Christ is King. Every knee will bow; every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.

Don’t pay any attention to politics today.

Jesus conquered hell, defeated death, and freed us from the bondage of sin. Nothing can undo the victory that has already been won!

HAPPY EASTER ✝️

"[M]any of those who said, His blood be upon us and upon our children (Mt 27:25), later on came to believe the apostles bringing them the good news of the resurrection. His blood was indeed upon them, but it was to wash them, not to destroy them; well, upon some to destroy them, upon others to cleanse them; upon those to be destroyed, in justice; upon those to be cleansed, in mercy."
— St. Augustine, Sermon 229F, Preached on the Monday After Easter

"[T]he Church believes and affirms that all human beings—created in the image and likeness of God and recreated in the Son, who became man, was crucified, and rose again—are called to grow under the action of the Holy Spirit to reflect the glory of the Father in that same image and to share in eternal life."
— Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dignitas Infinita

"Only by recognizing an intrinsic and inalienable dignity in every human being can we guarantee a secure and inviolable foundation for that quality. Without any ontological grounding, the recognition of human dignity would vacillate at the mercy of varying and arbitrary judgments."
— Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dignitas Infinita

"[H]uman dignity cannot be based on merely individualistic standards, nor can it be identified with the psychophysical well-being of the individual. Rather, the defense of human dignity is based on the constitutive demands of human nature, which do not depend on individual arbitrariness or social recognition. Therefore, the duties that stem from recognizing the dignity of the other and the corresponding rights that flow from it have a concrete and objective content based on our shared human nature. Without such an objective basis, the concept of dignity becomes de facto subject to the most diverse forms of arbitrariness and power interests."
— Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dignitas Infinita

"[I]t would be a grave error to think that by distancing ourselves from God and his assistance, we could somehow be freer and thus feel more dignified. Instead, detached from the Creator, our freedom can only weaken and become obscured."
— Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dignitas Infinita

"The illusion that moral relativism provides the key for peaceful coexistence is actually the origin of divisions and the denial of the dignity of human beings."
— Pope Benedict XVI, Message for the Celebration of the World Day of Peace, January 1st, 2011

"If a society is governed primarily by the criteria of market freedom and efficiency, there is no place for such persons, and fraternity will remain just another vague ideal."
— Pope Francis, On Fraternity and Social Friendship

"It is better to help people flourish in their culture than to encourage them to come to a Europe in full decadence."
— Cdl. Robert Sarah

"[O]nce we see these differences [between Christianity and other religions], we realize that Jesus’ claims aren’t in the least arrogant, but simply a statement of incontrovertible fact... Jesus is the only way to the Father, because he’s the only one who even teaches us that God the Creator is our Father."
— John Bergsma, The Word of the Lord: Reflections on the Sunday Mass Readings for Year B

"Jesus was rejected by the religious leaders of his own day, even though he was the source of salvation. In a mysterious way, many saints have shared in Jesus’s rejection, being spurned by those with power... One has to accept it in total abandonment to the mysterious will of God, and exercise faith that there is resurrection on the other side of this kind of painful personal “death,” as there was for Christ himself."
— John Bergsma, The Word of the Lord: Reflections on the Sunday Mass Readings for Year B