Forwarded from Based Book Excerpts
The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest by John Gerard
Ch15 The Tower and Torture
Ch 16 Clandestine Correspondence
Ch15 The Tower and Torture
Ch 16 Clandestine Correspondence
Forwarded from Based Book Excerpts
The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest by John Gerard
Ch 17 Escape,
October 4 1597
Ch 17 Escape,
October 4 1597
Regarding the readings at Mass and Lectio Divina recordings
Anonymous Poll
36%
Have already begun to make use of them and plan to daily
64%
Have not been listening to them but plan to begin
Forwarded from Based Book Excerpts
The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest by John Gerard S. J.
Ch 18 London and Harrowden 1597-1598
Ch 18 London and Harrowden 1597-1598
Please keep my children in your prayers they are sicker than they’ve ever been, worse than Covid.
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Forwarded from Based Book Excerpts
Important considerations for movement leaders and activists: insights provoked by Unconditional Hatred: German War Guilt and the Future of Europe
by Captain Russel Grenfell
by Captain Russel Grenfell
Forwarded from Catholic Daily Reading [Eng]
"Ask of the sinner how many impure thoughts he has consented to: he will tell you he cannot remember. But, brother, if you cannot tell the number, God can; and you know that a single willful immodest thought is enough to send you to Hell... From thoughts and words you proceed to acts, and to those innumerable impurities which those wretches roll and wallow in like swine, without ever being satisfied, for this vice is never satisfied."
ST. ALPHONSUS LIGUORI
#saint #quote #sin #purity #chastity #impurity #virtue #vice
ST. ALPHONSUS LIGUORI
#saint #quote #sin #purity #chastity #impurity #virtue #vice
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No painting is greater than the artist who painted it, not is any sculpture grander than the hands that crafted it. No created thing is above that which created it and this is most true about the relationship between The Creator and creation itself.
“If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not?”
If a man neglects his children he cannot have the love of God in him. If a man neglects his people, ignores the dangers that face them in hopes of saving himself or avoiding suffering the love of God cannot be in him.
Today we celebrate the birth of our Lord and remember that the love and sacrifice which was made for us we owe to each other and our people.
“If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not?”
If a man neglects his children he cannot have the love of God in him. If a man neglects his people, ignores the dangers that face them in hopes of saving himself or avoiding suffering the love of God cannot be in him.
Today we celebrate the birth of our Lord and remember that the love and sacrifice which was made for us we owe to each other and our people.
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Listening to this book about the Donner party. It has been one of the more interesting historical incidents I have read about. One of the survivors (Virginia Reed) subsequently converted to Catholicism after seeing how much strength the faith gave the Breen family during their suffering.
I went to go read the archived diary of Patrick Breen the Catholic Irish Immigrant and one entry stood out.
“All out of meat all we have our hides nearly eaten up but with Gods help Spring will soon smile upon us February 10, 1847
The patient bearing of suffering can be a tool to inspire faith in others. That is what we should hope for, not to avoid suffering but to bear it well for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
I went to go read the archived diary of Patrick Breen the Catholic Irish Immigrant and one entry stood out.
“All out of meat all we have our hides nearly eaten up but with Gods help Spring will soon smile upon us February 10, 1847
The patient bearing of suffering can be a tool to inspire faith in others. That is what we should hope for, not to avoid suffering but to bear it well for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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The mystic Maria Valtorta was a bedridden mystic born in 1897 who wrote much over a few years, dictated by her guardian angel and Jesus himself. The collection of what she wrote is sometimes referred to as the poem of the Man-God. I’m just going through it know when I encountered an interesting passage where Jesus describes himself as normally having sapphire hued eyes and fair hair.
From what I’ve read this work has been promoted by many prominent Catholics, most notably Padre Pio.
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From what I’ve read this work has been promoted by many prominent Catholics, most notably Padre Pio.
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Mary, look at your Saviour. He is not dressed in white, and
His hair is not fair. His eyes are not the sapphire hue that you
know. His garment is stained with blood, it is worn out and cov
ered with dirt and spittle. His face is tumefied and twisted, His
eyes are veiled with blood and tears, and He looks at you through
the crust formed by them and by the dust that makes His eyelids
heavy.”❤8