Reminder: Pope Francis has called for a day of prayer and fasting today.
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The Fruits and Advantages of Fasting According to St. Robert Bellarmine (The Art of Dying Well):
1. Preparing the soul for prayer and the contemplation of divine things.
2. Taming and crucifying the flesh with its vices and concupiscences.
3. Honoring God when we fast for His sake.
4. Making satisfaction for sin.
5. Obtaining divine favors.
1. Preparing the soul for prayer and the contemplation of divine things.
2. Taming and crucifying the flesh with its vices and concupiscences.
3. Honoring God when we fast for His sake.
4. Making satisfaction for sin.
5. Obtaining divine favors.
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"The crucified Jesus is the great 'indulgence' that the Father has offered humanity through the forgiveness of sins and the possibility of living as children in the Holy Spirit."
—Pope John Paul II, General Audience, Wednesday, 29 September 1999
—Pope John Paul II, General Audience, Wednesday, 29 September 1999
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"God’s fatherly love does not rule out punishment, even if the latter must always be understood as part of a merciful justice that re-establishes the violated order for the sake of man’s own good."
—Pope John Paul II, General Audience, Wednesday, 29 September 1999
—Pope John Paul II, General Audience, Wednesday, 29 September 1999
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"[Indulgences are] the expression of the Church’s full confidence of being heard by the Father when—in view of Christ’s merits and, by his gift, those of Our Lady and the saints—she asks him to mitigate or cancel the painful aspect of punishment by fostering its medicinal aspect through other channels of grace."
—Pope John Paul II, General Audience, Wednesday, 29 September 1999
—Pope John Paul II, General Audience, Wednesday, 29 September 1999
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"[Indulgences] particularly show our faith in God’s mercy and in the marvellous reality of communion, which Christ has achieved by indissolubly uniting the Church to himself as his Body and Bride."
—Pope John Paul II, General Audience, Wednesday, 29 September 1999
—Pope John Paul II, General Audience, Wednesday, 29 September 1999
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"The Rock still stands, though each generation declares that the Church is dead. Yet [the Church and the Papacy are] still there as if by a miracle, or rather as a miracle, not merely as an idea but as an unconquerable reality. . . . Those who challenge or reject the office of Peter disobey Christ and His Gospel and tear apart the unity that Christ has made."
—Fr. Balthasar, The Office of Peter and the Structure of the Church
—Fr. Balthasar, The Office of Peter and the Structure of the Church
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"The Church is one because the episcopate is one with all its bishops holding it severally and conjointly... For St. Cyprian, the Lord built His entire Church on one man, Peter; so every local church is built on one only."
—James Likoudis, The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy
—James Likoudis, The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy
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"The entire episode over the rebaptism of heretics... shows that the Successor of Peter at Rome claimed a real primacy of power over other churches in Asia Minor and North Africa."
—James Likoudis, The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy
—James Likoudis, The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy
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"Our Lord frequently told His apostles that the first place among them was to be of service to the rest: and can we dare to say that He Himself conferred upon St. Peter an empty honor?"
—Dom John Chapman, O.S.B., Bishop Gore and the Catholic Claims
—Dom John Chapman, O.S.B., Bishop Gore and the Catholic Claims
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"A mere primacy of honor... cannot serve as a desired center of communion for a worldwide Church, especially one always threatened by bishop-led schism, and heresy, as we know all too well from the pages of Church history."
—James Likoudis, The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy
—James Likoudis, The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy
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"[H]istory testifies that Eastern bishops who resisted, in principle, the divine primacy of the Bishop of Rome during the “first thousand years” were heretics and schismatics, not those who would be orthodox."
—James Likoudis, The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy
—James Likoudis, The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy
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