Movie: Saint Patrick - The Irish Legend (@The_Brown_Scapular on IG recommendation)

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🤵🏻‍♂️Today we have a lesson on Modesty and the blindness of modern women with Fr. Taouk, so make sure to listen carefully!

🧍🏼‍♀️👙 "Women often deny that their semi-nude attire is the source of numerous and serious temptations to the opposite sex. Some reject any responsibility for leading others into sin. Others try to cover their own guilt by such statements as: "He must have a dirty mind. Scanty attire in men doesn't affect me at all. Why should men be tempted by the scanty attire of women?" When a woman is dressed immodestly, she becomes the temptress for men. Remember Our Lord's words to men who fall prey to such allurements: "Whoever shall look on a woman to lust after her hath already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matt. 5:28)

👯‍♀️ Indirectly, immodest woman are included in this indictment, being cooperators with the sins of men. God has made woman beautiful and attractive to men so as to fit with His plan for procreation in lawful wedlock. As a result of Original sin, mankind must constantly struggle to regulate this attraction. Unless both men and women fortify themselves by prayer, sin quickly enters their immortal souls.

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🏃‍♀️🔥 Fr. Taouk discusses here sports clothing and what women ought to do with Immodest clothing

💃 Many women will say they wear the modern fashions because they are more comfortable, and the weather is hot (Remember, it is very hot in Hell).

🎾 This brings us to the area of sports. Regretably, all too many sports are taboo for us Catholics, not that they are in themselves a sin or a near occasion of sin, but because of the skimpy attire that such sports "require".

🤽‍♀️🤸‍♀️ Think of these sports and the clothes people usually wear when playing the following sports or activities: swimming, baton twirling, tennis, basketball, dancing (disco dancing and little girls who take dancing lessons) and gymnastics.

🏊‍♀️🩱Let us tak swimming for an example, since people usually wear less clothes when swimming than any other sport. Swimsuits have no sleeves, have very low necklines, no coverings for the legs and usually has the whole back exposed.

✝️ When we think of the saying, "in proportion to the amount of flesh exposed mortal sin seems to increase", shouldn't we avoid the bathing suits like the plaque? Do you think this suggestion is crazy? You say yes, then let us ask another question. Do you prefer to have the mortal sin of immodesty on your soul and the untold number of mortal sins of your being a temptress or tempter and causing others to sin?

🤔 What is the solution then?

Here Fr. Taouk says very wisely, offering us a great solution:

“Many people lament the terrible state of immorality that is prevalent in our society, wondering what can be done about it. Among other things such as praying the rosary daily and reading the Holy Bible and the lives of the saints we can promote modesty by burning bathing suits and shorts and converting pants into decent skirts. Let us always keep in mind that the ultimate success is gaining heaven and nothing else really matters.”

"We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and believed in order to be numbered among the elect."

𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐗𝐈𝐕

Pope Benedict XIV died 263 years ago on May 3, 1758.

@Christianityandfascism

If you can lay your anxiety before your spiritual guide, or at least before some trusty and devout friend, you may be sure that you will find great solace. The heart finds relief in telling its troubles to another, just as the body when suffering from persistent fever finds relief from bleeding. It is the best of remedies, and therefore it was that S. Louis counselled his son, “If thou hast any uneasiness lying heavy on thy heart, tell it forthwith to thy confessor, or to some other pious person, and the comfort he will give will enable thee to bear it easily.”

—Introduction to the Devout Life

Deep loneliness, wanting to escape or fleeing in exile are feelings we will all have throughout our lives (certainly exasperated in this horror clown world).

Sadly these feelings tend to linger no matter what age, relationship status and who you have in your life.

The antidote to bone crunching despair is Christ, when he is with you tend you to never feel alone.

He is a ray of light in all of our darkness, so up you get, it’s cold out.

THE DEVIL HATES LATIN

It is said that "the devil hates Latin", since the language was canonized on the Cross and it unifies the Church. One of the Roman Catholic Church's leading experts on exorcism has said: "If I speak Latin, the demon responds to me in Latin. He has a horror of that language." On the diabolical possession of then Mariam Baouardy, now St. Mary of Jesus Crucified, the exorcists forced Satan to speak in Latin. Satan said, "This damn language makes me suffer too much; it is against me."

Many ask why the devil hates Latin and why it is used in exorcisms and has power over the devil. The answer is that ecclesiastical Latin is a sacred language that was reserved only for the divine service of the Catholic Church, in prayer and in the Sacraments.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI urged Catholics around the world to memorize the most common Catholic prayers in Latin.

Here are some of the basic Catholic prayers in Latin you may want to memorize:

-Sign of the Cross-
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen

-Apostles' Creed-
Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem, Creatorem caeli et terrae. Et in Iesum Christum, Filium eius unicum, Dominum nostrum, qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, natus ex Maria Virgine, passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus, descendit ad infernos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis, ascendit ad caelos, sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis, inde venturus est iudicare vivos et mortuos. Credo in Spiritum Sanctum, sanctam Ecclesiam catholicam, sanctorum communionem, remissionem peccatorum, carnis resurrectionem, vitam aeternam. Amen

-Our Father-
Pater Noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen

-Hail Mary-
Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen

-Glory Be-
Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen

-The Fatima Prayer-
Domine Iesu, dimitte nobis debita nostra, salva nos ab igne inferiori, perduc in caelum omnes animas, praesertim eas, quae misericordiae tuae maxime indigent.

-Hail, Holy Queen-
Salve Regina, Mater misericordiae. Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve. Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevae. Ad te Suspiramus, gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle. Eia ergo, Advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte. Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis post hoc exsilium ostende. O clemens, o pia, o dulcis Virgo Maria.

V. Ora pro nobis, Sancta Dei Genitrix.
R. Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi.

A Guide for Catholic Meditation - https://telegra.ph/General-Guide-for-Catholic-Meditation-03-05

Christian Meditation is a form of contemplative prayer, when you focus your attention on a particular event, virtue, or teaching, and weigh it in your mind and heart, to grow in love and appreciation and therefore draw nearer to oneness with God. The goal is to discover your own position relative to the thing you are meditating on - how close are you to this event, how firmly to you grasp this virtue, how perfectly do you live this teaching, etc. It differs from a self-examination though because you do this with the goal of inviting grace and draw out of the meditation an improved practice.

"2 But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.  3 And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring  forth its fruit, in due season.  And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper."  Psalm 1:2-3

Unlike Oriental / Modern meditation, which seeks emptiness as a means of self-annihilation, the Catholic meditates to prepare your Soul for God to fill it. Your goal in meditation is not the elimination of yourself, but perfection by the destruction of vice, the acquisition of virtue, and a spiritual practice which enhances these things.

"Meditation consists not so much in thinking a great deal, but in loving a great deal" St. Teresa of Avila.

Please keep New Zealand and the well-being of their people in your intentions.

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✝ St. MARTIN LUTHER ✝
Swan of The Reformation

The year is 1415, St. John Hus was proclaimed a heretic for speaking out against the Roman Church's promotion of indulgances and the Papacy. It is rumored that while he was burning, he cried out with a prophesy "You may cook this Goose(Hus), but in a hundred years there is a Swan you won't be able to cook!".

Moving forward to the year 1483, a little boy was born in Germany to Hans and Margarethe Luther. He was baptized the next morning on the feast day of St. Martin of Tours. Martin was brought up by his ambitious father to become a lawyer, so was sent to Latin schools to learn "trivium", which comprised logic, grammar, and rhetoric. Luther would describe this time period as "purgatory" and "hell".

In 1501 young Martin was accepted to the University of Erfurt, at the age of 17. He later described the institution as a "whorehouse", and expressed that the experience was that of "Days of rote learning, and often wearying spiritual exercises". He recieved his degree 1505. Contrary to his father's wishes, Martin soon dropped out of law and instead pursued philosophy and theology, as he viewed them as answers to find assurence in life, learning from such figures as Aristotle, St. Ockham, and Gabriel Biel.

 2 July 1505, while Luther was returning to university on horseback after a trip home, a lightning bolt struck near him during a thunderstorm. Later telling his father he was terrified of death and divine judgment, he cried out, "Help! Saint Anna, I will become a monk!" He came to view his cry for help as a vow he could never break. He left university, sold his books, and became and joined the Augustinian Order.

Luther devoted dedicated hours to prayers, fasting, pilgramages, frequent confessions. Luther described this period of his life as one of deep spiritual despair. He said, "I lost touch with Christ the Savior and Comforter, and made of him the jailer and hangman of my poor soul."

Johann Von Staupitz, Luther's superior and confessor, pointed his mind away from continual reflection of sins and instead taught that true repentance does not involve self-inflicted penances and punishments but rather a change of heart. April 1507, Jerome Schultz, Bishop of Brandenburg, ordained Luther to Erfurt Cathedral. 1508, Staupitz sent Luther to teach theology, after recieving bacher degree in Biblical studies. He was sent on a mission to Rome, and the experience left a negative impression as he found in Rome a "lack of spirituality at the very heart of Western Christendom".

In 1512, he was awarded Doctor of Theology, and in same year was received into the senate of the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg, having succeeded his mentor Von Staupitz as chair of theology.

In 1516, The papacy, lead by Pope Leo X, a Medicci, devised a plan to gain enough money to rebuild St. Peter's Basillica in Rome. He sent Johann Tetzel, a Domincan Friar, to preach for the sales of indulgences, using aggressive slimy sales courcian, even once infamously claiming that "a man who gets an indulgence could violate the mother of God herself, and have their sins be forgiven", and stating that "As soon as the gold in the casket rings, the rescued soul to heaven springs".

Luther being disgusted at these sights, he wrote up scholarly objections to the sales of indulgence, these came to be later known as The 95 Theses. In theses 86, there lies a specific disputation that will foreshadow the the sentiments to follow the Reformation "Why does the pope, whose wealth today is greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build the basilica of St. Peter with the money of poor believers rather than with his own money?".

On October 31, All Saints Day, Martin Luther walked up to the Wittenburg Church and nailed the 95 These to the door, and in doing so, he kickstarted one of the biggest events in human and Church history, even he at that time didn't foresee. The act of nailing scholarly disputations to doors was a common practice in academic/theological life, Luther himself wasn't trying to start some revolt, but instead start discussion about the exploitation of indulgences.

Eventually The 95 Theses was translated and circulated through newspaper around Germany without Luther's knowledge. Luther quickly became known through Germany, and the Roman Church took notice.

In 1518 Cardinal Cajatan, a Thomist legate, was assigned a three day period to interrogate Luther and to decide a verdict on his teachings. The Imperial Diet devolved into a shouting match, with Cajatan instructed to arrest Luther if he failed to recant. Before Cajatan could do so, Luther, with help from other monks, Luther was able to slip away to safety.

By the end of 1518, according to most scholars, Luther had reached true understanding of the pivotal Christian notion of salvation, or reconciliation with God. Over the centuries, the Roman Church had conceived the means of salvation in a variety of ways, but common to all of them was the idea that salvation is jointly effected by humans and by God—by humans through marshalling their will to do good works and thereby to please God and by God through his offer of forgiving grace. Luther broke dramatically with this innovated tradition by asserting that humans can contribute nothing to their salvation: salvation is, fully and completely, a work of divine grace.

After the Pope issued a papal bull publically condemning Luther's teachings, he tried to stop participating in debates. However, others decided to take his place, sounding the knell of Reform in both church and society. The controversy was drawing participants from wider circles and addressing broader and weightier theological issues, the most important of which was the question of the authority of the church and the pope.

Eventually, a bitter dispute between Andreas Carlstadt, a colleague of Luther, and Johann Eck, a theologian and able defender of the Roman Church, drew Luther back into the fray. Eventually all three agreed to a public debate which took place in Leipzig in June 1519. Johann Eck was a skilled debater, and wanted to pry Luther's opinions on the papacy, which he would than compare to the early Reformer John Hus. The debate made Luther realize that he shared many similar opinions to Hus, and famously admitted "I am a Hussite" to which Eck wasted no time in using to slander him slander.

Meanwhile, after a delay caused by the election of the new German emperor, the formal ecclesiastical proceedings against Luther were revived in the fall of 1519. In January 1520 a consistory heard the recommendation that Luther’s orthodoxy be examined, and one month later a papal commission concluded that Luther’s teachings were heretical. Because this conclusion seemed hasty to some members of the Curia, another commission, consisting of the heads of the several important monastic orders, was convened, and it rendered the surprisingly mild judgment that Luther’s propositions were “scandalous and offensive to pious ears but not heretical".

After Eck appeared in Rome and made dire pronouncements on the situation in Germany, yet another examination of Luther’s writings was undertaken. Finally, on June 15, 1520, Leo issued the bull Exsurge Domine(“Arise O Lord”), which charged that 41 sentences in Luther’s various writings were “heretical, scandalous, offensive to pious ears” though it did not specify which sentences had received what verdict. Others noted various formal deficiencies in Exsurge Domine, including the fact that it did not correctly quote Luther and that one of the sentences it condemned was actually written by another author. 

Luther was given 60 days upon receiving the bull to recant and another 60 days to report his recantation to Rome.

At first Luther thought the Papal Bull was a rumor spread by Eck, but upon the expiration of the 60-day period stipulated in the bull, on December 10, 1520, Luther cancelled his classes, marched to a bonfire started by his students outside one of the city gates, and threw a copy of the bull into the fire, calling it a "blast of wind". Luther was formerly declared a heretic, and thus was in danger of being apprehended by authorities and killed by the stake.

Ordinarily, Luther should have been apprehended by state authorities and killed, however God had better plans for him. Coincidentally, the newly crowned Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, promised as condition for his election that no German would be convicted without fair proper hearing.

Understandably, the papal nuncio Girolamo Aleandro, who represented the Curia in the Holy Roman Empire, vehemently rejected this idea. His position was clear: a convicted heretic did not warrant a hearing. 

Charles shared Aleandro’s sentiment but realized that the idea of giving Luther a hearing enjoyed widespread support in Germany. Charles’s adviser Mercurino Gattinara, mindful of the need for good relations with the estates, repeatedly urged the emperor not to issue an edict against Luther without their full consent.

Gattinara’s caution was justified, because in February the estates refused to support an edict condemning Luther’s writings and instead urged that, in view of the restlessness of the commoners, Luther be cited to appear before the Diet “to the benefit and advantage of the entire German nation, the Holy Roman Empire, our Christian faith, and all estates.” 

Charles acceded, and on March 6, 1521, he issued a formal invitation to Luther to appear before the estates assembled in Worms, known today as the "Diet of Worms", which will be the true beginning of the Protestant Reformation, the same one John Hus predictably imagined over 100 years before it.

Watch this video, it refutes all of these wicked lies you see above.

https://youtu.be/PaVfyIfi3O4

Classic, Michael Jewfton of Reason and Vatican2ology agrees with someone in the comments who says bishops are right in being hesitant about allowing TLM’s in their diocese. Wanna know why they’re hesitant, TJB? It’s because they’re afraid of a resurgence of tradition within the Church. It’s as simple as that.

Also, I find it quite funny Lofton agrees with him in saying that pride is our vice yet attacks “rad trads” all day and defends Vatican II like a rabid dog defending his home from an intruder.

pride is our vice according to Lofton unless its LGBT pride

😲👌 Want to know how to be like Michael Lofton and achieve max levels of nuance? Just go ahead and read this:

💩🤡 “Hey guys, Michael Jewfton of Reason and Vatican2ology here. Today we will be owning the rad trads by refusing to address any of their objections to Vatican II and slandering them as much as we can. The reason why I’m doing this today guys is because these trolls are getting really out of hand. I mean, they call me Jewfton, they say Vatican II is heretical, they don’t like idols being put in St. Peter’s, or Modernism and Religious liberty; and they also don’t like JPII kissing the Quran!! Like cmon, seriously? Is this really trad behaviour? I’m getting really sick and tired of these people telling the truth and I can’t stand it anymore so I’m going to defend pachmanmama to really show them! Imagine not being able to grasp nuance in 2021 bro... you just don’t get it, Vatican II is actually trad... my names Michael Jewfton and my favourite document ever is Dignitatis Humanae, it’s so trad. Anyways guys, enough for the show today, peace out ✌️”