will never be the halo of light. Unless there is the scourged body, there will never be a glorified one. Death to the lower self is the condition of resurrection to the higher self. The world says to us, as it said to Him on the cross: “Come down, and we will believe!” But if He had come down, He never would have saved us. It is human to come down; it is divine to hang there. A broken heart, O Saviour of the world, is love’s best cradle! Smite my own, as Moses did the rock, that Thy love may enter in!"

- Excerpt from The Most Revered Ven. Fulton Sheen's Meditations on the Sorrowful Mysteries